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Genetically engineered human salivary histatin genes are functional in : development of a new system for studying histatin candidacidal activity Free

Abstract

Histatins are a structurally related family of salivary proteins known as histidine-rich proteins that are produced and secreted by the human major salivary glands. , histatins are potent cytotoxic proteins with selectivity for pathogenic yeasts including . Studies that investigate the mechanism of action of histatin proteins upon this important human pathogen have used a candidacidal assay in which the histatin is applied extracellularly. In order to develop a model system to study the mechanism of histatin action independently from binding and translocation events, the authors constructed strains that contain chromosomally encoded human salivary histatin genes under the control of a regulated promoter. Intracellular expression of either histatin 5 or histatin 3 induced cell killing and ATP release in parallel. Since histatin killing can be initiated solely from intracellular sites, extracellular binding and internalization are preceding transport events. Thus the mechanism of histatin-induced ATP release does not require extracellular binding, and intracellular targets alone can activate ATP release. By employing a codon-optimization strategy it was shown that expression of heterologous sequences in can be a useful tool for functional studies.

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Keyword(s): 3′UTR, 3′ untranslated region , 5-FOA, 5-fluoroorotic acid , codon-optimization , histidine-rich proteins , LD-PCR, long-distance PCR , RT-PCR , statherin and wt, wild-type
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Genetically engineered human salivary histatin genes are functional in Candida albicans: development of a new system for studying histatin candidacidal activity
Microbiology 147, 3323 (2001); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-147-12-3323
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