Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Pages: 449-457

Journal: Yeast

Volume number: 30

Issue number: 11

ISSN: 0749-503X

eISSN: 1097-0061

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.2981

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The plasma membrane protein CaRch1p of Candida albicans, homologous to the human solute carrier protein SLC10A7, is involved in the regulation of calcium homeostasis. C. albicans cells lacking CaRCH1 are hypersensitive to high extracellular Ca2+ concentrations and show increased tolerance to ketoconazole (KCZ). We assume a higher basal Ca2+ influx in the rch1/rch1 mutant strain at low extracellular Ca2+ concentrations, which is not detrimental to C. albicans cells but may be sufficient to activate calcineurin, finally resulting in an increased tolerance to KCZ. However, at 8 mu g/ml KCZ plus 3mm Ca2+ the rch1/rch1 mutant and the wild-type strains showed identical growth. By further increasing the Ca2+ concentration to 30mm, this phenotype was completely reversed and the rch1/rch1 mutant strain became extremely sensitive to 8 mu g/ml KCZ, probably due to synergistic toxic effects of Ca2+ and KCZ under these conditions. Furthermore, we aimed to clarify whether CaRch1p interacts with the Cch1p component of the voltage-gated calcium influx channel Cch1p/Mid1p in C. albicans cells. As disruption of the two alleles of CCH1 in the rch1/rch1 mutant strain did not alter its hypersensitivity to high extracellular Ca2+, and as this phenotype was completely abolished by low amounts of Mg2+ in the rch1/rch1 mutant as well as in the cch1/cch1 rch1/rch1 double mutant, we conclude that CaRch1p is a functional component of the low-affinity calcium uptake system (LACS) system and does not functionally interact with Cch1p. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Harvard Citation style: Alber, J., Jiang, L. and Geyer, J. (2013) CaRch1p does not functionally interact with the high-affinity Ca2+ influx system (HACS) of Candida albicans, Yeast, 30(11), pp. 449-457. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.2981

APA Citation style: Alber, J., Jiang, L., & Geyer, J. (2013). CaRch1p does not functionally interact with the high-affinity Ca2+ influx system (HACS) of Candida albicans. Yeast. 30(11), 449-457. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.2981