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| العنوان: |
Nutritional Heterogeneity Among Aspergillus fumigatus Strains Has Consequences for Virulence in a Strain- and Host-Dependent Manner. |
| المؤلفون: |
Ries, Laure Nicolas Annick, Steenwyk, Jacob L., de Castro, Patrícia Alves, de Lima, Pollyne Borborema Almeida, Almeida, Fausto, de Assis, Leandro José, Manfiolli, Adriana Oliveira, Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Azusa, Kusuya, Yoko, Hagiwara, Daisuke, Takahashi, Hiroki, Wang, Xi, Obar, Joshua J., Rokas, Antonis, Goldman, Gustavo H. |
| المصدر: |
Frontiers in Microbiology; 4/24/2019, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 20p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ASPERGILLUS fumigatus, CATABOLITE repression, FUNGAL cell walls, PULMONARY aspergillosis, CARBON metabolism, BACTERIAL cell walls |
| مستخلص: |
Acquisition and subsequent metabolism of different carbon and nitrogen sources have been shown to play an important role in virulence attributes of the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus , such as the secretion of host tissue-damaging proteases and fungal cell wall integrity. We examined the relationship between the metabolic processes of carbon catabolite repression (CCR), nitrogen catabolite repression (NCR) and virulence in a variety of A. fumigatus clinical isolates. A considerable amount of heterogeneity with respect to the degree of CCR and NCR was observed and a positive correlation between NCR and virulence in a neutropenic mouse model of pulmonary aspergillosis (PA) was found. Isolate Afs35 was selected for further analysis and compared to the reference strain A1163, with both strains presenting the same degree of virulence in a neutropenic mouse model of PA. Afs35 metabolome analysis in physiological-relevant carbon sources indicated an accumulation of intracellular sugars that also serve as cell wall polysaccharide precursors. Genome analysis showed an accumulation of missense substitutions in the regulator of protease secretion and in genes encoding enzymes required for cell wall sugar metabolism. Based on these results, the virulence of strains Afs35 and A1163 was assessed in a triamcinolone murine model of PA and found to be significantly different, confirming the known importance of using different mouse models to assess strain-specific pathogenicity. These results highlight the importance of nitrogen metabolism for virulence and provide a detailed example of the heterogeneity that exists between A. fumigatus isolates with consequences for virulence in a strain-specific and host-dependent manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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