Initial attachment of Candida albicans cells to buccal epithelial cells. Demonstration of ultrastructure with the rapid-freezing technique
1990
The rapid-freezing technique was applied in association with scanning and transmission electron microscopy to observe the initial attachment (or contact) ofCandida albicans cells to exfoliated human buccal epithelial cells. Low temperature scanning electron microscopy provided detailed three-dimensional morphological features of the yeast-epithelial cell association; adhesion ofC. albicans cells to host cells was primarily owing to an interaction between fibrillar layer of the yeast cell wall and the membrane interdigitations of the epithelial cells. Such a particular interconnection between the two cells was confirmed by the freeze-substitution fixation for transmission electron microscopy. These results clearly demonstrate the outermost fibrillar cell wall layer ofC. albicans responsible for adhesion to host cells.
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