Reduced pathogenicity of aCandida albicansMAP kinase phosphatase (CPP1) mutant in the murine mastitis model

Autor: Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Csilla Csank, David Y. Thomas, Faisal A. Guhad, Malcolm Whiteway, Jann Hau
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Europe PubMed Central
University of Copenhagen
ISSN: 1600-0463
0903-4641
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb00257.x
Popis: Candida albicans strains with a deletion of the mitogen-activated protein kinase tyrosine phosphatase gene (CPP1) are derepressed in the yeast-to-hyphal transition on solid surfaces in vitro at ambient temperatures and this gene is therefore required for repression of the yeast-to-hyphal switch. The pathology caused by a CPP1 null mutant strain was compared with that of the null mutant into which the wild-type CPP1 gene was introduced by homologous recombination and with the wild-type parent strain in a murine mycotic mastitis model. The mammary glands of lactating mice (at day 5 postpartum) were infected for 2, 4 and 6 days with 1 times 105, 1 times 106 and 1 times 107 cell-forming units before euthanasia. Infected and non-infected control glands were evaluated histopathologically. The null mutant strains showed less severe pathology than the two control strains. The Cpp1p tyrosine phosphatase may thus be considered a virulence determinant during localized infection in C. albicans.
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