Current Status on Extracellular Vesicles from the Dimorphic Pathogenic Species of Paracoccidioides

Puccia, Rosana

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83391-6_3

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“…The importance of fungal EVs in cell–cell communication, cell wall remodeling, and virulence has recently started to be better explored ( Joffe et al., 2016 ; Nimrichter et al., 2016 ; Zamith-Miranda et al., 2018a ; Zamith-Miranda et al, 2021a ; Zamith-Miranda et al., 2021b ). Early interest in studying the Paracoccidioides EV content resulted in a series of publications by our group and collaborators that described the EV secretome, carbohydrate cargo, surface oligosaccharide ligands, lipid, and RNA content ( Vallejo et al., 2011 ; Vallejo et al., 2012a ; Vallejo et al., 2012b ; Longo et al., 2014 ; da Silva et al., 2015a ; da Silva et al., 2015b ; Peres da Silva et al., 2019 ; reviewed in Puccia, 2021 ). These publications have provided not only detailed description of the EV cargo in isolates representing different Paracoccidioides species, but also a thorough comparison with published fungal cell wall and EV components.…”

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Extracellular Vesicles From Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Can Induce the Expression of Fungal Virulence Traits In Vitro and Enhance Infection in Mice

Octaviano

Abrantes

Puccia

2022

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cellular components involved in cargo delivery to the extracellular environment, including the fungal cell wall. Their importance in cell–cell communication, cell wall remodeling, and fungal virulence is starting to be better explored. In the human pathogenic Paracoccidioides spp., our group has pioneered the description of the EV secretome, carbohydrate cargo, surface oligosaccharide ligands, lipid, and RNA content. Presently, we studied the role of fungal EVs in the context of the virulent/attenuated model of the P. brasiliensis Pb18 isolate, which consists of variants transiently displaying higher (vPb18) or attenuated (aPb18) virulence capacity. In this model, the virulence traits can be recovered through passages of aPb18 in mice. Here, we have been able to revert the aPb18 sensitivity to growth under oxidative and nitrosative stress upon previous co-incubation with vEVs from virulent vPb18. That was probably due to the expression of antioxidant molecules, considering that we observed increased gene expression of the alternative oxidase AOX and peroxiredoxins HYR1 and PRX1, in addition to higher catalase activity. We showed that aEVs from aPb18 stimulated macrophages of the RAW 264.7 and bone marrow-derived types to express high levels of inflammatory mediators, specifically, TNF-α, IL-6, MCP-1, and NO. In our experimental conditions, subcutaneous treatment with EVs (three doses, 7-day intervals) before vPb18 challenge exacerbated murine PCM, as concluded by higher colony-forming units in the lungs after 30 days of infection and histopathology analysis. That effect was largely pronounced after treatment with aEVs, probably because the lung TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-6, and MCP-1 concentrations were specially increased in aEV-treated when compared with vEV-treated mice. Our present studies were performed with EVs isolated from yeast cell washes of confluent cultures in Ham’s F-12 defined medium. Under these conditions, vEVs and aEVs have similar sizes but probably distinct cargo, considering that vEVs tended to aggregate upon storage at 4°C and −20°C. Additionally, aEVs have decreased amounts of carbohydrate and protein. Our work brings important contribution to the understanding of the role of fungal EVs in cell–cell communication and on the effect of EVs in fungal infection, which clearly depends on the experimental conditions because EVs are complex and dynamic structures.

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