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?10(E)-Sphingolipid Desaturase Involved in Fusaruside Mycosynthesis and Stress Adaptation in Fusarium graminearum.

ABSTRACT: Sphingolipids are biologically important and structurally distinct cell membrane components. Fusaruside (1) is a 10,11-unsaturated immunosuppressive fungal sphingolipid with medical potentials for treating liver injury and colitis, but its poor natural abundance bottlenecks its druggability. Here, fusaruside is clarified biosynthetically, and its efficacy-related 10,11-double bond can be generated under the regioselective catalysis of an unprecedented ?10(E)-sphingolipid desaturase (?10(E)-SD). ?10(E)-SD shares 17.7% amino acid sequence similarity with a C9-unmethylated ?10-sphingolipid desaturase derived from a marine diatom, and 55.7% with ?8(E)-SD from Fusarium graminearum. Heterologous expression of ?10(E)-SD in Pichia pastoris has been established to facilitate a reliable generation of 1 through the ?10(E)-SD catalyzed desaturation of cerebroside B (2), an abundant fungal sphingolipid. Site directed mutageneses show that the conserved histidines of ?10(E)-SD are essential for the 10,11-desaturation catalysis, which is also preconditioned by the C9-methylation of the substrate. Moreover, ?10(E)-SD confers improved survival and faster growth to fungal strains at low temperature and high salinity, in parallel with to higher contents of 1 in the mycelia. Collectively, the investigation describes a new ?10(E)-sphingolipid desaturase with its heterologous expression fundamentalizing a biotechnological supply of 1, and eases the follow-up clarification of the immunosuppression and stress-tolerance mechanism.

SUBMITTER: Tian Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4440215 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Δ10(E)-Sphingolipid Desaturase Involved in Fusaruside Mycosynthesis and Stress Adaptation in Fusarium graminearum.

Tian Yuan Y Zhao Guo Y GY Fang Wei W Xu Qiang Q Tan Ren X RX

Scientific reports 20150521

Sphingolipids are biologically important and structurally distinct cell membrane components. Fusaruside (1) is a 10,11-unsaturated immunosuppressive fungal sphingolipid with medical potentials for treating liver injury and colitis, but its poor natural abundance bottlenecks its druggability. Here, fusaruside is clarified biosynthetically, and its efficacy-related 10,11-double bond can be generated under the regioselective catalysis of an unprecedented Δ10(E)-sphingolipid desaturase (Δ10(E)-SD). ...[more]

PMID: 25994332

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Project description:BackgroundFusarium graminearum is one of the main causal agents of the Fusarium Head Blight, a worldwide disease affecting cereal cultures, whose presence can lead to contaminated grains with chemically stable and harmful mycotoxins. Resistant cultivars and fungicides are frequently used to control this pathogen, and several observations suggest an adaptation of F. graminearum that raises concerns regarding the future of current plant disease management strategies. To understand the genetic basis as well as the extent of its adaptive potential, we investigated the landscape of genomic diversity among six French isolates of F. graminearum, at single-nucleotide resolution using whole-genome re-sequencing.ResultsA total of 242,756 high-confidence genetic variants were detected when compared to the reference genome, among which 96% are single nucleotides polymorphisms. One third of these variants were observed in all isolates. Seventy-seven percent of the total polymorphism is located in 32% of the total length of the genome, comprising telomeric/subtelomeric regions as well as discrete interstitial sections, delineating clear variant enriched genomic regions- 7.5 times in average. About 80% of all the F. graminearum protein-coding genes were found polymorphic. Biological functions are not equally affected: genes potentially involved in host adaptation are preferentially located within polymorphic islands and show greater diversification rate than genes fulfilling basal functions. We further identified 29 putative effector genes enriched with non-synonymous effect mutation.ConclusionsOur results highlight a remarkable level of polymorphism in the genome of F. graminearum distributed in a specific pattern. Indeed, the landscape of genomic diversity follows a bi-partite organization of the genome according to polymorphism and biological functions. We measured, for the first time, the level of sequence diversity for the entire gene repertoire of F. graminearum and revealed that the majority are polymorphic. Those assumed to play a role in host-pathogen interaction are discussed, in the light of the subsequent consequences for host adaptation. The annotated genetic variants discovered for this major pathogen are valuable resources for further genetic and genomic studies.

Project description:Sexual spores (ascospores) of Fusarium graminearum, a homothallic ascomycetous fungus, are believed to be the primary inocula for epidemics of the diseases caused by this species in cereal crops. Based on the light requirement for the formation of fruiting bodies (perithecia) of F. graminearum under laboratory conditions, we explored whether photoreceptors play an important role in sexual development. Here, we evaluated the roles of three genes encoding putative photoreceptors [a phytochrome gene (FgFph) and two white collar genes (FgWc-1 and FgWc-2)] during sexual development in F. graminearum. For functional analyses, we generated transgenic strains lacking one or two genes from the self-fertile Z3643 strain. Unlike the wild-type (WT) and add-back strains, the single deletion strains (ΔFgWc-1 and ΔFgWc-2) produced fertile perithecia under constant light on complete medium (CM, an unfavorable medium for sexual development) as well as on carrot agar (a perithecial induction condition). The expression of mating-type (MAT) genes increased significantly in the gene deletion strains compared to the WT under both conditions. Deletion of FgFph had no significant effect on sexual development or MAT gene expression. In contrast, all of the deletion strains examined did not show significant changes in other traits such as hyphal growth, mycotoxin production, and virulence. A split luciferase assay confirmed the in vivo protein-protein interactions among three photoreceptors along with FgLaeA, a global regulator of secondary metabolism and fungal development. Introduction of an intact copy of the A. nidulans LreA and LreB genes, which are homologs of FgWc-1 and FgWc-2, into the ΔFgWc-1 and ΔFgWc-2 strains, respectively, failed to repress perithecia formation on CM in the gene deletion strains. Taken together, these results demonstrate that FgWc-1 and FgWc-2, two central components of the blue-light sensing system, negatively regulate sexual development in F. graminearum, which differs from the regulation pattern in A. nidulans.

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?10(E)-Sphingolipid Desaturase Involved in Fusaruside Mycosynthesis and Stress Adaptation in Fusarium graminearum.

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Δ10(E)-Sphingolipid Desaturase Involved in Fusaruside Mycosynthesis and Stress Adaptation in Fusarium graminearum.

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