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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
卷 72, 期 8, 页码 4731-4740出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.8.4731-4740.2004
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI048746, R01AI41119, R01 AI041119, T32 AI007046, R01 AI48746] Funding Source: Medline
Aspergillus fumigatus CgrA is the ortholog of a yeast nucleolar protein that functions in ribosome synthesis. To determine how CgrA contributes to the virulence of A. fumigatus, a DeltacgrA mutant was constructed by targeted gene disruption, and the mutant was reconstituted to wild type by homologous introduction of a functional cgrA gene. The DeltacgrA mutant had the same growth rate as the wild type at room temperature. However, when the cultures were incubated at 37degreesC, a condition that increased the growth rate of the wild-type and reconstituted strains approximately threefold, the DeltacgrA mutant was unable to increase its growth rate. The absence of cgrA function caused a delay in both the onset and rate of germination at 37degreesC but had little effect on germination at room temperature. The DeltacgrA mutant was significantly less virulent than the wild-type or reconstituted strain in immunosuppressed mice and was associated with smaller fungal colonies in lung tissue. However, this difference was less pronounced in a Drosophila infection model at 25degreesC, which correlated with the comparable growth rates of the two strains at this temperature. To determine the intracellular localization of CgrA, the protein was tagged at the C terminus with green fluorescent protein, and costaining with propidium iodide revealed a predominantly nucleolar localization of the fusion protein in living hyphae. Together, these findings establish the intracellular localization of CgrA in A. fumigatus and demonstrate that cgrA is required for thermotolerant growth and wild-type virulence of the organism.
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