Andaluz Encarnación, Gómez-Raja Jonathan, Hermosa Belén, Ciudad Toni, Rustchenko E, Calderone Richard, Larriba Germán
Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain.
Fungal Genet Biol. 2007 Aug;44(8):789-98. doi: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.01.005. Epub 2007 Jan 11.
Candida albicans can adapt and grow on sorbose plates by losing one copy of Chr5. Since rad52 mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lose chromosomes at a high rate, we have investigated the ability of C. albicans rad52 to adapt to sorbose. Carad52-DeltaDelta mutants generate Sou(+) strains earlier than wild-type but the final yield is lower, probably because they die at a higher rate in sorbose. As other strains of C. albicans, CAF2 and rad52-DeltaDelta derivatives generate Sou(+) strains by a loss of one copy of Chr5 about 75% of the time. In addition, rad52 strains were able to produce Sou(+) strains by a fragmentation/deletion event in one copy of Chr5, consisting of loss of a region adjacent to the right telomere. Finally, both CAF2 and rad52-DeltaDelta produced Sou(+) strains with two apparent full copies of Chr5, suggesting that additional genomic changes may also regulate adaptation to sorbose.
白色念珠菌可以通过丢失一条5号染色体拷贝来适应并在山梨糖平板上生长。由于酿酒酵母的rad52突变体以高频率丢失染色体,我们研究了白色念珠菌rad52适应山梨糖的能力。白色念珠菌rad52-ΔΔ突变体比野生型更早产生山梨糖抗性(Sou(+))菌株,但最终产量较低,可能是因为它们在山梨糖中死亡率更高。与其他白色念珠菌菌株一样,CAF2和rad52-ΔΔ衍生物约75%的情况下通过丢失一条5号染色体拷贝产生Sou(+)菌株。此外,rad52菌株能够通过5号染色体一个拷贝中的片段化/缺失事件产生Sou(+)菌株,该事件包括右端粒附近区域的丢失。最后,CAF2和rad52-ΔΔ都产生了具有两条明显完整5号染色体拷贝的Sou(+)菌株,这表明其他基因组变化也可能调节对山梨糖的适应性。