Dataset Information

Reengineering an azaphilone biosynthesis pathway in Aspergillus nidulans to create lipoxygenase inhibitors.

ABSTRACT: Sclerotiorin, an azaphilone polyketide, is a bioactive natural product known to inhibit 15-lipoxygenase and many other biological targets. To readily access sclerotiorin and analogs, we developed a 2-3 step semisynthetic route to produce a variety of azaphilones starting from an advanced, putative azaphilone intermediate (5) overproduced by an engineered strain of Aspergillus nidulans. The inhibitory activities of the semisynthetic azaphilones against 15-lipoxygenase were evaluated with several compounds displaying low micromolar potency.

SUBMITTER: Somoza AD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3350772 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Reengineering an azaphilone biosynthesis pathway in Aspergillus nidulans to create lipoxygenase inhibitors.

Somoza Amber D AD Lee Kuan-Han KH Chiang Yi-Ming YM Oakley Berl R BR Wang Clay C C CC

Organic letters 20120201 4

Sclerotiorin, an azaphilone polyketide, is a bioactive natural product known to inhibit 15-lipoxygenase and many other biological targets. To readily access sclerotiorin and analogs, we developed a 2-3 step semisynthetic route to produce a variety of azaphilones starting from an advanced, putative azaphilone intermediate (5) overproduced by an engineered strain of Aspergillus nidulans. The inhibitory activities of the semisynthetic azaphilones against 15-lipoxygenase were evaluated with several ...[more]

PMID: 22296232

Similar Datasets

Project description:Glutathione (GSH) is an abundant tripeptide that plays a crucial role in shielding cellular macromolecules from various reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in fungi. Understanding GSH metabolism is of vital importance for deciphering redox regulation in these microorganisms. In the present study, to better understand the GSH metabolism in filamentous fungi, we investigated functions of the dugB and dugC genes in the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans These genes are orthologues of dug2 and dug3, which are involved in cytosolic GSH degradation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae The deletion of dugB, dugC, or both resulted in a moderate increase in the GSH content in mycelia grown on glucose, reduced conidium production, and disturbed sexual development. In agreement with these observations, transcriptome data showed that genes encoding mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway elements (e.g., steC, sskB, hogA, and mkkA) or regulatory proteins of conidiogenesis and sexual differentiation (e.g., flbA, flbC, flbE, nosA, rosA, nsdC, and nsdD) were downregulated in the ΔdugB ΔdugC mutant. Deletion of dugB and/or dugC slowed the depletion of GSH pools during carbon starvation. It also reduced accumulation of reactive oxygen species and decreased autolytic cell wall degradation and enzyme secretion but increased sterigmatocystin formation. Transcriptome data demonstrated that enzyme secretions-in contrast to mycotoxin production-were controlled at the posttranscriptional level. We suggest that GSH connects starvation and redox regulation to each other: cells utilize GSH as a stored carbon source during starvation. The reduction of GSH content alters the redox state, activating regulatory pathways responsible for carbon starvation stress responses.IMPORTANCE Glutathione (GSH) is a widely distributed tripeptide in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Owing to its very low redox potential, antioxidative character, and high intracellular concentration, GSH profoundly shapes the redox status of cells. Our observations suggest that GSH metabolism and/or the redox status of cells plays a determinative role in several important aspects of fungal life, including oxidative stress defense, protein secretion, and secondary metabolite production (including mycotoxin formation), as well as sexual and asexual differentiations. We demonstrated that even a slightly elevated GSH level can substantially disturb the homeostasis of fungi. This information could be important for development of new GSH-producing strains or for any biotechnologically relevant processes where the GSH content, antioxidant capacity, or oxidative stress tolerance of a fungal strain is manipulated.

Dataset Information

Reengineering an azaphilone biosynthesis pathway in Aspergillus nidulans to create lipoxygenase inhibitors.

Publications

Reengineering an azaphilone biosynthesis pathway in Aspergillus nidulans to create lipoxygenase inhibitors.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets