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Nižnanský Ľ, Varečka Ľ, Kryštofová S. Disruption of GABA shunt affects Trichoderma atroviride response to nutritional and environmental stimuli. ACTA CHIMICA SLOVACA 2016. [DOI: 10.1515/acs-2016-0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The fungus Trichoderma atroviride is a member of the genus Trichoderma to which belong many species known for high cellulase production, formation of various antibiotics, plant biocontrol and antagonistic activities against other fungi. Deletion of T. atroviride glutamate decarboxylase gene gad caused minor defects in germination, hyphal branching, slower growth and disruption of conidiation pattern. GABA can be used by fungi as a secondary carbon source and as a primary nitrogen source. We analyzed the effect of different nutrient compositions and environmental conditions (light and temperature) on growth and development of T. atroviride in strains defective in the functional GAD. The gad mutants grown on NH4NO3 as a sole carbon source grew slower and formed conidiation bands closer to each other which was clearly demonstrated during their cultivation in race tubes. The gad mutants exhibited slightly lower apical extension growth rate at the room temperature but their apical extension rate dropped significantly at 30 °C. Higher temperature had also inhibitory effect on gad mutant conidiation, whereas 30 °C seems optimal temperature for the parental strain. The optimal temperature for gad mutant conidiation was lower than in F534, about 25 °C.
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- Ľuboš Nižnanský
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava
- Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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Nižňanský L, Kryštofová S, Vargovič P, Kaliňák M, Simkovič M, Varečka L. Glutamic acid decarboxylase gene disruption reveals signalling pathway(s) governing complex morphogenic and metabolic events in Trichoderma atroviride. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:793-807. [PMID: 23912446 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9989-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) catalyses decarboxylation of glutamate to gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) in a metabolic pathway connected to citrate cycle and known as GABA shunt. The gene (gad) was disrupted in Trichoderma atroviride CCM F-534 and viable mutants were characterized. Two of them were found to arise by homologous recombination and were devoid of both GAD activity and GABA. Mutants grew slower as compared to the wild type (F534). In the submerged culture, mutants developed less CO2 and consumed less O2 than the F534 without changing their respiratory quotients. Hyphae of mutants were more ramified than those of F534. Their ramification, in contrast to F534, was not increased by cyclosporin A, a drug causing hyphae ramification of several fungi and which is a calcineurin/cyclophilin inhibitor, or by FK506. Rapamycin, which is a cyclophilin but not calcineurin inhibitor, had a different effect on hyphae ramification in F534 and mutants. To examine the presence of GABA receptors in the fungus the effect of mammalian GABA-receptor modulators, such as bicuculline, gabapentin or carbamazepine on fungal morphology were investigated. Conidia of mutants germinated in a multipolar manner more frequently (up to 80 %) than those of F534. This trait was modified with cyclosporine A, FK506 and GABA receptor modulators in a different manner. Transport of chlorides, an intimate feature of GABA-regulated receptors/channels in animal cells, was measured in vegetative mycelia by means (36)Cl(-) uptake. It was significantly reduced in gad mutants. The results suggest that T. atroviride possesses a signalling pathway that involves GABA, putative GABA receptor(s), calcineurin, target of rapamycin and chloride transporter(s) to regulate physiological functions.
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- Luboš Nižňanský
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia,
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Leiter É, González A, Erdei É, Casado C, Kovács L, Ádám C, Oláh J, Miskei M, Molnar M, Farkas I, Hamari Z, Ariño J, Pócsi I, Dombrádi V. Protein phosphatase Z modulates oxidative stress response in fungi. Fungal Genet Biol 2012; 49:708-16. [PMID: 22750657 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2012.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Revised: 06/15/2012] [Accepted: 06/19/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The genome of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans harbors the gene ppzA that codes for the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase Z (PPZ), and the closely related opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus encompasses a highly similar PPZ gene (phzA). When PpzA and PhzA were expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Schizosaccharomyces pombe they partially complemented the deleted phosphatases in the ppz1 or the pzh1 mutants, and they also mimicked the effect of Ppz1 overexpression in slt2 MAP kinase deficient S. cerevisiae cells. Although ppzA acted as the functional equivalent of the known PPZ enzymes its disruption in A. nidulans did not result in the expected phenotypes since it failed to affect salt tolerance or cell wall integrity. However, the inactivation of ppzA resulted in increased sensitivity to oxidizing agents like tert-butylhydroperoxide, menadione, and diamide. To demonstrate the general validity of our observations we showed that the deletion of the orthologous PPZ genes in other model organisms, such as S. cerevisiae (PPZ1) or Candida albicans (CaPPZ1) also caused oxidative stress sensitivity. Thus, our work reveals a novel function of the PPZ enzyme in A. nidulans that is conserved in very distantly related fungi.
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- Éva Leiter
- Department of Microbial Biotechnology and Cell Biology, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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Milnthorpe AT, Soloviev M. The use of EST expression matrixes for the quality control of gene expression data. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32966. [PMID: 22412959 PMCID: PMC3297614 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2011] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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EST expression profiling provides an attractive tool for studying differential gene expression, but cDNA libraries' origins and EST data quality are not always known or reported. Libraries may originate from pooled or mixed tissues; EST clustering, EST counts, library annotations and analysis algorithms may contain errors. Traditional data analysis methods, including research into tissue-specific gene expression, assume EST counts to be correct and libraries to be correctly annotated, which is not always the case. Therefore, a method capable of assessing the quality of expression data based on that data alone would be invaluable for assessing the quality of EST data and determining their suitability for mRNA expression analysis. Here we report an approach to the selection of a small generic subset of 244 UniGene clusters suitable for identification of the tissue of origin for EST libraries and quality control of the expression data using EST expression information alone. We created a small expression matrix of UniGene IDs using two rounds of selection followed by two rounds of optimisation. Our selection procedures differ from traditional approaches to finding "tissue-specific" genes and our matrix yields consistency high positive correlation values for libraries with confirmed tissues of origin and can be applied for tissue typing and quality control of libraries as small as just a few hundred total ESTs. Furthermore, we can pick up tissue correlations between related tissues e.g. brain and peripheral nervous tissue, heart and muscle tissues and identify tissue origins for a few libraries of uncharacterised tissue identity. It was possible to confirm tissue identity for some libraries which have been derived from cancer tissues or have been normalised. Tissue matching is affected strongly by cancer progression or library normalisation and our approach may potentially be applied for elucidating the stage of normalisation in normalised libraries or for cancer staging.
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- Andrew T. Milnthorpe
- School of Biological Sciences, CBMS, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, CBMS, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Systems biology of industrial microorganisms. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 2010; 120:51-99. [PMID: 20503029 DOI: 10.1007/10_2009_59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The field of industrial biotechnology is expanding rapidly as the chemical industry is looking towards more sustainable production of chemicals that can be used as fuels or building blocks for production of solvents and materials. In connection with the development of sustainable bioprocesses, it is a major challenge to design and develop efficient cell factories that can ensure cost efficient conversion of the raw material into the chemical of interest. This is achieved through metabolic engineering, where the metabolism of the cell factory is engineered such that there is an efficient conversion of sugars, the typical raw materials in the fermentation industry, into the desired product. However, engineering of cellular metabolism is often challenging due to the complex regulation that has evolved in connection with adaptation of the different microorganisms to their ecological niches. In order to map these regulatory structures and further de-regulate them, as well as identify ingenious metabolic engineering strategies that full-fill mass balance constraints, tools from systems biology can be applied. This involves both high-throughput analysis tools like transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analysis, as well as the use of mathematical modeling to simulate the phenotypes resulting from the different metabolic engineering strategies. It is in fact expected that systems biology may substantially improve the process of cell factory development, and we therefore propose the term Industrial Systems Biology for how systems biology will enhance the development of industrial biotechnology for sustainable chemical production.
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Developing Aspergillus as a host for heterologous expression. Biotechnol Adv 2009; 27:53-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2008] [Revised: 09/04/2008] [Accepted: 09/07/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Microarray studies have examined global gene expression in over 20 species of filamentous fungi encompassing a wide variety of research areas. The majority have addressed aspects of metabolism or pathogenicity. Metabolic studies have revealed important differences in the transcriptional regulation of genes for primary metabolic pathways between filamentous fungi and yeast. Transcriptional profiles for genes involved in secondary metabolism have also been established. Genes required for the biosynthesis of both useful and detrimental secondary metabolites have been identified. Due to the economic, ecological and medical implications, it is not surprising that many studies have used microarray analysis to examine gene expression in pathogenic filamentous fungi. Genes involved in various stages of pathogenicity have been identified, including those thought to be important for adaptation to the host environment. While most of the studies have simulated pathogenic conditions in vitro, a small number have also reported fungal gene expression within their plant hosts. This review summarizes the first 50 microarray studies in filamentous fungi and highlights areas for future investigation.
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- Andrew Breakspear
- Department of Plant Biology, The University of Georgia, 1505 Miller Plant Sciences, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Krappmann S, Jung N, Medic B, Busch S, Prade RA, Braus GH. The Aspergillus nidulans F-box protein GrrA links SCF activity to meiosis. Mol Microbiol 2006; 61:76-88. [PMID: 16824096 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05215.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cellular differentiation relies on precise and controlled means of gene expression that act on several levels to ensure a flexible and defined spatio-temporal expression of a given gene product. In our aim to identify transcripts enriched during fruiting body formation of the homothallic ascomycete Aspergillus (Emericella) nidulans, the grrA gene could be identified in a negative subtraction hybridization screening procedure. It encodes a protein similar to fungal F-box proteins, which function as substrate receptors for ubiquitin ligases, and that is highly related to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae regulatory protein Grr1p. Expression studies confirmed induction of grrA transcription and expression of its gene product during cleistothecial development of A. nidulans. Functional complementation of a yeast grr1Delta mutant was achieved by overexpression of the grrA coding sequence. A grrADelta deletion mutant resembles the wild-type in hyphal growth, asexual sporulation, Hülle cell formation or development of asci-containing cleistothecia, but is unable to produce mature ascospores due to a block in meiosis as demonstrated by cytological staining of cleistothecial contents. Our results specify a particular involvement of the E3 ubiquitin ligase SCFGrrA in meiosis and sexual spore formation of an ascomyceteous fungus and shed light on the diverse functions of ubiquitin-proteasome-mediated protein degradation in eukaryotic development.
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- Sven Krappmann
- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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Pócsi I, Miskei M, Karányi Z, Emri T, Ayoubi P, Pusztahelyi T, Balla G, Prade RA. Comparison of gene expression signatures of diamide, H2O2 and menadione exposed Aspergillus nidulans cultures--linking genome-wide transcriptional changes to cellular physiology. BMC Genomics 2005; 6:182. [PMID: 16368011 PMCID: PMC1352360 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2005] [Accepted: 12/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In addition to their cytotoxic nature, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are also signal molecules in diverse cellular processes in eukaryotic organisms. Linking genome-wide transcriptional changes to cellular physiology in oxidative stress-exposed Aspergillus nidulans cultures provides the opportunity to estimate the sizes of peroxide (O2(2-)), superoxide (O2*-) and glutathione/glutathione disulphide (GSH/GSSG) redox imbalance responses. RESULTS Genome-wide transcriptional changes triggered by diamide, H2O2 and menadione in A. nidulans vegetative tissues were recorded using DNA microarrays containing 3533 unique PCR-amplified probes. Evaluation of LOESS-normalized data indicated that 2499 gene probes were affected by at least one stress-inducing agent. The stress induced by diamide and H2O2 were pulse-like, with recovery after 1 h exposure time while no recovery was observed with menadione. The distribution of stress-responsive gene probes among major physiological functional categories was approximately the same for each agent. The gene group sizes solely responsive to changes in intracellular O2(2-), O2*- concentrations or to GSH/GSSG redox imbalance were estimated at 7.7, 32.6 and 13.0 %, respectively. Gene groups responsive to diamide, H2O2 and menadione treatments and gene groups influenced by GSH/GSSG, O2(2-) and O2*- were only partly overlapping with distinct enrichment profiles within functional categories. Changes in the GSH/GSSG redox state influenced expression of genes coding for PBS2 like MAPK kinase homologue, PSK2 kinase homologue, AtfA transcription factor, and many elements of ubiquitin tagging, cell division cycle regulators, translation machinery proteins, defense and stress proteins, transport proteins as well as many enzymes of the primary and secondary metabolisms. Meanwhile, a separate set of genes encoding transport proteins, CpcA and JlbA amino acid starvation-responsive transcription factors, and some elements of sexual development and sporulation was ROS responsive. CONCLUSION The existence of separate O2(2-), O2*- and GSH/GSSG responsive gene groups in a eukaryotic genome has been demonstrated. Oxidant-triggered, genome-wide transcriptional changes should be analyzed considering changes in oxidative stress-responsive physiological conditions and not correlating them directly to the chemistry and concentrations of the oxidative stress-inducing agent.
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- István Pócsi
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen, P.O.Box 63, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen, P.O.Box 63, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 19, H-4012 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen, P.O.Box 63, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, 348E Noble Research Center, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Debrecen, P.O.Box 63, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, P.O.Box 37; H-4012 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, 307 LSE, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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Germain H, Rudd S, Zotti C, Caron S, O'Brien M, Chantha SC, Lagacé M, Major F, Matton DP. A 6374 unigene set corresponding to low abundance transcripts expressed following fertilization in Solanum chacoense Bitt, and characterization of 30 receptor-like kinases. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 59:515-32. [PMID: 16235114 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-0536-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2005] [Accepted: 07/04/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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In order to characterize regulatory genes that are expressed in ovule tissues after fertilization we have undertaken an EST sequencing project in Solanum chacoense, a self-incompatible wild potato species. Two cDNA libraries made from ovule tissues covering embryo development from zygote to late torpedo-stage were constructed and plated at high density on nylon membranes. To decrease EST redundancy and enrich for transcripts corresponding to weakly expressed genes a self-probe subtraction method was used to select the colonies harboring the genes to be sequenced. 7741 good sequences were obtained and, from these, 6374 unigenes were isolated. Thus, the self-probe subtraction resulted in a strong enrichment in singletons, a decrease in the number of clones per contigs, and concomitantly, an enrichment in the total number of unigenes obtained (82%). To gain insights into signal transduction events occurring during embryo development all the receptor-like kinases (or protein receptor kinases) were analyzed by quantitative real-time RT-PCR. Interestingly, 28 out of the 30 RLK isolated were predominantly expressed in ovary tissues or young developing fruits, and 23 were transcriptionaly induced following fertilization. Thus, the self-probe subtraction did not select for genes weakly expressed in the target tissue while being highly expressed elsewhere in the plant. Of the receptor-like kinases (RLK) genes isolated, the leucine-rich repeat (LRR) family of RLK was by far the most represented with 25 members covering 11 LRR classes.
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- Hugo Germain
- Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale (IRBV). Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, 4101 Sherbrooke Est, H1X 2B2, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Vallino M, Drogo V, Abba' S, Perotto S. Gene expression of the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius in the presence of high zinc concentrations. MYCORRHIZA 2005; 15:333-344. [PMID: 15558329 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-004-0335-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2004] [Accepted: 10/04/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A heavy metal tolerant strain of the ericoid mycorrhizal species Oidiodendron maius, isolated from roots of Vaccinium myrtillus growing in soil heavily contaminated with zinc, was previously shown to tolerate high concentrations of zinc and cadmium ions in the growth medium. We have investigated the genetic basis of this fungal strain tolerance to high zinc concentrations by using an untargeted approach. From a cDNA library constructed by using mRNA from Zn-treated O. maius mycelia, 444 clones were randomly selected and 318 were sequenced. Sequence analysis identified 219 unique clones: 117 showed homology to previously identified genes, 26 matched unknown protein coding regions found in other organisms, and 76 were novel. Variation in the gene expression level after a 20-day treatment with high concentrations of Zn was monitored on 130 unigenes by reverse northern blot hybridisation. Sixteen unigenes were shown to be either up- (9) or down- (7) regulated. The putative function of these genes and their involvement in stress tolerance is discussed.
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- Marta Vallino
- Dipartimento Biologia Vegetale dell'Università di Torino, Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante del CNR, v.le Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy
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Sims AH, Gent ME, Lanthaler K, Dunn-Coleman NS, Oliver SG, Robson GD. Transcriptome analysis of recombinant protein secretion by Aspergillus nidulans and the unfolded-protein response in vivo. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:2737-47. [PMID: 15870366 PMCID: PMC1087583 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.5.2737-2747.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Filamentous fungi have a high capacity for producing large amounts of secreted proteins, a property that has been exploited for commercial production of recombinant proteins. However, the secretory pathway, which is key to the production of extracellular proteins, is rather poorly characterized in filamentous fungi compared to yeast. We report the effects of recombinant protein secretion on gene expression levels in Aspergillus nidulans by directly comparing a bovine chymosin-producing strain with its parental wild-type strain in continuous culture by using expressed sequence tag microarrays. This approach demonstrated more subtle and specific changes in gene expression than those observed when mimicking the effects of protein overproduction by using a secretion blocker. The impact of overexpressing a secreted recombinant protein more closely resembles the unfolded-protein response in vivo.
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- Andrew H Sims
- Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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