Caracterização dos mecanismos de captação de ferro em Fonsecaea pedrosoi e Cladophialophora carrionii

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Kassyo Lobato Potenciano da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7137
• topic: Virulência; Sideróforos; Metal; Via redutiva; Reguladores; Virulence; Siderophores; Metal; Reductive pathway; Regulators; GENETICA::GENETICA MOLECULAR E DE MICROORGANISMOS

The polymorphic fungi Fonsecaea pedrosoi and Cladophialophora carrionii are the main etiological agents of Chromoblastomycosis (CBM), a chronic cutaneous mycotic infection, which occurs mainly in humid tropical regions. The scarcity of effective therapeutic protocols added to the clinical polymorphism of CBM leads to prolonged therapies and a high relapse rate. There are few data on the molecular biology of F. pedrosoi and C. carrionii, although some virulence factors have already been described, revealing the need to explore the mechanisms used by these pathogens during infection. Iron is a vital micronutrient for all organisms, with the exception of some bacteria, participating in essential cellular processes, such as: DNA replication, oxidative stress, cellular respiration, oxygen transport, energy production, among others. During the infection, the host decreases the availability of iron to the pathogen to contain the advancement of the infection; while the pathogen activates mechanisms for obtain and use the metal to survive in the infected tissues, revealing a scenario of intense dispute. In order to characterize the presence of these systems in F. pedrosoi and C. carrionii, in sílico analyzes were performed, revealing the presence of orthologs for proteins involved in reductive iron assimilation, siderophore mediated uptake and regulators of capture and utilization strategies of the metal, these sequences containing conserved domains consistent with the predicted functions. The expression profile of transcripts demonstrated the induction of iron reducing scavengers, siderophore biosynthesis intermediates and the hapX positive regulator during iron deprivation, in addition to repressing the negative regulatory sreA. The production of siderophores was observed after qualitative approaches, and the siderophore ferricrocine was subsequently identified intra- and extracellularly in F. pedrosoi and C. carrionii. These siderophores were able to restore the growth of a mutant strain of ΔsidA from A. nidulans. Preferred iron sources were observed after growth assays and, in addition, some of these sources were used by F. pedrosoi and C. carrionii during infection in macrophages, demonstrating that these pathogens may have strategies for remodeling iron homeostasis for survival.