The Sugar Metabolic Model of Aspergillus niger Can Only Be Reliably Transferred to Fungi of Its Phylum.

Jiajia Li, Tania Chroumpi, Sandra Garrigues, Roland S Kun, Jiali Meng, Sonia Salazar-Cerezo, Maria Victoria Aguilar-Pontes, Yu Zhang, Sravanthi Tejomurthula, Anna Lipzen, Vivian Ng, Chaevien S Clendinen, Nikola Tolić, Igor V Grigoriev, Adrian Tsang, Miia R Mäkelä, Berend Snel, Mao Peng, Ronald P de Vries

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Abstract

Fungi play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by degrading plant polysaccharides to small sugars and metabolizing them as carbon and energy sources. We mapped the well-established sugar metabolic network of Aspergillus niger to five taxonomically distant species ( Aspergillus nidulans, Penicillium subrubescens, Trichoderma reesei, Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Dichomitus squalens) using an orthology-based approach. The diversity of sugar metabolism correlates well with the taxonomic distance of the fungi. The pathways are highly conserved between the three studied Eurotiomycetes ( A. niger, A. nidulans, P. subrubescens). A higher level of diversity was observed between the T. reesei and A. niger, and even more so for the two Basidiomycetes. These results were confirmed by integrative analysis of transcriptome, proteome and metabolome, as well as growth profiles of the fungi growing on the corresponding sugars. In conclusion, the establishment of sugar pathway models in different fungi revealed the diversity of fungal sugar conversion and provided a valuable resource for the community, which would facilitate rational metabolic engineering of these fungi as microbial cell factories.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Fungi
Volume8
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Dec 2022

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