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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28507115

RESUMO

White and opaque cells of Candida albicans have the same genome but differ in gene expression patterns, metabolic profiles, and host niche preferences. We tested whether these differences, which include the differential expression of drug transporters, resulted in different sensitivities to 27 antifungal agents. The analysis was performed in two different strain backgrounds; although there was strain-to-strain variation, only terbinafine hydrochloride and caspofungin showed consistent, 2-fold differences between white and opaque cells across both strains.


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Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Candida albicans/efeitos dos fármacos , Candidíase/microbiologia , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica , Candida albicans/genética , Candida albicans/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Caspofungina , Equinocandinas/farmacologia , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Lipopeptídeos/farmacologia , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Naftalenos/farmacologia , Fenótipo , Terbinafina
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Genetics ; 203(4): 1679-92, 2016 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27280690

RESUMO

The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans can reversibly switch between two cell types named "white" and "opaque," each of which is stable through many cell divisions. These two cell types differ in their ability to mate, their metabolic preferences and their interactions with the mammalian innate immune system. A highly interconnected network of eight transcriptional regulators has been shown to control switching between these two cell types. To identify additional regulators of the switch, we systematically and quantitatively measured white-opaque switching rates of 196 strains, each deleted for a specific transcriptional regulator. We identified 19 new regulators with at least a 10-fold effect on switching rates and an additional 14 new regulators with more subtle effects. To investigate how these regulators affect switching rates, we examined several criteria, including the binding of the eight known regulators of switching to the control region of each new regulatory gene, differential expression of the newly found genes between cell types, and the growth rate of each mutant strain. This study highlights the complexity of the transcriptional network that regulates the white-opaque switch and the extent to which switching is linked to a variety of metabolic processes, including respiration and carbon utilization. In addition to revealing specific insights, the information reported here provides a foundation to understand the highly complex coupling of white-opaque switching to cellular physiology.


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Candida albicans/genética , Genes Fúngicos Tipo Acasalamento/genética , Elementos Reguladores de Transcrição/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Candida albicans/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Candida albicans/patogenicidade , Epigênese Genética , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes/genética , Genes de Troca , Humanos , Fatores de Transcrição/biossíntese
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