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  • 标题:Neutral glycolipids of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa: altered expression in plant defensin-resistant mutants
  • 作者:Chaeho Park ; Beau Bennion ; Isabelle E. J. A. François
  • 期刊名称:JLR Papers In Press
  • 印刷版ISSN:0022-2275
  • 电子版ISSN:1539-7262
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 卷号:46
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:759-768
  • DOI:10.1194/jlr.M400457-JLR200
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • 摘要:To defend themselves against fungal pathogens, plants produce numerous antifungal proteins and peptides, including defensins, some of which have been proposed to interact with fungal cell surface glycosphingolipid components. Although not known as a phytopathogen, the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa possesses numerous genes similar to those required for plant pathogenesis identified in fungal pathogens (Galagan, J. E., et al. 2003. Nature 422: 859–868), and it has been used as a model for studying plant-phytopathogen interactions targeting fungal membrane components (Thevissen, K., et al. 2003. Peptides. 24: 1705–1712). For this study, neutral glycolipid components were extracted from wild-type and plant defensin-resistant mutant strains of N. crassa . The structures of purified components were elucidated by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Neutral glycosphingolipids of both wild-type and mutant strains were characterized as β-glucopyranosylceramides, but those of the mutants were found with structurally altered ceramides. Although the wild type expressed a preponderance of N -2′-hydroxy-( E )-Δ3-octadecenoate as the fatty- N -acyl component attached to the long-chain base (4 E ,8 E )-9-methyl-4,8-sphingadienine, the mutant ceramides were found with mainly N -2′-hydroxyhexadecanoate instead. In addition, the mutant strains expressed highly increased levels of a sterol glucoside identified as ergosterol-β-glucoside. The potential implications of these findings with respect to defensin resistance in the N. crassa mutants are discussed.
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