Candida albicans White-Opaque Switching Influences Virulence but Not Mating during Oropharyngeal Candidiasis.

Abstract:

:The capacity of Candida albicans to switch reversibly between the white phenotype and the opaque phenotype is required for the fungus to mate. It also influences virulence during hematogenously disseminated candidiasis. We investigated the roles of the mating type loci (MTL) and white-opaque switching in the capacity of C. albicans to mate in the oropharynx and cause oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC). When immunosuppressed mice were orally infected with mating-competent opaque a/a and α/α cells either alone or mixed with white cells, no detectable mating occurred, indicating that the mating frequency was less than 1.6 × 10-6 Opaque cells were also highly attenuated in virulence; they either were cleared from the oropharynx or switched to the white phenotype during OPC. Although there were strain-to-strain differences in the virulence of white cells, they were consistently more virulent than opaque cells. In vitro studies indicated that relative to white cells, opaque cells had decreased capacity to invade and damage oral epithelial cells. The reduced invasion of at least one opaque strain was due to reduced surface expression of the Als3 invasin and inability to activate the epidermal growth factor receptor, which is required to stimulate the epithelial cell endocytic machinery. These results suggest that mating is a rare event during OPC because opaque cells have reduced capacity to invade and damage the epithelial cells of the oral mucosa.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Solis NV,Park YN,Swidergall M,Daniels KJ,Filler SG,Soll DR

doi

10.1128/IAI.00774-17

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-05-22 00:00:00

issue

6

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

pii

IAI.00774-17

journal_volume

86

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