Carbon Sources Influence Fumonisin Production in Fusarium proliferatum

Taotao Li, Liang Gong, Guoxiang Jiang, Yong Wang, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Hongxia Qu, Xuewu Duan*, Jiasheng Wang, Yueming Jiang

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Abstract

Fusarium proliferatum is a worldwide fungal pathogen that produces fumonisins which are harmful to animal and human health. However, environmental factors affecting fumonisin biosynthesis in F. proliferatum are not well understood. Based on our preliminary results, in this study, we investigated the effect of sucrose or mannose as the sole carbon source on fumonisin B (FB) production by F. proliferatum and studied their underlying mechanisms via proteome and gene expression analysis. Our results showed that mannose, used as the sole carbon source, significantly blocked fumonisin B1 and B2 production by F. proliferatum as compared with the use of sucrose. Fifty-seven differentially expressed proteins were successfully identified. The downregulated proteins in the mannose-cultured strain were mainly involved in carbon metabolism, response to stress, and methionine metabolism, as compared with the sucrose-cultured strain. Moreover, quantitative real-time PCR analysis indicated that expression of several key genes involved in FB biosynthetic pathway and in transcription regulation were significantly downregulated in the mannose-cultured F. proliferatum, whereas expression of histone deacetylation-related genes were significantly upregulated. These results suggested that the blockage of FB biosynthesis by mannose was associated with the decreases in conversion of acetyl-CoA to polyketide, methionine biosynthesis, and NADPH regeneration. More importantly, milder oxidative stress, downregulated expression of genes involved in biosynthetic pathway and transcription regulation, and upregulated expression of genes with histone deacetylation possibly were responsible for the blockage of FB biosynthesis in F. proliferatum.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1700070
JournalProteomics
Volume17
Issue number19
Early online date21 Aug 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPrint publication - 9 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • carbon source
  • fumonisin
  • fusarium proliferatum
  • proteome
  • reactive oxygen species

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