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Journal Article
Cryptococcus neoformans adapts to the host environment through TOR-mediated remodeling of phospholipid asymmetry
2023
Overview
Cryptococcus
spp. are environmental fungi that first must adapt to the host environment before they can cause life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients. Host CO
2
concentrations are 100-fold higher than the external environment and strains unable to grow at host CO
2
concentrations are not pathogenic. Using a genetic screening and transcriptional profiling approach, we report that the TOR pathway is critical for
C. neoformans
adaptation to host CO
2
partly through Ypk1-dependent remodeling of phosphatidylserine asymmetry at the plasma membrane. We also describe a
C. neoformans
ABC/PDR transporter (
PDR9
) that is highly expressed in CO
2
-sensitive environmental strains, suppresses CO
2
-induced phosphatidylserine/phospholipid remodeling, and increases susceptibility to host concentrations of CO
2
. Interestingly, regulation of plasma membrane lipid asymmetry by the TOR-Ypk1 axis is distinct in
C. neoformans
compared to
S. cerevisiae
. Finally, host CO
2
concentrations suppress the
C. neoformans
pathways that respond to host temperature (Mpk1) and pH (Rim101), indicating that host adaptation requires a stringent balance among distinct stress responses.
Here, Ristow et al show that the environmental fungus
Cryptococcus
adapts to the higher carbon dioxide levels present in human tissue through activation of the Target-of-Rapamycin stress response pathway leading to reorganization of its outer membrane lipids and host adaptation.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 13/31
/ 14/19
/ 45/77
/ 49/90
/ 49/91
/ 64/60
/ 96/35
/ 96/63
/ ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters - metabolism
/ Carbon dioxide concentration
/ Cryptococcosis - microbiology
/ Cryptococcus neoformans - metabolism
/ Fungi
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Lipids
/ Phosphatidylserines - metabolism
/ Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism
/ Science
