Integrated proteomics and metabolomics suggests symbiotic metabolism and multimodal regulation in a fungal-endobacterial system.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Many plant-associated fungi host endosymbiotic endobacteria with reduced genomes. While endobacteria play important roles in these tri-partite plant-fungal-endobacterial systems, the active physiology of fungal endobacteria has not been characterized extensively by systems biology approaches. Here, we use integrated proteomics and metabolomics to characterize the relationship between the endobacterium Mycoavidus sp. and the root-associated fungus Mortierella elongata. In nitrogen-poor media, M. elongata had decreased growth but hosted a large and growing endobacterial population. The active endobacterium likely extracted malate from the fungal host as the primary carbon substrate for energy production and biosynthesis of phospho-sugars, nucleobases, peptidoglycan and some amino acids. The endobacterium obtained nitrogen by importing a variety of nitrogen-containing compounds. Further, nitrogen limitation significantly perturbed the carbon and nitrogen flows in the fungal metabolic network. M. elongata regulated many pathways by concordant changes on enzyme abundances, post-translational modifications, reactant concentrations and allosteric effectors. Such multimodal regulations may be a general mechanism for metabolic modulation.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Li, Z; Yao, Q; Dearth, SP; Entler, MR; Castro Gonzalez, HF; Uehling, JK; Vilgalys, RJ; Hurst, GB; Campagna, SR; Labbé, JL; Pan, C
Published Date
- March 2017
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 19 / 3
Start / End Page
- 1041 - 1053
PubMed ID
- 27871150
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1462-2920
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1462-2912
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1111/1462-2920.13605
Language
- eng