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ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 107, 期 1, 页码 187-199出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s10482-014-0316-z
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Fungus; Aspergillus; VeA; Velvet protein; Asexual development; Conidiophore
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Aspergillus species are highly abundant fungi worldwide. Their conidia are among the most dominant fungal spores in the air. Conidia are formed in chains on the vesicle of the asexual reproductive structure called the conidiophore. Here, it is shown that the velvet protein VeA of Aspergillus niger maximizes the diameter of the vesicle and the spore chain length. The length and width of the conidiophore stalk and vesicle were reduced nearly twofold in a Delta veA strain. The latter implies a fourfold reduced surface area to develop chains of spores. Over and above this, the conidial chain length was approximately fivefold reduced. The calculated 20-fold reduction in formation of conidia by Delta veA fits the 8- to 17-fold decrease in counted spore numbers. Notably, morphology of the Delta veA conidiophores of A. niger was very similar to that of wild-type Aspergillus sydowii. This suggests that VeA is key in conidiophore architecture diversity in the fungal kingdom. The finding that biomass formation of the A. niger Delta veA strain was reduced twofold shows that VeA not only impacts dispersion capacity but also colonization capacity of A. niger.
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