Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Jan 25;62(2). doi: 10.1128/AAC.01246-17. Print 2018 Feb.
, formerly known as , is an emerging fungal pathogen with low susceptibility to echinocandins. Here, we report the nucleotide sequence of the hot spot 1 region of the gene ( HS1), which codifies for the catalytic subunit of β-1,3-d-glucan synthase, the target of echinocandins. For that purpose, we first designed degenerated oligonucleotide primers derived from conserved flanking regions of the HS1 segment of 12 different fungal species. Interestingly, analysis of the translated HS1 sequences of 12 isolates of revealed that all of them exhibited the same F-to-L substitution in a position that is highly related to reduced echinocandin susceptibility.
棘白菌素类药物低敏感性的新兴真菌病原体。在这里,我们报道了编码棘白菌素类药物靶位β-1,3-d-葡聚糖合酶催化亚基的 基因( HS1)热点 1 区的核苷酸序列。为此,我们首先设计了源自 12 种不同真菌物种的 HS1 片段侧翼保守区的简并寡核苷酸引物。有趣的是,对 12 株 分离株的 HS1 序列分析表明,它们在一个与棘白菌素类药物敏感性降低高度相关的位置都表现出相同的 F 到 L 取代。