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Infection and Immunity, January 2001, p. 108-114, Vol. 69, No. 1
0019-9567/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.1.108-114.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Single-Copy IMH3 Allele Is Sufficient To Confer Resistance to Mycophenolic Acid in Candida albicans and To Mediate Transformation of Clinical Candida Species

Janna Beckerman, Hiroji Chibana, Joshua Turner, and P. T. Magee*

Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

Received 5 May 2000/Returned for modification 31 July 2000/Accepted 18 September 2000

Parasexual genetic analysis of Candida albicans utilized the dominant selectable marker that conferred resistance to mycophenolic acid. We cloned and sequenced the IMH3r gene from C. albicans strain 1006, which was previously identified as resistant to mycophenolic acid (MPA) (A. K. Goshorn and S. Scherer, Genetics 123:213-218, 1989). MPA is an inhibitor of IMP dehydrogenase, an enzyme necessary for the de novo biosynthesis of GMP. G. A. Kohler et al. (J. Bacteriol. 179:2331-2338, 1997) have shown that the wild-type IMH3 gene, when expressed in high copy number, will confer resistance to this antibiotic. We demonstrate that the IMH3r gene from strain 1006 has three amino acid changes, two of which are nonconservative, and demonstrate that at least two of the three mutations are required to confer resistance to MPA. We used this gene as a dominant selectable marker in clinical isolates of C. albicans and Candida tropicalis. We also identified the presence of autonously replicating sequence elements that permit autonomous replication in the promoter region of this gene. Finally, we found the excision of a phi -type long terminal repeat element outside the IMH3 open reading frame of the gene in some strains. We used the IMH3r allele to disrupt one allele of ARG4 in two clinical isolates, WO-1 and FC18, thus demonstrating that a single ectopic integration of this dominant selectable marker is sufficient to confer resistance to MPA.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108. Phone: (612) 625-4732. Fax: (612) 625-5754. E-mail: ptm{at}biosci.cbs.umn.edu.

Infection and Immunity, January 2001, p. 108-114, Vol. 69, No. 1
0019-9567/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.1.108-114.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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