Roles of Candida albicans adhesins and secreted proteases in neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation - traitors or allies of host in candidial infection?

2012/05/B/NZ1/00003

Keywords

Descriptors

  • NZ1_10: Biologia drobnoustrojów
  • NZ1_2: Biochemia
  • NZ6_7: Mykologia

Panel

NZ1 – Molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology: molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology

Host institution

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biochemii Biofizyki i Biotechnologii

Voivodeship: małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr hab. Maria Rąpała-Kozik

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call

OPUS 3 – announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded
684 000 PLN
Project start date
2013-02-14
Project end date
2016-06-13
Project duration
40 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Automatyczny licznik komórek. Cost: 15 000 PLN
  2. Czytnik mikropłytek z detekcją fluorescencyjną. Cost: 135 000 PLN
  3. Inkubator CO2 do hodowli komórkowych. Cost: 40 000 PLN
  4. komora laminarna do prac z komórkami.

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (5)

  1. Aspartic proteases and major cell wall components in Candida albicans trigger the release of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps.

    Authors:
    Zawrotniak M., Bochenska O., Karkowska-Kuleta J., Seweryn-Ożóg K., Aoki W., Ueda M., Kozik A. Rapala-Kozik M.
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (year: 2017, volume: 7, pages: article 414), Publisher: Frontiers,open-access academic publisher
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fcimb.2017.00414 – link to the publication
  2. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) - formation and implications.

    Authors:
    Zawrotniak M, Rapala-Kozik M.
    Academic press:
    Acta Biochimica Polonica (year: 2013, volume: 60(3), pages: 277-84), Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society and of the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
  3. Inactivation of the antifungal and immunomodulatory properties of human cathelicidin LL-37 by aspartic proteases produced by the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans

    Authors:
    Maria Rapala-Kozik, Oliwia Bochenska, Marcin Zawrotniak, Natalia Wolak, Grzegorz Trebacz, Mariusz Gogol, Dominika Ostrowska, Wataru Aoki, Mitsuyoshi Ueda, and Andrzej Kozik.
    Academic press:
    Infection and Immunity (IAI) (year: 2015, volume: 83, pages: 2518-2530), Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1128/IAI.00023-15 – link to the publication
  4. Inactivation of alpha1-proteinase inhibitor by Candida albicans aspartic proteases favors the epithelial and endothelial cell colonization in the presence of neutrophil extracellular traps

    Authors:
    Gogol M., Ostrowska D., Klaga K.,Bochenska O., Wolak N., Aoki W., Ueda M., Kozik A., Rapala-Kozik M.
    Academic press:
    Acta Biochim. Pol. (year: 2016, volume: 63, pages: 167-175), Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society and of the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18388/abp.2015_1163 – link to the publication
  5. Selected mucolytic, anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular drugs change the ability of neutrophils to form extracellular traps (NETs).

    Authors:
    Zawrotniak M, Kozik A, Rapala-Kozik M.
    Academic press:
    Acta Biochim. Pol. (year: 2015, volume: 62(3), pages: 465-73), Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society and of the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18388/abp.2015_1055. – link to the publication

Articles in post-conference publications (7)

  1. Altered production of reactive oxygen species and release of extracellular traps by neutrophils under the influence of selected mucolytic, anti-inflammatory, anti-histamine and cardiovascular drugs

    Authors:
    M. Zawrotniak, A. Kozik, M. Rapala-Kozik
    Conference:
    FEBS-EMBO Conference, Paris 2014 (year: 2014, pages: 94-95), Publisher: Federation of European Biochemical Societies, FEBS Journal 281 (Suppl. 1)
    Date:
    conference 30.08-4.09
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    link to the publication
  2. Degradation of proteinaceous components of neutrophil extracellular traps by aspartic proteases secreted by pathogenic yeasts, Candida albicans

    Authors:
    M. Gogol, O. Bochenska, N. Wolak, W. Aoki, M. Ueda, A. Kozik, M. Rapala-Kozik
    Conference:
    FEBS-EMBO Conference, Paris 2014 (year: 2014, pages: 736), Publisher: Federation of European Biochemical Societies, FEBS Journal 281 (Suppl. 1)
    Date:
    conference 30.08-4.09
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    link to the publication
  3. A possible involvement of secreted aspartic proteases of Candida albicans in the propagation of inflamation during candidiasis

    Authors:
    Gogól M., Kozik A., Rapala-Kozik M.
    Conference:
    6th International Weigl Conference on Microbiology (year: 2015, pages: p. 19 V.P.19), Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
    Date:
    conference 8-10 July
    Status:
    Published
  4. Virulence factors of pathogenic yeast Candida albicans that affect the efficiency of fungal cell killing by extracellular traps .

    Authors:
    Rapala - Kozik , M., Zawrotniak , M., Aoki , W., Ueda , M., Gogol , M., Seweryn , K., Wolak , N., Bochenska , O., Karkowska - Kuleta , J., Kluza , A., Kozik , A
    Conference:
    International Symposium NEUTROPHIL 2014 (year: 2014, pages: P28), Publisher: Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB).
    Date:
    conference 31.05-3.06
    Status:
    Published
  5. Interaction of Candida albicans cell wall proteins with components of neutrophil extracellular traps formed during the host response to candidal infections

    Authors:
    Rapala-Kozik M., Seweryn K., Kluza A., Zawrotniak M, Klaga K., Kozik A.
    Conference:
    19 th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (year: 2015, pages: 268), Publisher: ISHAM
    Date:
    conference 4-8 May
    Status:
    Published
  6. The neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) influence the susceptibility of epithelial and endothelial cells to fungal infections

    Authors:
    Ostrowska D., Klaga K., Rapala-Kozik M.
    Conference:
    Regulatory myeloid cells (MRC) in health and disease, (year: 2015, pages: 31), Publisher: Mye-EUNITER
    Date:
    conference Krakow, 14-16 Sept.
    Status:
    Published
  7. Identification of Candida albicans surface proteins involved in binding of human cathelicidn LL-37 and changes in LL-37 antifungal properties during its citrullination that can occur in Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs)

    Authors:
    M. Rapala-Kozik, K. Seweryn, M. Gogol, D. Zajac, J. Karkowska-Kuleta, O. Bochenska, J. Koziel, J. Potempa, A. Kozik;
    Conference:
    13th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis (year: 2016, pages: 182), Publisher: ASM
    Date:
    conference 13-17 kwietnia
    Status:
    Published

Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)

  1. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Infectious Human Diseases

    Authors:
    Zawrotniak M., Kozik A., Rapala-Kozik M.
    Book:
    Role of Neutrophils in Disease Pathogenesis (year: 2017, volume: 46180, pages: 46106), Publisher: INTECH, Medicine
    Status:
    Published

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