The origin of human pathogenicity and biological interactions in Chaetothyriales
- Author(s)
- Yu Quan, Shuwen Deng, Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldủ, Veronika E. Mayer, Lucia Muggia, Agnese Cometto, Vania A. Vicente, Nickolas Menezes da Silva, Maria Eduarda Grisolia, Yinggai Song, Sarah A. Ahmed, Xueke Niu, Bruna Jacomel Favoreto de Souza Lima, Peiying Feng, Roxana G. Vitale, Marcus Teixeira, Montarop Sudhadham, Conceicao Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, Anamelia Bocca, Gerhard Haase, Laura Selbmann, Dongmei Shi, Yingqian Kang, Sybren de Hoog
- Abstract
Fungi in the order Chaetothyriales are renowned for their ability to cause human infections. Nevertheless, they are not regarded as primary pathogens, but rather as opportunists with a natural habitat in the environment. Extremotolerance is a major trend in the order, but quite different from black yeasts in Capnodiales which focus on endurance, an important additional parameter is advancing toxin management. In the ancestral ecology of rock colonization, the association with metabolite-producing lichens is significant. Ant-association, dealing with pheromones and repellents, is another mainstay in the order. The phylogenetically derived family, Herpotrichiellaceae, shows dual ecology in monoaromatic hydrocarbon assimilation and the ability to cause disease in humans and cold-blooded vertebrates. In this study, data on ecology, phylogeny, and genomics were collected and analyzed in order to support this hypothesis on the evolutionary route of the species of Chaetothyriales. Comparing the ribosomal tree with that of enzymes involved in toluene degradation, a significant expansion of cytochromes is observed and the toluene catabolism is found to be complete in some of the Herpotrichiellaceae. This might enhance human systemic infection. However, since most species have to be traumatically inoculated in order to cause disease, their invasive potential is categorized as opportunism. Only in chromoblastomycosis, true pathogenicity might be surmised. The criterion would be the possible escape of agents of vertebrate disease from the host, enabling dispersal of adapted genotypes to subsequent generations.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
- External organisation(s)
- Guizhou Medical University, Hengtang People's Hospital, Institut de Recerca I Tecnologia Agroalimentàries, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Federal University of Parana, Radboud University, Sun Yat-sen University, Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA, Universidade de Brasília, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Federal University of Maranhao, Universitätsklinikum Aachen, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Jining No. 1 People’s Hospital
- Journal
- Fungal Diversity
- Volume
- 125
- Pages
- 99-120
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 1878-9129
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-023-00518-3
- Publication date
- 03-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106008 Botany, 106012 Evolutionary research, 106042 Systematic botany
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-origin-of-human-pathogenicity-and-biological-interactions-in-chaetothyriales(fa91b934-071d-42e8-9208-2d62d070cc3f).html