Candida albicans cell wall constitutes a sensitive boundary that undergoes molecular changes upon environmental injuries. Antimycotics exert an intense action on cell wall eliciting both qualitative and quantitative changes of resident proteins. The emergence of drug resistance is marked by a modulation of cell wall proteomic profile. In this study, we monitored, at the proteome level through a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis-based approach, differences of cell wall proteins in sensitive and resistant strains of C. albicans, and variations occurring upon treatment of these strains with antifungal drugs. We identified Rhd3/Pga29, a glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein, as the main over-expressed protein in micafungin resistant strain with respect to the sensitive control cells. A further increase of Rhd3/Pga29 took place when these resistant strains were treated with sub-lethal dose of micafungin. These results were also confirmed in other two clinical isolates resistant to caspofungin. Results were validated by Western blot analyses and RT-PCR and immunoelectron microscopy images confirmed the increase of the Rhd3/Pga29 on the cell wall as well as in the cytosolic compartment of the micafungin-treated resistant cells. Rhd3/Pga29 over-expression upon echinocandin treatment could represent a strategy of C. albicans to counteract the toxic action of this drug. A role of this protein has also been claimed in the virulence of the fungus, suggesting an involvement of Rhd3/Pga29 in the relationship between C. albicans and the host.

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:白色念珠菌细胞壁构成敏感边界,在环境受伤时会发生分子变化。抗真菌药对细胞壁产生强烈作用,引起驻留蛋白的质和量变化。耐药性的出现以细胞壁蛋白质组学特征的调节为标志。在这项研究中,我们通过基于二维凝胶电泳的方法在蛋白质组水平上监测了白色念珠菌敏感菌株和耐药菌株中细胞壁蛋白的差异,以及用抗真菌药物治疗这些菌株时发生的变化。我们确定Rhd3 / Pga29,糖磷脂酰肌醇(GPI)锚定的蛋白质,相对于敏感的对照细胞,在米卡芬净抗性菌株中主要过表达的蛋白质。当用亚致死剂量的米卡芬净治疗这些耐药菌株时,Rhd3 / Pga29进一步升高。这些结果在其他两种对卡泊芬净有抗药性的临床分离株中也得到了证实。结果通过Western印迹分析和RT-PCR验证,免疫电子显微镜图像证实在米卡芬净处理过的耐药细胞的细胞壁上以及胞质区室中Rhd3 / Pga29的增加。棘皮菌素治疗后Rhd3 / Pga29的过表达可能代表白色念珠菌抵消该药物毒性作用的策略。该蛋白在真菌的毒性中也被要求发挥作用,表明Rhd3 / Pga29参与了白色念珠菌与宿主之间的关系。

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