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FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 169-178Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2009.10.001
Keywords
Aspergillus fumigatus; Glycosphingolipids; MIPC; Innate immune response; Mannosylation; Germination
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- Center of Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)
- Deutsche Forschungsgerneinschaft (DFG) [TP B8]
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GDP-mannose:inositol-phosphorylceramide (MIPC)-derived glycosphingolipids are important pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMP) of Candida albicans and according to recently published data also of Aspergillus fumigatus. MIPC transferases are essential for the synthesis of MIPC, but have so far been studied only in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and C. albicans. Here, we have identified MitA as the only MIPC transferase in A. fumigatus. The Delta mitA mutant lacks MIPC and MIPC-derived glycosphingolipids and accumulates the precursor IPC. The mutant grows normally, shows no defects in cell wall or membrane organization and a normal resistance to different stressors. It is, however, sensitive to high Ca2+ concentrations, especially during germination. Germination of Delta mitA mutant conidia is also decelerated under normal growth conditions, but neither the virulence of this mutant in a systemic model of infection nor its ability to trigger a cytokine response in macrophages is impaired, arguing against a role of MIPC-derived glycosphingolipids as important A. fumigatus PAMPs. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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