Article: Trichosporon asahii secretes a 30-kDa aspartic peptidase
Microbiological research. 2017 Dec., v. 205
2017
Abstract: Trichosporon asahii is a fungal opportunistic pathogen that causes superficial and deep-seated infections presenting high mortality. Very little is known about the virulence attributes produced by this fungus. Herein, aspartic peptidase production was ... ...
| Abstract | Trichosporon asahii is a fungal opportunistic pathogen that causes superficial and deep-seated infections presenting high mortality. Very little is known about the virulence attributes produced by this fungus. Herein, aspartic peptidase production was identified in Brazilian clinical isolates of T. asahii by different methodologies. Initially, T. asahii strain 250 (from skin lesion) was inoculated in both liquid and solid culture media containing bovine serum albumin (BSA) as the sole nitrogenous source. A translucent halo around the fungal colony was observed from the 5th day of culture. The cell-free culture supernatant revealed that soluble BSA was hydrolyzed along the growth, generating low molecular mass polypeptides as observed by electrophoresis. Subsequently, the secretions from four clinical strains of T. asahii were analyzed by BSA-SDS-PAGE and a single proteolytic band of 30-kDa was detected under acidic pH at 37°C. The secreted aspartic peptidase of T. asahii efficiently cleaved the cathepsin D peptide substrate, but not the substrates with specificity to HIV-1 peptidase and rennin. The capability to cleave either cathepsin D substrate in a fluorogenic assay or BSA immobilized within a gel matrix varied according to the T. asahii isolate. T. asahii extracellular peptidase activity was strongly inhibited by pepstatin A and HIV peptidase inhibitors, classifying it as an aspartic-type peptidase. Human serum albumin, mucin, non-immune immunoglobulin G and gelatin induced, in different levels, the secretion of this aspartic peptidase. With these results, T. asahii must be included in the list of many human fungal opportunistic pathogens able to secrete an aspartic-type peptidase. |
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| Keywords | bovine serum albumin ; cathepsin D ; cell free system ; chymosin ; culture media ; electrophoresis ; fungi ; gelatin ; Human immunodeficiency virus 1 ; human serum albumin ; humans ; immunoglobulin G ; molecular weight ; mortality ; mucins ; pH ; polypeptides ; proteolysis ; secondary infection ; secretion ; skin lesions ; Trichosporon asahii ; virulence |
| Language | English |
| Dates of publication | 2017-12 |
| Size | p. 66-72. |
| Publishing place | Elsevier GmbH |
| Document type | Article |
| ZDB-ID | 1189614-0 |
| ISSN | 1618-0623 ; 0944-5013 |
| ISSN (online) | 1618-0623 |
| ISSN | 0944-5013 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.micres.2017.08.015 |
| Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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