Candida albicans serotype A strains grow in yeast extract-added Sabouraud liquid medium at pH 2.0, elaborating mannans without beta-1,2 linkage and phosphate group

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1991 Mar 29;175(3):1003-9. doi: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)91664-x.

Abstract

Cultivation of three Candida albicans strains, NIH A-207, J-1012, and NIH B-792, abbreviated as A-, J-, and B-strains, respectively, in yeast extract-enrich Sabouraud liquid medium at pH 2.0 provided the following findings, i.e., the two former strains belonging to serotype A were able to grow in this medium in almost the same rates as those in the same medium of pH 5.9, while B-strain cells did not proliferate under the former condition. The cells of A- and J-strains cultivated at pH 2.0 did not undergo agglutination with the factor serum 6 in a commercially available factor serum kit, Candida Check, corresponding to C. albicans serotype A-specific epitope. It was also revealed by 1H-13C correlation spectra of the mannans isolated from the cells of A- and J-strains contained neither phosphate group nor beta-1,2-linked mannopyranose unit, although these mannans retained non-reducing terminal alpha-1,3 linked mannopyranose units, providing a substantiating evidence that the serotype A-specific epitope contains a non-reducing terminal beta-1,2-linked mannopyranose unit.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Candida albicans / classification
  • Candida albicans / growth & development*
  • Candida albicans / metabolism
  • Carbohydrate Conformation
  • Culture Media
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Kinetics
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mannans / biosynthesis*
  • Mannans / chemistry
  • Mannans / isolation & purification
  • Phosphorylation
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • Culture Media
  • Mannans