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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 216-228Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06640.x
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- European Commission [MRTN-CT-2003-504148]
- Wellcome Trust [080088]
- BBSRC [BB/FO0513X/1, BB/C510383/1]
- Irish Health Research Board [RP08/2000, RP/2004/235]
- Science Foundation Ireland [03IN3B463]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C510383/1, BB/F00513X/1, BB/C510391/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/F00513X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Candida albicans is more pathogenic than Candida dubliniensis. However, this disparity in virulence is surprising given the high level of sequence conservation and the wide range of phenotypic traits shared by these two species. Increased sensitivity to environmental stresses has been suggested to be a possible contributory factor to the lower virulence of C. dubliniensis. In this study, we investigated, in the first comparison of C. albicans and C. dubliniensis by transcriptional profiling, global gene expression in each species when grown under conditions in which the two species exhibit differential stress tolerance. The profiles revealed similar core responses to stresses in both species, but differences in the amplitude of the general transcriptional responses to thermal, salt and oxidative stress. Differences in the regulation of specific stress genes were observed between the two species. In particular, ENA21, encoding a sodium ion transporter, was strongly induced in C. albicans but not in C. dubliniensis. In addition, ENA21 was identified in a forward genetic screen for C. albicans genomic sequences that increase salt tolerance in C. dubliniensis. Introduction of a single copy of CaENA21 was subsequently shown to be sufficient to confer salt tolerance upon C. dubliniensis.
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