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Interplay between pathway-specific and global regulation of the fumonisin gene cluster in the rice pathogen Fusarium fujikuroi.
Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 100, 5869-5882 (2016)
The rice pathogenic fungus Fusarium fujikuroi is known to produce a large variety of secondary metabolites. Besides the gibberellins, causing the bakanae effect in infected rice seedlings, the fungus produces several mycotoxins and pigments. Among the 47 putative secondary metabolite gene clusters identified in the genome of F. fujikuroi, the fumonisin gene cluster (FUM) shows very high homology to the FUM cluster of the main fumonisin producer Fusarium verticillioides, a pathogen of maize. Despite the high level of cluster gene conservation, total fumonisin FB1 and FB2 levels (FBx) produced by F. fujikuroi were only 1–10 % compared to F. verticillioides under inducing conditions. Nitrogen repression was found to be relevant for wild-type strains of both species. However, addition of germinated maize kernels activated the FBx production only in F. verticillioides, reflecting the different host specificity of both wild-type strains. Over-expression of the pathway-specific transcription factor Fum21 in F. fujikuroi strongly activated the FUM cluster genes leading to 1000-fold elevated FBx levels. To gain further insights into the nitrogen metabolite repression of FBx biosynthesis, we studied the impact of the global nitrogen regulators AreA and AreB and demonstrated that both GATA-type transcription factors are essential for full activation of the FUM gene cluster. Loss of one of them obstructs the pathway-specific transcription factor Fum21 to fully activate expression of FUM cluster genes.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Biosynthesis ; Fumonisins ; Fusarium Fujikuroi ; Over-expression ; Regulation; Gibberella-fujikuroi; Coregulated Genes; Maize Kernels; Sphingolipid Metabolism; Liquid-chromatography; Structure Elucidation; Transcription Factors; Biosynthetic-pathway; Aspergillus-nidulans; Mass-spectrometry
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0175-7598
e-ISSN
1432-0614
Quellenangaben
Volume: 100,
Issue: 13,
Pages: 5869-5882
Publisher
Springer
Publishing Place
New York
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Peer reviewed