Candida tropicalis
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PROVIDER: PRJNA396167 | ENA |
REPOSITORIES: ENA
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Project description:Phenotypic plasticity, the ability to switch between different morphological types, plays critical roles in environmental adaptation, leading to infections, and allowing for sexual reproduction in pathogenic Candida species. Candida tropicalis, which is both an emerging human fungal pathogen and an environmental fungus, can switch between two heritable cell types termed white and opaque. In this study, we report the discovery of a novel phenotype in C. tropicalis, named the gray phenotype. Similar to Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis, white, gray, and opaque cell types of C. tropicalis also form a tristable switching system, where gray cells are relatively small and elongated. In C. tropicalis, gray cells exhibit intermediate levels of mating competency and virulence in a mouse systemic infection model compared to the white and opaque cell types, express a set of cell type-enriched genes, and exhibit both common and species-specific biological features. The key regulators of white-opaque transitions, Wor1 and Efg1, are not required for the gray phenotype. A comparative study of the gray phenotypes in C. tropicalis, C. albicans, and C. dubliniensis provides clues to explain the species differences in terms of virulence, ecological niches, and prevalence among these three species.
2017-01-30 | GSE81514 | GEO
Project description:Phenotypic switching is a strategy by which microbial organisms adapt to environmental changes. The human fungal pathogens, Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis, are closely related species and capable of undergoing morphological transitions. C. albicans primarily exists in human or warm-blooded animals as a commensal, whereas C. tropicalis not only exists as a commensal but also is widely distributed in the environment. In this study, To elucidate the regulatory mechanism of environmental pH on white-opaque switching in C. tropicalis, we performed RNA-Seq analysis under three pH conditions (pH 5.0, pH 7.0, and pH 8.0).
2018-08-01 | GSE101999 | GEO
Project description:As a successful commensal and pathogen of humans, Candida albicans encounters a wide range of environmental changes. Among them, ambient pH is an important factor, which changes frequently and affects many biological processes in this species. The ability to adapt to pH changes is tightly linked with pathogenesis and morphogenesis. In this study, we report that pH has a profound effect on white-opaque switching and sexual mating in C. albicans. Acidic pHs promote white-to-opaque switching but repress sexual mating of opaque cells. The cAMP signaling and Rim101-mediated pH sensing pathways are involved in the regulation of pH-regulated white-opaque switching. Interestingly, white and opaque cells of the cyr1/cyr1 mutant, which is defective in producing cAMP, show distinct growth defects under acidic and alkaline conditions. Phr2 could play a major role in acidic pHs-induced opaque cell formation. We further discover that acidic pH conditions repress sexual mating due to the failure of activation of the Ste2-mediated a-pheromone response pathway. The effects of pH changes on phenotypic switching and sexual mating could be a balance behavior between host adaptation and sexual reproduction.
2015-12-30 | GSE67101 | GEO
Project description:The human pathogen Candida albicans can assume either of two distinct cell types, designated ‘‘white’’ and ‘‘opaque.’’ Each cell type is maintained for many generations; switching between them is rare and stochastic, and occurs without any known changes in the nucleotide sequence of the genome. The two cell types differ dramatically in cell shape, colony appearance, mating competence, and virulence properties. In this work, we investigate the transcriptional circuitry that specifies the two cell types and controls the switching between them. First, we identify two new transcriptional regulators of white-opaque switching, Czf1 and white-opaque regulator 2 (Wor2). Analysis of a large set of double mutants and ectopic expression strains revealed genetic relationships between CZF1, WOR2, and two previously identified regulators of white-opaque switching, WOR1 and EFG1. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we show that Wor1 binds the intergenic regions upstream of the genes encoding three additional transcriptional regulators of white-opaque switching (CZF1, EFG1, and WOR2), and also occupies the promoters of numerous white- and opaque-enriched genes. Based on these interactions, we have placed these four genes in a circuit controlling white-opaque switching whose topology is a network of positive feedback loops, with the master regulator gene WOR1 occupying a central position. Our observations indicate that a key role of the interlocking feedback loop network is to stably maintain each epigenetic state through many cell divisions. Keywords: ChIP-chip
2007-10-01 | GSE8709 | GEO
Project description:C. tropicalis a/alpha white, opaque, tdh3-wor, wor1 mutants
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Project description:In Candida albicans, the a1-alpha2 complex represses white-opaque switching as well as mating. A ChIP-chip strategy was, therefore, used to screen for genes with a1-alpha2 binding sites and expression patterns consistent with a master switch gene (MSG). Of 51 genes identified with an a1-alpha2 binding site, one gene, TOS9, also referred to as EAP2, exhibited an expression pattern consistent with a MSG. TOS9 is expressed in opaque, not white a/a and alpha/alpha cells and Tos9p localizes to the opaque cell nucleus. Deletion of TOS9 blocks cells in the white phase, and misexpression in the white phase of the parent tos9+/tos9+ strain results in mass conversion to opaque. Expression of TOS9 under control of a MET promoter rescues the TOS9 null mutant tos9-/tos9- phenotype. Temperature-induced mass conversion of opaque to white in the parent strain results in the immediate cessation of TOS9 transcription, and loss of Tos9p prior to the point of commitment to white (the switch event), which occurs at the time of the second cell doubling. Misexpression of TOS9, as well as inhibition of the second round of DNA replication inhibits the temperature-induced switch from opaque to white. Based on these observations, a model is developed for the regulation and role of TOS9 in switching. Keywords: ChIP chip
2006-09-19 | GSE5493 | GEO
Project description:TOS9 Regulates White-Opaque Switching in Candida albicans
| PRJNA96131 | ENA
Project description:The discovery of white-opaque switching in natural MTLa/alpha isolates of Candida albicans sheds new light on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and host adaptation.
2013-04-01 | GSE43938 | GEO
Project description:Homo sapiens fresh whole blood was infected with Candida tropicalis. RNA-pool of both species extracted at 0min (control), 15, 30, 60, 120, 240 min. Samples are rRNA depleted. Measurement of Candida tropicalis gene expression.
2019-07-31 | GSE114178 | GEO
Project description:The capacity of the commensal yeast Candida albicans to grow in several forms, referred to as phenotypic plasticity, is critical for its survival, and abilities to thrive and cause infection in the human host. In this study, we report a novel phenotype of C. albicans, referred as the “gray” phenotype. The gray cell type, together with the previously discovered “white” and “opaque” cell types, forms a tristable phenotypic switching system. The three phenotypes differ in cellular and colony appearance, global transcriptional profiles, secreted aspartyl proteinase (Sap) activities and virulence in different infection models. The addition of the gray cell type to the phenotypic transition systems may enhance fitness and confers an adaptive advantage for C. albicans in the host. We further demonstrate that two key regulators of white-opaque switching, Wor1 and Efg1, are not required for maintenance of the gray phenotype, suggesting that a different regulatory circuitry may be involved in the regulation of gray cell formation. Our study provides an example of multiple stable and heritable switching systems, indicating that the regulation of morphological forms to adapt to environmental changes could be much more elaborate than previously thought. total RNA profiles of 24h old white, gray and opaque cell types
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