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CELL HOST & MICROBE
卷 10, 期 2, 页码 118-135出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.07.005
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- National Institutes of Health [KO8AI062800]
- Burroughs Wellcome Foundation
- Hellman Family Foundation
- University of California San Francisco
The mammalian gastrointestinal tract and bloodstream are highly disparate biological niches that differ in concentrations of nutrients such as iron. However, some commensal-pathogenic microorganisms, such as the yeast Candida albicans, thrive in both environments. We report the evolution of a transcription circuit in C. albicans that controls iron uptake and determines its fitness in both niches. Our analysis of DNA-binding proteins that regulate iron uptake by this organism suggests the evolutionary intercalation of a transcriptional activator called Sef1 between two broadly conserved iron-responsive transcriptional repressors, Sful and Hap43. Sef1 activates iron-uptake genes and promotes virulence in a mouse model of bloodstream infection, whereas Sful represses iron-uptake genes and is dispensable for virulence but promotes gastrointestinal commensalism. Thus, C. albicans can alternate between genetic programs conferring resistance to iron depletion in the bloodstream versus iron toxicity in the gut, and this may represent a fundamental attribute of gastrointestinal commensal-pathogens.
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