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CELL REPORTS
Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109584
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- Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's award
- CIHR Foundation [FDN-154288]
- NIH [R01AI127375]
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Government of Ontario
- Genome Canada
- Ontario Genomics [OGI-139]
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Host protein PTMA is identified as a component of macrophage lysate that induces filamentation in Candida albicans, adding to the known triggers of fungal escape from immune cells.
Evasion of killing by immune cells is crucial for fungal survival in the host. For the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, internalization bymacrophages induces a transition from yeast to filaments that promotes macrophage death and fungal escape. Nutrient deprivation, alkaline pH, and oxidative stress have been implicated as triggers of intraphagosomal filamentation; however, the impact of other host-derived factors remained unknown. Here, we show that lysates prepared from macrophage-like cell lines and primary macrophages robustly induce C. albicans filamentation. Enzymatic treatment of lysate implicates a phosphorylated protein, and bioactivity-guided fractionation coupled to mass spectrometry identifies the immunomodulatory phosphoprotein PTMA as a candidate trigger of C. albicans filamentation. Immunoneutralization of PTMA within lysate abolishes its activity, strongly supporting PTMA as a filament-inducing component of macrophage lysate. Adding to the known repertoire of physical factors, this work implicates a host protein in the induction of C. albicans filamentation within immune cells.
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