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Mutations in the CgPDR1 and CgERG11 genes in azole-resistant Candida glabrata
clinical isolates from Slovakia
Norbert Berila, Silvia Borecka, Vladimira Dzugasova, Jaroslav Bojnansky, Julius Subik
Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B-2, 842 15 Bratislava 4, Slovak Republic
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abstract
Article history:
Received 14 August 2008
Accepted 24 November 2008
Candida glabrata is an important human pathogen that is naturally less susceptible to antimycotics com-
pared with Candida albicans . Ten unmatched C. glabrata clinical isolates were selected from a collection
of isolates exhibiting decreased susceptibilities to azole antifungals. Overexpression of the CgPDR1 gene,
encoding the main multidrug resistance transcription factor, and its target genes CgCDR1 and CgCDR2 ,
coding for drug efflux transporters, was observed in six fluconazole-resistant isolates. Sequence analy-
sis of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified DNA fragments of each isolate’s CgPDR1 gene was
used to identify two novel L347F and H576Y mutations in CgPdr1p. These proved to be responsible for
fluconazole resistance in transformants of the C. glabrata pdr1
Keywords:
Azole resistance
Candida glabrata
CDR1
ERG11
PDR1
mutant strain. Five isolates harbour-
ing the H576Y mutation also contained the mutation E502V in CgErg11p 14C-lanosterol-demethylase.
Heterologous expression of the CgERG11 mutant allele did not provide evidence for its involvement in
azole resistance. In four fluconazole-sensitive isolates that were itraconazole-resistant, slightly enhanced
CgCDR2 expression was observed. No upregulation of the CgERG11 gene was observed in any of the ten
isolates. The results demonstrate that decreased susceptibilities of C. glabrata clinical isolates to azole anti-
fungals mainly results from gain-of-function mutations in the gene encoding the CgPdr1p transcription
factor.
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1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
Candida glabrata is the secondmost important human pathogen
responsible for candidaemia [1] . This species is evolutionarilymore
related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae than to Candida albicans and,
in contrast to the latter, is haploid, having survived deletions or
a complete loss of its mitochondrial genome [2] . It is inherently
less susceptible to azole antifungals that selectively inhibit 14-
2.1. Microorganisms, media and drugs
-
The C. glabrata clinical isolates used in this study are listed
in Table 1 . They were recovered from patients treated at Uni-
versity Hospital in Nitra or collected from vaginal samples of
patients in University Hospital in Bratislava, Slovakia [9] . Can-
dida glabrata ATCC 2001, two well-characterised C. glabrata
isolates including a fluconazole-susceptible isolate DSY562 [3]
and a fluconazole-resistant isolate DSY565 [3] , as well as the C.
glabrata 84u ( ura3 ) wild-type and its C. glabrata B4u pdr1
demethylase of lanosterol encoded by the ERG11 gene [2] .
Compared with C. albicans , there have been fewer studies on C.
glabrata dealing with the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance
[2] . In azole-resistant clinical isolates of C. glabrata, upregulation of
the ABC transporter genes CgCDR1 , CgCDR2 [3–8] and even CgSNQ2
[6] was the major cause of drug resistance. Upregulation of ABC
transporter genes resulted frommutations in the CgPDR1 gene [7,8] ,
a single orthologue of the PDR1 and PDR3 genes encoding transcrip-
tional activators of multidrug resistance in S. cerevisiae [2] .
The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular mecha-
nisms involved in the decreased susceptibility to azole antifungals
in unmatched C. glabrata clinical isolates recovered from different
patients treated in two university hospitals in Slovakia.
ura3
mutant strain [7] were used as controls. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Y26604 ( MATa / MAT
˛
his3
1 / his3
1 leu2
0 / leu2
0lys2
0 / LYS2
0 erg11::kanMX4/ERG11 ) diploid
mutant strain from EUROSCARF (Frankfurt, Germany) was used to
assess the contribution of mutation in CgErg11p to azole resistance
in C. glabrata . The strains were grown at 30 Cor37 C in either
complete YEPDmedium (2% Bacto-Peptone, 1% yeast extract and 2%
glucose), in RPMI 1640 mediumwith
0ura3
0 / ura3
-glutamate [without sodium
bicarbonate supplemented with 2% glucose and buffered to pH 7.0
with 0.165Mmorpholinepropanesulfonic acid (MOPS)] or in mini-
mal YNB medium (0.67% Yeast Nitrogen Base without amino acids,
2% glucose). When grown on solid media, 2% agar was added to the
media. Isolates were identified and stored as described previously
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Table 1
In vitro drug susceptibilities of Candida glabrata clinical isolates.
Isolate
Site of isolation
g/mL) a
Fluconazole
Itraconazole
Voriconazole
1
Endotracheal sputum
128
8
32
2
Urine
1
0.25
0.75
3
Tonsil
128
2
>32
4
Urine
2
0.125
1
5
Endotracheal sputum
2
0.25
0.75
6
Tissue
4
0.25
1.5
7
Endotracheal sputum
128
4
32
8
Endotracheal sputum
2
0.5
1
9
Tongue
4
0.125
0.38
10
Oral cavity
2
0.25
0.5
11
Trachea
32
0.125
0.5
12
Vagina
8
0.5
0.5
13
Endotracheal sputum
16
0.25
>32
14
Abscess
32
8
>32
15
Endotracheal sputum
8
2
>32
16
Tracheal cannula
64
8
>32
17
Endotracheal sputum
64
8
8
18
Tonsil
32
8
>32
19
Tonsil
16
8
>32
20
Urine
128
0.5
0.75
21
Endotracheal sputum
128
>8
>32
22
Endotracheal sputum
128
>8
>32
23
Blood
128
>8
>32
24
Endotracheal sputum
8
1
0.75
25
Trachea
128
>8
>32
26
Urine
4
1
1.5
27
Urine
128
>8
>32
28
Vagina
4
8
0.38
29
Vagina
4
4
0.38
30
Vagina
4
4
1
31
Vagina
32
2
1.5
32
Vagina
2
1
4
33
Vagina
16
1
1.5
34
Vagina
4
1
1.5
35
Vagina
32
1
0.75
36
Vagina
16
0.5
0.75
37
Vagina
4
2
0.25
38
Vagina
2
1
0.125
DSY562 4 0.5 1
DSY565 128 4 4
ATCC 2001 2 0.5 N.D.
MIC 80 , minimum inhibitory concentration for that resulted in 80% reduction of fungal growth after 48 h compared with the drug-free control; N.D., not determined; SDD,
susceptible dose-dependent.
a MIC breakpoints [10] : fluconazole, susceptible,
8
g/mL; SDD, 16–32
g/mL; resistant
64
g/mL; itraconazole, susceptible
0.125
g/mL; SDD, 0.25–0.5
g/mL;
resistant
1
g/mL; voriconazole, susceptible
1
g/mL; resistant
4
g/mL.
[9] . Fluconazole was used as a commercial solution (Pfizer, New
York, NY). Itraconazole (Janssen, Beerse, Belgium) was dissolved in
100% dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO).
Genomic DNA from isolates was extracted and used as a tem-
plate for amplification of the CgERG11 gene and fragments of
the CgPDR1 gene. PCR was carried out with a high-fidelity
KOD Hot Star DNA Polymerase (Sigma–Aldrich, St Louis, MO)
and Extensor Hi-Fidelity PCR Enzyme Kit (ABgene, Hamburg,
Germany) with the following primer pairs: CgERG11 Prom 5 -
TAATATT GAGCTC CGAAGAGGTACGAAACATCC-3 (forward) and
CgERG11 End 5 -TATTACT CTGCAG TGGGATCAACCAACTTTGTC-3
(reverse) containing flanking restriction sites for Sac I and Pst I
(underlined), respectively; CgERG11-forward 5 -GCGATCCCTTCA-
TGTCCATTGTC-3 and CgERG11-reverse 5 -GGCTAATGAATCAGC-
GTATATCCCG-3 ; CgPDR1-F2 5 -GTGACTCGGAAGAAAGGGAC-3 and
CgPDR1-REV 5 -CACTGGTAACTATTGTAAGGGCC-3 ; and CgPDR1-F5
5 -CAGAGACATCATATGAGGCAATCAG-3 and EcoRICgPDR1-STOP
5 -GATATATGAATTCTCATTCAGAATCGAAGGG-3 . The CgPDR1 DNA
fragments used with pCgPDR1 4672 plasmid in co-transformation
experiments were PCR-amplified using genomic DNA of isolate 3
and paired primers CgPDR1 F5 -GGTAAATCAAAACCAACAGGGA-3
(forward) and CgPDR1-RI 5 -GACAATGGAATCGTAATCGCTC-3
(reverse), or genomic DNA of isolate 1 and paired primers
CgPDR1 F5 -GGTAAATCAAAACCAACAGGGA-3
2.2. Drug susceptibility testing
Susceptibilities of the isolates to fluconazole and itraconazole
were assayed by the broth microdilution method in 96-well plates
according to the proposed Clinical and Laboratory Standards Insti-
tute M27-A2 standard guidelines as described previously [9,10] .
Etest assays (AB BIODISK, Solna, Sweden) on RPMI medium supple-
mentedwith2%glucose and the zone inhibitionassays onAntibiotic
Medium3were used for determinationof susceptibilities of isolates
to voriconazole and polyenes (each at 50
g per disk), respectively.
2.3. Plasmids, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification,
DNA sequencing and quantitative real-time reverse transcription
(RT)-PCR
Centromeric plasmids pFL38 and pACU-5 [11] containing
the URA3 selectable marker were used for cloning DNA frag-
ments of S. cerevisiae and C. glabrata , respectively. Plasmid
pCgPDR1 4672 was used as a source of the CgPDR1 gene [7] .
(forward) and
CgPDR1-R 5 -CCGATAAGGGAGATGCAGTT-3
(reverse). Resulting
MIC 80 (
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amplicons were purified using a QIAquick PCR Purification Kit
(Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and the nucleotide sequences for
both strands were determined by primer elongation using an
automated DNA sequencer (ABI Prism 3100; Applied Biosys-
tems, Foster City, CA). DNA sequencing primers were the
same as those used for PCR amplification and supplemented
as follows: CgERG11-Srev 5 -AGGCAAGTTAGGGAAGACGA-3 ,
CgPDR1-F3 5 -GGTCTTGGTTACTGTGTTCACCT-3 and CgPDR1-F6 5 -
TTTCTGAAGTATGCCCTGACC-3 . Sequence datawere comparedwith
standard gene sequences ( http://cbi.labri.fr/Genolevures/elt/CAGL )
using the BLAST program. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR was car-
ried out as described previously [11] . Target nucleic acids were
quantified using the standard curve method for determining the
ratio between the relative quantity of target gene and the CgACT1
reference gene.
four isolates sensitive to fluconazole but resistant to itraconazole
(isolates 28, 29, 30 and 32) were randomly selected to investigate
the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of azole
resistance. Compared with three azole-susceptible control strains
(ATCC 2001, DSY562 and 84u), a simultaneous increased expres-
sion of the CgPDR1 , CgCDR1 and CgCDR2 genes was observed both in
the azole-resistant DSY565 control strain and six other fluconazole-
resistant clinical isolates (1, 3, 7, 21, 22 and 27) ( Fig. 1 ). The CgPDR1
transcript level increased amaximumof 5.07-fold (isolate 7), whilst
the levels of CgCDR1 expression were 9.46–21.43-fold higher than
that in the control strain ATCC 2001. A slightly increased abundance
of CgCDR2 mRNA, but not of CgPDR1 and CgCDR1 , was observed in
four fluconazole-sensitive and itraconazole-resistant clinical iso-
lates (28, 29, 30 and 32). The increased amount of CgPDR1 mRNA
was observed even in the pdr1
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Susceptibilities of clinical isolates to antimycotics
Thirty-eight C. glabrata clinical isolates, originating from differ-
ent patients hospitalised in intensive care units, oncology wards
or examined at the gynaecology clinic, were screened for antifun-
gal resistance using standard susceptibility testing methods. As
shown in Table 1 , the isolates exhibited different levels of sus-
ceptibility to fluconazole, itraconazole and voriconazole. Among
the isolates studied, 28.9%, 68.4% and 42.1% were resistant to flu-
conazole, itraconazole and voriconazole, respectively. Considerable
cross-resistance was observed among the antimycotics. With the
exception of isolate 20, all other fluconazole-resistant isolates were
also resistant to itraconazole and voriconazole. All clinical isolates
were susceptible to amphotericin B and nystatin (data not shown)
and grew on complex medium containing glycerol plus ethanol.
3.3. Mutations in the CgPDR1 and CgERG11 genes
Two parts of CgPDR1 from six fluconazole-resistant clinical
isolates overexpressing drug efflux transporter genes were PCR-
amplified using genomic DNA and pairs of primers as described in
Section 2.3 . Sequences of resulting amplicons covering the central
regulatory domain (539–2000 bp) and the C-terminal activation
domain (2138–3554 bp) and known to contain gain-of-function
mutations in homologous ScPDR1 [12] and ScPDR3 [13] genes were
determined and compared with the published C gPDR1 sequence.
Despite the independent origin of isolates, the CgPDR1 sequences
of five isolates (1, 7, 21, 22 and 27) contained the same nucleotide
variations. One of the nucleotide mutations, C1726T, led to H576Y
amino acid alteration in CgPdr1p ( Table 2 ). In isolate 3, along with
known nucleotide variations in the CgPDR1 gene, another point
mutation, C1039T (resulting in the L347F amino acid substitution
in CgPdr1p) was identified. The position of the L347F mutation
exactly corresponds to the I252M gain-of-function mutation found
3.2. Expression of multidrug resistance-related genes
Six isolates with simultaneous resistance to fluconazole, itra-
conazole and voriconazole (isolates 1, 3, 7, 21, 22 and 27) as well as
Fig. 1. Expression of the CgPDR1 , CgCDR1 , CgCDR2 and CgERG11 genes in Candida glabrata clinical isolates as determined by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain
reaction (RT-PCR). The results are the mean
±
standard deviation for the three independent experiments.
mutant strain but without upreg-
ulation of CgCDR1 and CgCDR2, corroborating the results of Tsai et
al. [7] . No upregulation of the CgERG11 gene was observed in any of
the ten isolates analysed.
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Table 2
Nucleotide and amino acid substitutions in the CgPDR1 and CgERG11 genes in Candida glabrata clinical isolates.
Gene
Base substitutions in clinical isolates
Amino acid substitutions
1, 7, 21, 22, 27
3
28
29, 30, 32
CgPDR1
C705T
C705T
C765T
C765T
C837T
T871C
T871C
C1039T
L347F
C1726T
H576Y
C1749T
C1749T
A2319T
A2319T
T2578C
T2578C
T2994C
T2994C
G3156A
G3156A
CgERG11
C588T
C588T
T768C
T768C
T768C
T768C
C918T
C918T
G927A
G927A
A1023G
A1023G
A1023G
A1023G
A1505T
E502V
T1557A
T1557A
T1557A
T1557A
ura3 mutant strain was co-
transformed with a gapped pCgPDR1 4672 plasmid [7] (restricted
either by Dra III or Dra III and Pac I endonucleases) and the corre-
sponding DNA fragments overlapping these gaps in CgPDR1 that
were amplified by PCR using primer pairs and genomic DNA of iso-
lates 3 or 1, respectively. The resulting transformants containing
plasmid-borne functional CgPDR1 mutant alleles, checked by DNA
sequencing, were found to be resistant to fluconazole [minimum
inhibitory concentration for concentrations that resulted in 80%
reduction of fungal growth after 48 h compared with the drug-free
control; (MIC 80 )
E502V mutant or CgERG11 wild-type alleles, were introduced by
transformation into a S. cerevisiae Y26604 diploid strain contain-
ing one chromosomal ERG11 gene disrupted with a kanamycin
cassette. Transformants were subjected to sporulation and the
resulting haploid kanamycin-resistant Ura + spores were anal-
ysed for susceptibility to fluconazole and itraconazole. Since both
the CgERG11-E502V mutant and CgERG11 wild-type alleles in the
genetic background of Scerg11::kanMX conferred the same level
of fluconazole susceptibility (MIC 80 =8
g/mL), it was concluded
that the E502V mutation in CgErg11p does not contribute to azole
resistance in C. glabrata.
Decreased susceptibilities to itraconazole in four vaginal yeast
isolates (28, 29, 30 and 32)were not associatedwith upregulation of
CgPDR1 and CgCDR1 . In these isolates, no mutations altered amino
acids and no upregulation of CgERG11 was observed. Whether
a slightly enhanced expression of CgCDR2 in these isolates con-
tributes to their drug susceptibility pattern is difficult to decide
since a collection of unmatched clinical isolates of different origin
was analysed without knowing the exact levels of gene expression
in corresponding parental sensitive strains. Therefore, one cannot
rule out the participation of other drug transporters or additional
mechanisms in the regulation of itraconazole susceptibility in C.
glabrata.
Taken together, we identified two newmutations in CgPDR1 that
were associated with decreased susceptibilities to azole antifun-
gals in C. glabrata clinical isolates. They resulted in upregulation
of both CgPDR1 and its CgCDR1 and CgCDR2 targets. In selected
unmatched yeast isolates, upregulation of the CgERG11 gene was
not observed. The E502V mutation in the CgERG11 gene, found in
some fluconazole-resistant isolates, apparently did not contribute
to their azole resistance.
g/mL]. These results clearly demonstrate
that the identified Leu347Phe and His576Tyr mutations occurring
in the central inhibitory domain of CgPdr1p are responsible for
activation of CgPdr1p and the establishment of azole resistance.
All ten clinical isolates displaying decreased susceptibility either
to fluconazole or itraconazole were also subjected to CgERG11
sequence analysis. With the exception of isolate 3, five fluconazole-
resistant isolates (1, 7, 21, 22 and 27) had overexpressing drug
efflux transporter genes and displayed the same silent nucleotide
variations and A1505T mutation leading to E502V amino acid
substitution in the C-terminal part of CgErg11p ( Table 2 ). The
appearance of the same pattern of nucleotide variations in the
CgPDR1 and CgERG11 genes in five fluconazole-resistant isolates
recovered from different patients treated in 2006 and 2007 at Uni-
versity Hospital in Nitra, together with the results of microsatellite
analysis using RPM2 , MTI and Cg6 markers [14,15] , indicates the
common origin of these isolates. Apparently, the same is also true
for the other three isolates (29, 30 and 32) resistant to itracona-
zole in that they have the same nucleotide variations in CgERG11
as indicated by their display of the same sizes of DNA fragments in
microsatellite analysis using the polymorphic markers mentioned
above (unpublished results).
To our knowledge, E502V is the first amino acid substitu-
tion found in C. glabrata Erg11p. To assess its contribution to
azole resistance in yeast, the CgERG11 gene with its promoter
was amplified by PCR using genomic DNA of isolates 1 or 29
and paired primers CgERG11 Prom and CgERG11 End. Amplicons
were inserted into the pFL38 centromeric vector as Sac I– Pst IDNA
fragments. The resulting plasmids, containing either CgERG11-
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank Drs K. Kuchler, D. Sanglard, M. Sojakova and
H.F. Tsai for the strains and plasmids as well as D. Hanson for careful
reading of the manuscript.
Funding : This work was supported by grants from the Slovak
Research and Developmental Agency (APVV-20-00604, LPP-0022-
06, LPP-0011-07 and VVCE-0064-07), the Slovak Grant Agency of
Science (VEGA 1/3250/06) and Comenius University (Grant UK
342/08).
in hyperactive ScPdr3p [13] . The H576Y mutation occurs in the
vicinity of a previously described F575L amino acid substitution
in hyperactive CgPdr1p [7] .
To prove that these mutations are responsible for azole
resistance, the C. glabrata B4u pdr1
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