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FUNGAL BIOLOGY
卷 114, 期 10, 页码 809-816出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2010.07.007
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Cell wall; Cytolocalization; 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Recombinant protein
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- International Foundation for Sciences (IFS), Stockholm, Sweden
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a thermo-dimorphic human pathogenic fungus that in the mycelium phase lives at 23 degrees C in environment and in the yeast phase at 37 degrees C in the host tissues. In P. brasiliensis, the main polymers that compound the cell wall are chitin, 1,3-beta-D-glucan and 1,3-alpha-glucan. They make a primary barrier responsible for the structural integrity and form of the cell wall. In P. brasiliensis, just one homologue of 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase gene (PbFKS1) was found. Here, the active recombinant protein (PbFks1pc) containing the catalytic region was obtained in Escherichia coli. In addition, a paradoxical dissociation was detected between the expression of the PbEKS1 transcript and the level of the corresponding protein PbFks1p, which was higher in the yeast phase, versus the amount of 1,3-beta-D-glucan polymer, which was higher in the mycelium phase. Western blot analysis using protein extracts of cellular fractions showed that PbFks1p is present in the membrane-enriched fraction of mycelium and yeast cells and in the cell wall-enriched fractions of yeast cells. Confocal-immunocytolocalization of PbFks1p identified the protein in the apical growing region of the mycelium and distributed on the surface of the yeast cell. Two possible mechanisms could explain the above-mentioned discrepancy between the data: (a) overexpression of Rho1 GTPase as a regulator of 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase; (b) possible post-translational regulation of PbFks1p in P. brasiliensis isolates. (C) 2010 The British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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