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Articlenpj antimicrobials and resistance2025

Aspergillus fumigatus mitogenomes and their influence on azole-resistant and -susceptible populations.

Endrews Delbaje, Laís Pontes, Johanna Rhodes, Jacob Steenwyk, Ling Lu, Thaila F Dos Reis, Antonis Rokas, Gustavo H Goldman

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Article in npj antimicrobials and resistance, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors.

Endrews DelbajeFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Laís PontesFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Johanna RhodesDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Jacob SteenwykHowards Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Ling LuJiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Centre for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Thaila F Dos ReisFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Antonis RokasDepartment of Biological Sciences and Evolutionary Studies Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Gustavo H GoldmanFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. ggoldman@usp.br.

Funding

Deciphering the phenotypic and genomic traits that underlie the evolution of pathogenicity differences among Aspergillus fumigatus and its close relativesR01AI153356 · NIAID · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Antonis Rokas · 2022 to 2026
$3.5M
Canada's International Development Research Centre no grant IDConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 301058/2019-9 and 405934/2022-0Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2021/04977-5 (G.H.G.), 2022/13603-4 (ED), and 2022/09882-5 (LP)National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant R01 AI153356 from the USA (to A.R. and G.H.G.)NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI153356Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 219551/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of the fungal mitochondria goes far beyond energy metabolism. The genomes of 318 Aspergillus fumigatus clinical and environmental isolates from different geographic origins were analyzed aiming to study the mitochondrial sequences from populations sensitive and resistant to azoles. Our results show that A. fumigatus mitogenomic sequences are very conserved and only show variation in small intergenic regions and one intronic sequence in the cox3 gene. Furthermore, a genome-wide association analysis of accessory mitochondrial genes revealed potential mitochondria-based genotypes that may interact synergistically with the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway to confer the resistant phenotype. This includes a mutation in the AMID-like mitochondrial oxidoreductase (aifA, AFUA_3G01290) and the absence of the mitochondrial carrier protein (pet8, AFUA_8G01400). Deletion of these genes did not change the azole-susceptibility but increased the azole-persistence, suggesting mitochondrial genes could be involved in azole-persistence. Our work opens new hypotheses for the involvement of mitochondria in A. fumigatus azole-resistance.

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PMCPMC11868573

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