Characterization of a gene cluster involved in Aspergillus fumigatus zwitterionic glycosphingolipid synthesis

Characterization of a gene cluster involved in Aspergillus fumigatus zwitterionic glycosphingolipid synthesis

Abstract The human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus synthesizes the zwitterionic glycolipid Manα1,3Manα1,6GlcNα1,2IPC, named Af3c. Similar glycosphingolipids having a glucosamine (GlcN) linked in α1,2 to inositolphosphoceramide (IPC) as core structure have only been described in a few pathoge...

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Hauptverfasser: Seegers, Carla I I, Ramón Roth, Isabel, Zarnovican, Patricia, Buettner, Falk F R, Routier, Françoise H
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description Abstract The human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus synthesizes the zwitterionic glycolipid Manα1,3Manα1,6GlcNα1,2IPC, named Af3c. Similar glycosphingolipids having a glucosamine (GlcN) linked in α1,2 to inositolphosphoceramide (IPC) as core structure have only been described in a few pathogenic fungi. Here, we describe an A. fumigatus cluster of 5 genes (AFUA_8G02040 to AFUA_8G02090) encoding proteins required for the glycan part of the glycosphingolipid Af3c. Besides the already characterized UDP-GlcNAc:IPC α1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GntA), the cluster encodes a putative UDP-GlcNAc transporter (NstA), a GlcNAc de-N-acetylase (GdaA), and 2 mannosyltransferases (OchC and ClpC). The function of these proteins was inferred from analysis of the glycolipids extracted from A. fumigatus strains deficient in one of the genes. Moreover, successive introduction of the genes encoding GntA, GdaA, OchC, and ClpC in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae enabled the reconstitution of the Af3c biosynthetic pathway. Absence of Af3c slightly reduced the virulence of A. fumigatus in a Galleria mellonella infection model.
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