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. 2016 May;162(5):837-847.
doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000267. Epub 2016 Mar 2.

Characterization of a second physiologically relevant lactose permease gene (lacpB) in Aspergillus nidulans

Erzsébet Fekete  1 , Anita Orosz  1 , László Kulcsár  1 , Napsugár Kavalecz  1 , Michel Flipphi  1 , Levente Karaffa  1
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Characterization of a second physiologically relevant lactose permease gene (lacpB) in Aspergillus nidulans

Erzsébet Fekete et al. Microbiology (Reading). 2016 May.
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Abstract

In Aspergillus nidulans, uptake rather than hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step of lactose catabolism. Deletion of the lactose permease A-encoding gene (lacpA) reduces the growth rate on lactose, while its overexpression enables faster growth than wild-type strains are capable of. We have identified a second physiologically relevant lactose transporter, LacpB. Glycerol-grown mycelia from mutants deleted for lacpB appear to take up only minute amounts of lactose during the first 60 h after a medium transfer, while mycelia of double lacpA/lacpB-deletant strains are unable to produce new biomass from lactose. Although transcription of both lacp genes was strongly induced by lactose, their inducer profiles differ markedly. lacpA but not lacpB expression was high in d-galactose cultures. However, lacpB responded strongly also to β-linked glucopyranose dimers cellobiose and sophorose, while these inducers of the cellulolytic system did not provoke any lacpA response. Nevertheless, lacpB transcript was induced to higher levels on cellobiose in strains that lack the lacpA gene than in a wild-type background. Indeed, cellobiose uptake was faster and biomass formation accelerated in lacpA deletants. In contrast, in lacpB knockout strains, growth rate and cellobiose uptake were considerably reduced relative to wild-type, indicating that the cellulose and lactose catabolic systems employ common elements. Nevertheless, our permease mutants still grew on cellobiose, which suggests that its uptake in A. nidulans prominently involves hitherto unknown transport systems.

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