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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Clotrimazole Drug Resistance in Candida glabrata Clinical Isolates Correlates with Increased Expression of the Drug:H(+) Antiporters CgAqr1, CgTpo1_1, CgTpo3, and CgQdr2.

Catarina Costa, Jonathan Ribeiro, Isabel M Miranda, Ana Silva-Dias, Mafalda Cavalheiro, Sofia Costa-de-Oliveira, Acácio G Rodrigues, Miguel C Teixeira

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Catarina CostaDepartment of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of LisbonLisboa, Portugal; Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Biological Sciences Research GroupLisboa, Portugal.
Jonathan RibeiroDepartment of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of LisbonLisboa, Portugal; Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Biological Sciences Research GroupLisboa, Portugal.
Isabel M MirandaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal; CINTESIS-Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal.
Ana Silva-DiasDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal; CINTESIS-Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal.
Mafalda CavalheiroDepartment of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of LisbonLisboa, Portugal; Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Biological Sciences Research GroupLisboa, Portugal.
Sofia Costa-de-OliveiraDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal; CINTESIS-Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal.
Acácio G RodriguesDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal; CINTESIS-Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of PortoPorto, Portugal.
Miguel C TeixeiraDepartment of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of LisbonLisboa, Portugal; Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Biological Sciences Research GroupLisboa, Portugal.
Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering · PTCentre for Health Technology and Services Research · PTUniversidade do Porto · PTInstituto Politécnico de Lisboa · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For years, antifungal drug resistance in Candida species has been associated to the expression of ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) multidrug transporters. More recently, a few drug efflux pumps from the Drug:H(+) Antiporter (DHA) family have also been shown to play a role in this process, although to date only the Candida albicans Mdr1 transporter has been demonstrated to be relevant in the clinical acquisition of antifungal drug resistance. This work provides evidence to suggest the involvement of the C. glabrata DHA transporters CgAqr1, CgQdr2, CgTpo1_1, and CgTpo3 in the clinical acquisition of clotrimazole drug resistance. A screening for azole drug resistance in 138 C. glabrata clinical isolates, from patients attending two major Hospitals in Portugal, was performed. Based on this screening, 10 clotrimazole susceptible and 10 clotrimazole resistant isolates were selected for further analysis. The transcript levels of CgAQR1, CgQDR2, CgTPO1_1, and CgTPO3 were found to be significantly up-regulated in resistant isolates when compared to the susceptible ones, with a level of correlation that was found to be similar to that of CgCDR2, an ABC gene known to be involved in the clinical acquisition of resistance. As a proof-of-concept experiment, the CgTPO3 gene was deleted in an azole resistant C. glabrata isolate, exhibiting high levels of expression of this gene. The deletion of CgTPO3 in this isolate was found to lead to decreased resistance to clotrimazole and fluconazole, and increased accumulation of azole drugs, thus suggesting the involvement of this transporter in the manifestation of azole resistance.

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azole drug resistanceCandida glabrataclinical isolatesclotrimazoledrug:H+ antiportersfluconazole

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