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CELL HOST & MICROBE
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 418-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.01.005
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- NIH [AI081704/AI141893]
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund PATH award
Candida albicans is a commensal fungus of human gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts, but also causes life-threatening systemic infections. The balance between colonization and pathogenesis is associated with phenotypic plasticity, with alternative cell states producing different outcomes in a mammalian host. Here, we reveal that gene dosage of a master transcription factor regulates cell differentiation in diploid C. albicans cells, as EFG1 hemizygous cells undergo a phenotypic transition inaccessible to wild-type cells with two functional EFG1 alleles. Notably, clinical isolates are often EFG1 hemizygous and thus licensed to undergo this transition. Phenotypic change corresponds to high-frequency loss of the functional EFG1 allele via de novo mutation or gene conversion events. This phenomenon also occurs during passaging in the gastrointestinal tract with the resulting cell type being hypercompetitive for commensal and systemic infections. A two-hit genetic model therefore underlies a key phenotypic transition in C. albicans that enables adaptation to host niches.
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