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Proteomic analysis of Candida albicans after serial systemic infection in murine model

ABSTRACT: This study assessed proteomic profile of Candida albicans after serial systemic infection in a murine model. The animals were infected initially by wild-type C. albicans SC5314 (WT) with an inoculum of of 3.5x105 cells via lateral tail vein. Then, five days post-infection, the animals were euthanized and their kidneys were removed, homogenized in lysis buffer, plated on SDA and incubated for 24 h at 35 °C. Colonies recovered from infected kidney were used to prepare inoculum for the subsequent infections as described for WT, totalizing five serial passages (P1-P5) and they were also used to protein extraction. By LC-MS/MS, 479 proteins were identified, with 56 proteins statistically significant in abundance in P1, 29 proteins in P3 and 97 proteins in P4. Regarding biological processes, the majority of proteins were related to carbohydrate metabolism, stress response and amino acid metabolism. The proteins were also categorized according to their potential role in virulence factors such as biofilm production, yeast-to-hyphae transition, phenotypic switching, proteins related to stress response and uncharacterized proteins. Therefore, serial infection associated with proteomic approach enabled to deepen the knowledge about host-pathogen interaction.

INSTRUMENT(S): impact II

ORGANISM(S): Candida Albicans (yeast)

SUBMITTER: Glaucia Arita

LAB HEAD: Patrícia de Souza Bonfim de Mendonça

PROVIDER: PXD012944 | Pride | 2019-07-01

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Serial Systemic Candida albicans Infection Highlighted by Proteomics.

Arita Glaucia Sayuri GS Meneguello Jean Eduardo JE Sakita Karina Mayumi KM Faria Daniella Renata DR Pilau Eduardo Jorge EJ Ghiraldi-Lopes Luciana Dias LD Campanerut-Sá Paula Aline Zanetti PAZ Kioshima Érika Seki ÉS Bonfim-Mendonça Patrícia de Souza PS Svidzinski Terezinha Inez Estivalet TIE

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 20190626

Candida albicans is the major pathogen isolated from nosocomial bloodstream infections, leading to higher mortality rates. Thus, due to its clinical relevance, studies aiming to understand host-pathogen interactions in C. albicans infection are necessary. Therefore, we performed proteomic analysis using a murine model of serial systemic infection by C. albicans to evaluate possible changes in the protein profile of the pathogen over time. Firstly, we observed a reduction in ...[more]

PMID: 31293987

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Project description:Biofilm formation is an important virulence trait of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. Large-scale genetics strategies aimed at identifying genes involved in biofilm development are hampered by lack of a complete sexual cycle in this diploid yeast in addition to the tedious generation of homozygous gene-deletion mutants. Gene overexpression is an attractive alternative strategy for large-scale phenotypic analyses and gene-function studies. We combined gene overexpression, strain barcoding and microarray profiling to screen a library of 531 C. albicans conditional overexpression strains (~10% of the genome) for genes affecting i) planktonic cell fitness and ii) biofilm development in mixed-population experiments. We found 5 genes whose overexpression affects planktonic strain fitness, including RAD53, RAD51, PIN4, orf19.2781, all encoding (or predicted to encode) regulators of DNA-damage response or cell-cycle progression and SFL2, involved in filamentous growth. We identified 16 and 4 genes (out of 531) whose overexpression respectively increases and decreases strain occupancy within the multi-strain biofilm. Strikingly, strains with increased abundance in the multi-strain biofilm were significantly enriched for genes encoding cell wall proteins (10 genes), including the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins Pga15, Pga19, Pga22, Pga59, Pga32 and Pga41. Data validation experiments using either individually- or competitively-grown overexpression and/or the respective knock-out strains revealed that the identified genes differently contribute to biofilm formation during specific stages of biofilm development, including increased or decreased substrate adherence (IHD1, PGA32, PGA37, PGA15, PGA22, PGA59 and PGA19) or biofilm biomass growth and cohesion (PGA15, PGA59 and PGA22). In line with the hypothesis that cell wall genes contribute to biofilm development, we show that strains overexpressing PGA15 or PGA22 display altered cell wall structures. Our study reveals that cell wall proteins are important actors during C. albicans biofilm formation and illustrates the powerful use of signature tagging in conjunction with gene overexpression for the identification of genes involved in processes pertaining to C. albicans virulence. A total of 8 samples are included in this study. For fitness profiling of planktonic cells, 2 biological replicates were analyzed (samples Pool_Fitness_planktonic_rep1 and Pool_Fitness_planktonic_rep2). For quantification of strain abundance during biofilm formation, 6 biological replicates were analyzed (Pool_Biofilm_rep1, Pool_Biofilm_rep2, Pool_Biofilm_rep3, Pool_Biofilm_rep4, Pool_Biofilm_rep5, Pool_Biofilm_rep6). Genomic DNA was purified and used as template to PCR-amplify barcodes, which were then used as probes for microarray hybridization. This experiment was done twice independently. For quantification of strain abundance during multi-strain biofilm formation, strain pools were grown in minimal GHAUM medium with or without doxycycline, each inoculum was then diluted to an OD600 of 1 in fresh minimal GHAUM medium with or without doxycycline and left at room temperature for 30 min, to allow further overexpression. Plastic slides (ThermanoxM-bM-^DM-"; Nunc) were immersed in the inoculum for 30 min at room temperature to allow adhesion of cells to the plastic substrate. The plastic slides were then transferred to the glass vessel of a 40-mL incubation chamber. This vessel has two glass tubes inserted to drive the entry of medium and air, while used medium is evacuated through a third tube. The flow of medium is controlled by a recirculation pump (IsmatecM-BM-.) set at 0.6 mL.min-1 and pushed by pressured air supplied at 105 Pa, conditions minimizing planktonic phase growth and promoting biofilm formation. The chambers with the plastic substrate were incubated at 37C and biofilms were grown for 40h followed by genomic DNA extraction, barcode amplification and differential labeling (dox-treated samples with Cy5, untreated samples with Cy3) and hybridization to barcode microarrays.

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