Journal
CELLS
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells9071722
Keywords
extracellular vesicles; pathogenic fungi; candidiasis; moonlighting proteins; non-classical secretion
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- National Science Centre of Poland [2016/23/B/NZ6/00089]
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Candidaspp. yeast-like fungi are opportunistic pathogens in humans and have been recently found to release extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are involved in many vital biological processes in fungal cells. These include communication between microorganisms and host-pathogen interactions during infection. The production of EVs and their content have been significantly characterized in the most common candidal speciesCandida albicans, including the identification of numerous virulence factors and cytoplasmic proteins in the EV cargo. We have here conducted the isolation and proteomic characterization of EVs produced by the clinically important non-albicansCandidaspeciesC. glabrata,C. tropicalisandC. parapsilosis. With the use of ultracentrifugation of the cell-free culture supernatant, the candidal EVs were collected and found to be a heterogeneous population of particles for each species with sizes ranging from 60-280 nm. The proteinaceous contents of these vesicles were analyzed using LC-MS/MS, with particular attention paid to surface-expressed proteins that would come into immediate and direct contact with host cells. We thereby identified 42 extracellular and surface-connected proteins fromC. glabrata, 33 fromC. parapsilosis, and 34 fromC. tropicalis,including membrane-associated transporters, glycoproteins and enzymes involved in the organization of the fungal cell wall, as well as several cytoplasmic proteins, including alcohol dehydrogenase, enolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerate kinase and pyruvate kinase, for which the vesicular transport is a possible mechanism underlying their non-classical secretion.
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