Supplementary material from "A eukaryotic nicotinate-inducible gene cluster: convergent evolution in fungi and bacteria"
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Nicotinate degradation has hitherto been elucidated only in bacteria. In the ascomycete Aspergillus nidulans, six loci, hxnS/AN9178 encoding the molybdenum cofactor-containing nicotinate hydroxylase, AN11197 encoding a Cys2/His2 zinc finger regulator HxnR, together with AN11196/hxnZ, AN11188/hxnY, AN11189/hxnP and AN9177/hxnT, are clustered and stringently co-induced by a nicotinate derivative and subject to nitrogen metabolite repression mediated by the GATA factor AreA. These genes are strictly co-regulated by HxnR. Within the hxnR gene, constitutive mutations map in two discrete regions. Aspergillus nidulans is capable of using nicotinate and its oxidation products 6-hydroxynicotinic acid and 2,5-dihydroxypyridine as sole nitrogen sources in an HxnR-dependent way. HxnS is highly similar to HxA, the canonical xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) and has originated by gene duplication, preceding the origin of the Pezizomycotina. This cluster is conserved with some variations throughout the Aspergillaceae. Our results imply that a fungal pathway has arisen independently from bacterial ones. Significantly, the neo-functionalization of XDH into nicotinate hydroxylase has occurred independently from analogous events in bacteria. This work describes for the first time a gene cluster involved in nicotinate catabolism in a eukaryote and has relevance for the formation and evolution of co-regulated primary metabolic gene clusters and the microbial degradation of N-heterocyclic compounds.
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Ámon, Judit; Fernández-Martín, Rafael; Bokor, Eszter; Cultrone, Antonietta; M. Kelly, Joan; Flipphi, Michel; et al. (2017). Supplementary material from "A eukaryotic nicotinate-inducible gene cluster: convergent evolution in fungi and bacteria". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3936937.v1
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AUTHORS (8)
JÁ
Judit Ámon
RF
Rafael Fernández-Martín
EB
Eszter Bokor
AC
Antonietta Cultrone
JM
Joan M. Kelly
MF
Michel Flipphi
CS
Claudio Scazzocchio
ZH
Zsuzsanna Hamari