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Título: Hemoglobin Uptake by Paracoccidioides spp. Is Receptor-Mediated
Autor(es): Bailão, Elisa Flávia Luiz Cardoso
Parente, Juliana Alves
Pigosso, Laurine Lacerda
Castro, Kelly Pacheco de
Fonseca, Fernanda Lopes
Silva-Bailão, Mirelle Garcia
Báo, Sônia Nair
Bailão, Alexandre Melo
Rodrigues, Marcio L.
Hernandez, Orville
McEwen, Juan G.
Soares, Célia Maria de Almeida
Data de publicação: 2014
Editora: U.S. Headquarters PLOS
Referência: BAILÃO, Elisa Flávia Luiz Cardoso. Hemoglobin Uptake by Paracoccidioides spp. Is Receptor-Mediated. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Online), v. 8, p. e2856, 2014. Disponível em:<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022528/pdf/pntd.0002856.pdf>. Acesso em: 16 jan. 2015.
Resumo: Iron is essential for the proliferation of fungal pathogens during infection. The availability of iron is limited due to its association with host proteins. Fungal pathogens have evolved different mechanisms to acquire iron from host; however, little is known regarding how Paracoccidioides species incorporate and metabolize this ion. In this work, host iron sources that are used by Paracoccidioides spp. were investigated. Robust fungal growth in the presence of the iron-containing molecules hemin and hemoglobin was observed. Paracoccidioides spp. present hemolytic activity and have the ability to internalize a protoporphyrin ring. Using real-time PCR and nanoUPLC-MSE proteomic approaches, fungal growth in the presence of hemoglobin was shown to result in the positive regulation of transcripts that encode putative hemoglobin receptors, in addition to the induction of proteins that are required for amino acid metabolism and vacuolar protein degradation. In fact, one hemoglobin receptor ortholog, Rbt5, was identified as a surface GPI-anchored protein that recognized hemin, protoporphyrin and hemoglobin in vitro. Antisense RNA technology and Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation were used to generate mitotically stable Pbrbt5 mutants. The knockdown strain had a lower survival inside macrophages and in mouse spleen when compared with the parental strain, which suggested that Rbt5 could act as a virulence factor. In summary, our data indicate that Paracoccidioides spp. can use hemoglobin as an iron source most likely through receptor-mediated pathways that might be relevant for pathogenic mechanisms.
Licença: Copyright: 2014 Bailão et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Fonte: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022528/. Acesso em: 16 jan. 2015.
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