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Nguyen TTT, Lee HB. Discovery of Three New Mucor Species Associated with Cricket Insects in Korea. J Fungi (Basel) 2022; 8:jof8060601. [PMID: 35736084 PMCID: PMC9224827 DOI: 10.3390/jof8060601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Species in the genus Mucor have a worldwide distribution and are isolated from various substrata and hosts, including soil, dung, freshwater, and fruits. However, their diversity from insects is still much too little explored. The aim of this study was to characterize three new species of Mucor: Mucor grylli sp. nov., M. hyangburmii sp. nov., and M. kunryangriensis sp. nov., discovered in Kunryang-ri, Cheongyang in the Chungnam Province of Korea, during an investigation of Mucorales from cricket insects. The new species are described using morphological characters and molecular data including ITS and LSU rDNA regions. Mucor grylli is characterized by the highly variable shape of its columellae, which are subglobose to oblong, obovoid, strawberry-shaped, and sometimes slightly or strongly constricted in the center. Mucor hyangburmii is characterized by the production of azygospores and growth at 40 °C. Mucor kunryangriensis is characterized by the variable shape of its columellae, which are elongated-conical, obovoid, cylindrical ellipsoid, cylindrical, and production of abundant yeast-like cells on PDA, MEA, and SMA media. Based on the sequence analysis of two genetic markers, our phylogenic assessment strongly supported M. grylli, M. hyangburmii, and M. kunryangriensis as new species. Detailed descriptions, illustrations, and phylogenetic trees are provided.
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- Thuong T T Nguyen
- Environmental Microbiology Lab, Department of Agricultural Biological Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
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- Environmental Microbiology Lab, Department of Agricultural Biological Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
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Arf-like proteins (Arl1 and Arl2) are involved in mitochondrial homeostasis in Mucor circinelloides. Fungal Biol 2020; 124:619-628. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2020.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Sources of microbial oils with emphasis to Mortierella (Umbelopsis) isabellina fungus. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 35:63. [PMID: 30923965 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-019-2631-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The last years a constantly rising number of publications have appeared in the literature in relation to the production of oils and fats deriving from microbial sources (the "single cell oils"-SCOs). SCOs can be used as precursors for the synthesis of lipid-based biofuels or employed as substitutes of expensive oils rarely found in the plant or animal kingdom. In the present review-article, aspects concerning SCOs (economics, biochemistry, substrates, technology, scale-up), with emphasis on the potential of Mortierella isabellina were presented. Fats and hydrophilic substrates have been used as carbon sources for cultivating Zygomycetes. Among them, wild-type M. isabellina strains have been reported as excellent SCO-producers, with conversion yields on sugar consumed and lipid in DCW values reported comparable to the maximum ones achieved for genetically engineered SCO-producing strains. Lipids produced on glucose contain γ-linolenic acid (GLA), a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) of high dietary and pharmaceutical importance, though in low concentrations. Nevertheless, due to their abundance in oleic acid, these lipids are perfect precursors for the synthesis of 2nd generation biodiesel, while GLA can be recovered and directed to other usages. Genetic engineering focusing on over-expression of Δ6 and Δ12 desaturases and of C16 elongase may improve the fatty acid composition (viz. increasing the concentration of GLA or other nutritionally important PUFAs) of these lipids.
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- Frank H. Gleason
- Division of Animal Production, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, P.O. Box 239, Blacktown, New South Wales 2148, Australia
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- Division of Animal Production, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, P.O. Box 239, Blacktown, New South Wales 2148, Australia
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Manohar CS, Boekhout T, Müller WH, Stoeck T. Tritirachium candoliense sp. nov., a novel basidiomycetous fungus isolated from the anoxic zone of the Arabian Sea. Fungal Biol 2014; 118:139-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2013.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2013] [Revised: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mucor indicus: Biology and industrial application perspectives: A review. Biotechnol Adv 2013; 31:466-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2012] [Revised: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Chambergo FS, Bonaccorsi ED, Ferreira AJS, Ramos ASP, Ferreira Júnior JR, Abrahão-Neto J, Farah JPS, El-Dorry H. Elucidation of the metabolic fate of glucose in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei using expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis and cDNA microarrays. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:13983-8. [PMID: 11825887 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107651200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Despite the intense interest in the metabolic regulation and evolution of the ATP-producing pathways, the long standing question of why most multicellular microorganisms metabolize glucose by respiration rather than fermentation remains unanswered. One such microorganism is the cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma reesei (Hypocrea jecorina). Using EST analysis and cDNA microarrays, we find that in T. reesei expression of the genes encoding the enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid cycle and the proteins of the electron transport chain is programmed in a way that favors the oxidation of pyruvate via the tricarboxylic acid cycle rather than its reduction to ethanol by fermentation. Moreover, the results indicate that acetaldehyde may be channeled into acetate rather than ethanol, thus preventing the regeneration of NAD(+), a pivotal product required for anaerobic metabolism. The studies also point out that the regulatory machinery controlled by glucose was most probably the target of evolutionary pressure that directed the flow of metabolites into respiratory metabolism rather than fermentation. This finding has significant implications for the development of metabolically engineered cellulolytic microorganisms for fuel production from cellulose biomass.
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- Felipe S Chambergo
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Avenida Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, São Paulo SP 05508-900, Brazil
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Pfeiffer T, Schuster S, Bonhoeffer S. Cooperation and competition in the evolution of ATP-producing pathways. Science 2001; 292:504-7. [PMID: 11283355 DOI: 10.1126/science.1058079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 884] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Heterotrophic organisms generally face a trade-off between rate and yield of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production. This trade-off may result in an evolutionary dilemma, because cells with a higher rate but lower yield of ATP production may gain a selective advantage when competing for shared energy resources. Using an analysis of model simulations and biochemical observations, we show that ATP production with a low rate and high yield can be viewed as a form of cooperative resource use and may evolve in spatially structured environments. Furthermore, we argue that the high ATP yield of respiration may have facilitated the evolutionary transition from unicellular to undifferentiated multicellular organisms.
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- T Pfeiffer
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, Post Office Box 2543, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland., Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, D-13092 Berlin, Germany
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Mucor dimorphism has interested microbiologists since the time of Pasteur. When deprived of oxygen, these fungi grow as spherical, multipolar budding yeasts. In the presence of oxygen, they propagate as branching coenocytic hyphae. The ease with which these morphologies can be manipulated in the laboratory, the diverse array of morphopoietic agents available, and the alternative developmental fates that can be elicited from a single cell type (the sporangiospore) make Mucor spp. a highly propitious system in which to study eukaryotic cellular morphogenesis. The composition and organization of the cell wall differ greatly in Mucor yeasts and hyphae. The deposition of new wall polymers is isodiametric in yeasts and apically polarized in hyphae. Current research has focused on the identity and control of enzymes participating in wall synthesis. An understanding of how the chitosome interacts with appropriate effectors, specific enzymes, and the plasma membrane to assemble chitin-chitosan microfibrils and to deposit them at the proper sites on the cell exterior will be critical to elucidating dimorphism. Several biochemical and physiological parameters have been reported to fluctuate in a manner that correlates with Mucor morphogenesis. The literature describing these has been reviewed critically with the intent of distinguishing between causal and casual connections. The advancement of molecular genetics has afforded powerful new tools that researchers have begun to exploit in the study of Mucor dimorphism. Several genes, some encoding products known to correlate with development in Mucor spp. or other fungi, have been cloned, sequenced, and examined for transcriptional activity during morphogenesis. Most have appeared in multiple copies displaying independent transcriptional control. Selective translation of stored mRNA molecules occurs during sporangiospore germination. Many other correlates of Mucor morphogenesis, presently described but not yet explained, should prove amenable to analysis by the emerging molecular technology.
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- M Orlowski
- Department of Microbiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803
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Mucor rouxii organisms growing aerobically and exponentially on a well-defined minimal medium are able to differentiate as yeasts or as mycelia, depending on the amino acid as the nitrogen source. When certain amino acids were used as the nitrogen source, spores differentiated only as hyphae, whereas other amino acids gave rise to other morphological forms having different ratios of yeasts to hyphae. In both hyphal and yeast cultures, an aerobic metabolism was predominant, as shown by determining several metabolic parameters such as oxygen tension, glucose consumption, ethanol production, and CO2 release. A complete conversion of yeasts to hyphae was obtained by the appropriate change in the amino acid used as nitrogen source. By preparing spheroplasts from mycelial cultures and transferring them to media with amino acids that induce yeast formation, a 50% yield in the reverse transformation was achieved. A correlation between the change in pH of the medium and cell morphology was observed in different growth conditions. Decrease in the pH of the medium preceded the appearance of hyphae. Also, when the initial pH of the medium was increased, aspartate-containing cultures developed mainly as mycelia, instead of yeasts, with a corresponding decrease in the final pH.
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Phillips GJ, Borgia PT. Effect of oxygen on morphogenesis and polypeptide expression by Mucor racemosus. J Bacteriol 1985; 164:1039-48. [PMID: 3934135 PMCID: PMC219295 DOI: 10.1128/jb.164.3.1039-1048.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The morphology of Mucor racemosus in cultures continuously sparged with nitrogen gas was investigated. When appropriate precautions were taken to prevent oxygen from entering the cultures, the morphology of the cells was uniformly yeastlike irrespective of the N2 flow rate. When small amounts of oxygen entered the cultures the resulting microaerobic conditions evoked mycelial development. Polypeptides synthesized by aerobic mycelia, microaerobic mycelia, anaerobic yeasts, and yeasts grown in a CO2 atmosphere were compared by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The results indicated that a large number of differences in polypeptide expression exist when microaerobic mycelia or anaerobic yeasts are compared with aerobic mycelia and that these alterations correlate with a change from an oxidative to a fermentative metabolic mode. Relatively few differences in polypeptide composition exist when microaerobic cells are compared with anaerobic cells, but these changes correlate with a change from the mycelial to the yeast morphology. We hypothesize that oxygen regulates the expression of polypeptides involved in both the metabolic mode and in morphogenesis.
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Borgia PT, Gokul NK, Phillips GJ. Respiratory-competent conditional developmental mutant of Mucor racemosus. J Bacteriol 1985; 164:1049-56. [PMID: 4066610 PMCID: PMC219296 DOI: 10.1128/jb.164.3.1049-1056.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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A conditional developmental mutant of Mucor racemosus which is capable of oxidative energy metabolism is described. Unlike the wild-type strain the mutant was highly fermentative and exhibited the yeast morphology when grown aerobically in glucose-containing media. The high fermentative activity and yeast morphology under these conditions correlated well with maximal expression of glycolytic enzymes and with expression of some polypeptides characteristic of anaerobic growth. Aerobic growth of the mutant on amino acids as the sole carbon source resulted in growth in the mycelial morphology. The mutant was fully capable of oxidative metabolism as judged by its ability to grow on amino acids, respiratory capacity, and complement of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes. The results support the hypothesis that oxygen controls both the expression of glycolytic enzymes and the expression of proteins involved in morphogenesis. Moreover, they suggest that there are common regulatory elements in the control of these two classes of gene products. Abnormally high levels of aconitase and isocitrate dehydrogenase in the mutant are consistent with the proposal that pool sizes of citrate may act as a regulator of genes responsive to environmental oxygen concentration.
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Ruiz-Herrera J, Ruiz A, Lopez-Romero E. Isolation and biochemical analysis of Mucor bacilliformis monomorphic mutants. J Bacteriol 1983; 156:264-72. [PMID: 6137477 PMCID: PMC215079 DOI: 10.1128/jb.156.1.264-272.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Fourteen stable mutants of Mucor bacilliformis which grew yeastlike under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions were isolated after treatment of growing mycelium with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Biochemical characterization of the mutants included determination of growth in different carbon and nitrogen sources, determination of sensitivity of respiration to cyanide and salicylhydroxamate, analysis of cytochrome spectra, determination of glutamate dehydrogenases, glutamine synthase, and ornithine decarboxylase activities, and measurement of cyclic AMP levels. Data showed that all mutants were defective in some aspect of oxidative metabolism and had low levels of ornithine decarboxylase, whereas other characters were variable. It was concluded that morphological transition in M. bacilliformis is probably associated with mitochondrial functions and expression of ornithine decarboxylase, but may be independent of cyclic AMP and glutamate dehydrogenase levels. The importance of genetic studies in the analysis of dimorphism is stressed.
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Garcia R, Villa V. A correlation between glucose concentration, accumulation of ethanol, and germ tube biogenesis in the dimorphic moldMucor rouxii. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0147-5975(80)90051-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hiatt WR, Inderlied CB, Sypherd PS. Differential synthesis of polypeptides during morphogenesis of Mucor. J Bacteriol 1980; 141:1350-9. [PMID: 7364729 PMCID: PMC293833 DOI: 10.1128/jb.141.3.1350-1359.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The extent of differential gene expression during morphogenesis of Mucor racemosus was investigated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of neutral and acidic polypeptides. Cellular proteins were labeled with [35S]methionine in cells growing in either the yeast or hyphal form, or in yeast cells undergoing the transition of hyphae. The results showed that of the 400 to 500 polypeptides resolved by electrophoresis, relatively few were specific to one or the other morphological form. The major change in the patterns of proteins synthesized during morphogenesis was a change in rates of synthesis of individual polypeptides. Experiments in which morphogenesis was affected under aerobic or anaerobic conditions showed that the majority of changes in the protein patterns were associated with morphogenesis and were not a specific response to O2.
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Regulation of citric acid production by oxygen: Effect of dissolved oxygen tension on adenylate levels and respiration in Aspergillus niger. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00503505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mucor racemosus fermented glucose to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and glycerol. When this fungus was grown anaerobically in either the yeast or mycelial form, the catabolism of glucose was very similar. Yeast cells shifted to aerobic conditions maintained a high flux of glucose carbon through the glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathways. Mycelial cells grown aerobically catabolized glucose in a manner consistent with a respiratory metabolism. Although there was no consistent pattern of glucose metabolism in the mycelial form of Mucor, growth in the yeast form consistently was correlated with a high flux of glucose carbon through the catabolic pathways.
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Induction of yeast-like growth in mucorales by systemic fungicides and other compounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0007-1536(77)80192-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Paveto C, Passeron S. Some kinetic properties of Mucor rouxii phosphofructokinase. Effect of cyclic adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate. Arch Biochem Biophys 1977; 178:1-7. [PMID: 189689 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(77)90164-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Paznokas JL, Sypherd PS. Respiratory capacity, cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, and morphogenesis of Mucor racemosus. J Bacteriol 1975; 124:134-9. [PMID: 170243 PMCID: PMC235874 DOI: 10.1128/jb.124.1.134-139.1975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A variety of cultural conditions were examined to determine the relationship between respiratory capacity and the growth of Mucor racemosus in the yeast and mycelial form. The results show that both yeasts and hyphae can develop when the respiratory capacity is low (e.g., in N2). In addition, the yeast form of the fungus could be grown in air in the presence of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate with high respiratory rates characteristic of air-grown mycelia. These results indicate that their is not an obligatory relationship between respiratory capacity and morphogenesis in M. racemosus. Low intracellular levels of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate, however, were correlated with aerobic mycelial development, whereas yeast development under CO2 was characterized by higher cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate levels.
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