TABLE 3.
Predicted nutritional supplements indicated by absent genes and pathways.
| References | Pneumocystis species | |
| Amino Acids | ||
| Hauser et al. (2010) | P. carinii | Alanine |
| Asparagine | ||
| Arginine | ||
| Cysteine | ||
| Glutamine | ||
| Glycine | ||
| Histidine | ||
| Isoleucine | ||
| Leucine | ||
| Lysine | ||
| Methionine | ||
| Phenylalanine | ||
| Proline | ||
| Serine | ||
| Threonine | ||
| Tryptophan | ||
| Tyrosine | ||
| Valine | ||
| Vitamins | ||
| (Hauser, 2014) | P. carinii, P. murina, P. jirovecii | Thiamine (B1) |
| Cushion MT | P. carinii, P. murina | Biotin (H, B7, B8) |
| Other | ||
| Porollo et al. (2014) | P. carinii, P. murina, P. jirovecii | myo-inositol (carbocyclic sugar) |
| (Hauser, 2014) | P. carinii, P. murina, P. jirovecii | Nitrogen and sulfur assimilation |
| Purine degradation | ||
| Joffrion et al. (2006) | P. carinii, P. murina, P. jirovecii | Increased carbon dioxide atmosphere |
| Ma et al. (2016) | P. carinii, P. murina, P. jirovecii | Absence of polyamine biosynthesis; evidence of a polyamine transporter suggests host acquisition |
| Glucose | ||
| Choline | ||
| Ether lipids, complex sphingolipids, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine, fatty acids | ||
| Glycerol | ||
| Pantothenate | ||
| Ubiquinone/coenzyme Q | ||
| Siderophores | ||
| P. jirovecii only | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide | |
| Ma et al. (2016) | P. carinii, P. murina (but not P. jirovecii) | Cholesterol |
| Furlong et al. (1997) | P. carinii | Fatty acids, cholesterol |
| Worsham et al. (2003) | P. carinii | Cholesterol |