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Alternative Title:
PLoS Pathog
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001140
Personal Author:
Oh, Julia ; Fung, Eula ; Schlecht, Ulrich ; Davis, Ronald W. ; Giaever, Guri ; ... More +
Oh, Julia ; Fung, Eula ; Schlecht, Ulrich ; Davis, Ronald W. ; Giaever, Guri ; St. Onge, Robert P. ; Deutschbauer, Adam ; Nislow, Corey Less -
Description:
Candida albicans is the most common human fungal pathogen, causing infections that can be lethal in immunocompromised patients. Although Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used as a model for C. albicans, it lacks C. albicans' diverse morphogenic forms and is primarily non-pathogenic. Comprehensive genetic analyses that have been instrumental for determining gene function in S. cerevisiae are hampered in C. albicans, due in part to limited resources to systematically assay phenotypes of loss-of-function alleles. Here, we constructed and screened a library of 3633 tagged heterozygous transposon disruption mutants, using them in a competitive growth assay to examine nutrient- and drug-dependent haploinsufficiency. We identified 269 genes that were haploinsufficient in four growth conditions, the majority of which were condition-specific. These screens identified two new genes necessary for filamentous growth as well as ten genes that function in essential processes. We also screened 57 chemically diverse compounds that more potently inhibited growth of C. albicans versus S. cerevisiae. For four of these compounds, we examined the genetic basis of this differential inhibition. Notably, Sec7p was identified as the target of brefeldin A in C. albicans screens, while S. cerevisiae screens with this compound failed to identify this target. We also uncovered a new C. albicans-specific target, Tfp1p, for the synthetic compound 0136-0228. These results highlight the value of haploinsufficiency screens directly in this pathogen for gene annotation and drug target identification.
Subject:
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Candida Albicans
DNA Transposable Elements
Drug Discovery
Food
Gene Expression Profiling
Genetics And Genomics/Microbial Evolution And Genomics
Genomic Library
Haploinsufficiency
Microarray Analysis
Models, Biological
Molecular Sequence Annotation
Molecular Targeted Therapy
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Organisms, Genetically Modified
Research Article
Sequence Tagged Sites

Source:
PLoS Pathog. 6(10).
Pubmed ID:
20949076
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC2951378
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
HG000205/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; MOP-81340/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada ; MOP-84305/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada ; P01 GH000205/GH/CGH CDC HHS/United States ; R01 HG003317/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; ... More +
HG000205/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; MOP-81340/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada ; MOP-84305/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada ; P01 GH000205/GH/CGH CDC HHS/United States ; R01 HG003317/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; T32 HG00044/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States Less -
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CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:dd3965172198231899c6cbf784f6e8a933d331fabc380fa9d79c066daf53cf58
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