Host–Pathogen Interactions and Correlated Factors That Are Affected in Replicative-Aged Cryptococcus neoformans

VKA Silva, S Min, K Yoo, BC Fries - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
virulence factors that contribute to fungal intracellular survival. … confirmed that live fungus
was required to modulate the … The effect of replicative aging on phagosomal maturation in …

Distinct effect of calorie restriction between congenic mating types of Cryptococcus neoformans

NK Oliveira, K Yoo, S Bhattacharya, R Gambhir… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
… CR can influence the replicative lifespan (RLS) of various organisms by modulating several
… and greater virulence of MATα cells. Our data further encourage efforts to characterize …

With age comes resilience: how mitochondrial modulation drives age-associated fluconazole tolerance in Cryptococcus neoformans

K Yoo, S Bhattacharya, NK Oliveira, N Pereira de Sa… - mBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
… To investigate the effects of replicative aging on gene … backgrounds and examines the effect
of MitoTEMPO treatment … respiration is crucial for cryptococcal virulence, in vivo resilience, …

Replicative aging remodels the cell wall and is associated with increased intracellular trafficking in human pathogenic yeasts

VKA Silva, S Bhattacharya, NK Oliveira, AG Savitt… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… IMPORTANCE Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida … drugs (10) because it is essential
for fungal virulence (11). This study … to elucidate the implications of EV secretion during aging, …

Replicative aging in pathogenic fungi

S Bhattacharya, T Bouklas, BC Fries - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
… glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans are pathogenic yeasts … The studies indicate that
aging is relevant for virulence in … effect on life span that was observed by chemical modulation

Achieving Resilience in Aging: How Mitochondrial Modulation Drives Age-associated Fluconazole Tolerance in Cryptococcus neoformans

K Yoo, NK Oliveira, S Bhattacharya, BC Fries - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
… that replicative aging conveys enhanced resilience within the host environment. 78 … To
investigate the effects of replicative aging on gene expression in Cn, we performed 94 …

[HTML][HTML] Gene, virulence and related regulatory mechanisms in Cryptococcus gattii: Gene, virulence and regulatory mechanisms in C. gattii

Y Huang, X Zang, C Yang, H Deng, X Ma… - Acta Biochimica et …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… gattii exhibited cell wall damage and reduced virulence, whereas Cda1 defects had no
effect on the … [65], and Hsp70 was recently proved to modulate the interaction between C. …

The impact of nitrogen limitation on virulence and the quorum sensing response in Cryptococcus neoformans

S Samie - 2020 - scholar.sun.ac.za
… the interplay between virulence factor expression and QS, as well as the effect NL has on …
neoformans is also modulated in response to local nitrogen concentrations. When grown in …

Transcription Factors and Intracellular Proteins Orchestrate Phenotypic Adaptation in Cryptococcus neoformans for Survival and Human Infections

OS Folorunso, OM Sebolai - 2023 - preprints.org
… this homologue gene seems to be redundant with no effect on the virulence of serotype A [29].
… , and DNA replication (by modulating the activity of Orc2p while initiating DNA replication). …

Animal Models of Cryptococcus neoformans in Identifying Immune Parameters Associated With Primary Infection and Reactivation of Latent Infection

TG Normile, AM Bryan, M Del Poeta - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
cryptococcal virulence factor (12, 13). The various serotypes result in prominent differences
in both pathology and immune modulationimplications to how macrophages interact with C. …