ABSTRACT: Transcriptomic insight into the pH variation and secondary metabolite production regulated by transcriptional factor PacC in Trichoderma harzianum
Project description:Trichoderma harzianum T34 is a fungal strain able to promote the plant growth and to increase plant defense responses. Trichoderma harzianum transformants expressing the amdS gene, encoding an acetamidase, of Aspergillus nidulans produce a higher plant development than the wild type T34. We used microarrays to analyze the physiological and biochemical changes in tomato plants produced as consequence of interaction with Trichoderma harzianum T34 and amdS transformants
Project description:A self-designed Trichoderma high density oligonuclotide (HDO) microarray (Roche-NimbleGen, Inc., Madison, WI, USA) was constructed in a similar way than a previous Trichoderma HDO microarray (Samolski et al., 2009). The microarray was composed of 392,779 60-mer probes designed against 13,443 EST-derived transcripts (Trichochip-1) and the genomes of T. atroviride (11,100 genes) and T. virens (11,643 genes). The Trichochip-1 ESTs were obtained from 28 cDNA libraries from eight different species (representing the biodiversity of this genus: T. harzianum, T. atroviride, T. asperellum, T. viride, T. longibrachiatum, T. virens, T. stromaticum and T. aggresivum), under a wide range of growth conditions, including biocontrol-related conditions and different nutritional situations (VizcaÃno et al., 2006). The Trichochip1 EST database was generated in the TrichoEST project funded by the EU (QLK3-CT-2002-02032). Confrontations were carried out between the T. harzianum T34 or nox1 overexpressed transformant Tnox5 and P. ultimum. Agar plugs cut from the growing edge of a 4-day colony of Trichoderma and Pythium were placed 2 cm from the border on the opposite side of the same petri plates containing PDA covered with sterile cellophane sheets. Dual cultures were allowed to grow at 25 ºC and mycelia were collected from the interaction zone in confrontations between P. ultimum and T. harzianum T34 or Tnox5 strains. Seven PDA plates were used for each condition considered and RNAs were extracted and the corresponding cDNAs were use to hybridize by triplicate the Trichoderma HDO microarray.
Project description:Trichoderma harzianum CECT 2413 expression in liquid basal medium and in the presence of glucose, chitin or tomato plants. Four different experimental conditions were carried out: basal (MS), glucose (MS-G), chitin (MS-Q) and tomato plant (MS-P). Two biological replicates were analyzed by microarray for each experimental condition. Three independent cultures of mycelium were pooled for each biological replicate.
Project description:A self-designed Trichoderma high density oligonuclotide (HDO) microarray (Roche-NimbleGen, Inc., Madison, WI, USA) was constructed in a similar way than a previous Trichoderma HDO microarray (Samolski et al., 2009). The microarray was composed of 392,779 60-mer probes designed against 14,081 EST-derived transcripts (Trichochip-1) and the genomes of T. reesei (9,129 genes) and T. virens (11,643 genes). The Trichochip-1 ESTs were obtained from 28 cDNA libraries from eight different species (representing the biodiversity of this genus: T. harzianum, T. atroviride, T. asperellum, T. viride, T. longibrachiatum, T. virens, T. stromaticum and T. aggresivum), under a wide range of growth conditions, including biocontrol-related conditions and different nutritional situations (VizcaM-CM--no et al., 2006). This HDO microarray was used to analyze Trichoderma spp. transcriptomes after 20 h incubation in the presence of tomato plants. The Trichochip1 EST database was generated in the TrichoEST project funded by the EU (QLK3-CT-2002-02032). Eight samples were analyzed as follows: Strain T. reesei T6 grown in the presence or not of tomato plants, strain T. hamatum T7 grown in the presence or not of tomato plants, strain T. harzianum T34 grown in the presence or not of tomato plants and strain T. virens T87 grown in the presence or not of tomato plants. Three replicates for each samples were performed.
Project description:We investigated the metabolism of six secondary metabolite producing fungi of the Penicillium genus, during nutrient depletion in the stationary phase of batch fermentations and assessed conserved metabolic responses across species using genome-wide transcriptional profiling. Coexpression analysis revealed that expression of secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes correlates with expression of genes associated with pathways responsible for generation of precursor metabolites for secondary metabolism. Our results highlight the main metabolic routes for precursor supply of the secondary metabolism during nutrient depletion, and suggests that regulation of fungal metabolism is tailored to meet the demands for secondary metabolite production. These findings can aid in identifying wild type species, which are optimized for production of specific secondary metabolites, and therefore can be utilized as high yielding cell factories.
Project description:Low pH-induced alterations in gene expression profiles and organic acids (OAs) and free amino acids (FAAs) abundances were investigated in Citrus sinensis leaves. We identified 503 downreg-ulated and 349 upregulated genes in low pH-treated leaves. Further analysis indicated that low pH impaired light reaction and carbon fixation in photosynthetic organisms, thereby lowering photosynthesis in leaves. Low pH reduced carbon and carbohydrate metabolisms, OAs biosyn-thesis and ATP production in leaves. Low pH downregulated the biosynthesis of nitrogen com-pounds, proteins and FAAs in leaves, which might be conducive to maintaining energy homeo-stasis during ATP deprivation. Low pH-treated leaves displayed some adaptive responses, in-cluding phosphate recycling, lipid remodeling and phosphate transport. Low pH upregulated the expression of some reactive oxygen species (ROS) and aldehyde detoxifying enzyme (peroxidase and superoxidase) genes and the concentrations of some antioxidants (L-tryptophan, L-proline, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid and pyroglutamic acid), but it impaired pentose phosphate pathway, VE and secondary metabolite biosynthesis, downregulated the expression of some ROS and aldehyde detoxifying enzyme (ascorbate peroxidase, aldo-keto reductase and 2-alkenal re-ductase) genes and the concentrations of some antioxidants (pyridoxine and γ-aminobutyric acid), thus disturbing the balance between production and detoxification of ROS and aldehydes and causing oxidative damage to leaves.
Project description:Upon axenic cultivation in presence of the mycotoxin inducing nitrogen source L- ornithine the HEP1 deletion mutant showed an altered secondary metabolite profile including reduced levels of deoxynivalenol (DON). This finding was contrasted with a 1.5 fold increased infection rate on the susceptible wheat cv. Remus which was accompanied by increased production of DON. Transcriptome analysis of the HEP1 deletion versus the PH-1 wildtype strain during pathogenic growth state as well as during saprophytic growth on dead (non-responding) wheat heads and axenic samples allows to distinguish gene response of the pathogen reacting on signals from the active, defending plant from those regulated by plant substrate effects or in vitro mimicked mycotoxin inducing conditions, providing insights into gene regulation underlying the observed hypervirulence.