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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009501118
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transcriptional networks; nitrogen utilization; nutrient sensing; DAPseq; RNAseq
资金
- Energy Biosciences Institute
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory grant under US Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program [CSP 982]
- Fred E. Dickinson Chair of Wood Science and Technology
- NIH National Research Service Award [5T32GM007127-39]
- Office of Science of the US DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa regulates nitrogen utilization through a network of transcription factors and regulatory proteins. These factors control the utilization of nonpreferred nitrogen sources and the integration of nitrogen and carbon metabolism. Nitrogen-responsive genes are regulated by pathway-specific transcription factors and the nitrogen catabolite regulator, allowing N. crassa to efficiently regulate nitrogen utilization.
Sensing available nutrients and efficiently utilizing them is a challenge common to all organisms. The model filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is capable of utilizing a variety of inorganic and organic nitrogen sources. Nitrogen utilization in N. crassa is regulated by a network of pathway-specific transcription factors that activate genes necessary to utilize specific nitrogen sources in combination with nitrogen catabolite repression regulatory proteins. We identified an uncharacterized pathway-specific transcription factor, amn-1, that is required for utilization of the nonpreferred nitrogen sources proline, branched-chain amino acids, and aromatic amino acids. AMN-1 also plays a role in regulating genes involved in responding to the simple sugar mannose, suggesting an integration of nitrogen and carbon metabolism. The utilization of nonpreferred nitrogen sources, which require metabolic processing before being used as a nitrogen source, is also regulated by the nitrogen catabolite regulator NIT-2. Using RNA sequencing combined with DNA affinity purification sequencing, we performed a survey of the role of NIT-2 and the pathway-specific transcription factors NIT-4 and AMN-1 in directly regulating genes involved in nitrogen utilization. Although previous studies suggested promoter binding by both a pathway-specific transcription factor and NIT-2 may be necessary for activation of nitrogen-responsive genes, our data show that pathway-specific transcription factors regulate genes involved in the catabolism of specific nitrogen sources, while NIT-2 regulates genes involved in utilization of all nonpreferred nitrogen sources, such as nitrogen transporters. Together, these transcription factors form a nutrient sensing network that allows N. crassa cells to regulate nitrogen utilization.
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