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MYCOTOXIN RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 103-111Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12550-013-0158-y
Keywords
Fusarium asiaticum; DNA microarray; Deoxynivalenol; Acetyl-CoA; 4-aminobutyrate (GABA)
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
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The metabolic products resulting from the cultivation of F. asiaticum in agmatine were identified using capillary electrophoresis-time of flight mass spectrometry. Glyoxylic acid was detected from fungal cultures grown in agmatine, while it was absent in control cells. The abundance of other metabolic products of the glycolytic pathway also increased because of agmatine; however, there was no increase in the amounts of pyruvic acid or metabolites from the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Moreover, gene expression levels within Fusarium asiaticum exposed to agmatine were analyzed by DNA microarray. Changes in gene expression levels directed the changes in metabolic products. Our results suggest that acetyl coenzyme A, which is a starting substrate for the biosynthesis of deoxynivalenol (DON), was simultaneously produced by activated beta-oxidation. Furthermore, the content of 4-aminobutyrate (GABA) was increased in the agmatine addition culture medium. GABA can be synthesized from agmatine through putrescine and might influence the regulation of DON-related genes.
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