Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wall,
biofirm matrix
NCBI PubMed ID: 27129222Publication DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R116.720995Journal NLM ID: 2985121RPublisher: Baltimore, MD: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Correspondence: Sheppard DC <don.sheppard
mcgill.ca>; Howell PL <howell
sickkids.ca>
Institutions: Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Immunity in Global Health Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Program in Molecular Structure & Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exopolysaccharides play an important structural and functional role in the development and maintenance of microbial biofilms. Although the majority of research to date has focused on the exopolysaccharide systems of biofilm-forming bacteria, recent studies have demonstrated that medically relevant fungi such as Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus also form biofilms during infection. These fungal biofilms share many similarities with those of bacteria, including the presence of secreted exopolysaccharides as core components of the extracellular matrix. This review will highlight our current understanding of fungal biofilm exopolysaccharides, as well as the parallels that can be drawn with those of their bacterial counterparts.
polysaccharide, exopolysaccharide, Bacterial Adhesion, Biofilm, Extracellular matrix, carbohydrate biosynthesis
Structure type: homopolymer
Location inside paper: fig. 2 (β1-3 glucans), p. 12534 (sec. β-1,3-Glucan Biosynthesis)
Trivial name: glucan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, curdlan-type polysaccharide 13140, paramylon, curdlan, laminarin, β-glucan, curdlan, β-(1,3)-glucan, β-(1,3)-glucan, curdlan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, paramylon, reserve polysaccharide, b-glucan, β-1,3-D-glucan, laminaran, botryosphaeran, laminaran type β-D-glucan, latiglucan I, pachymaran, Curdlan, zymosan A, β-glucan, curdlan, laminarin, zymosan, zymosan, glucan particles, zymosan, β-(1-3)-glucan, β-(1,3)-glucan, β-(1,3)glucan, pachymaran, D-glucan (DPn)540, pachyman, laminaran, curdlan, zymosan, zymosan, β-(1,3)-glucan, zymosan A, zymosan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, pachyman, β-(1,3)-glucan, curdlan, callose, a water-insoluble β-(1→3)-glucan, fermentum β-polysaccharide, water-insoluble glucan, alkali-soluble β-glucan (PeA3), alkali-soluble polysaccharide (PCAP), callose, laminarin
Compound class: EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, lipophosphoglycan, glycoprotein, LPG, glucan, polysaccharide, glycoside, β-glucan, β3-glucan, cell wall glucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_1397514,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153543,IEDB_158555,IEDB_161166,IEDB_2278476,IEDB_2278477,IEDB_558869,IEDB_857743,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Enzymes that release or process the structure: transmembrane glucan synthase Fks1p, regulatory G-protein Rho1p
Biosynthesis and genetic data: biochemical data
Synthetic data: biosynthesis
Comments, role: review
Related record ID(s): 42653, 42654
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5476Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G51056AN, GlycomeDB:
157, CCSD:
50049, CBank-STR:4225, CA-RN: 51052-65-4, GenDB:FJ3380871.1
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(previously named: Saccharomyces albicans, Dematium albicans, Monilia albicans, Parasaccharomyces albicans, Myceloblastanon albicans, Mycotorula albicans, Syringospora albicans, Procandida albicans)