31 research outputs found

    Sfp1 and Rtg3 reciprocally modulate carbon source-conditional stress adaptation in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans

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    Acknowledgements We thank Aaron Mitchell, Dominique Sanglard and Suzanne Noble for their generosity in providing mutant collections, and Linghuo Jiang for generously providing strains. We also thank Susan Budge for her support and excellent technical assistance. We also thank the qPCR Facility in the Institute of Medical Sciences, and particularly Fiona Saunders for her great advice and help. SLK was supported by a PhD scholarship from the University of Aberdeen. AJPB was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BB/F00513X/1; BB/K017365/1), by the European Research Council (STRIFE Advanced Grant; ERC-2009-AdG-249793), and by the UK Medical Research Council (MR/M026663/1). AJPB and CAM were also supported by the Wellcome Trust (088858; 097377), and by the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology and the University of Aberdeen (MR/N006364/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Non-canonical signalling mediates changes in fungal cell wall PAMPs that drive immune evasion

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    Data Availability The authors declare that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper (and its supplementary information files). Acknowledgements We are grateful to Raif Yuecel, Linda Duncan, Kimberley Sim and Ailsa Laird in the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre, and to Kevin MacKenzie, Debbie Wilkinson, Gillian Milne and Lucy Wight in our Microscopy and Histology Core Facility for their superb support. We thank Katja Schafer and Angela Lopez for help with the design of primers and for providing CRISPR-Cas9 protocols for mutant construction. We also thank our colleagues in the Candida community, and in particular Jan Quinn, Guanghua Huang, Suzanne Noble, Karl Kuchler, Patrick van Dijck, Rich Calderone and Malcolm Whiteway for providing strains used in this study. This work was funded by a programme grant from the UK Medical Research Council [www.mrc.ac.uk: MR/M026663/1], and by PhD studentships from the University of Aberdeen to AP, DL. The work was also supported by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology and the University of Aberdeen [MR/N006364/1], by the European Commission [FunHoMic: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018-812969], and by the Wellcome Trust via Investigator, Collaborative, Equipment, Strategic and Biomedical Resource awards [www.wellcome.ac.uk: 075470, 086827, 093378, 097377, 099197, 101873, 102705, 200208]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Hypoxia Promotes Immune Evasion by Triggering β-glucan Masking on the Candida albicans Cell Surface via Mitochondrial and cAMP-Protein Kinase A Signaling

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    We are very grateful to the members of our Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre and Microscopy and Histology Core Facility for their superb help, advice and support. We also thank our generous colleagues in the Candida community, and in particular Ana Traven, Jan Quinn, Guanghua Huang, Suzanne Noble, Donna MacCallum, Liz Johnson, Karl Kuchler, Patrick van Dijck, Rich Calderone and Malcolm Whiteway for providing strains used in this study. This work was funded by grants from the UK Medical Research Council [www.mrc.ac.uk], to AJPB, NARG, LPE, MN (MR/M026663/1), and by PhD studentships from the University of Aberdeen to AP, DL. The work was also supported by the Wellcome Trust [www.wellcome.ac.uk], NARG, GDB, AJPB (097377) and GDB (102705); and by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology and the University of Aberdeen (MR/N006364/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Immune cells fold and damage fungal hyphae

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    Acknowledgements We thank Ben Rutter and Alex Brand for providing Mycelia sterilia hyphae, and Gillian Griffiths for insightful advice. We are grateful to the Microscopy and Histology Core Facility at the University of Aberdeen for their help, advice and support. This work was funded by grants from the UK Medical Research Council [www.mrc.ac.uk], to AJPB, NARG, LPE, MN (MR/M026663/1, MR/M026663/2), and from the University of Aberdeen to AP, DL. The work was also supported by Wellcome [www.wellcome.ac.uk]: NARG, GDB, AJPB (097377); NARG (101873, 200208); and GDB (102705). Further support for this work was also provided by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1). MGN was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (#833247) and a Spinoza grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Impact of changes at the Candida albicans cell surface upon immunogenicity and colonisation in the gastrointestinal tract

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    Acknowledgements This work was supported by a programme grant from the UK Medical Research Council (MR/M026663/1; MR/M026663/2) and by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1; MR/N006364/2). NARG acknowledges Wellcome support for a Senior Investigator (101873/Z/13/Z), Collaborative (200208/A/15/Z; 215599/Z/19/Z) and Strategic Awards (097377/Z11/Z). LR, SHD and AWW received core funding support from the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division. MGN was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (833247) and a Spinoza Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Glucose-enhanced oxidative stress resistance-A protective anticipatory response that enhances the fitness of Candida albicans during systemic infection

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    Acknowledgments We thank Carol Munro for her generosity in providing the plasmids for barcoding C. albicans, and Victoria Brown, Gerry Fink, Bill Fonzi, Guanghua Huang, Joachim Morschauser, Suzanne Noble, Jesus Pla, Patrick Van Dijck, Reinhard Würzner and Oscar Zaragoza for providing strains. We thank our colleagues in the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology and the Aberdeen Fungal Group for insightful discussions. We are grateful to the following Research Facilities for their advice and support: the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology at the University of Aberdeen, and the Sequencing Facility at the University of Exeter for help with the barcode sequencing. Funding: This work was funded by a programme grant to AJPB, NARG, LEP and MGN from the UK Medical Research Council [www.mrc.ac.uk: MR/M026663/1, MR/M026663/2] and by PhD studentships to DEL from the Universities of Aberdeen and Exeter. The work was also supported by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1, MR/N006364/2). NARG acknowledges Wellcome support of Senior Investigator (101873/Z/13/Z, 224323/Z/21/Z) and Collaborative (200208/A/15/Z, 215599/Z/19/Z) Awards. MGN was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (833247) and a Spinoza Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The barcode sequencing performed by the Exeter Sequencing Facility utilised equipment funded by Wellcome (218247/Z/19/Z). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    The Rewiring of Ubiquitination Targets in a Pathogenic Yeast Promotes Metabolic Flexibility, Host Colonization and Virulence

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    Funding: This work was funded by the European Research Council [http://erc.europa.eu/], AJPB (STRIFE Advanced Grant; C-2009-AdG-249793). The work was also supported by: the Wellcome Trust [www.wellcome.ac.uk], AJPB (080088, 097377); the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council [www.bbsrc.ac.uk], AJPB (BB/F00513X/1, BB/K017365/1); the CNPq-Brazil [http://cnpq.br], GMA (Science without Borders fellowship 202976/2014-9); and the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research [www.nc3rs.org.uk], DMM (NC/K000306/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments We thank Dr. Elizabeth Johnson (Mycology Reference Laboratory, Bristol) for providing strains, and the Aberdeen Proteomics facility for the biotyping of S. cerevisiae clinical isolates, and to Euroscarf for providing S. cerevisiae strains and plasmids. We are grateful to our Microscopy Facility in the Institute of Medical Sciences for their expert help with the electron microscopy, and to our friends in the Aberdeen Fungal Group for insightful discussions.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Nature of b-1,3-Glucan-Exposing Features on Candida albicans Cell Wall and Their Modulation

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    Funding Information: This work was supported by a programme grant from the UK Medical Research Council (MR/M026663/1; MR/M026663/2) and by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1; MR/N006364/2). NARG acknowledges Wellcome support for a Senior Investigator (101873/Z/13/Z), Collaborative (200208/A/15/Z; 215599/Z/19/Z) and Strategic Awards (097377/Z11/Z). MGN was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (833247) and a Spinoza Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    A CO2 sensing module modulates β-1,3-glucan exposure in Candida albicans.

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    This work was funded by a program grant to A.J.P.B., N.A.R.G., L.P.E., and M.G.N. from the UK Medical Research Council [www.mrc.ac.uk: MR/M026663/1, MR/M026663/2]. The work was also supported by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology [MR/N006364/1, MR/N006364/2], by a grant to C.d.E. from the European Commission [FunHoMic: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018–812969], and by the Wellcome Trust via Investigator, Collaborative, Equipment, Strategic and Biomedical Resource awards [www.wellcome.ac.uk: 075470, 086827, 093378, 097377, 099197, 101873, 102705, 200208, 217163, 224323]. Work in the d’Enfert laboratory was supported by grants from the Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (Sinergia CRSII5_173863/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
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