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A toolbox for epitope-tagging and genome-wide location analysis in Candida albicans

ABSTRACT: Background : Candida albicans is a diploid pathogenic fungus not yet amenable to routine genetic investigations. Understanding aspects of the regulation of its biological functions and the assembly of its protein complexes would lead to further insight into the biology of this common disease-causing microbial agent. Results: We have developed a toolbox allowing in vivo protein tagging by PCR-mediated homologous recombination with TAP, HA and MYC tags. The transformation cassettes were designed to accommodate a common set of integration primers. The tagged proteins can be used to perform tandem affinity purification (TAP) or chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with microarray analysis (ChIP-CHIP). Tandem affinity purification of C. albicans Nop1 revealed the high conservation of the small processome composition in yeasts. Data obtained with in vivo TAP-tagged Tbf1, Cbf1 and Mcm1 recapitulates previously published genome-wide location profiling by ChIP-CHIP. We also designed a new reporter system for in vivo analysis of transcriptional activity of gene loci in C. albicans. Conclusion: This toolbox provides a basic setup to perform purification of protein complexes and increase the number of annotated transcriptional regulators and genetic circuits in C. albicans. Two independent biological replicates of ChIP-CHIP of Mcm1-TAP in yeast and hyphal states. ChIP-CHIP of Cbf1-TAP and Tbf1-TAP.

ORGANISM(S): Candida albicans

SUBMITTER: Adnane Sellam

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13427 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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A toolbox for epitope-tagging and genome-wide location analysis in Candida albicans.

Lavoie Hugo H Sellam Adnane A Askew Christopher C Nantel André A Whiteway Malcolm M

BMC genomics 20081202

<h4>Background</h4>Candida albicans is a diploid pathogenic fungus not yet amenable to routine genetic investigations. Understanding aspects of the regulation of its biological functions and the assembly of its protein complexes would lead to further insight into the biology of this common disease-causing microbial agent.<h4>Results</h4>We have developed a toolbox allowing in vivo protein tagging by PCR-mediated homologous recombination with TAP, HA and MYC tags. The transformation cassettes wer ...[more]

PMID: 19055720

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