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Aspergillus nidulans WT, M-NM-^TcrzA and M-NM-^TcrzA/scrA-: Control vs. calcium pulse

ABSTRACT: The main objective was to identifiy genes related to scrA- extragenic suppression of crzA. Thus, through transcriptional profiling, we characterised the transcriptional basis of calcium tolerance in our mutant strain, M-NM-^TcrzA/scrA-. To evaluate the effect of calcium on global A. nidulans gene expression, we performed competitive microarray hybridizations using RNA obtained from the wild-type, M-NM-^TcrzA and M-NM-^TcrzA/scrA- strains before and after short pulses (10 and 30 minutes) of 200 mM calcium chloride. The experiment was further validated by real-time PCR. Two-condition experiment : A. nidulans wild-type, M-NM-^TcrzA and M-NM-^TcrzA/scrA- strains with 200 mM CaCl2 for 10 and 30 min at 30M-BM-0C and 150 rpm in 25 mL YAG medium. Firstly, the strains were grown overnight at 30M-BM-0C and 150 rpm in YAG medium (preculture). Afterwards, the medium was switched by a new media (25 mL) plus calcium and incubated as described above. Control condition refers to the preculture in YAG medium without further incubation.

ORGANISM(S): Emericella nidulans

SUBMITTER: Wagner de Souza

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38131 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Filamentous fungi including mushrooms frequently and spontaneously degenerate during subsequent culture maintenance on artificial media, which shows the loss or reduction abilities of asexual sporulation, sexuality, fruiting and production of secondary metabolites, thus leading to economic losses during mass production. To better understand the underlying mechanisms of fungal degeneration, the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans was employed in this study for comprehensive analyses. First, linkage of oxidative stress to culture degeneration was evident in A. nidulans. Taken together with the verifications of cell biology and biochemical data, a comparative mitochondrial proteome analysis revealed that, unlike the healthy wild type, a spontaneous fluffy sector culture of A. nidulans demonstrated the characteristics of mitochondrial dysfunctions. Relative to the wild type, the features of cytochrome c release, calcium overload and up-regulation of apoptosis inducing factors evident in sector mitochondria suggested a linkage of fungal degeneration to cell apoptosis. However, the sector culture could still be maintained for generations without the signs of growth arrest. Up-regulation of the heat shock protein chaperones, anti-apoptotic factors and DNA repair proteins in the sector could account for the compromise in cell death. The results of this study not only shed new lights on the mechanisms of spontaneous degeneration of fungal cultures but will also provide alternative biomarkers to monitor fungal culture degeneration. Label-free quantitative proteomic analysis of the WT and Sec mt proteins was performed as described previously. Briefly, purified mitochondrial proteins (100 ug) were diluted in the lysis buffer to a concentration of 5 g/ul and carboxyamidomethylated in 50 mM iodoacetamide for 40 min at room temperature in the dark. The proteins were digested with an endoprotease Lys-C (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN) at a final substrate/enzyme ratio of 100:1 (w/w) at 37 C for 3 h. The Lys-C digests were further treated with modified sequencing grade trypsin (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN) at a final substrate/enzyme ratio of 50:1 (w/w) at 37 C for 20 h. After digestion, the peptide mixture was passed through an ultra-filter unit (Millipore, Billerica, MA) with a molecular weight cut-off of 10 kDa and acidified by formic acid (0.1% final concentration) for mass spectrum analysis. A linear ion trap-orbitrap liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry system (LTQ-Orbitrap, Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Josse, CA) equipped with a nanospray ion source was used for full MS scan analysis followed by five MS/MS scans in the LTQ on the five most intense ions from the MS spectrum. Three parallel runs were performed consecutively for each sample. The software DeCyder MS (ver 2.0) (GE Healthcare, Pittsburgh, PA) was used to generate the peak lists from all the runs and the data were then automatically searched using the SEQUEST (ver. 2.7) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Josse, CA) against the A. nidulans genome archive (ver. S03-M05-R01, containing 10,644 protein entries) at AspGD database (www.aspgd.org) with the following parameters: peptide mass tolerance set to 10 ppm; fragment tolerance set to 0.8 Da, and two missed trypsin cleavages. Carbamidomethylation of cysteine was searched as a fixed modification, whereas N-acetyl protein and oxidation of methionine were searched as variable modifications. For protein identification, all peptide matches were filtered by a maximum false discovery rate (FDR) index less than 0.01, delta Cn larger than 0.1 and Xcorr scores of greater than 1.7, 2.0 and 3.0 for +1, +2, and +3 charged ions, respectively. The peptides were discarded for further analysis if mapped to more than two different proteins. A protein was considered identifiable with at least one unique peptide detected for more than twice in the three replicates of each sample. The MS data have been deposited in the PRIDE proteomics identification database under accession numbers ? List of the identified peptides and matched proteins is provided in Supplemental Table 1. Quantification of proteins was performed by estimating the normalized spectral index (SIN) for each protein, which combines the features of peptide count, spectral count, fragment-ion intensity and protein length as described by Griffin et al.. Reliability of technical repeats was analyzed by calculating the multivariate Pearson correlation coefficients using the software SigmaPlot (ver. 8.0). FDR estimation of differentially expressed proteins was conducted using a mixture model-based method. Heat mapping analysis was conducted using the program Matlab (R2009a). The significance of differentially expressed proteins between the samples was tested with the cutoff values of P less than or equal to 0.05 and FDR less than or equal to 0.05.

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