Supplementary material from "Structural, mechanistic and functional insight into gliotoxin bis-thiomethylation in Aspergillus fumigatus"
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Gliotoxin is an epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) class toxin, contains a disulfide bridge that mediates its toxic effects via redox cycling and is produced by the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Self-resistance against gliotoxin is effected by the gliotoxin oxidase GliT, and attenuation of gliotoxin biosynthesis is catalysed by gliotoxin S-methyltransferase GtmA. Here we describe the X-ray crystal structures of GtmA-apo (1.66 Å), GtmA complexed to S-adenosylhomocysteine (1.33 Å) and GtmA complexed to S-adenosylmethionine (2.28 Å), providing mechanistic insights into this important biotransformation. We further reveal that simultaneous elimination of the ability of A. fumigatus to dissipate highly reactive dithiol gliotoxin, via deletion of GliT and GtmA, results in the most significant hypersensitivity to exogenous gliotoxin observed to date. Indeed, quantitative proteomic analysis of ΔgliT::ΔgtmA reveals an uncontrolled over-activation of the gli-cluster upon gliotoxin exposure. The data presented herein reveal, for the first time, the extreme risk associated with intracellular dithiol gliotoxin biosynthesis—in the absence of an efficient dismutation capacity. Significantly, a previously concealed protective role for GtmA and functionality of ETP bis-thiomethylation as an ancestral protection strategy against dithiol compounds is now evident.
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Dolan, Stephen K.; Bock, Tobias; Hering, Vanessa; A. Owens, Rebecca; W. Jones, Gary; Blankenfeldt, Wulf; et al. (2017). Supplementary material from "Structural, mechanistic and functional insight into gliotoxin bis-thiomethylation in Aspergillus fumigatus". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3672997.v1
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Stephen K. Dolan
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Tobias Bock
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Vanessa Hering
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Rebecca A. Owens
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Gary W. Jones
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Wulf Blankenfeldt
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Sean Doyle