Five vacuolar Ca2+ exchangers play different roles in calcineurin-dependent Ca2+/Mn2+ tolerance, multistress responses and virulence of a filamentous entomopathogen
Five vacuolar Ca2+ exchangers play different roles in calcineurin-dependent Ca2+/Mn2+ tolerance, multistress responses and virulence of a filamentous entomopathogen
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五种液泡 Ca2 交换器在钙调神经磷酸酶依赖性 Ca2/Mn2 耐受性、多重应激反应和丝状昆虫病原体的毒力中发挥不同的作用
DOI:
10.1016/j.fgb.2014.09.005
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发表时间:
2014-12-01
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3
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Feng, Ming-Guang
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作者:
Hu, Yue;Wang, Jie;Feng, Ming-Guang
Multiple Vcx1 (vacuolar calcium exchanger) paralogues exist in many filamentous fungi but are functionally unexplored unlike a single Vcxl ortholog well characterized in yeasts. Here we show that five Vcxl paralogues (Vcx1A-E) in Beauveria bassiana are conditionally functional for intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and contribute differentially to multistress tolerance and virulence in the filamentous entomopathogen. Each vcx1 deletion drastically upregulated transcriptional expressions of four other partners and six P-type Ca2+-ATPases, resulting in elevated or lowered intracellular Ca2+ concentration in some deletion mutants treated with Ca2+ stress or untreated at 25 and 30 degrees C. When calcineurin was inactivated by cyclosporine A, Ca2+ tolerance decreased by 11-17% in five Delta vcx1 mutants, but Mn2+ sensitivity increased only in Delta vcx1A and Delta vcx1D, at optimal 25 degrees C. These two mutants were also more sensitive to Ca2+ stress at 30 degrees C when calcineurin was active, and showed minor growth defect at 25 and 30 degrees C when calcineurin was inactive. Moreover, all the Delta vcx1 mutants were more sensitive to dithiothreitol (stress-response trigger to endoplasmic reticulum) and Congo red (cell wall stressor); three of them were consistently less tolerant to the oxidants menadione and H2O2. The fungal virulence to Galleria mellonella larvae decreased by 15-40% in four Delta vcx1 mutants excluding Delta vcx1E, which was uniquely defective in conidial thermotolerance. All the changes were restored by each vcx1 complementation. Our findings indicate that the five Vcxl paralogues in B. bassiana contribute differentially to calcineurin-dependent Ca2+/Mn2+ tolerance, multistress responses and virulence, and recall attention to multifunctional Vcxl paralogues in filamentous fungi. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.