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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jakab, Ágnes
• Csillag, Kinga
• Antal, Károly
• Boczonádi, Imre
• Kovács, Renátó
• Pócsi, István
• Emri, Tamás

Titel

Total transcriptome response for tyrosol exposure in Aspergillus nidulans

Ist Teil von

• Fungal biology, 2024-04, Vol.128 (2), p.1664-1674

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although tyrosol is a quorum-sensing molecule of Candida species, it has antifungal activity at supraphysiological concentrations. Here, we studied the effect of tyrosol on the physiology and genome-wide transcription of Aspergillus nidulans to gain insight into the background of the antifungal activity of this compound. Tyrosol efficiently reduced germination of conidia and the growth on various carbon sources at a concentration of 35 mM. The growth inhibition was fungistatic rather than fungicide on glucose and was accompanied with downregulation of 2199 genes related to e.g. mitotic cell cycle, glycolysis, nitrate and sulphate assimilation, chitin biosynthesis, and upregulation of 2250 genes involved in e.g. lipid catabolism, amino acid degradation and lactose utilization. Tyrosol treatment also upregulated genes encoding glutathione-S-transferases (GSTs), increased specific GST activities and the glutathione (GSH) content of the cells, suggesting that A. nidulans can detoxify tyrosol in a GSH-dependent manner even though this process was weak. Tyrosol did not induce oxidative stress in this species, but upregulated “response to nutrient levels”, “regulation of nitrogen utilization”, “carbon catabolite activation of transcription” and “autophagy” genes. Tyrosol may have disturbed the regulation and orchestration of cellular metabolism, leading to impaired use of nutrients, which resulted in growth reduction. •Tyrosol had strong growth inhibitory effect against Aspergillus nidulans.•Tyrosol upregulated glutathione dependent detoxification processes.•Tyrosol treatment did not cause oxidative stress but upregulated autophagy genes.•According to RNAseq data tyrosol disturbed nutrient sensing and utilization.