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Maria Sueli S. Felipe Fernando A.G. Torres Andrea Q. Maranhão Ildinete Silva-Pereira Marcio J. Poças-Fonseca Elida G. Campos Lídia M.P. Moraes Fabrício B.M. Arraes Maria José A. Carvalho Rosângela V. Andrade André M. Nicola Marcus M. Teixeira Rosália S.A. Jesuíno Maristela Pereira Célia M.A. Soares Marcelo M. Brígido 《FEMS immunology and medical microbiology》2013,1830(3):369-381
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Almeida AJ Martins M Carmona JA Cano LE Restrepo A Leão C Rodrigues F 《Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B》2006,43(6):401-409
The present work focuses on the analysis of cell cycle progression of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells under different environmental conditions. We optimized a flow cytometric technique for cell cycle profile analysis based on high resolution measurements of nuclear DNA. Exponentially growing cells in poor-defined or rich-complex nutritional environments showed an increased percentage of daughter cells in accordance with the fungus' multiple budding and high growth rate. During the stationary growth-phase cell cycle progression in rich-complex medium was characterized by an accumulation of cells with higher DNA content or pseudohyphae-like structures, whereas in poor-defined medium arrested cells mainly displayed two DNA contents. Furthermore, the fungicide benomyl induced an arrest of the cell cycle with accumulation of cells presenting high and varying DNA contents, consistent with this fungus' unique pattern of cellular division. Altogether, our findings seem to indicate that P. brasiliensis may possess alternative control mechanisms during cell growth to manage multiple budding and its multinucleate nature. 相似文献
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The fruit-eating bat, Artibeus lituratus, was fed known quantities of viable yeast cells and mycelial particles of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in an attempt to assess the role of this animal in the distribution of this agent in nature. Results of mycosal cultures of the stomach, upper intestine, lower intestine and rectum clearly showed that the fungal cells were unable to survive more than 8 hours in the digestive tract of the bat. The mycelial particles were more susceptible than the yeast and were killed before passing to the rectum. The fungus died rapidly in the voided fecal material. These findings indicate the improbability of isolating P. brasiliensis from the digestive tract of wild captured bats and show that A. lituratus probably plays no role in the distribution of this fungus in nature. 相似文献
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Ultrastructure of Dimorphic Transformation in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis 总被引:3,自引:5,他引:3 下载免费PDF全文
Luis M. Carbonell 《Journal of bacteriology》1969,100(2):1076-1082
The fine structure of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis undergoing temperature-dependent transformation from mycelium to yeast and vice versa (M right harpoon over left harpoon Y) was studied. The transitional form to mycelium from the yeast appears as an elongated bud that extends from the yeast and which has a mixture of characteristics from both the yeast and the mycelium. The transitional form to yeast from the mycelium starts with enlargement of the interseptal spaces and cracking of the outer electron-dense layer of the cell wall of the hypha. Later the interseptal spaces tend to become round and separate. In M --> Y only few interseptal spaces seem to transform. The yeast is produced by self-transformation of the hypha. In Y --> M a new structure is formed and the yeast dies. Intrahyphal hyphae are observed during the transformation from M --> Y, and intrayeast hyphae during the Y --> M. Due to the high mortality and breakage observed in both types of transformations, we believe that wound of the yeast or the mycelium could elicit this phenomenon. 相似文献
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Carrero LL Niño-Vega G Teixeira MM Carvalho MJ Soares CM Pereira M Jesuino RS McEwen JG Mendoza L Taylor JW Felipe MS San-Blas G 《Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B》2008,45(5):605-612
By means of genealogical concordance phylogenetic species recognition (GCPSR), we have investigated coding and non-coding regions from various genes and the ITS sequences of 7 new and 14 known isolates of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Such isolates grouped within the three phylogenetic groups recently reported in the genus Paracoccidioides, with one single exception, i.e., Pb01, a strain that has been the subject of intense molecular studies for many years. This isolate clearly separates from all other Paracoccidioides isolates in phylogenetic analyses and greatly increases the genomic variation known in this genus. 相似文献
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The sequential changes observed during the mycelium to yeast transformation in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis were studied microscopically. The mycelial elements produced terminal and intercalary swellings which, later on, became chlamydospore-like structures. These increased in size, acquired a double contour and, finally, gave rise to multiple budding cells. Transformation was asynchronous. During the observation period, multiple budding cells and chlamydospores remained attached to the parent mycelium. 相似文献
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de Carvalho MJ Amorim Jesuino RS Daher BS Silva-Pereira I de Freitas SM Soares CM Felipe MS 《Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B》2003,39(3):204-210
Calmodulin (CaM) modulates intracellular calcium signalling and acts on several metabolic pathways and gene expression regulation in many eukaryotic organisms including human fungal pathogens, such as Candida albicans and Histoplasma capsulatum. The temperature-dependent dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the aetiological agent of paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM). The mycelium (M) to yeast (Y) transition has been shown to be essential for establishment of the infection, although the precise molecular mechanisms of dimorphism in P. brasiliensis are still unknown. In this work, several inhibitory drugs of the Ca(2+)/calmodulin signalling pathway were tested to verify the role of this pathway in the cellular differentiation process of P. brasiliensis. EGTA and the drugs calmidazolium (R24571), trifluoperazine (TFP), and W7 were able to inhibit the M-Y transition. We have cloned and characterized the calmodulin gene from P. brasiliensis, which comprises 924 nucleotides and five introns that are in a conserved position among calmodulin genes. 相似文献
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Jacqueline B. Ferreira Italmar T. Navarro Roberta L. Freire Gabriela G. Oliveira Aline M. Omori Donizeti R. Belitardo Eiko N. Itano Zoilo P. Camargo Mario A. Ono 《Mycopathologia》2013,176(1-2):95-99
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the etiological agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, a systemic mycosis that affects mainly rural workers in Brazil and other Latin American countries. The participation of domestic and wild animal species in the ecoepidemiology of paracoccidioidomycosis is not well understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate P. brasiliensis infection in dairy goats. The humoral immune response to the gp43 antigen, the main antigen used for paracoccidioidomycosis serodiagnosis and seroepidemiology, was evaluated in two goats immunized with inactivated P. brasiliensis yeast cells. Both animals produced antibodies against the P. brasiliensis gp43 antigen, detected by ELISA, 2 weeks after immunization. A total of 202 goat serum samples were analyzed by ELISA and the immunodiffusion test using P. brasiliensis gp43 and exoantigen as antigens. The seropositivity observed by ELISA was 26.2 % although no reactivity was detected by immunodiffusion. The animals over 18 months of age showed significantly higher positivity (40 %) than animals aged 6–18 months (14.8 %) and 0–6 months (2.6 %). Taking into account that cross-reactivity may occur with other pathogens, the serum samples were also analyzed by ELISA using Histoplasma capsulatum exoantigen as antigen and the positivity observed was 14.3 %. The low correlation (0.267) observed between reactivity to P. brasiliensis gp43 and H. capsulatum exoantigen suggests co-infection rather than cross-reactivity. This is the first report showing serological evidence of P. brasiliensis infection in goats and reinforces that domestic animals are useful epidemiological markers of paracoccidioidomycosis. 相似文献
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Nilson de Jesus Carlos Débora Alves Pinto Mario Augusto Ono Emerson Jose Venancio Zoilo Pires de Camargo Ayako Sano Eiko Nakagawa Itano 《Microbiology and immunology》2014,58(3):212-214
This study investigated the major soluble antigens produced by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (Pb339) cultured in solid Sabouraud (pH 5.6 and 8.5), Sabouraud plus brain heart infusion and liquid tomato juice‐enriched complex medium media at intervals of 3 days over 30 days by immunoblotting and concluded that, to optimize the source of each antigen, both time and growth conditions should be considered. 相似文献
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A Restrepo 《Sabouraudia》1985,23(5):323-334
Some aspects pertaining to the ecology of the dimorphic fungus, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, are reviewed. The available facts concerning the interactions among the only known host (man), the environment (limited to certain Latin-American countries) and the parasite (with an unknown habitat), are analysed. Efforts are made to detect clue circumstances which may lead to discovery of the fungus micro-niche. An analysis of P. brasiliensis mycelial form reveals that such a form has the required capabilities to be the natural infectious form. Its requirements for a moist environment in vitro as well as the high relative humidity predominating in the heart of the endemic areas point towards the possibility of an aquatic--or at least, an extremely humid--habitat for P. brasiliensis. 相似文献
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Mendes-Giannini MJ Monteiro da Silva JL de Fátima da Silva J Donofrio FC Miranda ET Andreotti PF Soares CP 《Mycopathologia》2008,165(4-5):237-248
Host-fungal interactions are inherently complex and dynamic. In order to identify new microbial targets and develop more effective
anti-fungal therapies, it is important to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease. Paracoccidioidomycosis
provokes a variety of clinical symptoms, and Paracoccidioides brasiliensis can reach many tissues, but primarily attacks the lungs. The ability of the pathogen to interact with the host surface structures
is essential to further colonization, invasion, and growth. Epithelial cells may represent the first host barrier or the preferential
site of entry of the fungus. For this reason, interactions between P. brasiliensis and Vero/A549 epithelial cells were evaluated, with an emphasis on the adherence, induction of cytoskeletal alterations,
and differential signaling activity of the various surface molecules. The adhesion to and invasion of epithelial cells by
P. brasiliensis may represent strategies employed to thwart the initial host immune response, and may help in the subsequent dissemination
of the pathogen throughout the body. 相似文献