Article Dans Une Revue Gut microbes Année : 2025

Candida albicans releases a peptide from the Rbt1 protein to promote its invasion into the gut epithelium

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Candida albicans has been recently added to the WHO critical priority group of fungal pathogens based on its impact on global public health. C. albicans is a mucosal commensal yeast in humans that can cause severe gastrointestinal-borne disseminated candidiasis in immunocompromised patients. C. albicans interaction with enterocytes is thus a key step in the pathophysiology of disseminated candidiasis. Here, we show that, during the first steps of the infection process, C. albicans releases a peptide from the Repressed by Tup1 protein 1 (Rbt1), which disorganizes the cell‒cell adhesion junctions in Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells by notably downregulating constitutive proteins of the tight junction complex (i.e. ZO-1). This is the first report to show that a peptide of a human pathogenic fungus promotes fungal invasion into the gut epithelium by disorganizing the protective epithelial barrier.

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pasteur-05441593 , version 1 (05-01-2026)

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Hervé Bègue, Amandine Ducreux, Tracy Paradis, Alicia Loiselet, Thierry Mourer, et al.. Candida albicans releases a peptide from the Rbt1 protein to promote its invasion into the gut epithelium. Gut microbes, 2025, 17 (1), pp.2573038. ⟨10.1080/19490976.2025.2573038⟩. ⟨pasteur-05441593⟩
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