Assessing pH-dependent activities of virulence factors secreted by Candida albicans
dc.contributor.author | Ramos Pardo, Asier | |
dc.contributor.author | Castro Álvarez, Rocío | |
dc.contributor.author | Quindós Andrés, Guillermo | |
dc.contributor.author | Eraso Barrio, María Elena | |
dc.contributor.author | Sevillano Peña, Elena | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaberdin, Vladimir | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-15T17:59:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-15T17:59:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | MicrobiologyOpen 12(1) : (2023) // Article ID e1342 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-8827 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/59869 | |
dc.description.abstract | Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen that can thrive under adverse conditions including suboptimal pH, nutrient scarcity, and low levels of oxygen. Its pathogenicity is associated with the production of virulence factors such as extracellular hydrolytic enzymes and toxins. This study was aimed at determining the effect of external pH, substrate nature, and strain origin on protease, lipase, and hemolysin production. To achieve this objective, agar plate assays were performed at pH 5.0, 6.5, and 7.5 with substrates suitable for the detection of each family of enzymes. Moreover, the study was conducted with 20 clinical C. albicans isolates from blood, oral cavity, skin, urine, and vagina. The hydrolytic zones formed around the colonies were further measured to calculate the Ez (enzymatic zone) indexes. We found that detection of proteases in skim milk agar plates was possible for most isolates only at pH 5 (80%) and pH 6.5 (75%), whereas BSA plates could confer protease detection exclusively at pH 5 (80%). Similarly, the percentage of isolates possessing lipolytic activities was higher at pH 5 (90%) than at pH 6.5 (70%) and pH 7.5 (35%). In contrast, hemolytic activities were detected in all isolates at pH 6.5 and 7.5 but not at pH 5. Further analysis revealed that some differences in the detected activities could potentially be attributed to the anatomical origin of these isolates. Collectively, these findings suggest that the pH of the site of infection might be critical for mimicking the microenvironment employed to experimentally discover the key virulence factors. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | The work was supported by IKERBASQUE (Basque Foundation for Science). Elena Eraso, Elena Sevillano, and Guillermo Quindós have received grant support from Consejería de Educación, Universidades e Investigación del Gobierno Vasco (GIC15/78 IT-990-16/IT1607-22), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-117983RB-I00), and UPV/EHU (COLAB19/11). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Wiley | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/PID2020-117983RB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | Candida pathogenicity | es_ES |
dc.subject | clinical isolates | es_ES |
dc.subject | hydrolytic zones | es_ES |
dc.subject | secreted enzymes | es_ES |
dc.title | Assessing pH-dependent activities of virulence factors secreted by Candida albicans | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2022 The Authors. MicrobiologyOpen published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mbo3.1342 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/mbo3.1342 | |
dc.departamentoes | Inmunología, microbiología y parasitología | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Immunologia, mikrobiologia eta parasitologia | es_ES |
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