Winkelstroter, Lizziane K., Dolan, Stephen K., Fernanda dos Reis, Thaila, Pedro Bom, Vinicius Leite, Alves de Castro, Patricia, Hagiwara, Daisuke, Alowni, Raneem, Jones, Gary W., Doyle, Sean, Brown, Neil Andrew and Goldman, Gustavo H. (2015) Systematic Global Analysis of Genes Encoding Protein Phosphatases in Aspergillus fumigatus. G3 : Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 5. pp. 1525-1539. ISSN 2160-1836
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Abstract
Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungal pathogen that causes several invasive and noninvasive diseases
named aspergillosis. This disease is generally regarded as multifactorial, considering that several
pathogenicity determinants are present during the establishment of this illness. It is necessary to obtain
an increased knowledge of how, and which, A. fumigatus signal transduction pathways are engaged in the
regulation of these processes. Protein phosphatases are essential to several signal transduction pathways.
We identified 32 phosphatase catalytic subunit-encoding genes in A. fumigatus, of which we were able to
construct 24 viable deletion mutants. The role of nine phosphatase mutants in the HOG (high osmolarity
glycerol response) pathway was evaluated by measuring phosphorylation of the p38 MAPK (SakA) and
expression of osmo-dependent genes. We were also able to identify 11 phosphatases involved in iron
assimilation, six that are related to gliotoxin resistance, and three implicated in gliotoxin production. These
results present the creation of a fundamental resource for the study of signaling in A. fumigatus and its
implications in the regulation of pathogenicity determinants and virulence in this important pathogen.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Supporting information is available online at www.g3journal.org/lookup/suppl/ doi:10.1534/g3.115.016766/-/DC1 |
Keywords: | Aspergillus fumigatus; HOG; phosphatases; gliotoxin; iron metabolism; protein; phosphatases; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology |
Item ID: | 6337 |
Identification Number: | 10.1534/g3.115.016766 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Sean Doyle |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2015 15:35 |
Journal or Publication Title: | G3 : Genes, Genomes, Genetics |
Publisher: | Genetics Society of America |
Refereed: | Yes |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Higher Education Authority (HEA) |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/6337 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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