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A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana

Lipid assimilation, storage, and turnover impact growth, development, and virulence in many microbial pathogens including fungi. Perilipins are proteins associated with lipid droplets (LDs) that mediate their assembly and turnover. Here, we characterized the Beauveria bassiana (BbPlin1) perilipin. B...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoyun, Liu, Yu, Keyhani, Nemat O., Zhu, Shengan, Wang, Jing, Wang, Junyao, Jin, Dan, Fan, Yanhua
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35736117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8060634
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author Wang, Xiaoyun
Liu, Yu
Keyhani, Nemat O.
Zhu, Shengan
Wang, Jing
Wang, Junyao
Jin, Dan
Fan, Yanhua
author_facet Wang, Xiaoyun
Liu, Yu
Keyhani, Nemat O.
Zhu, Shengan
Wang, Jing
Wang, Junyao
Jin, Dan
Fan, Yanhua
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description Lipid assimilation, storage, and turnover impact growth, development, and virulence in many microbial pathogens including fungi. Perilipins are proteins associated with lipid droplets (LDs) that mediate their assembly and turnover. Here, we characterized the Beauveria bassiana (BbPlin1) perilipin. BbPlin1 expression was higher in minimal media than in rich media, and, using a BbPlin1::eGFP fusion protein, the protein was shown to be co–localized to LDs, with the high expression seen during infection and proliferation within the insect (Galleria mellonella) host that dramatically decreased to almost no expression during fungal outgrowth on cadavers including in conidia, but that BbPlin1 production resumed in the conidia once placed in nutrient–containing media allowing for germination and growth. Characterization of a targeted gene deletion strain (ΔBbPlin1) revealed a dramatic (>30%) reduction in cellular LD content, promotion of aerial hyphal growth, and a small decrease in virulence, with little to no effects on vegetative growth and stress responses. However, in the ΔBbPlin1 strain, expression of the complementary LD–associated caleosin gene, BbCal1, was enhanced under nutrient–poor conditions, although no changes in BbPlin1 expression were seen in a ΔBbCal1 strain and the expression of BbPlin1 in the ΔBbCal1 strain did not change LD patterns in cells. Transcriptome and RT–PCR analyses indicated increased expression of lipid metabolism–related genes, including triacylglyercol lipase 3, enoyl–CoA isomerase, and diacylglycerol–O–acetyl transferase in the BbPlin1 deletion mutant. Lipid profile analyses confirmed that the loss of BbPlin1 significantly reduced the cellular levels of contents of triacylglycerol, diacylglycerol, and phosphatidylethanolamine as compared to the wild–type strain. These results demonstrate the involvement of the B. bassiana perilipin in mediating lipid homeostasis, fungal aerial hyphal growth, and virulence, revealing critical cycling from high expression during nutrient utilization within host cadavers to low expression during growth on the surface of the cadaver during the infection process.
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spelling pubmed-92250142022-06-24 A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana Wang, Xiaoyun Liu, Yu Keyhani, Nemat O. Zhu, Shengan Wang, Jing Wang, Junyao Jin, Dan Fan, Yanhua J Fungi (Basel) Article Lipid assimilation, storage, and turnover impact growth, development, and virulence in many microbial pathogens including fungi. Perilipins are proteins associated with lipid droplets (LDs) that mediate their assembly and turnover. Here, we characterized the Beauveria bassiana (BbPlin1) perilipin. BbPlin1 expression was higher in minimal media than in rich media, and, using a BbPlin1::eGFP fusion protein, the protein was shown to be co–localized to LDs, with the high expression seen during infection and proliferation within the insect (Galleria mellonella) host that dramatically decreased to almost no expression during fungal outgrowth on cadavers including in conidia, but that BbPlin1 production resumed in the conidia once placed in nutrient–containing media allowing for germination and growth. Characterization of a targeted gene deletion strain (ΔBbPlin1) revealed a dramatic (>30%) reduction in cellular LD content, promotion of aerial hyphal growth, and a small decrease in virulence, with little to no effects on vegetative growth and stress responses. However, in the ΔBbPlin1 strain, expression of the complementary LD–associated caleosin gene, BbCal1, was enhanced under nutrient–poor conditions, although no changes in BbPlin1 expression were seen in a ΔBbCal1 strain and the expression of BbPlin1 in the ΔBbCal1 strain did not change LD patterns in cells. Transcriptome and RT–PCR analyses indicated increased expression of lipid metabolism–related genes, including triacylglyercol lipase 3, enoyl–CoA isomerase, and diacylglycerol–O–acetyl transferase in the BbPlin1 deletion mutant. Lipid profile analyses confirmed that the loss of BbPlin1 significantly reduced the cellular levels of contents of triacylglycerol, diacylglycerol, and phosphatidylethanolamine as compared to the wild–type strain. These results demonstrate the involvement of the B. bassiana perilipin in mediating lipid homeostasis, fungal aerial hyphal growth, and virulence, revealing critical cycling from high expression during nutrient utilization within host cadavers to low expression during growth on the surface of the cadaver during the infection process. MDPI 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9225014/ /pubmed/35736117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8060634 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Xiaoyun
Liu, Yu
Keyhani, Nemat O.
Zhu, Shengan
Wang, Jing
Wang, Junyao
Jin, Dan
Fan, Yanhua
A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title_full A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title_fullStr A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title_full_unstemmed A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title_short A Perilipin Affects Lipid Droplet Homeostasis and Aerial Hyphal Growth, but Has Only Small Effects on Virulence in the Insect Pathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
title_sort perilipin affects lipid droplet homeostasis and aerial hyphal growth, but has only small effects on virulence in the insect pathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35736117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8060634
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