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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2003, p. 847-853, Vol. 47, No. 3
0066-4804/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.847-853.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Relationships between Respiration and Susceptibility to Azole Antifungals in Candida glabrata

Sophie Brun,1* Christophe Aubry,1 Osana Lima,1,2,{dagger} Robert Filmon,3 Thierry Bergès,4 Dominique Chabasse,1 and Jean-Philippe Bouchara1

Groupe d'Etude des Interactions Hôte-Parasite, UPRES-EA 3142, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire,1 Service Commun de Microscopie Electronique, Faculté de Médecine, 49045 Angers Cedex 01,3 Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et d'Ingénierie Génétique, UFR Sciences Fondamentales et Appliquées, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France,4 Department of Cellular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Biology Roberto Alcantara Gomes, University of State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil2

Received 29 July 2002/ Returned for modification 16 September 2002/ Accepted 2 December 2002

Over the past two decades, the incidence of infections due to Candida glabrata, a yeast with intrinsic low susceptibility to azole antifungals, has increased markedly. Respiratory deficiency due to mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) associated with resistance to azoles frequently occurs in vitro in this species. In order to specify the relationships between respiration and azole susceptibility, the effects of respiratory chain inhibitors on a wild-type isolate of C. glabrata were evaluated. Respiration of blastoconidia was immediately blocked after extemporaneous addition of potassium cyanide, whereas a 4-h preincubation was required for sodium azide. Antifungal susceptibility determined by a disk diffusion method on Casitone agar containing sodium azide showed a significant decrease in the susceptibility to azoles. Biweekly subculturing on Casitone agar supplemented with sodium azide was therefore performed. This resulted after 40 passages in the isolation of a respiration-deficient mutant, as suggested by its lack of growth on glycerol-containing agar. This respiratory deficiency was confirmed by flow cytometric analysis of blastoconidia stained with rhodamine 123 and by oxygraphy. Moreover, transmission electron microscopy and restriction endonuclease analysis of the mtDNA of mutant cells demonstrated the mitochondrial origin of the respiratory deficiency. Finally, this mutant exhibited cross-resistance to all the azoles tested. In conclusion, blockage of respiration in C. glabrata induces decreased susceptibility to azoles, culminating in azole resistance due to the deletion of mtDNA. This mechanism could explain the induction of petite mutations by azole antifungals which have been demonstrated to act directly on the mitochondrial respiratory chain.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Groupe d'Etude des Interactions Hôte-Parasite, UPRES-EA 3142, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 4 rue Larrey, 49033 Angers Cedex 01, France. Phone: 33 02 41 35 34 72. Fax: 33 02 41 35 36 16. E-mail: sobrun{at}chu-angers.fr.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Mycology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2003, p. 847-853, Vol. 47, No. 3
0066-4804/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.3.847-853.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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