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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The C2H2 Zinc Finger Protein MaNCP1 Contributes to Conidiation through Governing the Nitrate Assimilation Pathway in the Entomopathogenic Fungus

Chaochuang Li, Yuxian Xia, Kai Jin

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chaochuang LiGenetic Engineering Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7888-0170
Yuxian XiaGenetic Engineering Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5551-703X
Kai JinGenetic Engineering Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8916-6960
Chongqing University · CN

Funding

Chongqing Talent Program cstc2021ycjh-bgzxm0313National Natural Science Foundation of China 32172479the Venture & Innovation Support Program for Chongqing Overseas Returnees cx2019035
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zinc finger proteins are an important class of multifunctional regulators. Here, the roles of a C2H2 zinc finger protein MaNCP1 (Metarhizium acridum nitrate-related conidiation pattern shift regulatory factor 1) in nitrogen utilization and conidiation were explored in the entomopathogenic fungus M. acridum. The results showed that MaNCP1-disruption mutant (ΔMaNCP1) impaired the ability to utilize nitrate, ammonium and glutamine and reduced the expression of nitrate assimilation-related genes, suggesting that MaNCP1 was involved in governing nitrogen utilization. In addition, the conidial yield of the ΔMaNCP1 strain, cultured on the microcycle conidiation medium (SYA), was significantly decreased, which could be restored or even enhanced than that of the WT strain through increasing the nitrate content in SYA medium. Further study showed that MaAreA, a core regulator in the nitrogen catabolism repression (NCR) pathway, was a downstream target gene of MaNCP1. Screening the differential expression genes between WT and ΔMaNCP1 strains revealed that the conidial yield of M. acridum regulated by nitrate might be related to NCR pathway on SYA medium. It could be concluded that MaNCP1 contributes to the nitrate assimilation and conidiation, which will provide further insights into the relationship between the nitrogen utilization and conidiation in fungi.

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C2H2 zinc finger protein MaNCP1conidiationMaAreAMetarhizium acridumnitrate assimilation

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PMID36135667
PMCPMC9505000
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