Unisexual reproduction promotes competition for mating partners in the global human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans
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Ci Fu aff001; Torin P. Thielhelm aff001; Joseph Heitman aff001
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Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Unisexual reproduction promotes competition for mating partners in the global human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans. PLoS Genet 15(9): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008394
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008394
Souhrn
Courtship is pivotal for successful mating. However, courtship is challenging for the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex, comprised of opportunistic fungal pathogens, as the majority of isolates are α mating type. In the absence of mating partners of the opposite mating type, C. deneoformans can undergo unisexual reproduction, during which a yeast-to-hyphal morphological transition occurs. Hyphal growth during unisexual reproduction is a quantitative trait, which reflects a strain’s ability to undergo unisexual reproduction. In this study, we determined whether unisexual reproduction confers an ecological benefit by promoting foraging for mating partners. Through competitive mating assays using strains with different abilities to produce hyphae, we showed that unisexual reproduction potential did not enhance competition for mating partners of the same mating type, but when cells of the opposite mating type were present, cells with enhanced hyphal growth were more competitive for mating partners of either the same or opposite mating type. Enhanced mating competition was also observed in a strain with increased hyphal production that lacks the mating repressor gene GPA3, which contributes to the pheromone response. Hyphal growth in unisexual strains also enables contact between adjacent colonies and enhances mating efficiency during mating confrontation assays. The pheromone response pathway activation positively correlated with unisexual reproduction hyphal growth during bisexual mating and exogenous pheromone promoted bisexual cell fusion. Despite the benefit in competing for mating partners, unisexual reproduction conferred a fitness cost. Taken together, these findings suggest C. deneoformans employs hyphal growth to facilitate contact between colonies at long distances and utilizes pheromone sensing to enhance mating competition.
Klíčová slova:
Biology and life sciences – Cell biology – Cell physiology – Cell fusion – Biochemistry – Pheromones – Psychology – Behavior – Animal behavior – Foraging – Zoology – Organisms – Eukaryota – Fungi – Yeast – Saccharomyces – Saccharomyces cerevisiae – Candida – Candida albicans – Cryptococcus – Cryptococcus neoformans – Microbiology – Medical microbiology – Microbial pathogens – Fungal pathogens – Mycology – Genetics – Gene expression – Social sciences – Research and analysis methods – Animal studies – Experimental organism systems – Model organisms – Yeast and fungal models – Medicine and health sciences – Pathology and laboratory medicine – Pathogens
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