Heat stress promotes the conversion of putrescine to spermidine and plays an important role in regulating ganoderic acid biosynthesis in Ganoderma lucidum
- 18 June 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Vol. 105 (12), 5039-5051
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-021-11373-0
Abstract
Heat stress (HS) is inescapable environmental stress that can induce the production of ganoderic acids (GAs) in Ganoderma lucidum. Our previous studies found that putrescine (Put) played an inhibitory role in GAs biosynthesis, which appeared to be inconsistent with the upregulated transcription of the Put biosynthetic gene GlOdc under HS. To uncover the mechanism underlying this phenomenon, two spermidine (Spd) biosynthetic genes, GlSpds1 and GlSpds2, were identified and upregulated under HS. Put and Spd increased by 94% and 160% under HS, respectively, suggesting that HS induces polyamine biosynthesis and promotes the conversion of Put to Spd. By using GlSpds knockdown mutants, it is confirmed that Spd played a stimulatory role in GAs biosynthesis. In GlOdc-kd mutants, Put decreased by 62–67%, Spd decreased by approximately 34%, and GAs increased by 15–22% but sharply increased by 75–89% after supplementation with Spd. In GlSpds-kd mutants, Put increased by 31–41%, Spd decreased by approximately 63%, and GAs decreased by 24–32% and were restored to slightly higher levels than a wild type after supplementation with Spd. This result suggested that Spd, rather than Put, is a crucial factor that leads to the accumulation of GAs under HS. Spd plays a more predominant and stimulative role than Put under HS, possibly because the absolute content of Spd is 10 times greater than that of Put. GABA and H2O2, two major catabolites of Spd, had little effect on GAs biosynthesis. This study provides new insight into the mechanism by which environmental stimuli regulate secondary metabolism via polyamines in fungi. • HS induces polyamine biosynthesis and promotes the conversion of Put to Spd in G. lucidum. • Put and Spd played the inhibitory and stimulatory roles in regulating GAs biosynthesis, respectively. • The stimulatory role of Spd was more predominant than the inhibitory role of Put in GAs biosynthesis.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFC1710501)
- China Agriculture Research System (CARS-20)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31902088, 81773839)
- Natural Science Fundation for Distinguished Young Scholar of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University of China (xjq201919)
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (2019J01380)
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