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FUNGAL BIOLOGY
Volume 122, Issue 10, Pages 1023-1030Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2018.07.004
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Bioimaging; Cell wall; Immune sensing; Transformation; Virulence
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia [PDCPN2014-247109, FC 2015-02-834]
- Universidad de Guanajuato [1025/2016, CIIC 95/2018]
- Red Tematica Glicociencia en Salud (CONACYT-Mexico) [2017-2018]
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Sporotrichosis is an infection caused by members of the Sporothrix genus, and among them, Sporothrix schenckii is one of the etiological agents. Both, the disease and the causative agent have gained interest in the recent years, because of the report of epidemic outbreaks, and the description of the disease transmission from animals to human beings. Despite the relevance of S. schenckii in the clinical field, there are basic aspects of its biology poorly explored. So far, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation has been reported as an alternative for genetic manipulation of this fungal pathogen. Here, we report the optimization of the transformation method and used this to generate insertional mutants that express the green fluorescent protein in S. schenckii. We obtained five mutant strains that showed mitotic stability and expression of the reporter gene. The strains displayed normal cell wall composition, and a similar ability to interact ex vivo with human monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages. Moreover, the virulence in larvae of Galleria mellonella was similar to that obtained with the wild-type control strains. These data indicate that these fluorescent mutants with normal ability to interact with the host could be used in bioimaging to track the host-Sporothrix interaction in vivo. (C) 2018 British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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