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Functional Analyses of Two Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthetases in the Ascomycete Gibberella Zeae

Functional Analyses of Two Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthetases in the Ascomycete Gibberella Zeae

Seunghoon Lee, Hokyoung Son, Jungkwan Lee, Kyunghun Min, Gyung Ja Choi, Jin-Cheol Kim, Yin-Won Lee

Eukaryot Cell. 2011 Aug;10(8):1043-52.

PMID: 21666077

Abstract:

Acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) is a crucial metabolite for energy metabolism and biosynthetic pathways and is produced in various cellular compartments with spatial and temporal precision. Our previous study on ATP citrate lyase (ACL) in Gibberella zeae revealed that ACL-dependent acetyl-CoA production is important for histone acetylation, especially in sexual development, but is not involved in lipid synthesis. In this study, we deleted additional acetyl-CoA synthetic genes, the acetyl-CoA synthetases (ACS genes ACS1 and ACS2), to identify alternative acetyl-CoA production mechanisms for ACL. The ACS1 deletion resulted in a defect in sexual development that was mainly due to a reduction in 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-3-linoleoyl-rac-glycerol production, which is required for perithecium development and maturation. Another ACS coding gene, ACS2, has accessorial functions for ACS1 and has compensatory functions for ACL as a nuclear acetyl-CoA producer. This study showed that acetate is readily generated during the entire life cycle of G. zeae and has a pivotal role in fungal metabolism. Because ACSs are components of the pyruvate-acetaldehyde-acetate pathway, this fermentation process might have crucial roles in various physiological processes for filamentous fungi.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1587935	1-Palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-3-linoleoyl-rac-glycerol		1587-93-5	Price

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