期刊
JOURNAL OF FUNGI
卷 7, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jof7100807
关键词
Penicillium expansum; protein arginine methyltransferase; development; pathogenicity; metabolism regulation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31930086, 32072273, 32002099]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [Y201919]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M670523]
This study functionally characterized four PRMTs in P. expansum and demonstrated the important roles of PeRmtC in the development, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolism of P. expansum.
Penicillium expansum is one of the most common and destructive post-harvest fungal pathogens that can cause blue mold rot and produce mycotoxins in fruit, leading to significant post-harvest loss and food safety concerns. Arginine methylation by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) modulates various cellular processes in many eukaryotes. However, the functions of PRMTs are largely unknown in post-harvest fungal pathogens. To explore their roles in P. expansum, we identified four PRMTs (PeRmtA, PeRmtB, PeRmtC, and PeRmt2). The single deletion of PeRmtA, PeRmtB, or PeRmt2 had minor or no impact on the P. expansum phenotype while deletion of PeRmtC resulted in decreased conidiation, delayed conidial germination, impaired pathogenicity and pigment biosynthesis, and altered tolerance to environmental stresses. Further research showed that PeRmtC could regulate two core regulatory genes, PeBrlA and PeAbaA, in conidiation, a series of backbone genes in secondary metabolism, and affect the symmetric omega-N-G, N'(G)-dimethylarginine (sDMA) modification of proteins with molecular weights of primarily 16-17 kDa. Collectively, this work functionally characterized four PRMTs in P. expansum and showed the important roles of PeRmtC in the development, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolism of P. expansum.
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