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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 11, Pages 4282-4302Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13576
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- [DFG-TU101/16]
- [SFB648]
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In this study, we compared the secondary metabolite profile of Fusarium fujikuroi and the histone deacetylase mutant Delta HDA1. We identified a novel peak in Delta HDA1, which was identified as beauvericin (BEA). Going in line with a 1000-fold increased BEA production, the respective non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-encoding gene (BEA1), as well as two adjacent genes (BEA2-BEA3), were significantly up-regulated in Delta HDA1 compared to the wild type. A special role was revealed for the ABC transporter Bea3: deletion of the encoding gene resulted in significant up-regulation of BEA1 and BEA2 and drastically elevated product yields. Furthermore, mutation of a conserved sequence motif in the promoter of BEA1 released BEA repression and resulted in elevated product levels. Candidate transcription factors (TFs) that could bind to this motif are the cluster-specific TF Bea4 as well as a homolog of the global mammalian Kruppel-like TF Yin Yang 1 (Yy1), both acting as repressors of BEA biosynthesis. In addition to Hda1, BEA biosynthesis is repressed by the activity of the H3K27 methyltransferase Kmt6. Consistently, Western blot analyses revealed a genome- wide enrichment of H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac) in the Delta HDA1 and KMT6 knock-down mutants. Subsequent chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments showed elevated H3K27ac modification levels at the BEA cluster.
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