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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages 158-181Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.07.027
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Antifungal strategy; Aspergillus; Blue mold; Botrytis; Mitochondrial carrier inhibitors; Mycotoxin production inhibition; Patulin; Penicillium
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- MIUR (Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research) in the PON Ricerca e Competitivita 2007-2013-Azione I-Interventi di rafforzamento strutturale [PONa3_00052, 254/Ric]
- University of Bad
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There is a growing need for alternative treatments to control fungal infections and mycotoxin accumulation in fruits and vegetables. Mitochondrial proteins are a promising target for new antifungal treatments, and patulin, a commonly studied mycotoxin, has toxic effects on various biological systems. Controlling patulin production through inhibition of mitochondrial/peroxisome transporters involved in acetyl-CoA precursor export may be a potential strategy.
There is an increasing need of alternative treatments to control fungal infection and consequent mycotoxin accumulation in harvested fruits and vegetables. Indeed, only few biological targets of antifungal agents have been characterized and can be used for limiting fungal spread from decayed fruits/vegetables to surrounding healthy ones during storage. On this concern, a promising target of new antifungal treatments may be represented by mitochondrial proteins due to some species-specific functions played by mitochondria in fungal morphogenesis, drug resistance and virulence. One of the most studied mycotoxins is patulin produced by several species of Penicillium and Aspergillus genera. Patulin is toxic to many biological systems including bacteria, higher plants and animalia. Although precise biochemical mechanisms of patulin toxicity in humans are not completely clarified, its high presence in fresh and processed apple fruits and other apple-based products makes necessary developing a strategy for limiting its presence/accumulation. Patulin biosynthetic pathway consists of an enzymatic cascade, whose first step is represented by the synthesis of 6-methylsalicylic acid, obtained from the condensation of one acetyl-CoA molecule with three malonyl-CoA molecules. The most abundant acetyl-CoA precursor is represented by citrate produced by mitochondria. In the present investigation we report about the possibility to control patulin production through the inhibition of mitochondrial/peroxisome transporters involved in the export of acetyl-CoA precursors from mitochondria and/or peroxisomes, with specific reference to the predicted P. expansum mitochondrial Ctp1p, DTC, Sfc1p, Oac1p and peroxisomal PXN carriers.
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