Metarhizium robertsii MrAbaA affects conidial pigmentation via regulating MrPks1 and MrMlac1 expression

Wu, Hao; Tong, Youmin; Wang, Cuiming; Yu, Yashuai; Chen, Mingyue; Wang, Yulong; Li, Xiaojuan; Huang, Bo

doi:10.1016/j.jip.2023.107892

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“…EthD proteins have subsequently been described in other bacteria as well as fungi. In fungi, EthD proteins have notably been found in gene clusters involved in synthesis of pigments or colored compounds such as anthraquinones and the structurally related xanthones [21][22][23][24]. Griffiths et al [24] have demonstrated, moreover, that the products of the mdpH gene of A. nidulans, which is involved in xanthone biosynthesis and carries an EthD domain, and the claH gene of Cladosporium fulvum, which is involved in biosynthesis of anthraquinones and also carries an EthD domain, are decarboxylases.…”

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Identification of the chaA and fwA Spore Color Genes of Aspergillus nidulans

Oakley,

Barton,

Oakley

2024

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Wild-type Aspergillus nidulans asexual spores (conidia) are green due to a pigment that protects the spores against ultraviolet light. The pigment is produced by a biosynthetic pathway, the genes of which are dispersed in the genome. The backbone molecule of the pigment is a polyketide synthesized by a polyketide synthase encoded by the wA gene. If wA is not functional, the conidia are white. The polyketide is modified by a laccase encoded by the yA gene and inactivation of yA in an otherwise wild-type background results in yellow spores. Additional spore color mutations have been isolated and mapped to a locus genetically, but the genes that correspond to these loci have not been determined. Spore color markers have been useful historically, and they remain valuable in the molecular genetics era. One can determine if a transforming fragment has been successfully integrated at the wA or yA locus by simply looking at the color of transformant conidia. The genes of the potentially useful color loci chaA (chartreuse conidia) and fwA (fawn conidia) have not been identified previously. We chose a set of candidate genes for each locus by comparing the assembled genome with the genetic map. By systematically deleting these candidate genes, we identified a cytochrome P450 gene (AN10028) corresponding to chaA. Deletions of this gene result in chartreuse conidia and chartreuse mutations can be complemented in trans by a functional copy of this gene. With fwA, we found that the existing fawn mutation, fwA1, is a deletion of 2241 base pairs that inactivates three genes. By deleting each of these genes, we determined that fwA is AN1088, an EthD domain protein. Deletion of AN1088 results in fawn conidia as expected. Neither deletion of chaA nor fwA restricts growth and both should be valuable target loci for transformations. Combinations of deletions have allowed us to investigate the epistasis relationships of wA, yA, chaA and fwA.

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