TY - JOUR
T1 - Interaction of candida albicans with an intestinal pathogen, salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium
AU - Tampakakis, Emmanouil
AU - Peleg, Anton Y.
AU - Mylonakis, Eleftherios
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - Candida albicans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen that normally resides in the gastrointestinal tract and on the skin as a commensal but can cause life-threatening invasive disease. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a significant amount of gastrointestinal infection in humans. Both of these organisms are also pathogenic to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, causing a persistent gut infection leading to worm death. In the present study, we used a previously developed C. elegans polymicrobial infection model to assess the interactions between S. Typhimurium and C. albicans. We observed that when C. elegans is infected with C. albicans and serovar Typhimurium, C. albicans filamentation is inhibited. The inhibition of C. albicans filamentation by S. Typhimurium in C. elegans appeared to be mediated by a secretary molecule, since filter-sterilized bacterial supernatant was able to inhibit C. albicans filamentation. In vitro coculture assays under planktonic conditions showed that S. Typhimurium reduces the viability of C. albicans, with greater effects seen at 37°C than at 30°C. Interestingly, S. Typhimurium reduces the viability of both yeast and filamentous forms of C. albicans, but the killing appeared more rapid for the filamentous cells. The antagonistic interaction was also observed in a C. albicans biofilm environment. This study describes the interaction between two diverse human pathogens that reside within the gastrointestinal tract and shows that the prokaryote, S. Typhimurium, reduces the viability of the eukaryote, C. albicans. Identifying the molecular mechanisms of this interaction may provide important insights into microbial pathogenesis.
AB - Candida albicans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen that normally resides in the gastrointestinal tract and on the skin as a commensal but can cause life-threatening invasive disease. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a significant amount of gastrointestinal infection in humans. Both of these organisms are also pathogenic to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, causing a persistent gut infection leading to worm death. In the present study, we used a previously developed C. elegans polymicrobial infection model to assess the interactions between S. Typhimurium and C. albicans. We observed that when C. elegans is infected with C. albicans and serovar Typhimurium, C. albicans filamentation is inhibited. The inhibition of C. albicans filamentation by S. Typhimurium in C. elegans appeared to be mediated by a secretary molecule, since filter-sterilized bacterial supernatant was able to inhibit C. albicans filamentation. In vitro coculture assays under planktonic conditions showed that S. Typhimurium reduces the viability of C. albicans, with greater effects seen at 37°C than at 30°C. Interestingly, S. Typhimurium reduces the viability of both yeast and filamentous forms of C. albicans, but the killing appeared more rapid for the filamentous cells. The antagonistic interaction was also observed in a C. albicans biofilm environment. This study describes the interaction between two diverse human pathogens that reside within the gastrointestinal tract and shows that the prokaryote, S. Typhimurium, reduces the viability of the eukaryote, C. albicans. Identifying the molecular mechanisms of this interaction may provide important insights into microbial pathogenesis.
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U2 - 10.1128/EC.00016-09
DO - 10.1128/EC.00016-09
M3 - Article
C2 - 19329669
AN - SCOPUS:66149116045
VL - 8
SP - 732
EP - 737
JO - Eukaryotic Cell
JF - Eukaryotic Cell
SN - 1535-9778
IS - 5
ER -