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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 137-145Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2019.02.005
Keywords
Alcohol dehydrogenase; Moonlighting proteins; Candida albicans; THP-1 cells; Macrophage differentiation; ERK pathway
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- National Natural Science of Foundation of China [81170969]
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Candida albicans proteins located on the cell wall and in the cytoplasm have gained great attention because they are not only involved in cellular metabolism and the maintenance of integrity but also interact with host immune systems. Previous research has reported that enolase from C albicans exhibits high immunogenicity and effectively protects mice against disseminated candidiasis. In this study, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) of C. albicans was cloned and purified for the first time, and this study focused on evaluating its effects on the differentiation of the human monocytic cell line THP-1. The morphological features of THP-1 cells exposed to ADH were similar to those of phorbol-12-myristate acetate-differentiated (PMA-differentiated) macrophages. Functionally, ADH enhanced the adhesion, phagocytosis, and killing capacities of THP-1 cells. A flow cytometric assay demonstrated that ADH-induced THP-1 cells significantly increased CD86 and CD11 b expression. The production of IL-1 beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha by cells increased in the presence of ADH. As expected, after pretreatment with a MEK inhibitor (U0126), ADH-induced THP-1 cells exhibited unaltered morphological features, eliminated ERK1/2 phosphorylation, prevented CD86/CD11 b upregulation and inhibited pro-inflammatory cytokine increase. Collectively, these results suggest that ADH enables THP-1 cells to differentiate into macrophages via the ERK pathway, and it may play an important role in the immune response against fungal invasion. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cairo University.
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