Identificação de proteínas envolvidas na resposta de cryptococcus gattii à temperatura de infecção

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

Cryptococcus gattii is a basidiomycetous yeast which has a robust polysaccharide capsule and is one of the etiological agents of cryptococcosis. The R265 strain of C. gattii was responsible for the Vancouver Island outbreak and there are various studies including their dispersal and occupation of new ecological niches. Well-characterized virulence factors of this pathogen include: the ability to synthesize the antioxidant pigment melanin; the production of an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule; and the ability to survive and proliferate at 37°C. In this sense, the objective of this study was identified proteins involved in the response of C. gattii strain R265 to the temperature variation experimented when the fungi leaves the environment to survive in the host, using in vitro analysis and comparative proteomics. Our data demonstrated that the proteins up-regulated at 25°C act mainly in protein, carbohydrate, lipid, organic acid and amino acid metabolic processes and proteins up-regulated at 37°C participate mostly in processes that include phosphorylation, methylation, ketone body, GTP and ATP catabolic process and nucleoside metabolic process. The most striking difference between the conditions tested is the prevalence of proteins involved in oxidation-reduction in C. gattii growth at 25°C and the presence of a relevant number of proteins involved in stress response and catabolic process in C. gattii growth at 37°C. In brief, this study is the first proteomic analysis to provided information about proteins regulated by the infection temperature and the first description of the response of C. gattii high virulent strain R265 to this condition. The proteins identified could be targets to further studies for the identification of key proteins for the development at 37°C and to the search for biomarkers that can contribute to the treatment and prevention of cryptococcosis caused by this pathogen.

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cryptococcus gattii proteínas microbiologia

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