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Anne D. van Diepeningen Dani?l J. P. Engelmoer Carole H. Sellem Daphne H. E. W. Huberts S. Marijke Slakhorst Annie Sainsard-Chanet Bas J. Zwaan Rolf F. Hoekstra Alfons J. M. Debets 《Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences》2014,369(1646)
Autophagy is a well-conserved catabolic process, involving the degradation of a cell''s own components through the lysosomal/vacuolar machinery. Autophagy is typically induced by nutrient starvation and has a role in nutrient recycling, cellular differentiation, degradation and programmed cell death. Another common response in eukaryotes is the extension of lifespan through dietary restriction (DR). We studied a link between DR and autophagy in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, a multicellular model organism for ageing studies and mitochondrial deterioration. While both carbon and nitrogen restriction extends lifespan in P. anserina, the size of the effect varied with the amount and type of restricted nutrient. Natural genetic variation for the DR response exists. Whereas a switch to carbon restriction up to halfway through the lifetime resulted in extreme lifespan extension for wild-type P. anserina, all autophagy-deficient strains had a shorter time window in which ageing could be delayed by DR. Under nitrogen limitation, only PaAtg1 and PaAtg8 mediate the effect of lifespan extension; the other autophagy-deficient mutants PaPspA and PaUth1 had a similar response as wild-type. Our results thus show that the ageing process impinges on the DR response and that this at least in part involves the genetic regulation of autophagy. 相似文献
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Adam C Picard M Déquard-Chablat M Sellem CH Hermann-Le Denmat S Contamine V 《PloS one》2012,7(5):e38138
Mitochondria have their own ATP-dependent proteases that maintain the functional state of the organelle. All multicellular eukaryotes, including filamentous fungi, possess the same set of mitochondrial proteases, unlike in unicellular yeasts, where ClpXP, one of the two matricial proteases, is absent. Despite the presence of ClpXP in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, deletion of the gene encoding the other matricial protease, PaLon1, leads to lethality at high and low temperatures, indicating that PaLON1 plays a main role in protein quality control. Under normal physiological conditions, the PaLon1 deletion is viable but decreases life span. PaLon1 deletion also leads to defects in two steps during development, ascospore germination and sexual reproduction, which suggests that PaLON1 ensures important regulatory functions during fungal development. Mitochondrial Lon proteases are composed of a central ATPase domain flanked by a large non-catalytic N-domain and a C-terminal protease domain. We found that three mutations in the N-domain of PaLON1 affected fungal life cycle, PaLON1 protein expression and mitochondrial proteolytic activity, which reveals the functional importance of the N-domain of the mitochondrial Lon protease. All PaLon1 mutations affected the C-terminal part of the N-domain. Considering that the C-terminal part is predicted to have an α helical arrangement in which the number, length and position of the helices are conserved with the solved structure of its bacterial homologs, we propose that this all-helical structure participates in Lon substrate interaction. 相似文献
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Carole H. Sellem Annie Sainsard-Chanet Léon Belcour 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1990,224(2):232-240
Summary In the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, the amplification as circular DNA molecules of the first intron (intron ) of the CO1 mitochondrial gene, encoding the cytochrome oxidase subunit 1, is known to be strongly associated with aging of strains. In this study we have attempted to detect the protein potentially encoded by the open reading frame (ORF) contained in this intron. This was done by the Western blot technique using specific antisera raised against three polypeptides encoded by three non-overlapping fragments of this ORF adapted to the universal code and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. We examined about thirty independent subclones of Podospora derived from two different geographic races (A, s), using wild-type and mutant strains, young and senescent cultures. A 100 kDa polypeptide, encoded by the class II intron , was detected in five senescent subclones which all showed strong amplification of the intronic sequence (Sen DNA ). 相似文献
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Group I introns are proposed to have become mobile following the
acquisition of open reading frames (ORFs) that encode highly specific DNA
endonucleases. This proposal implies that intron ORFs could behave as
autonomously mobile entities. This was supported by abundant circumstantial
evidence but no experiment of ORF transfer from an ORF- containing intron
to its ORF-less counterpart has been described. In this paper we present
such experiments, which demonstrate the efficient mobility of the
mitochondrial nad1-i4-orf1 between two Podospora strains. The homing of
this mobile ORF was accompanied by a bidirectional co-conversion that did
not systematically involve the whole intron sequence. Orf1 acquisition
would be the most recent step in the evolution of the nad1-i4 intron, which
has resulted in many strains of Podospora having an intron with two ORFs
(biorfic) and four splicing pathways. We show that two of the splicing
events that operate in this biorfic intron, as evidenced by PCR
experiments, are generated by a 5'-alternative splice site, which is most
probably a remnant of the monoorfic ancestral form of the intron. We
propose a sequential evolution model that is consistent with the four
organizations of the corresponding nad1 locus that we found among various
species of the Pyrenomycete family; these organizations consist of no
intron, an intron alone, a monoorfic intron, and a biorfic intron.
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Alternative splicing of group I introns has been postulated as a possible mechanism that would ensure the translation of proteins encoded into intronic open reading frames, discontinuous with the upstream exon and lacking an initiation signal. Alternate splice sites were previously depicted according to secondary structures of several group I introns. We present here strong evidence that, in the case of Podospora anserina nad 1-i4 and cox1-i7 mitochondrial introns, alternative splicing events do occur in vivo. Indeed, by PCR experiments we have detected molecules whose sequence is precisely that expected if the predicted alternate 3'-splice sites were used. 相似文献
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