Muriform Cells Can Reproduce by Dividing in an Athymic Murine Model of Chromoblastomycosis due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Bilin DongDongsheng Li

Abstract

Transformation of Fonsecaea pedrosoi into muriform cells enhances the resistance against phagocytosis and elimination by host immune cells, and links to the chronicity of chromoblastomycosis. Here, we aim to determine whether the muriform cells can reproduce in tissue without reverse transformation into hyphal form by using an experimental nu/nu-BALB/c mouse model of chromoblastomycosis due to F. pedrosoi. During the whole 81-day observation period, most of the hyphal inocula had transformed into muriform cells at 75 days postinoculation and maintained as this parasitic morphology till 81 days postinoculation simultaneously with increased fungal loads in tissue and the worsening of footpad lesion. Scanning and transmitting electronic microscope examinations showed that the muriform cells obtained in tissue or induced in vitro can reproduce daughter cells by dividing, and, meanwhile, the daughter cells had the potential to produce buds and grow into hyphae reversely. Furthermore, exoenzyme examination suggested that the profile of exoenzymes constituted by muriform cells was quite different from that constituted by hyphae although the assay showed both of them had obvious metabolic activity. By contrast, most muriform cells in t...Continue Reading

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