Thermotolerance in the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is linked to antigen masking via mRNA decay-dependent reprogramming

ALM Bloom, RM Jin, J Leipheimer, JE Bard… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… if downstream consequences of defective mRNA decay that we observed in the C.
neoformans ccr4Δ mutant may also occur in the non-pathogen. Notably, C. amylolentus is an …

mRNA decay: an adaptation tool for the environmental fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

ALM Bloom, J Leipheimer… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… of subsets of functionally related mRNAs in response to stressors relevant to pathogenesis,
… Thus, for C. neoformans, host adaptation requires mRNA decay to mediate rapid …

RNA biology and the adaptation of Cryptococcus neoformans to host temperature and stress

ALM Bloom, JC Panepinto - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… and was determined to significantly affect the ability of C. neoformans to adapt to stress
induced by a shift to 37C.6, 7 The conventional mRNA degradation pathway is initiated by poly(A)…

RNA Interference in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

H Liu, TR Cottrell, LM Pierini, WE Goldman… - Genetics, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… This could result in plasmids that are variably expressed and thus have different degrees
of efficacy in mediating mRNA degradation. Addition of telomeric sequences to the interfering …

Opposing PKA and Hog1 signals control the post‐transcriptional response to glucose availability in Cryptococcus neoformans

D Banerjee, ALM Bloom… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans must adapt to glucose-limited conditions
… ribosome biogenesis and translation by modulating mRNA decay through a balance of PKA …

Current insight into the role of mRNA decay pathways in fungal pathogenesis

Z Firdous, S Kalra, R Chattopadhyay, VK Bari - Microbiological Research, 2024 - Elsevier
mRNA, as well as RNA-binding proteins, regulate morphology and virulence by controlling
mRNA degradation … This review summarizes the mRNA degradation pathways and how they …

Intron retention-dependent gene regulation in Cryptococcus neoformans

…, P Lechat, E Mogensen, F Moyrand, C Proux… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… is the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway, which upon translation recognizes
and degrades mRNAs that … Thus, we expected most of the alternative mRNA molecules in C. …

Introns Regulate Gene Expression in Cryptococcus neoformans in a Pab2p Dependent Pathway

C Goebels, A Thonn, S Gonzalez-Hilarion… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
mRNA. In addition, our results demonstrated that the essential nucleases Rrp44p and
Xrn2p are implicated in the degradation of mRNA transcribed from an intronless allele in C. …

Puf4 Regulates both Splicing and Decay of HXL1 mRNA Encoding the Unfolded Protein Response Transcription Factor in Cryptococcus neoformans

VE Glazier, JN Kaur, NT Brown, AA Rivera… - Eukaryotic …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
… to growth at 37C through HXL1 mRNA decay. We postulate that by regulating the fate of
HXL1 mRNA, Puf4 is able to modulate UPR kinetics in C. neoformans, controlling both the …

Uncoupling of mRNA synthesis and degradation impairs adaptation to host temperature in Cryptococcus neoformans

ALM Bloom, JTG Solomons, VE Havel… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans must overcome multiple stressors to …
Given the role of Ccr4 in catalysing the first and rate limiting step in conventional mRNA decay (…