基于Hog-MAPK信号通路探讨白念珠菌氟康唑耐药机制的实验研究

目的探讨Hog-MAPK信号通路在白念珠菌氟康唑耐药机制中的作用。方法通过Real-Time PCR、Western blot等方法比较白念珠菌氟康唑敏感株与耐药株Hog-MAPK信号通路相关的HOG1等基因的mRNA表达,以及磷酸化p38 MAPK蛋白表达的差异,并应用微量液基稀释法检测白念珠菌HOG1基因缺陷株及其原始亲代菌株/标准株对氟康唑MIC值的差异。结果白念珠菌氟康唑敏感株与耐药株之间Hog-MAPK信号通路相关基因mRNA表达和蛋白表达存在一定差异性,敏感株的表达在一定程度上低于耐药株,HOG1基因缺陷株对氟康唑更为敏感。结论白念珠菌氟康唑耐药性可能与Hog-MAPK信号通路中部分基因和蛋白表达有关,这些基因和蛋白表达的降低可能使耐药性发生改变。     

白念珠菌HSP90的研究进展

调查表明白念珠菌已成为全球第4大致病菌并且有逐年上升的趋势,较多机构已开展白念珠菌致病机制的研究。相关研究表明白念珠菌的热休克蛋白90(HSP90)能促进白念珠菌的形态变化以及耐药形成。本文从蛋白结构、客户蛋白、辅助因子等方面总结了白念珠菌HSP90在调控白念株菌形态变化以及耐药性形成方面的研究进展。     

基于定量蛋白质组学的NT-89抗白念珠菌作用机制研究

目的利用定量蛋白质组学iTRAQ技术,分析抗真菌化合物NT-89作用后白念珠菌蛋白质组的含量变化。方法提取NT-89作用前后的白念珠菌总蛋白与细胞壁蛋白,利用iTRAQ技术检测蛋白提取物中蛋白质的相对丰度,寻找药物作用前后的差异蛋白,并利用GO数据库注释蛋白质功能分类。结果总蛋白(TP)提取物中检测出295种差异蛋白,其中的Ywp1p、Pga10p在总蛋白中含量下调最为显著。细胞壁蛋白(CWP)提取物中有6种GPI锚定蛋白含量显著降低。结论 NT-89影响了白念珠菌细胞壁的结构完整与功能,iTRAQ技术能够为药物的作用机制研究提供有效参考信息。     

芒果苷协同氟康唑抗耐药白念珠菌作用研究

目的研究芒果苷与氟康唑合用对唑类耐药白念珠菌协同抗真菌的作用和机制。方法采用棋盘式微量稀释法测试芒果苷协同氟康唑对22株耐药白念珠菌的最小抑菌浓度MIC80;时间-杀菌曲线探究两药联用对4株耐药白念珠菌生长的抑制作用;药物生长抑制实验实验探究不同浓度芒果苷和不同浓度氟康唑协同抗耐药白念珠菌药效;通过实时定量RT-PCR检测两药联用时耐药基因CDR1、CDR2、MDR1表达水平。结果芒果苷联合氟康唑可产生协同抗唑类白念珠菌作用,协同指数(FICI)0.5;两药合用对白念珠菌生长可产生抑制作用;两药合用降低耐药基因CDR1表达水平。结论芒果苷与氟康唑合用可产生协同抗唑类耐药白念珠菌作用。     

白念珠菌氟康唑耐药株与敏感株SRB1、CDR1、ERG11表达比较分析

目的了解SRB1在白念珠菌氟康唑耐药株和敏感株表达差异,探讨与白念珠菌耐药性的关系。方法使用同一亲本来源的白念珠菌氟康唑耐药株CA-16和敏感株CA-3为研究对象,采用实时荧光定量RT-PCR的方法扩增各菌株的目的基因SRB1、CDR1、ERG11,观察各菌株目的基因表达情况。结果与白念珠菌氟康唑敏感株CA-3相比,在mRNA水平氟康唑耐药株CA-16的SRB1和耐药基因CDR1、ERG11表达升高,SRB1、CDR1、ERG11表达水平差异具有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论白念珠菌SRB1的表达增高和白念珠菌对氟康唑耐药密切相关,SRB1可能是一个新的耐药候选基因。     

甲源性念珠菌的菌种鉴定、药敏分析及与基因分型的关系研究

目的研究甲源性念珠菌的菌种分类和药敏结果,并对咪康唑敏感性不同的白念珠菌和近平滑念珠菌株的基因型进行聚类分析。方法采用ROSCO抗真菌药敏纸片对念珠菌菌株进行药敏分析;ERIC-PCR指纹法分别比较白念珠菌及近平滑念珠菌的咪康唑敏感株,中敏株及耐药株的基因型,并对其聚类分析。结果白念珠菌和近平滑念珠菌对咪康唑的敏感性分别为42%和32%。而对咪康唑敏感性不同的白念珠菌以及近平滑念珠菌的ERIC-PCR指纹图谱未见特异性条带。结论 ERIC-PCR指纹法可用于不同念珠菌菌株的基因分型;但其念珠菌的基因分型与咪康唑耐药无一定相关性。     

白念珠菌耐药的分子机制研究进展

近年来,免疫受损人群不断增多,该人群念珠菌病发病率呈上升趋势。随着抗真菌药物的广泛应用,临床分离到的白念珠菌耐药株增多,有关白念珠菌对抗真菌药物的耐药机制的研究又有了进一步的进展。就白念珠菌对唑类、多烯类、5-氟胞嘧啶、棘白菌素类等抗真菌药物的耐药机制方面的研究进展,作了介绍。     

白念珠菌耐药机制研究进展CSCD

白念珠菌是侵袭性念珠菌病最常见的致病菌,其耐药问题使临床治疗面临着严峻的挑战。白念珠菌常见的耐药机制包括药物靶点突变或上调、药物外排增加、生物被膜形成等,近年来代谢调节、线粒体功能改变、选择性剪切等机制也受到了广泛关注。了解白念珠菌耐药机制有助于探索研究全新结构的抗真菌药物和开发更多有效的抗耐药真菌策略。该文就白念珠菌耐药机制研究进展进行综述。     

白念珠菌对特比萘芬耐药性的体外梯级诱导和回复研究

目的以浓度梯级倍增的特比萘芬在体外诱导白念珠菌标准株获得耐药子代菌株,并观察其耐药稳定性,从细胞水平研究白念珠菌对特比萘芬耐药前后生物学特性的变化,为进一步采用基因芯片在基因表达水平上研究特比萘芬对白念珠菌的药理作用及其诱导耐药机制提供理想的实验模型。方法将白念珠菌ATCC90028株在特比萘芬浓度逐渐梯级倍增的YPD液体培养基中分别转种传代,直到最后转种至含1024μg／ml特比萘芬的YPD液体培养基中培养,分别测定诱导后形成的各子代菌株的MIC值;选用以1024μg／ml特比萘芬诱导形成的耐药菌株,在不含特比萘芬的YPD液体培养基中连续传代10次后,测定其MIC值,观察其耐药表型的稳定性;并分别用肉眼、光镜和电镜观察白念珠菌耐药性产生前后的形态学特征。结果特比萘芬MIC值为8μg／ml的白念珠菌母本菌株（白念珠菌ATCC90028）成功地被诱导成特比萘芬MIC值为≥512μg/ml的子代菌株,进一步的耐药稳定性实验说明诱导后形成的子代菌株的表型是相对稳定的,诱导后的子代耐药菌株与其母本相比,生长繁殖速度减慢,细胞形态不规则,部分细胞胞膜不完整。结论通过在药物浓度梯级倍增的培养基中连续传代培养的方法可成功建立相同基因型的对特比萘芬敏感的白念珠菌母本和对特比萘芬耐药的子代模型,为获取有亲本的耐药白念珠菌菌株提供了一个有效的实验方法,是在基因水平研究白念珠菌对特比萘芬耐药机制的理想实验模型。     

吸毒人群口腔念珠菌的药物敏感性分析

目的了解吸毒人群口腔念珠菌对常用抗真菌药物的敏感性,为临床治疗念珠菌病提供参考资料。方法采用美国CLSI推荐的微量稀释法测定75株念珠菌对4种常用抗真菌药物两性霉素B、5-氟胞嘧啶、氟康唑和酮康唑的药物敏感性。结果 75株吸毒人群口腔念珠菌对两性霉素B、5-氟胞嘧啶、氟康唑和酮康唑的耐药率分别为0%、4%、8%和13.3%(P0.01),对氟康唑和酮康唑的交叉耐药率为8%;非白念珠菌对氟康唑和酮康唑的耐药率高于白念珠菌(P0.05)。结论吸毒人群口腔念珠菌对两性霉素B和5-氟胞嘧啶的敏感性高于对氟康唑和酮康唑的敏感性。吸毒人群口腔念珠菌存在着对氟康唑、酮康唑和5-氟胞嘧啶的天然耐药株和对唑类药物的天然交叉耐药株,且非白念珠菌对氟康唑和酮康唑的耐药率及交叉耐药率高于白念珠菌。     

Role for dopamine in malonate-induced damage in vivo in striatum and in vitro in mesencephalic cultures

Defects in mitochondrial energy metabolism have been implicated in the pathology of several neurodegenerative disorders. In addition, the reactive metabolites generated from the metabolism and oxidation of the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) are thought to contribute to the damage to neurons of the basal ganglia. We have previously demonstrated that infusions of the metabolic inhibitor malonate into the striata of mice or rats produce degeneration of DA nerve terminals. In the present studies, we demonstrate that an intrastriatal infusion of malonate induces a substantial increase in DA efflux in awake, behaving mice as measured by in vivo microdialysis. Furthermore, pretreatment of mice with tetrabenazine (TBZ) or the TBZ analogue Ro 4-1284 (Ro-4), compounds that reversibly inhibit the vesicular storage of DA, attenuates the malonate-induced DA efflux as well as the damage to DA nerve terminals. Consistent with these findings, the damage to both DA and GABA neurons in mesencephalic cultures by malonate exposure was attenuated by pretreatment with TBZ or Ro-4. Treatment with these compounds did not affect the formation of free radicals or the inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation resulting from malonate exposure alone. Our data suggest that DA plays an important role in the neurotoxicity produced by malonate. These findings provide direct evidence that inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase causes an increase in extracellular DA levels and indicate that bioenergetic defects may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic neurodegenerative diseases through a mechanism involving DA.     

Scurvy in capybaras bred in captivity in Argentine

In order to determine if the absence of vitamin C in the diet of capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) causes scurvy, a group of seven young individuals were fed food pellets without ascorbic acid, while another group of eight individuals received the same food with 1 g of ascorbic acid per animal per day. Animals in the first group developed signs of scurvy-like gingivitis, breaking of the incisors and death of one animal. Clinical signs appeared between 25 and 104 days from the beginning of the trial in all individuals. Growth rates of individuals deprived of vitamin C was considerably less than those observed in the control group. Deficiency of ascorbic acid had a severe effect on reproduction of another population of captive capybaras. We found that the decrease in ascorbic acid content in the diet affected pregnancy, especially during the first stages. The results obtained suggest that it is necessary to supply a suitable quantity of vitamin C in the diet of this species in captivity.     

Changes in lactate dehydrogenase activity in chicken tissues in hyperthyreosis in ontogenesis

The lactate dehydrogenase activity in reactions of lactate oxidation and synthesis was studied in subfractions of the chicken brain, heart and liver at the embryonal, early postembryonal and adult stages of development after thyroxine administration. It has been shown that during embryogenesis thyroxine predominantly enhanced the rate of lactate oxidation in the mitochondrial tissues. A marked increase in the lactate synthesis was found in cytoplasm of the adult chicken tissues. Specificity of enzyme activity alterations was detected in the chicken brain during ontogenesis after thyroxine administration.     

SSTR5 ablation in islet results in alterations in glucose homeostasis in mice

Somatostatin (SST) peptide is a potent inhibitor of insulin secretion and its effect is mediated via somatostatin receptor 5 (SSTR5) in the endocrine pancreas. To investigate the consequences of gene ablation of SSTR5 in the mouse pancreas, we have generated a mouse model in which the SSTR5 gene was specifically knocked down in the pancreatic beta cells (betaSSTR5Kd) using the Cre-lox system. Immunohistochemistry analysis showed that SSTR5 gene expression was absent in beta cells at three months of age. At the time of gene ablation, betaSSTR5Kd mice demonstrated glucose intolerance with lack of insulin response and significantly reduced serum insulin levels. Insulin tolerance test demonstrated a significant increase of insulin clearance in vivo at the same age. In vitro studies demonstrated an absence of response to SST-28 stimulation in the betaSSTR5Kd mouse islet, which was associated with a significantly reduced SST expression level in betaSSTR5Kd mice pancreata. In addition, betaSSTR5Kd mice had significantly reduced serum glucose levels and increased serum insulin levels at 12 months of age. Glucose tolerance test at an older age also indicated a persistently higher insulin level in betaSSTR5Kd mice. Further studies of betaSSTR5Kd mice had revealed elevated serum C-peptide levels at both 3 and 12 months of age, suggesting that these mice are capable of producing and releasing insulin to the periphery. These results support the hypothesis that SSTR5 plays a pivotal role in the regulation of insulin secretion in the mouse pancreas.