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CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 23, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13282
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- Israel Science Foundation [487/15]
- National Science Foundation [1552791]
- National Institutes of Health [ES025661]
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation [2017228]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1552791] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Candida albicans can efficiently utilize external heme as a cellular heme source, with different kinetics for heme extracted from hemoglobin and free hemin. Hmx1 is essential in preventing heme toxicity in the cytoplasm. The combination of novel heme sensors with genetic analysis reveals new details of fungal heme import and homeostasis.
Candida albicans is a major fungal pathogen that can utilise hemin and haemoglobin as iron sources in the iron-scarce host environment. While C. albicans is a heme prototroph, we show here that it can also efficiently utilise external heme as a cellular heme source. Using genetically encoded ratiometric fluorescent heme sensors, we show that heme extracted from haemoglobin and free hemin enter the cells with different kinetics. Heme supplied as haemoglobin is taken up via the Common in Fungal Extracellular Membrane (CFEM) hemophore cascade, and reaches the cytoplasm over several hours, whereas entry of free hemin via CFEM-dependent and independent pathways is much faster, less than an hour. To prevent an influx of extracellular heme from reaching toxic levels in the cytoplasm, the cells deploy Hmx1, a heme oxygenase. Hmx1 was previously suggested to be involved in utilisation of haemoglobin and hemin as iron sources, but we find that it is primarily required to prevent heme toxicity. Taken together, the combination of novel heme sensors with genetic analysis revealed new details of the fungal mechanisms of heme import and homeostasis, necessary to balance the uses of heme as essential cofactor and potential iron source against its toxicity.
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