Differentially expressed genes associated with tryptophan-dependent pigment synthesis in Malassezia furfur- a comparison with the recently published genome of Malassezia globosa

Mycoses

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lang, S K ^a   Hort, W ^a   Mayser, P ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Malassezia furfur; Malassezia globosa; Pigment production; Suppression subtractive hybridisation

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN;

MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA;

EID: 79959264943     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2009.01848.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Chen TA, Hill PB. The biology of Malassezia organisms and their ability to induce immune responses and skin disease. Vet Dermatol 2005; 16: 4-26.
2. Batra R, Boekhout T, Gueho E, Cabanes FJ, Dawson TL Jr, Gupta AK. Malassezia Baillon, emerging clinical yeasts. FEMS Yeast Res 2005; 5: 1101-13.
3. Gupta AK, Batra R, Bluhm R, Boekhout T, Dawson TL Jr. Skin diseases associated with Malassezia species. J Am Acad Dermatol 2004; 51: 785-98.
4. Ashbee HR. Update on the genus Malassezia. Med Mycol 2007; 45: 287-303.
5. Gemmer CM, Deangelis YM, Theelen B, Boekhout T, Dawson T Jr. Fast, noninvasive method for molecular detection and differentiation of Malassezia yeast species on human skin and application of the method to dandruff microbiology. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 3350-7.
6. Crespo-Erchiga V, Florencio VD. Malassezia yeasts and pityriasis versicolor. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2006; 19: 139-47.
7. Gaitanis G, Velegraki A, Alexopoulos EC, Chasapi V, Tsigonia A, Katsambas A. Distribution of Malassezia species in pityriasis versicolor and seborrhoeic dermatitis in Greece. Typing of the major pityriasis versicolor isolate M. globosa. Br J Dermatol 2006; 154: 854-9.
8. Nakabayashi A, Sei Y, Guillot J. Identification of Malassezia species isolated from patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, pityriasis versicolor and normal subjects. Med Mycol 2000; 38: 337-41.
9. Kramer HJ, Podobinska M, Bartsch A et al. Malassezin, a novel agonist of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor from the yeast Malassezia furfur, induces apoptosis in primary human melanocytes. Chembiochem 2005; 6: 860-5.
10. Mayser P, Schafer U, Krämer HJ, Irlinger B, Steglich W. Pityriacitrin - an ultraviolet-absorbing indole alkaloid from the yeast Malassezia furfur. Arch Dermatol Res 2002; 294: 131-4.
11. Mayser P, Pape B. Decreased susceptibility of Malassezia furfur to UV light by synthesis of tryptophane derivatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1998; 73: 315-9.
12. Kramer HJ, Kessler D, Hipler UC et al. Pityriarubins, novel highly selective inhibitors of respiratory burst from cultures of the yeast Malassezia furfur: comparison with the bisindolylmaleimide arcyriarubin A. Chembiochem 2005; 6: 2290-7.
13. Hort W, Lang S, Brunke S, Mayser P, Hube B. Analysis of differentially expressed genes associated with tryptophan-dependent pigment synthesis in M. furfur by cDNA subtraction technology. Med Mycol 2009; 47: 248-58.
14. Dawson TL Jr. Malassezia globosa and restricta: breakthrough understanding of the etiology and treatment of dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis through whole-genome analysis. J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc 2007; 12: 15-9.
15. Xu J, Saunders CW, Hu P et al. Dandruff-associated Malassezia genomes reveal convergent and divergent virulence traits shared with plant and human fungal pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007; 104: 18730-5.
16. Sambrook J, Russel DW. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2001.
17. Mayser P, Tows A, Krämer HJ, Weiss R. Further characterization of pigment-producing Malassezia strains. Mycoses 2004; 47: 34-9.
18. Mayser P, Wille G, Imkampe A, Thoma W, Arnold N, Monsees T. Synthesis of fluorochromes and pigments in Malassezia furfur by use of tryptophan as the single nitrogen source. Mycoses 1998; 41: 265-71.
19. Mayser P, Wenzel M, Krämer HJ, Kindler BL, Spiteller P, Haase G. Production of indole pigments by Candida glabrata. Med Mycol 2007; 45: 519-24.
20. Zuther K, Mayser P, Hettwer U et al. The tryptophan aminotransferase Tam1 catalyses the single biosynthetic step for tryptophan-dependent pigment synthesis in Ustilago maydis. Mol Microbiol 2008; 68: 152-72.