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Profound cell wall remodeling in Candida parapsilosis during systemic infection confers simultaneous tolerance to echinocandins and host immunity. Daneshnia, Farnaz Arastehfar, Amir Cai, Liuyang Gunasekaran, Deepika Gautam, Isha Perry, Austin M. Ghahfarokhy, Pegah Mosharaf Ebadati, Arefeh Muñoz, Julieta Padilla, Dorian Hilmioglu-Polat, Süleyha Mei, Shenglin Floyd, Daniel J. Schikora Tamarit, Miquel Àngel Fuentes Palacios, Diego Artigues Lleixà, Maria Walker, Louise A. Gonçalves, Samuel M. Salehi, Mostafa Carvalho, Agostinho Desai, Jigar V. Perlin, David S. Munro, Carol A. Hopke, Alex Wang, Tuo Gabaldón Esteban, Toni Fang, Wenjie Nobile, Clarissa J. Mansour, Michael K. Antígens bacterians Resposta immunitària Malalties parasitàries Bacterial antigens Immune response Parasitic diseases Antifungal tolerance can promote the emergence of resistance yet often incurs fitness costs for fungal pathogens. How tolerant populations compensate for these deficits and how they may be therapeutically targeted remain poorly under stood. Here, we investigate four sequential Candida parapsilosis isolates recovered from a patient with persistent candidemia and failure of micafungin therapy. The infection was ultimately cleared with liposomal amphotericin B (LAMB). Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) confirmed clonal relatedness and the absence of known resistance mutations. Later isolates displayed marked cell wall remodeling (CWR), characterized by increased mannan and reduced β-glucan content, as revealed by microscopy and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. These isolates formed thicker biofilms and displayed enhanced echinocandin tolerance but paradoxically showed increased susceptibility to amphotericin B (AMB) in vitro and during systemic infection in mice. Despite a complex mutational landscape, transcriptomic profiling across planktonic and biofilm growth showed minimal divergence from the earliest isolate. Functionally, evolved isolates suppressed M1 macrophage polarization, dampened proinflammatory cytokine production, survived better during neutrophil interactions, and transiently increased fungal burden in vivo. These findings show that host-driven CWR could promote echinocandin tolerance while simultaneously sensitizing C. parapsilosis to AMB. Our results suggest that alternating echinocandin and LAMB therapy may effectively eliminate echinocandin-tolerant fungal populations. 2026-03-02T15:41:00Z 2026-03-02T15:41:00Z 2026-02-13 2026-03-02T10:59:04Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227776 6756341 41685898 eng Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03043-25 Microbiology Spectrum, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03043-25 cc-by (c) Daneshnia, Farnaz, 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 28 p. application/pdf Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona))