Affiliation:
1. Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
2. Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We recently demonstrated that
CDR1
overexpression in azole-resistant isolates of
Candida albicans
is due to its enhanced transcriptional activation and increased mRNA stability. In this study, we provide the first evidence of transcriptional regulation of
CDR1
by Ncb2, the β subunit of NC2, a heterodimeric regulator of transcription. Conditional
NCB2
null mutants displayed decreased susceptibility toward azole and an enhanced transcription of
CDR1
. Interestingly, Ncb2 associated with the
CDR1
promoter under both repression and activation; however, an increase in recruitment was observed under both transient and constitutive activation states. By chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, we showed the preferential recruitment of Ncb2 to the core TATA region under activation (azole-resistant isolate), while under repression (azole-susceptible isolate) it was present at the TATA upstream region. Further, ChIP analysis revealed that Ncb2 binding was not restricted to the
CDR1
gene; instead, it was observed on the promoters of genes coregulated with
CDR1
by the transcription activator Tac1. The
tac1
Δ null mutants, which fail to show the drug-induced transient activation of
CDR1
, also showed no increase in Ncb2 recruitment at the promoter. Taken together, our results show that Ncb2, in conjunction with Tac1, is involved in the transcriptional activation of
CDR1
, opening up new therapeutic possibilities to combat multidrug resistance (MDR) in
C. albicans
.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Microbiology
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