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FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 67-76Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2017.08.006
Keywords
Acremonium chrysogenurn; Cvt pathway; Mitophagy; Nonselective autophagy; Pexophagy
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670091, 31470177]
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Autophagy is a highly conserved degradation system in eukaryotes. Selective autophagy is used for the degradation of selective cargoes. Selective autophagic processes of yeast include pexophagy, mitophagy, and cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway in which particular vacuolar proteins, such as aminopeptidase I (Ape1), are selectively transported to vacuoles. However, the physiological role of selective autophagy remains elusive in filamentous fungi. ATG11 family proteins as a basic scaffold are essential for most selective autophagy pathways in yeast. Here, Acatg11, encoding a putative ATG11 family protein, was identified and cloned from the cephalosporin producing strain Acremonium chrysogenum based on the sequence similarity of ATG11 superfamily proteins. Disruption of Acatgl / inhibited the maturation of preApel during fermentation indicating that Acatg11 is involved in Cvt pathway. In addition, pexophagy and mitophagy were blocked in the Acatg11 disruption mutant (Delta Acatg11). Intriguingly, the nonselective autophagy was deficient in AAcatgll under starvation induction or during fermentation. Disruption of Acatg11 significantly enhanced fungal conidiation, but reduced cephalosporin production. These results indicated that Acatg11 is required for both selective and nonselective autophagy during fermentation and has a strong impact on morphological differentiation and cephalosporin production of A. chrysogenum.
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