Abstract
Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) of the fungal cell wall are primary targets for the innate immune system of animals. Therefore, characterizing PAMP exposure of fungal pathogens helps to elucidate how they interact with their hosts at a molecular level. Fluorescent labelling can be used to monitor exposure of multiple fungal cell wall PAMPs in a single experiment. Here, we describe a protocol to simultaneously label chitin, mannan, and β-1,3-glucan in Candida auris to study these PAMPs by fluorescence microscopy and allow high-throughput examination of their exposure by flow cytometry.
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This work is supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, UK [grant number MR/P501955/1]. The authors are grateful for the support and technical assistance from the Microscopy and Histology Core Facility (Kevin MacKenzie, Lucy Wight) and the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre (Andrea Holme, Kate Burgoyne) of the University of Aberdeen.
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Pelletier, C., Lorenz, A. (2022). Labelling of Candida auris Cell Walls to Examine Levels of PAMP Exposure by Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Microscopy. In: Lorenz, A. (eds) Candida auris. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2517. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2417-3_14
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