Link between Heat Shock Protein 90 and the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain in the Caspofungin Stress Response of Aspergillus fumigatus

Autor: Dominique Sanglard, Daniel Bachmann, Frédéric Lamoth, Marion Aruanno
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Antifungal Agents
Echinocandin
Pharmacology
Aspergillus fumigatus
Electron Transport
Fungal Proteins
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Echinocandins
Caspofungin
Mechanisms of Resistance
Heat shock protein
Gene Expression Regulation
Fungal

Rotenone
medicine
polycyclic compounds
Pharmacology (medical)
HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins
skin and connective tissue diseases
030304 developmental biology
Voriconazole
0303 health sciences
biology
030306 microbiology
Geldanamycin
biochemical phenomena
metabolism
and nutrition

biology.organism_classification
bacterial infections and mycoses
Hsp90
Mitochondria
Antifungal Agents/pharmacology
Aspergillus fumigatus/drug effects
Aspergillus fumigatus/metabolism
Caspofungin/pharmacology
Echinocandins/pharmacology
Electron Transport/drug effects
Electron Transport/physiology
Fungal Proteins/metabolism
Gene Expression Regulation
Fungal/drug effects

HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins/metabolism
Mitochondria/drug effects
Mitochondria/metabolism
Rotenone/pharmacology
NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductases
echinocandins
invasive aspergillosis
mitochondria
paradoxical effect
rotenone
transcriptomics
Infectious Diseases
Mitochondrial respiratory chain
chemistry
biology.protein
medicine.drug
Zdroj: Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. e00208-19.
ISSN: 1098-6596
Popis: Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic mold responsible for invasive aspergillosis. Triazoles (e.g., voriconazole) represent the first-line treatment, but emerging resistance is of concern. The echinocandin drug caspofungin is used as second-line treatment but has limited efficacy. The heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) orchestrates the caspofungin stress response and is the trigger of an adaptive phenomenon called the paradoxical effect (growth recovery at increasing caspofungin concentrations). The aim of this study was to elucidate the Hsp90-dependent mechanisms of the caspofungin stress response. Transcriptomic profiles of the wild-type A. fumigatus strain (KU80) were compared to those of a mutant strain with substitution of the native hsp90 promoter by the thiA promoter (pthiA-hsp90), which lacks the caspofungin paradoxical effect. Caspofungin induced expression of the genes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC), in particular, NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductases (complex I), in KU80 but not in the pthiA-hsp90 mutant. The caspofungin paradoxical effect could be abolished by rotenone (MRC complex I inhibitor) in KU80, supporting the role of MRC in the caspofungin stress response. Fluorescent staining of active mitochondria and measurement of oxygen consumption and ATP production confirmed the activation of the MRC in KU80 in response to caspofungin, but this activity was impaired in the pthiA-hsp90 mutant. Using a bioluminescent reporter for the measurement of intracellular calcium, we demonstrated that inhibition of Hsp90 by geldanamycin or MRC complex I by rotenone prevented the increase in intracellular calcium shown to be essential for the caspofungin paradoxical effect. In conclusion, our data support a role of the MRC in the caspofungin stress response which is dependent on Hsp90.
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