MDR1-mediated drug resistance in Candida dubliniensis.

ABSTRACT: Candida dubliniensis is a recently described opportunistic fungal pathogen that is closely related to Candida albicans. Candida dubliniensis readily develops resistance to the azole antifungal agent fluconazole, both in vitro and in infected patients, and this resistance is usually associated with upregulation of the CdMDR1 gene, encoding a multidrug efflux pump of the major facilitator superfamily. To determine the role of CdMDR1 in drug resistance in C. dubliniensis, we constructed an mdr1 null mutant from the fluconazole-resistant clinical isolate CM2, which overexpressed the CdMDR1 gene. Sequential deletion of both CdMDR1 alleles was performed by the MPA(R)-flipping method, which is based on the repeated use of a dominant mycophenolic acid resistance marker for selection of integrative

SUBMITTER: Wirsching S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC90846 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature