Mating type protein Mat1-2 from asexual Aspergillus fumigatus drives sexual reproduction in fertile Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1029-1040

  Pyrzak, Wioletta ^a   Miller, Karen Y ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 46949090010     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00380-07     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Applied Biosystems. 2004. Guide to performing relative quantitation of gene expression using real-time quantitative PCR. Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA.
2. Arie, T., I. Kaneko, T. Yoshida, M. Noguchi, Y. Nomura, and I. Yamaguchi. 2000. Mating-type genes from asexual phytopathogenic Ascomycetes Fusarium oxysporum and Alternaria alternata. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 13:1330-1339.
3. Arnaise, S., D. Zickler, and N. L. Glass. 1993. Heterologous expression of mating-type genes in filamentous fungi. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:6616-6620.
4. Benjamin, C. R. 1955. Ascocarps of Aspergillus and Penicillium. Mycologia 47:669-687.
5. Bruggeman, J., A. J. Debets, K. Swart, and R. F. Hoekstra. 2003. Male and female roles in crosses of Aspergillus nidulans as revealed by vegetatively incompatible parents. Fungal Genet. Biol. 39:136-141.
6. Casselton, L. A. 2002. Mate recognition in fungi. Heredity 88:142-147.
7. Champe, S. P., D. L. Nagle, and L. N. Yager. 1994. Sexual sporulation. Prog. Ind. Microbiol. 29:429-454.
8. Coppin, E., S. Arnaise, V. Contamine, and M. Picard. 1993. Deletion of the mating-type sequences in Podospora anserina abolishes mating without affecting vegetative functions and sexual differentiation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 241:409-414.
9. Coppin, E., R. Debuchy, S. Arnaise, and M. Picard. 1997. Mating types and sexual development in filamentous Ascomycetes. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 61:411-428.
10. Debuchy, R., and B. G. Turgeon. 2006. Mating-type structure, evolution, and function in Euascomycetes, p. 293-323. In U. Kües and R. Fisher (ed.), The mycota I growth, differentiation and sexuality, 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
11. Dyer, P. S. 2007. Sexual reproduction and significance of MAT in the Aspergilli, p. 123-142. In J. Heitman, J. W. Kronstad, J. W. Taylor, and L. A. Casselton (ed.), Sex in fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications, 1st ed. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
12. Dyer, P. S., and M. Paoletti. 2005. Reproduction in Aspergillus fumigatus: sexuality in a supposedly asexual species? Med. Mycol. 43(Suppl. 1):S7-S14.
13. Galagan, J. E., S. E. Calvo, C. Cuomo, L. J. Ma, J. R. Wortman, S. Batzoglou, S. I. Lee, M. Basturkmen, C. C. Spevak, J. Clutterbuck, V. Kapitonov, J. Jurka, C. Scazzocchio, M. Farman, J. Butler, S. Purcell, S. Harris, G. H. Braus, O. Draht, S. Busch, C. D'Enfert, C. Bouchier, G. H. Goldman, D. Bell-Pedersen, S. Griffiths-Jones, J. H. Doonan, J. Yu, K. Vienken, A. Pain, M. Freitag, E. U. Selker, D. B. Archer, M. A. Penalva, B. R. Oakley, M. Momany, T. Tanaka, T. Kumagai, K. Asai, M. Machida, W. C. Nierman, D. W. Denning, M. Caddick, M. Hynes, M. Paoletti, R. Fischer, B. Miller, P. Dyer, M. S. Sachs, S. A. Osmani, and B. W. Birren. 2005. Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae. Nature 438:1105-1115.
14. Gow, N. A. 2005. Fungal genomics: forensic evidence of sexual activity. Curr. Biol. 15:R509-R511.
15. Hoffmann, B., S. E. Eckert, S. Krappmann, and G. H. Braus. 2001. Sexual diploids of Aspergillus nidulans do not form by random fusion of nuclei in the heterokaryon. Genetics 157:141-147.
16. Hope, W. W., M. J. Kruhlak, C. A. Lyman, R. Petraitiene, V. Petraitis, A. Francesconi, M. Kasai, D. Mickiene, T. Sein, J. Peter, A. M. Kelaher, J. E. Hughes, M. P. Cotton, C. J. Cotten, J. Bacher, S. Tripathi, L. Bermudez, T. K. Maugel, P. M. Zerfas, J. R. Wingard, G. L. Drusano, and T. J. Walsh. 2007. Pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus and the kinetics of galactomannan in an in vitro model of early invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: implications for antifungal therapy. J. Infect. Dis. 195:455-466.
17. Hull, C. M., R. M. Raisner, and A. D. Johnson. 2000. Evidence for mating of the "asexual" yeast Candida albicans in a mammalian host. Science 289:307-310.
18. Ibrahim-Granet, O., B. Philippe, H. Boleti, E. Boisvieux-Ulrich, D. Grenet, M. Stern, and J. P. Latge. 2003. Phagocytosis and intracellular fate of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia in alveolar macrophages. Infect. Immun. 71:891-903.
19. Jacobsen, S., M. Wittig, and S. Poggeler. 2002. Interaction between matingtype proteins from the homothallic fungus Sordaria macrospora. Curr. Genet. 41:150-158.
20. Kafer, E. 1977. Meiotic and mitotic recombination in Aspergillus and its chromosomal aberrations. Adv. Genet. 19:33-131.
21. Kovalic, D., J. H. Kwak, and B. Weisblum. 1991. General method for direct cloning of DNA fragments generated by the polymerase chain reaction. Nucleic Acids Res. 19:4560.
22. Kronstad, J. W., and C. Staben. 1997. Mating type in filamentous fungi. Annu. Rev. Genet. 31:245-276.
23. Krystofova, S., and K. A. Borkovich. 2006. The predicted G-protein-coupled receptor GPR-1 is required for female sexual development in the multicellular fungus Neurospora crassa. Eukaryot. Cell 5:1503-1516.
24. Lee, J., T. Lee, Y. W. Lee, S. H. Yun, and B. G. Turgeon. 2003. Shifting fungal reproductive mode by manipulation of mating type genes: obligatory heterothallism of Gibberella zeae. Mol. Microbiol. 50:145-152.
25. Magee, B. B., and P. T. Magee. 2000. Induction of mating in Candida albicans by construction of MTLa and MTL αstrains. Science 289:310-313.
26. Meade, J. H., and H. Gutz. 1978. Influence of the mat1-M allele on meiotic recombination in the mating-type region of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 88:235-238.
27. Miller, B. L., K. Y. Miller, K. A. Roberti, and W. E. Timberlake. 1987. Position-dependent and -independent mechanisms regulate cell-specific expression of the SpoC1 gene cluster of Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:427-434.
28. Miller, B. L., K. Y. Miller, and W. E. Timberlake. 1985. Direct and indirect gene replacements in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Cell. Biol. 5:1714-1721.
29. Miller, K. Y., J. Wu, and B. L. Miller. 1992. StuA is required for cell pattern formation in Aspergillus. Genes Dev. 6:1770-1782.
30. Paoletti, M., C. Rydholm, E. U. Schwier, M. J. Anderson, G. Szakacs, F. Lutzoni, J. P. Debeaupuis, J. P. Latge, D. W. Denning, and P. S. Dyer. 2005. Evidence for sexuality in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Curr. Biol. 15:1242-1248.
31. Paoletti, M., F. A. Seymour, M. J. Alcocer, N. Kaur, A. M. Calvo, D. B. Archer, and P. S. Dyer. 2007. Mating type and the genetic basis of self-fertility in the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Curr. Biol. 17:1384-1389.
32. Poggeler, S., M. Nowrousian, and U. Kuck. 2006. Fruiting-body development in Ascomycetes, p. 325-356. In U. Kües and R. Fisher (ed.), The mycota I growth, differentiation and sexuality, 2nd ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany.
33. Poggeler, S. 2002. Genomic evidence for mating abilities in the asexual pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Curr. Genet. 42:153-160.
34. Poggeler, S., M. Nowrousian, C. Ringelberg, J. J. Loros, J. C. Dunlap, and U. Kuck. 2006. Microarray and real-time PCR analyses reveal mating type-dependent gene expression in a homothallic fungus. Mol. Genet. Genomics 275:492-503.
35. Poggeler, S., S. Risch, U. Kuck, and H. D. Osiewacz. 1997. Mating-type genes from the homothallic fungus Sordaria macrospora are functionally expressed in a heterothallic ascomycete. Genetics 147:567-580.
36. Pontecorvo, G., J. A. Roper, L. M. Hemmons, K. D. Mackdonald, and A. W. Bufton. 1953. The genetics of Aspergillus nidulans. Adv. Genet. 5:141-238.
37. Rydholm, C., P. S. Dyer, and F. Lutzoni. 2007. DNA sequence characterization and molecular evolution of MAT1 and MAT2 mating-type loci of the self-compatible ascomycete mold Neosartorya fischeri. Eukaryot. Cell 6:868-874.
38. Rydholm, C., G. Szakacs, and F. Lutzoni. 2006. Low genetic variation and no detectable population structure in aspergillus fumigatus compared to closely related Neosartorya species. Eukaryot. Cell 5:650-657.
39. Sambrook, J., and D. W. Russell. 2001. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 3rd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
40. Seo, J. A., K. H. Han, and J. H. Yu. 2004. The gprA and gprB genes encode putative G protein-coupled receptors required for self-fertilization in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 53:1611-1623.
41. Sharon, A., K. Yamaguchi, S. Christiansen, B. A. Horwitz, O. C. Yoder, and B. G. Turgeon. 1996. An asexual fungus has the potential for sexual development. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:60-68.
42. Shuman, S. 1994. Novel approach to molecular cloning and polynucleotide synthesis using vaccinia DNA topoisomerase. J. Biol. Chem. 269:32678-32684.
43. Turgeon, B. G., A. Sharon, S. Wirsel, K. Yamaguchi, S. K. Christiansen, and O. C. Yoder. 1995. Structure and function of mating type genes in Cochliobolus spp. and asexual fungi. Can. J. Bot. 73:778-783.
44. Vallim, M. A., K. Y. Miller, and B. L. Miller. 2000. Aspergillus SteA (sterile12-like) is a homeodomain-C2/H2-Zn+2 finger transcription factor required for sexual reproduction. Mol. Microbiol. 36:290-301.
45. Van Heeckeren, W. J., D. R. Dorris, and K. Struhl. 1998. The mating-type proteins of fission yeast induce meiosis by directly activating mei3 transcription. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18:7317-7326.
46. Varga, J. 2003. Mating type gene homologues in Aspergillus fumigatus. Microbiology 149:816-819.
47. Wirsel, S., B. Horwitz, K. Yamaguchi, O. C. Yoder, and B. G. Turgeon. 1998. Single mating type-specific genes and their 3′ UTRs control mating and fertility in Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Mol. Gen. Genet. 259:272-281.
48. Wirsel, S., B. G. Turgeon, and O. C. Yoder. 1996. Deletion of the Cochliobolus heterostrophus mating-type (MAT) locus promotes the function of MAT transgenes. Curr. Genet. 29:241-249.
49. Wu, J., and B. L. Miller. 1997. Aspergillus asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction are differentially affected by transcriptional and translational mechanisms regulating stunted gene expression. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17:6191-6201.
50. Xin, H., S. Taudte, N. R. Kallenbach, M. P. Limbach, and R. S. Zitomer. 2000. DNA binding by single HMG box model proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 28:4044-4050.
51. Yelton, M. M., J. E. Hamer, E. R. de Souza, E. J. Mullaney, and W. E. Timberlake. 1983. Developmental regulation of the Aspergillus nidulans trpC gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80:7576-7580.
52. Yun, S. H., M. L. Berbee, O. C. Yoder, and B. G. Turgeon. 1999. Evolution of the fungal self-fertile reproductive life style from self-sterile ancestors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:5592-5597.
53. Zipper, H., H. Brunner, J. Bernhagen, and F. Vitzthum. 2004. Investigations on DNA intercalation and surface binding by SYBR green I, its structure determination and methodological implications. Nucleic Acids Res. 32:e103.