Multiplicity of peptide permeases in Candida albicans: evidence from novel chromophoric peptides.
AUTOR(ES)
McCarthy, P J
RESUMO
Evidence is presented for the presence of multiple peptide permeases in the eucaryotic organism Candida albicans. Instrumental in these studies were the peptides L-alanyl-L-2-thiophenylglycine (Ala-alpha-TPG) and L-alanyl-L-2-thiophenylglycyl-L-alanine (Ala-alpha-TPG-Ala), which contain thiophenol attached to the alpha-carbon of glycine. Subsequent to transport into the fungal cell, enzymatic hydrolysis of these peptides resulted in the release of free thiophenol, which was quantified by using Ellman reagent. Thiophenol release was shown to be directly correlated to peptide transport and hydrolysis, with transport being the rate-limiting step in intact cells. These peptides, whose uptake showed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, have been used to determine peptide uptake in C. albicans. In addition, we found that the intracellular peptidases can readily be assayed in permeabilized cells and that bestatin, an aminopeptidase inhibitor, inhibits all detectable peptidase activity. C. albicans 124 was able to transport and hydrolyze both Ala-alpha-TPG and Ala-alpha-TPG-Ala, whereas the mutant (124NIK5) was able to transport only the tripeptide. The intracellular peptidases of this mutant were unaffected. In wild-type C. albicans 124, oligopeptides were able to compete with uptake of Ala-alpha-TPG-Ala to a far greater extent than with that of Ala-alpha-TPG; dipeptides inhibited uptake of both Ala-alpha-TPG and Ala-alpha-TPG-Ala. These results provide complementary evidence for the existence of distinct transport systems.
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