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Evolutionary divergence in the fungal response to fluconazole revealed by soft clustering (S. cerevisiae, C. glabrata, K. lactis)


ABSTRACT: Fungal infections are an emerging health risk, especially those involving yeast that are resistant to antifungal agents. To understand the range of mechanisms by which yeasts can respond to anti-fungals, we compared gene expression patterns across three evolutionarily distant species - Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida glabrata and Kluyveromyces lactis - over time following fluconazole exposure. Conserved and diverged expression patterns were identified using a novel soft clustering algorithm that concurrently clusters data from all species while incorporating sequence orthology. The analysis suggests complementary strategies for coping with ergosterol depletion by azoles - Saccharomyces imports exogenous ergosterol, Candida exports fluconazole, while Kluyveromyces does neither leading to extreme sensitivity. In support of this hypothesis we find that only Saccharomyces becomes more azole resistant in ergosterol-supplemented media; that this depends on sterol importers Aus1 and Pdr11; and that transgenic expression of sterol importers in Kluyveromyces alleviates its drug sensitivity. We have compared the dynamic transcriptional responses of three diverse yeast species to fluconazole treatment using a novel clustering algorithm. This approach revealed significant divergence among regulatory programs associated with fluconazole sensitivity. In future, such approaches might be used to survey a wider range of species, drug concentrations and stimuli to reveal conserved and divergent molecular response pathways. There are three yeast species being studied. Each species has three biological replicates. Each biological replicate has 6 time points (0,1/3,2/3,1,2,4). These time points are combined in equal proportions to form a species and replicate specific “Reference Pool”. Each time point (except time 0) is compared against the Reference Pool. We also perform dye-swapped technical replicates for each biological replicate.

ORGANISM(S): Candida glabrata

SUBMITTER: Dwight Kuo 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15710 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Evolutionary divergence in the fungal response to fluconazole revealed by soft clustering.

Kuo Dwight D   Tan Kai K   Zinman Guy G   Ravasi Timothy T   Bar-Joseph Ziv Z   Ideker Trey T  

Genome biology 20100723 7


<h4>Background</h4>Fungal infections are an emerging health risk, especially those involving yeast that are resistant to antifungal agents. To understand the range of mechanisms by which yeasts can respond to anti-fungals, we compared gene expression patterns across three evolutionarily distant species - Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida glabrata and Kluyveromyces lactis - over time following fluconazole exposure.<h4>Results</h4>Conserved and diverged expression patterns were identified using a  ...[more]

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