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In vivo characterization of candida extracellular vesicles reveals unique infection pathway proteins
Justin Massey, Robert Zarnowski, William Hartman, Jeniel Nett, David Andes
Justin Massey, Robert Zarnowski, William Hartman, Jeniel Nett, David Andes
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Research Letter Infectious disease Microbiology

In vivo characterization of candida extracellular vesicles reveals unique infection pathway proteins

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Justin Massey, Robert Zarnowski, William Hartman, Jeniel Nett, David Andes

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Isolation and characterization of Candida EVs from an in vivo vascular catheter biofilm.

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Isolation and characterization of Candida EVs from an in vivo vascular c...
(A) A schematic workflow of the EV isolation protocol from i.v. catheters of rats infected with Candida. Following blood collection, fungal EVs were isolated and enriched via IA using Rb-CA-EV-pAbs. (B) Western blot titration of C. albicans biofilm EVs by Rb-CA-EV-pAbs. (C) IAC of C. albicans EVs with Rb-CA-EV-pAbs visualized by super-resolution microscopy. Inset: no EV signal was detected in the absence of Rb-CA-EV-pAbs. Scale bar: 1.5 µm. (D) Western blot analysis of in vivo C. albicans EVs in uninfected control and C. albicans–infected rat serum EVs by Rb-CA-EV-pAbs. No EV signal was detected in uninfected rat sera. (E) NTA-based concentrations of EVs in unprocessed (input) and processed (output) rat serum samples collected from intravenous catheters (n = 3, P < 0.001). (F) Mass spectrometry–based analysis of fungal-unique biomarker cerebrosides. (G) NTA-based sizing of EVs in unprocessed (input) and processed (output) rat blood samples from Candida biofilm i.v. catheters. (H) Representative cryoEM images showing in vivo EVs isolated from Candida-infected rat catheter. Scale bar: 100 nm. (I) Scanning electron micrographs of C. albicans biofilms of WT and ESCRT-associated hse1ΔΔ mutant strains from rat catheters. Scale bar: 400 μm. (J) Imaging flow cytometry quantitative analysis of in vivo EVs in the C. albicans of WT and ESCRT-associated Hse1ΔΔ strains from rat venous catheters (n = 4, 6 technical each). Kruskal-Wallis 1-way ANOVA, followed by uncorrected Dunn’s multiple-comparison test. ****P < 0.001. (K) Venn diagram depicting the qualitative profiling of in vitro and in vivo C. albicans proteomes.

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