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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2016

Regulation of Secondary Metabolism by the Velvet Complex Is Temperature-Responsive in Aspergillus.

Abigail L Lind, Timothy D Smith, Timothy Saterlee, Ana M Calvo, Antonis Rokas

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Article in G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Abigail L LindDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.ORCID 0000-0002-9579-4178
Timothy D SmithDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.
Timothy SaterleeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.
Ana M CalvoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 amcalvo@niu.edu antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu.
Antonis RokasDepartment of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 amcalvo@niu.edu antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7248-6551

Funding

Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training ProgramT15LM007450 · NLM · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Jessica S. Ancker, Bradley A. Malin · 2002 to 2026
$19.7M
NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensing and responding to environmental cues is critical to the lifestyle of filamentous fungi. How environmental variation influences fungi to produce a wide diversity of ecologically important secondary metabolites (SMs) is not well understood. To address this question, we first examined changes in global gene expression of the opportunistic human pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus, after exposure to different temperature conditions. We found that 11 of the 37 SM gene clusters in A. fumigatus were expressed at higher levels at 30° than at 37°. We next investigated the role of the light-responsive Velvet complex in environment-dependent gene expression by examining temperature-dependent transcription profiles in the absence of two key members of the Velvet protein complex, VeA and LaeA We found that the 11 temperature-regulated SM gene clusters required VeA at 37° and LaeA at both 30 and 37° for wild-type levels of expression. Interestingly, four SM gene clusters were regulated by VeA at 37° but not at 30°, and two additional ones were regulated by VeA at both temperatures but were substantially less so at 30°, indicating that the role of VeA and, more generally of the Velvet complex, in the regulation of certain SM gene clusters is temperature-dependent. Our findings support the hypothesis that fungal secondary metabolism is regulated by an intertwined network of transcriptional regulators responsive to multiple environmental factors.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, FungalSecondary MetabolismTemperatureAspergillusCluster AnalysisFungal ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingMultigene FamilyFungal ProteinsAspergillus fumigatusgene clustergene regulationtemperature-dependent gene expression

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PMID27694115
PMCPMC5144971

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