Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a vital marker for pathogenic development of the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2785-2790

  Kaufman, Gil ^a   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a   Hadar, Ruthi ^a   Ullmann, Yehuda ^b   Berdicevsky, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPLANT; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN PENETRATION; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; FUNGI; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 4444341947     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27094-0     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aljabre, S. H., Richardson, M. D., Scott, E. M. & Shankland, G. S. (1992). Germination of Trichophyton mentagrophytes on human stratum corneum in vitro. J Med Vet Mycol 30, 145-152.
2. Aljabre, S. H., Richardson, M. D., Scott, E. M., Rashid, A. & Shankland, G. S. (1993). Adherence of arthroconidia and germlings of anthropophilic and zoophilic varieties of Trichophyton mentagrophytes to human corneocytes as an early event in the pathogenesis of dermatophytosis. Clin Exp Dermatol 18, 231-235.
3. Chen, N., Hsiang, T. & Goodwin, P. H. (2003). Use of green fluorescent protein to quantify the growth of Colletotrichum during infection of tobacco. J Microbiol Methods 53, 113-122.
4. Church, G. M. & Gilbert, W. (1984). Genomic sequencing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 81, 1991-1995.
5. de Groot, M., Bundock, P., Hooykaas, P. & Beijersbergen, A. (1998). Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of filamentous fungi. Nat Biotechnol 16, 839-842.
6. Duek, L., Kaufman, G., Ulman, Y. & Berdicevsky, I. (2004). The pathogenesis of dermatophyte infections in human skin sections. J Infect 48, 175-180.
7. Edwards, K., Johnstone, C. & Thompson, C. (1991). A simple and rapid method for the preparation of plant genomic DNA for PCR analysis. Nucleic Acids Res 19, 1349.
8. Gonzalez, R., Ferrer, S., Buesa, J. & Ramon, D. (1989). Transformation of the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes to hygromycin B resistance. Infect Immun 57, 2923-2925.
9. Hanel, H., Braun, B. & Loschhorn, K. (1990). Experimental dermatophytosis in nude guinea pigs compared with infections in Pirbright White animals. Mycoses 33, 179-189.
10. Kahmann, R. & Basse, C. (2001). Fungal gene expression during Pathogenesis-related development and host plant colonization. Curr Opin Microbiol 4, 374-380.
11. Kugler, S., Young, B., Miller, V. L. & Goldman, W. E. (2000). Monitoring phase-specific gene expression in Histoplasma capsulatum with telomeric GFP fusion plasmids. Cell Microbiol 2, 537-547.
12. Langfelder, K., Philippe, B., Jahn, B., Latge, J. P. & Brakhage, A. (2001). Differential expression of the Aspergillus fumigatus pksP gene detected in vitro and in vivo with green fluorescent protein. Infect Immun 69, 6411-6418.
13. Lev, S. (2003). Signal transduction and gene expression in Cochliobolus heterostrophus during infection of maize. PhD thesis, Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa.
14. Lev, S. & Horwitz, B. A. (2003). A mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway modulates the expression of two cellulase genes in Cochliobolus heterostrophus during plant infection. Plant Cell 15, 835-844.
15. Lu, S., Lyngholm, L., Yang, G., Bronson, C., Yoder, O. C. & Turgeon, B. G. (1994). Tagged mutations at the Tox1 locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus by restriction enzyme-mediated integration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91, 12649-12653.
16. Maor, R., Puyesky, M., Horwitz, B. A. & Sharon, A. (1998). Use of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) for studying development and fungal-plant interaction in Cochliobolus, heterostrophus. Mycol Res 102, 491-496.
17. Poggeler, S., Masloff, S., Hoff, B., Mayrhofer, S. & Kuck, U. (2003). Versatile EGFP reporter plasmids for cellular localization of recombinant gene products in filamentous fungi. Curr Genet 43, 54-61.
18. Richardson, M. D. & Aljabre, S. H. (1993). Pathogenesis of dermatophytosis. Curr Top Med Mycol 5, 49-77.
19. Robinson, M. & Sharon, A. (1999). Transformation of the bioherbicide Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. Aeschynomene by electroporation of germinated conidia. Curr Genet 36, 98-104.
20. Spellig, T., Bottin, A. & Kahmann, R. (1996). Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a new vital marker in the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis. Mol Gen Genet 252, 503-509.
21. Treiber, A., Pittermann, W. & Schuppe, H. C. (2001). Efficacy testing of antimycotic prophylactics in an animal model. Int J Hyg Environ Health 204, 239-243.
22. Turgeon, B. G., Garber, R. C. & Yoder, O. C. (1987). Development of a fungal transformation system based on selection of sequences with promoter activity. Mol Cell Biol 7, 3297-3305.
23. Viterbo, A., Montero, M., Ramot, O., Friesem, D., Monte, E., Llobell, A. & Chet, I. (2002). Expression regulation of the endochitinase chit36 from Trichoderma asperellum (T. harzianum T-203). Curr Genet 42, 114-122.
24. Wasylnka, J. A. & Moore, M. M. (2002). Uptake of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells in vitro: quantitation using strains expressing green fluorescent protein. Infect Immun 70, 3156-3163.
25. Weitzman, I. & Summerbell, R. C. (1995). The Dermatophytes. Clin Microbiol Rev 8, 240-259.
26. Zurita, J. & Hay, R. J. (1987). Adherence of dermatophyte microconidia and arthroconidia to human keratinocytes in vitro. J Invest Dermatol 89, 529-534.