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ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2010

Overexpression of TUF1 restores respiratory growth and fluconazole sensitivity to a Cryptococcus neoformans vad1Delta mutant.

John C Panepinto, Amanda L Misener, Brian G Oliver, Guowu Hu, Yoon Dong Park, Soowan Shin, Theodore C White, Peter R Williamson

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Article in Microbiology (Reading, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

John C PanepintoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Amanda L MisenerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Brian G OliverSeattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
Guowu HuSection of Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yoon Dong ParkSection of Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Soowan ShinSection of Infectious Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Theodore C WhiteSeattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
Peter R WilliamsonSection of Translational Mycology, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
University of Illinois Chicago · USCenter for Infectious Disease Research · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

Molecular Pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformansZIAAI001123 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WILLIAMSON, PETER · 2010 to 2025
$10.4M
The Role of Unc119 in T Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling1R01AI045995 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI COOK, JAMES LOWELL · 1999 to 2009
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS AI45995NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI045995
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The yeast-like fungus Cryptococcus neoformans favours respiration as a mechanism of energy production, and thus depends heavily on mitochondrial function. Previous studies of a C. neoformans vad1Delta mutant revealed reduced expression of the mitochondrial elongation factor TUF1 and defects in glycerol utilization, consistent with mitochondrial dysfunction. In this study, we found that in trans expression of TUF1 in the vad1Delta mutant suppressed the mitochondrial defects, including growth on respiration-dependent carbon sources and fluconazole resistance, associated with VAD1 deletion. Tetracycline, an inhibitor of mitochondrial translation, was found to confer resistance to fluconazole in the wild-type and vad1Delta mutant, whereas the fluconazole susceptibility of the TUF1-overexpressing strain was unaffected by tetracycline treatment. In the presence of fluconazole, the vad1Delta mutant exhibited increased activation of the global transcriptional regulator Sre1. TUF1 overexpression failed to alter cleavage of Sre1 in response to fluconazole in the vad1Delta mutant, suggesting that TUF1 repression in the vad1Delta mutant is distal to Sre1, or that it occurs through an independent pathway.

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsCryptococcus neoformansDrug Resistance, FungalFluconazoleFungal ProteinsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMitochondrial ProteinsPeptide Elongation FactorsRNA, FungalAntifungal AgentsFluconazoleFungal ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsPeptide Elongation FactorsRNA, Fungal

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PMID20430817
PMCPMC3068674
OpenAlexW2055982822

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