Environmental interactions with amoebae as drivers of bacterial-fungal endosymbiosis and pathogenicity
H. Itabangi, P. Sephton-Clark, X. Zhou, G. P. Starling, Z. Mahamoud, I. Insua, M. Probert, J. Correia, P. Moynihan, Y. Gu, T. Gebremariam, A. S. Ibrahim, G. D. Brown, J. S. King, E. R. Ballou, K. Voelz
The paper identifies a bacterial endosymbiont in Rhizopus microsporus that enhances fungal virulence by suppressing amoeba predation and macrophage clearance.
bioRxiv · Dec 17, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology