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Intravital imaging-based genetic screen reveals the transcriptional network governing Candida albicans filamentation during mammalian infection

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العنوان: Intravital imaging-based genetic screen reveals the transcriptional network governing Candida albicans filamentation during mammalian infection
المؤلفون: Rohan S Wakade, Laura C Ristow, Melanie Wellington, Damian J Krysan
المصدر: eLife, Vol 12 (2023)
بيانات النشر: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
LCC:Biology (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Candida albicans, morphogenesis, transcriptional network, virulence traits, intravital imaging, Medicine, Science, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
الوصف: Candida albicans is one of the most common human fungal pathogens. C. albicans pathogenesis is tightly linked to its ability to under a morphogenetic transition from typically budding yeast to filamentous forms of hyphae and pseudohyphae. Filamentous morphogenesis is the most intensively studied C. albicans virulence traits; however, nearly all of these studies have been based on in vitro induction of filamentation. Using an intravital imaging assay of filamentation during mammalian (mouse) infection, we have screened a library of transcription factor mutants to identify those that modulate both the initiation and maintenance of filamentation in vivo. We coupled this initial screen with genetic interaction analysis and in vivo transcription profiling to characterize the transcription factor network governing filamentation in infected mammalian tissue. Three core positive (Efg1, Brg1, and Rob1) and two core negative regulators (Nrg1 and Tup1) of filament initiation were identified. No previous systematic analysis of genes affecting the elongation step has been reported and we found that large set of transcription factors affect filament elongation in vivo including four (Hms1, Lys14, War1, Dal81) with no effect on in vitro elongation. We also show that the gene targets of initiation and elongation regulators are distinct. Genetic interaction analysis of the core positive and negative regulators revealed that the master regulator Efg1 primarily functions to mediate relief of Nrg1 repression and is dispensable for expression of hypha-associated genes in vitro and in vivo. Thus, our analysis not only provide the first characterization of the transcriptional network governing C. albicans filamentation in vivo but also revealed a fundamentally new mode of function for Efg1, one of the most widely studied C. albicans transcription factors.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2050-084X
Relation: https://elifesciences.org/articles/85114; https://doaj.org/toc/2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.85114
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/84b08b487de340d7966b84213c4eefe7
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.84b08b487de340d7966b84213c4eefe7
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:2050084X
DOI:10.7554/eLife.85114