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Transcriptional and translational landscape of Candida auris in response to caspofungin

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 19; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.csbj.2021.09.007

2001-0370

Daniel Zamith‐Miranda, Rafaela F. Amatuzzi, Isadora Filipaki Munhoz da Rocha, Sharon T. Martins, Aline Castro Rodrigues Lucena, Alexandre Zanatta Vieira, Gabriel Trentin, Fausto Almeida, Márcio L. Rodrigues, Ernesto Nakayasu, Joshua D. Nosanchuk, Lysangela R. Alves,

Fungal and yeast genetics research

Candida auris has emerged as a serious worldwide threat by causing opportunistic infections that are frequently resistant to one or more conventional antifungal medications resulting in high mortality rates. Against this backdrop, health warnings around the world have focused efforts on understanding C. auris fungal biology and effective prevention and treatment approaches to combat this fungus. To date, there is little information about the differentially expressed genes when this fungus is treated with conventional antifungals, and caspofungin is a standard echinocandin deployed in the therapy against C. auris. In this work, we treated two distinct strains of C. auris for 24 h with caspofungin, and the cellular responses were evaluated at the morphological, translational and transcriptional levels. We first observed that the echinocandin caused morphological alterations, aggregation of yeast cells, and modifications in the cell wall composition of C. auris. Transcriptomic analysis revealed an upregulation of genes related to the synthesis of the cell wall, ribosome, and cell cycle after exposure to caspofungin. Supporting these findings, the integrated proteomic analysis showed that caspofungin-treated cells were enriched in ribosome-related proteins and cell wall, especially mannoproteins. Altogether, these results provide further insights into the biology of C. auris and expands our understanding regarding the antifungal activity of caspofungin and reveal cellular targets, as the mannose metabolism, that can be further explored for the development of novel antifungals.