Microevolution of in Macrophages Restores Filamentation in a Nonfilamentous Mutant

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Pathogenic microbes often evolve complex traits to adapt to their respective hosts, and this evolution is ongoing: for example, microorganisms are developing resistance to antimicrobial compounds in the clinical setting. The ability of the common human pathogenic fungus, Candida albicans, to switch from yeast to hyphal (filamentous) growth is considered a central virulence attribute. For example, hyphal formation allows C. albicans to escape from macrophages following phagocytosis. A well-investigated signaling network integrates different environmental cues to induce and maintain hyphal growth. In fact, deletion of two central transcription factors in this network results in a mutant that is both nonfilamentous and avirulent. We used experimental evolution to study the adaptation capability of this mutant by continuous co-incubation within macrophages. We found that this selection regime led to a relatively rapid re-connection of signaling between environmental cues and the hyphal growth program. Indeed, the evolved mutant regained the ability to filament and its virulence in vivo. This bypass of central transcription factors was based on a single nucleotide exchange in a gene encoding a component of the general transcription regulation machinery. Our results show that even a complex regulatory network, such as the transcriptional network which governs hyphal growth, can be remodeled via microevolution.

Vyšlo v časopise: Microevolution of in Macrophages Restores Filamentation in a Nonfilamentous Mutant. PLoS Genet 10(12): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004824
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