Project description:The filamentous fungus Aspergillus terreus is known to produce both industrially and pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of exogenously added butyrolactone I (BI) on the submerged culture of A. terreus, especially on the possible regulation of the secondary metabolism on the transcriptional level. In order to elucidate the presumed regulative role of butyrolactone I, a large-scale microarray gene expression study was designed and conducted with an industrially utilised A. terreus strain MUCL38669. A. terreus MUCL38669 was cultured in secondary metabolism inducing submerged conditions for nine days, where butyrolactone I was added at the beginning of the growth phase (at 24 hours p.i.), in the middle of the growth phase (at 96 hours p.i.) or in the late growth phase (at 120 hours p.i.), in addition to the control culture where no exogenous butyrolactone I was added. To obtain comprehensive gene expression profiles over the whole culture time, samples were taken at six time points: 24 hours, 48 hours, 96 hours, 120 hours, 144 hours and 216 hours post inoculation.
Project description:Aspergillus terreus is an emerging fungal pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Due to intrinsic resistance of AmB against A. terreus and acquiring resistance to azoles, alternative antifungal strategy needs investigation. Thus, we explored the activity of phytochemicals such as Shikonin, gallic acid, coumaric acid and quercetin against A. terreus. Amongst these, shikonin showed significant inhibition at MIC50;2 µg/ml, considered for proteome profiling.
Project description:Zn (Ⅱ) and Fe (Ⅱ) are the essential metal elements for the growth of microorganisms. It illustrated that more itaconic acid was achieved for 0.25 g/L ZnSO4·2H2O and 0.40 g/L FeSO4·2H2O than the control with 0.15 g/L ZnSO4·2H2O and 0.16 g/L FeSO4·2H2O after single factor assays for Aspergillus terreus.We furhter carried out transcriptome assays to uncover molecular mechanism of the enhanced itaconic acid fermentability for A. terreus with metal ion.Therefore, our study would provide a reference metal ion concentration ratio for itaconic and other biochemicals production.
