Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Innate immune responses against the fungal pathogen Candida auris

  • Yuanyuan Wang,
  • Yun Zou,
  • Xiaoqing Chen,
  • Hao Li,
  • Zhe Yin,
  • Baocai Zhang,
  • Yongbin Xu,
  • Yiquan Zhang,
  • Rulin Zhang,
  • Xinhua Huang,
  • Wenhui Yang,
  • Chaoyue Xu,
  • Tong Jiang,
  • Qinyu Tang,
  • Zili Zhou,
  • Ying Ji,
  • Yingqi Liu,
  • Lingfei Hu,
  • Jia Zhou,
  • Yao Zhou,
  • Jingjun Zhao,
  • Ningning Liu,
  • Guanghua Huang,
  • Haishuang Chang,
  • Wenxia Fang,
  • Changbin Chen,
  • Dongsheng Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31201-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant human fungal pathogen responsible for nosocomial outbreaks worldwide. Here, the authors identify differential innate immune responses induced by C. auris and Candida albicans in vitro and in vivo, which correlate with structural features of the cell wall.