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ArticlePloS one2016

The Involvement of Mig1 from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous in Catabolic Repression: An Active Mechanism Contributing to the Regulation of Carotenoid Production.

Jennifer Alcaíno, Natalia Bravo, Pamela Córdova, Andrés E Marcoleta, Gabriela Contreras, Salvador Barahona, Dionisia Sepúlveda, María Fernández-Lobato, Marcelo Baeza, Víctor Cifuentes

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jennifer AlcaínoLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Natalia BravoLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Pamela CórdovaLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Andrés E MarcoletaDepartamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Gabriela ContrerasLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Salvador BarahonaLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Dionisia SepúlvedaLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
María Fernández-LobatoCentro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Departamento de Biología Molecular (UAM-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Cantoblanco, España.
Marcelo BaezaLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Víctor CifuentesLaboratorio de Genética, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
University of Chile · CLUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The red yeast X. dendrorhous is one of the few natural sources of astaxanthin, a carotenoid used in aquaculture for salmonid fish pigmentation and in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries for its antioxidant properties. Genetic control of carotenogenesis is well characterized in this yeast; however, little is known about the regulation of the carotenogenesis process. Several lines of evidence have suggested that carotenogenesis is regulated by catabolic repression, and the aim of this work was to identify and functionally characterize the X. dendrorhous MIG1 gene encoding the catabolic repressor Mig1, which mediates transcriptional glucose-dependent repression in other yeasts and fungi. The identified gene encodes a protein of 863 amino acids that demonstrates the characteristic conserved features of Mig1 proteins, and binds in vitro to DNA fragments containing Mig1 boxes. Gene functionality was demonstrated by heterologous complementation in a S. cerevisiae mig1- strain; several aspects of catabolic repression were restored by the X. dendrorhous MIG1 gene. Additionally, a X. dendrorhous mig1- mutant was constructed and demonstrated a higher carotenoid content than the wild-type strain. Most important, the mig1- mutation alleviated the glucose-mediated repression of carotenogenesis in X. dendrorhous: the addition of glucose to mig1- and wild-type cultures promoted the growth of both strains, but carotenoid synthesis was observed only in the mutant strain. Transcriptomic and RT-qPCR analyses revealed that several genes were differentially expressed between X. dendrorhous mig1- and the wild-type strain when cultured with glucose as the sole carbon source. The results obtained in this study demonstrate that catabolic repression in X. dendrorhous is an active process in which the identified MIG1 gene product plays a central role in the regulation of several biological processes, including carotenogenesis.

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Genes, FungalAmino Acid SequenceBasidiomycotaBiosynthetic PathwaysCarotenoidsCatabolite RepressionFungal ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, FungalGenetic Complementation TestGlucoseMutationRepressor ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSequence Homology, Amino AcidXanthophyllsastaxanthineCarotenoidsFungal ProteinsGlucoseRepressor ProteinsXanthophylls

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PMID27622474
PMCPMC5021340
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