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Yu D, Breaker RR. A bacterial riboswitch class senses xanthine and uric acid to regulate genes associated with purine oxidation. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020; 26:960-968. [PMID: 32345632 PMCID: PMC7373994 DOI: 10.1261/rna.075218.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Dozens of candidate orphan riboswitch classes have been discovered previously by using comparative sequence analysis algorithms to search bacterial genomic sequence databases. Each orphan is classified by the presence of distinct conserved nucleotide sequences and secondary structure features, and by its association with particular types of genes. One previously reported orphan riboswitch candidate is the "NMT1 motif," which forms a hairpin structure with an internal bulge that includes numerous highly conserved nucleotides. This motif associates with genes annotated to encode various dioxygenase enzymes, transporters, or proteins that have roles associated with thiamin or histidine metabolism. Biochemical evaluation of numerous ligand candidates revealed that NMT1 motif RNA constructs most tightly bind 8-azaxanthine, xanthine, and uric acid, whereas most other closely related compounds are strongly rejected. Genetic assays revealed that NMT1 motif RNAs function to turn off gene expression upon ligand binding, likely by regulating translation initiation. These results suggest that NMT1 motif RNAs function as aptamer domains for a riboswitch class that specifically responds to high concentrations of oxidized purines. Members of this "xanthine riboswitch" class appear to regulate genes predominantly related to purine transport and oxidation, thus avoiding the effects of overproduction of these common purine derivatives.
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- Diane Yu
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103, USA
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103, USA
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Tonelli FMP, Lacerda SMSN, Tonelli FCP, Costa GMJ, de França LR, Resende RR. Progress and biotechnological prospects in fish transgenesis. Biotechnol Adv 2017; 35:832-844. [PMID: 28602961 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Revised: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The history of transgenesis is marked by milestones such as the development of cellular transdifferentiation, recombinant DNA, genetic modification of target cells, and finally, the generation of simpler genetically modified organisms (e.g. bacteria and mice). The first transgenic fish was developed in 1984, and since then, continuing technological advancements to improve gene transfer have led to more rapid, accurate, and efficient generation of transgenic animals. Among the established methods are microinjection, electroporation, lipofection, viral vectors, and gene targeting. Here, we review the history of animal transgenesis, with an emphasis on fish, in conjunction with major developments in genetic engineering over the past few decades. Importantly, spermatogonial stem cell modification and transplantation are two common techniques capable of revolutionizing the generation of transgenic fish. Furthermore, we discuss recent progress and future biotechnological prospects of fish transgenesis, which has strong applications for the aquaculture industry. Indeed, some transgenic fish are already available in the current market, validating continued efforts to improve economically important species with biotechnological advancements.
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- Fernanda M P Tonelli
- Laboratório de Sinalização Celular e Nanobiotecnologia, Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Instituto Nanocell, Divinópolis, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Sinalização Celular e Nanobiotecnologia, Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Celular, Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Sinalização Celular e Nanobiotecnologia, Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Instituto Nanocell, Divinópolis, MG, Brazil.
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Liu Y, Zhang W, Xie L, Liu H, Gong G, Zhu B, Hu Y. Acthi, a thiazole biosynthesis enzyme, is essential for thiamine biosynthesis and CPC production in Acremonium chrysogenum. Microb Cell Fact 2015; 14:50. [PMID: 25886533 PMCID: PMC4416257 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0235-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background The filamentous fungus Acremonium chrysogenum is an important industrial fungus and is used in the production of the β-lactam antibiotic cephalosporin C. Little is known regarding the molecular and biological mechanisms of how this industrial strain was improved by mutagenesis and molecular breeding. Comparative proteomics is one of the most powerful methods to evaluate the influence of gene expression on metabolite production. Results In this study, we used comparative proteomics to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in the biosynthesis of cephalosporin C between a high-producer (HY) strain and a wide-type (WT) strain. We found that the expression levels of thiamine biosynthesis-related enzymes, including the thiazole biosynthesis enzyme (Acthi), pyruvate oxidase, flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent oxidoreductase and sulfur carrier protein-thiS, were up-regulated in the HY strain. An Acthi-silencing mutant of the WT strain grew poorly on chemically defined medium (MMC) in the absence of thiamine, and its growth was recovered on MMC medium supplemented with thiamine. The intracellular thiamine content was changed in the Acthi silencing or over-expression mutants. In addition, we demonstrated that the manipulation of the Acthi gene can affect the hyphal growth of Acremonium chrysogenum, the transcription levels of cephalosporin C biosynthetic genes, the quantification levels of precursor amino acids for cephalosporin C synthesis and the expression levels of thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes. Over-expression of Acthi can significantly increase the cephalosporin C yield in both the WT strain and the HY mutant strain. Conclusions Using comparative proteomics, four differently expressed proteins were exploited, whose functions may be involved in thiamine diphosphate metabolism. Among these proteins, the thiazole biosynthesis enzyme (ActhiS) may play an important role in cephalosporin C biosynthesis. Our studies suggested that Acthi might be involved in the transcriptional regulation of cephalosporin C biosynthesis. Therefore, the thiamine metabolic pathway could be a potential target for the molecular breeding of this cephalosporin C producer for industrial applications.
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- Yan Liu
- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Zhangjiang Institute, 1599 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China. .,Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, 1320 Beijing Road (W), Shanghai, 200040, China.
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- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Zhangjiang Institute, 1599 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
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- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Zhangjiang Institute, 1599 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
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- Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, 1320 Beijing Road (W), Shanghai, 200040, China. .,Present address: Luye Pharma Group Ltd., Yantai, Shandong, 264003, China.
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- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Zhangjiang Institute, 1599 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
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- Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, 1320 Beijing Road (W), Shanghai, 200040, China.
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- China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Zhangjiang Institute, 1599 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
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The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa responds to light in complex ways. To thoroughly study the transcriptional response of this organism to light, RNA-seq was used to analyze capped and polyadenylated mRNA prepared from mycelium grown for 24 hr in the dark and then exposed to light for 0 (control) 15, 60, 120, and 240 min. More than three-quarters of all defined protein coding genes (79%) were expressed in these cells. The increased sensitivity of RNA-seq compared with previous microarray studies revealed that the RNA levels for 31% of expressed genes were affected two-fold or more by exposure to light. Additionally, a large class of mRNAs, enriched for transcripts specifying products involved in rRNA metabolism, showed decreased expression in response to light, indicating a heretofore undocumented effect of light on this pathway. Based on measured changes in mRNA levels, light generally increases cellular metabolism and at the same time causes significant oxidative stress to the organism. To deal with this stress, protective photopigments are made, antioxidants are produced, and genes involved in ribosome biogenesis are transiently repressed.
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Hood HM, Neafsey DE, Galagan J, Sachs MS. Evolutionary roles of upstream open reading frames in mediating gene regulation in fungi. Annu Rev Microbiol 2009; 63:385-409. [PMID: 19514854 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.62.081307.162835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) are frequently present in the 5'-leader regions of fungal mRNAs. They can affect translation by controlling the ability of ribosomes that scan from the mRNA 5' end to reach the downstream genic reading frame. The translation of uORFs can also affect mRNA stability. For several genes, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae GCN4, S. cerevisiae CPA1, and Neurospora crassa arg-2, regulation by uORFs controls expression in response to specific physiological signals. The roles of many uORFs that are identified by genome-level approaches, as have been initiated for Saccharomyces, Aspergillus, and Cryptococcus species, remain to be determined. Some uORFs may have regulatory roles, while others may exist to insulate the genic reading frame from the negative impacts of upstream translation start sites in the mRNA 5' leader.
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- Heather M Hood
- Department of Science and Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA
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Leal J, Squina FM, Freitas JS, Silva EM, Ono CJ, Martinez-Rossi NM, Rossi A. A splice variant of the Neurospora crassa hex-1 transcript, which encodes the major protein of the Woronin body, is modulated by extracellular phosphate and pH changes. FEBS Lett 2008; 583:180-4. [PMID: 19071122 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.11.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2008] [Revised: 11/20/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Woronin body, a septal pore-associated organelle specific to filamentous ascomycetes, is crucial for preventing cytoplasmic bleeding after hyphal injury. In this study, we show that T1hex-1 transcript and a variant splicing T2hex-1 transcript are up-regulated at alkaline pH. We also show that both hex-1 transcripts are overexpressed in the preg(c), nuc-1(RIP), and pacC(ko) mutant strains of Neurospora crassa grown under conditions of phosphate shortage at alkaline pH, suggesting that hex-1 transcription may be coregulated by these genes. In addition, we present evidence that N. crassa PacC also has metabolic functions at acidic pH.
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- Juliana Leal
- Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Ruiz-Roldán C, Puerto-Galán L, Roa J, Castro A, Di Pietro A, Roncero MIG, Hera C. The Fusarium oxysporum sti35 gene functions in thiamine biosynthesis and oxidative stress response. Fungal Genet Biol 2008; 45:6-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2006] [Revised: 06/27/2007] [Accepted: 09/12/2007] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cheah MT, Wachter A, Sudarsan N, Breaker RR. Control of alternative RNA splicing and gene expression by eukaryotic riboswitches. Nature 2007; 447:497-500. [PMID: 17468745 DOI: 10.1038/nature05769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 305] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2006] [Accepted: 03/20/2007] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Bacteria make extensive use of riboswitches to sense metabolites and control gene expression, and typically do so by modulating premature transcription termination or translation initiation. The most widespread riboswitch class known in bacteria responds to the coenzyme thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), which is a derivative of vitamin B1. Representatives of this class have also been identified in fungi and plants, where they are predicted to control messenger RNA splicing or processing. We examined three TPP riboswitches in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, and found that one activates and two repress gene expression by controlling mRNA splicing. A detailed mechanism involving riboswitch-mediated base-pairing changes and alternative splicing control was elucidated for precursor NMT1 mRNAs, which code for a protein involved in TPP metabolism. These results demonstrate that eukaryotic cells employ metabolite-binding RNAs to regulate RNA splicing events that are important for the control of key biochemical processes.
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MESH Headings
- Alternative Splicing/genetics
- Aptamers, Nucleotide/chemistry
- Aptamers, Nucleotide/genetics
- Aptamers, Nucleotide/metabolism
- Base Pairing
- Base Sequence
- Eukaryotic Cells/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal/genetics
- Genes, Fungal/genetics
- Introns/genetics
- Neurospora crassa/genetics
- Open Reading Frames/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/chemistry
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
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- Ming T Cheah
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Brown DW, Cheung F, Proctor RH, Butchko RAE, Zheng L, Lee Y, Utterback T, Smith S, Feldblyum T, Glenn AE, Plattner RD, Kendra DF, Town CD, Whitelaw CA. Comparative analysis of 87,000 expressed sequence tags from the fumonisin-producing fungus Fusarium verticillioides. Fungal Genet Biol 2005; 42:848-61. [PMID: 16099185 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2005.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2005] [Revised: 05/20/2005] [Accepted: 06/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Fusarium verticillioides (teleomorph Gibberella moniliformis) is a pathogen of maize worldwide and produces fumonisins, a family of mycotoxins that have been associated with several animal diseases as well as cancer in humans. In this study, we sought to identify fungal genes that affect fumonisin production and/or the plant-fungal interaction. We generated over 87,000 expressed sequence tags from nine different cDNA libraries that correspond to 11,119 unique sequences and are estimated to represent 80% of the genomic complement of genes. A comparative analysis of the libraries showed that all 15 genes in the fumonisin gene cluster were differentially expressed. In addition, nine candidate fumonisin regulatory genes and a number of genes that may play a role in plant-fungal interaction were identified. Analysis of over 700 FUM gene transcripts from five different libraries provided evidence for transcripts with unspliced introns and spliced introns with alternative 3' splice sites. The abundance of the alternative splice forms and the frequency with which they were found for genes involved in the biosynthesis of a single family of metabolites as well as their differential expression suggest they may have a biological function. Finally, analysis of an EST that aligns to genomic sequence between FUM12 and FUM13 provided evidence for a previously unidentified gene (FUM20) in the FUM gene cluster.
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- Daren W Brown
- Mycotoxin Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, Peoria, IL 61604, USA.
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