The role of aneuploidy in the emergence of echinocandin resistance in human fungal pathogen Candida albicans

SK Sah, JJ Hayes, E Rustchenko - PLoS Pathogens, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Fungal diseases largely affect human and animal health and dramatically diminish food crop
yields [1]. Among fungi, systemic Candida infections are the second or third most common …

Consequences of chromosome loss: why do cells need each chromosome twice?

NK Chunduri, K Barthel, Z Storchova - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aneuploidy is a cellular state with an unbalanced chromosome number that deviates from
the usual euploid status. During evolution, elaborate cellular mechanisms have evolved to …

Tolerance to Caspofungin in Candida albicans Is Associated with at Least Three Distinctive Mechanisms That Govern Expression of FKS Genes and Cell Wall …

F Yang, L Zhang, H Wakabayashi, J Myers… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Expanding echinocandin use to prevent or treat invasive fungal infections has led to an
increase in the number of breakthrough infections due to resistant Candida species …

Tunicamycin potentiates antifungal drug tolerance via aneuploidy in Candida albicans

F Yang, V Gritsenko, Y Slor Futterman, L Gao, C Zhen… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
How cells exposed to one stress are later able to better survive other types of stress is not
well understood. In eukaryotic organisms, physiological and pathological stresses can …

Chromosome 5 monosomy of Candida albicans controls susceptibility to various toxic agents, including major antifungals

F Yang, A Kravets, G Bethlendy, S Welle… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida albicans is a prevailing fungal pathogen with a diploid genome that can adapt to
environmental stresses by losing or gaining an entire chromosome or a large portion of a …

Dosage compensation and inverse effects in triple X metafemales of Drosophila

L Sun, AF Johnson, RC Donohue, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Dosage compensation, the equalized X chromosome gene expression between males and
females in Drosophila, has also been found in triple X metafemales. Inverse dosage effects …

Candida albicans Strains Adapted to Caspofungin Due to Aneuploidy Become Highly Tolerant under Continued Drug Pressure

F Husain, A Yadav, SK Sah, JJ Hayes, E Rustchenko - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Candida albicans is a prevalent fungal pathogen of humans. Understanding the
development of decreased susceptibility to ECN drugs of this microbe is of substantial …

Chromosome 5 of human pathogen Candida albicans carries multiple genes for negative control of caspofungin and anidulafungin susceptibility

S Suwunnakorn, H Wakabayashi… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida albicans is an important fungal pathogen with a diploid genome that can adapt to
caspofungin, a major drug from the echinocandin class, by a reversible loss of one copy of …

Transcriptional Regulation on Aneuploid Chromosomes in Diverse Candida albicans Mutants

C Tucker, S Bhattacharya, H Wakabayashi… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Candida albicans is a diploid fungus and a predominant opportunistic human pathogen.
Notably, C. albicans employs reversible chromosomal aneuploidies as a means of survival …

Adaptation of Candida albicans to growth on sorbose via monosomy of chromosome 5 accompanied by duplication of another chromosome carrying a gene …

A Kravets, F Yang, G Bethlendy, Y Cao… - FEMS yeast …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Candida albicans, a fungus that normally inhabits the digestive tract and other mucosal
surfaces, can become a pathogen in immunocompromised individuals, causing severe or …