Membrane transporter proteins are involved in Trichophyton rubrum pathogenesis.

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Maranhao FC, Paiao FG, Fachin AL, Martinez-Rossi NM

Membrane transporter proteins are involved in Trichophyton rubrum pathogenesis.

J Med Microbiol. 2009 Feb;58(Pt 2):163-8. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.002907-0.

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Trichophyton rubrum is a dermatophyte responsible for the majority of human superficial mycoses. The functional expression of proteins important for the initial step and the maintenance of the infection process were identified previously in T. rubrum by subtraction suppression hybridization after growth in the presence of keratin. In this study, sequences similar to genes encoding the multidrug-resistance ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter, copper ATPase, the major facilitator superfamily and a permease were isolated, and used in Northern blots to monitor the expression of the genes, which were upregulated in the presence of keratin. A sequence identical to the TruMDR2 gene, encoding an ABC transporter in T. rubrum, was isolated in these experiments, and examination of a T. rubrum DeltaTruMDR2 mutant showed a reduction in infecting activity, characterized by low growth on human nails compared with the wild-type strain. The high expression levels of transporter genes by T. rubrum in mimetic infection and the reduction in virulence of the DeltaTruMDR2 mutant in a disease model in vitro suggest that transporters are involved in T. rubrum pathogenicity.

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Name	UniProt ID
ABC multidrug transporter MDR2	A0A059JJ46	Details