Expanded role of the Cu-sensing transcription factor Mac1p in Candida albicans.
Expanded role of the Cu-sensing transcription factor Mac1p in Candida albicans.
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Cu传感转录因子MAC1P在白色念珠菌中的作用扩大。
DOI:
10.1111/mmi.14591
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发表时间:
2020-12
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Culotta VC
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作者:
Culbertson EM;Bruno VM;Cormack BP;Culotta VC
As part of the innate immune response, the host withholds metal micronutrients such as Cu from invading pathogens, and microbes respond through metal starvation stress responses. With the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans, the Cu sensing transcription factor Mac1p governs the cellular response to Cu starvation by controlling Cu import. Mac1p additionally controls reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis by repressing a Cu-containing superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and inducing Mn-containing SOD3 as a non-Cu alternative. We show here that C. albicans Mac1p is essential for virulence in a mouse model for disseminated candidiasis and that the cellular functions of Mac1p extend beyond Cu uptake and ROS homeostasis. Specifically, mac1Δ/Δ mutants are profoundly deficient in mitochondrial respiration and Fe accumulation, both Cu-dependent processes. Surprisingly, these deficiencies are not simply the product of impaired Cu uptake; rather mac1Δ/Δ mutants appear defective in Cu allocation. The respiratory defect of mac1Δ/Δ mutants was greatly improved by a sod1Δ/Δ mutation, demonstrating a role for SOD1 repression by Mac1p in preserving respiration. Mac1p down-regulates the major Cu consumer SOD1 to spare Cu for respiration that is essential for virulence of this fungal pathogen. The implications for such Cu homeostasis control in other pathogenic fungi are discussed. Across numerous fungi, the Cu-sensing transcription factor Mac1p induces transcription of the Cu import machinery during Cu limitation. In the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans, Mac1p has the added function of regulating homeostasis of reactive oxygen species involving down-regulation of the major Cu consumer Sod1p. This regulation of Sod1p has the added purpose of sparing Cu for cytochrome C oxidase essential for mitochondrial respiration and for virulence in a murine model of disseminated candidiasis.
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