Aspergillus fumigatus calcineurin interacts with a nucleoside diphosphate kinase

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 922-929

  Magnani Dinamarco, Taísa ^a   Brown, Neil Andrew ^a   Couto de Almeida, Ricardo Sergio ^b   Alves de Castro, Patrícia ^a   Savoldi, Marcela ^a   de Souza Goldman, Maria Helena ^a   Goldman, Gustavo Henrique ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Calcineurin; Galleria mellonella; Nucleoside diphosphate kinase

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCINEURIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; TEMPERATURE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA;

EID: 84865570807     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Fox D.S., Heitman J. Good fungi gone bad: the corruption of calcineurin. Bioessays 2002, 24:894-903.
2. Steinbach W.J., Reedy J.L., Cramer R.A., Perfect J.R., Heitman J. Harnessing calcineurin as a novel anti-infective agent against invasive fungal infections. Nat. Rev. Microbiol 2007, 5:418-430.
3. Stie J., Fox D. Calcineurin regulation in fungi and beyond. Eukaryot. Cell 2008, 7:177-186.
4. Heath V.L., Shaw S.L., Roy S., Cyert M.S. Hph1p and Hph2p, novel components of calcineurin-mediated stress responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eukaryot. Cell 2004, 3:695-704.
5. Bultynck G., Heath V.L., Majeed A.P., Galan J.M., Haguenauer-Tsapis R., Cyert M.S. Slm1 and slm2 are novel substrates of the calcineurin phosphatase required for heat stress-induced endocytosis of the yeast uracil permease. Mol. Cell. Biol. 2006, 26:4729-4745.
6. Kozubowski L., Thompson J.W., Cardenas M.E., Moseley M.A., Heitman J. Association of calcineurin with the COPI protein Sec28 and the COPII protein Sec13 revealed by quantitative proteomics. PLoS One 2011, 6:e25280.
7. da Silva Ferreira M.E., Heinekamp T., Härtl A., Brakhage A.A., Semighini C.P., Harris S.D., Savoldi M., de Gouvêa P.F., de Souza Goldman M.H., Goldman G.H. Functional characterization of the Aspergillus fumigatus calcineurin. Fungal Genet. Biol 2007, 44:219-230.
8. Kafer E. Meiotic and mitotic recombination in Aspergilllus and its chromosomal aberrations. Adv. Genet. 1977, 19:33-131.
9. Colot H.H., Park G., Turner G.E., Ringelberg C., Crew C.M., Lityinkoya L., Weiss R.L., Borkovich K.A., Dunlap J.C. A high-throughput gene knockout procedure for Neurospora reveals functions for multiple transcription factors. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2006, 103:10352-10357.
10. Liu H.L., Osmani A.H., Ukil L., Son S., Markossian S., Shen K.F., Govindaraghavan M., Varadaraj A., Hashmi S.B., de Souza C.P., Osmani S.A. Single-step affinity purification for fungal proteomics, Eukaryot. Cell 2010, 9:831-833.
11. Wang N.Y., Yoshida Y., Hasunuma K. Catalase-1 (CAT-1) and nucleoside diphosphate kinase-1 (NDK-1) play an important role in protecting conidial viability under light stress in Neurospora crassa. Mol. Genet. Genomics 2007, 278:235-242.
12. Fuchs B.B., O'Brien E., Khoury J.B., Mylonakis E. Methods for using Galleria mellonella as a model host to study fungal pathogenesis. Virulence 2010, 1:475-482.
13. Bilitou A., Watson J., Gartner A., Ohnuma S. The NM23 family in development. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 2009, 329:17-33.
14. Hasunuma K., Yabe N., Yoshida Y., Ogura Y., Hamada T. Putative functions of nucleoside diphosphate kinase in plants and fungi. J. Bioenerg. Biomembr 2003, 35:57-65.
15. Ogura Y., Yoshida Y., Yabe N., Hasunuma K. A point mutation in nucleoside diphosphate kinase results in a deficient light response for perithecial polarity in Neurospora crassa. J. Biol. Chem. 2001, 276:21228-21234.
16. Yoshida Y., Hasunuma K. Light-dependent subcellular localization of nucleoside diphosphate kinase-1 in Neurospora crassa. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2006, 261:64-68.
17. Lee B., Yoshida Y., Hasunuma K. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase-1 regulates hyphal development via the transcriptional regulation of catalase in Neurospora crassa. FEBS Lett. 2009, 583:3291-3295.
18. Lin X., Momany C., Momany M. SwoHp, a nucleoside diphosphate kinase, is essential in Aspergillus nidulans. Eukaryot. Cell 2003, 2:1169-1177.
19. Shi J., Chen W., Liu Q., Chen S., Hu H., Turner G., Lu L. Depletion of the MobB and CotA complex in Aspergillus nidulans causes defects in polarity maintenance that can be suppressed by the environment stress. Fungal Genet. Biol. 2008, 45:1570-1581.
20. Gao L., Song Y., Cao J., Wang S., Wei H., Jiang H., Lu L. Osmotic stabilizer-coupled suppression of NDR defects is dependent on the calcium-calcineurin signaling cascade in Aspergillus nidulans. Cell Signal 2011, 23:1750-1757.
21. Nelson B., Kurischko C., Horecka J., Mody M., Nair P., Pratt L., Zougman A., McBroom L.D., Hughes T.R., Boone C., Luca F.C. RAM: a conserved signaling network that regulates Ace2p transcriptional activity and polarized morphogenesis. Mol. Biol. Cell. 2003, 14:3782-3803.
22. Walton F.J., Heitman J., Idnurm A. Conserved elements of the RAM signaling pathway establish cell polarity in the basidiomycete Cryptococcus neoformans in a divergent fashion from other fungi. Mol. Biol. Cell. 2006, 17:3768-3780.