From these results we could conclude that the bacterial liposaccharide seems to be responsible for the downregulation of SCARB2. In turn, the absence of regulation of this gene in the presence of zymosan, a representative of ß-glucan, suggests that other specific fungal epitopes might induce the expression of this gene during fungal infection, especially during C. albicans infection. This evidence concerns the gene SCARB2 and fungal infectious disease.