Molecular genetic analysis of vesicular transport in reveals partial conservation of the molecular mechanism of exocytosis in fungi Free

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The filamentous fungus is an industrially exploited protein expression platform, well known for its capacity to secrete high levels of proteins. To study the process of protein secretion in , we established a GFP-v-SNARE reporter strain in which the trafficking and dynamics of secretory vesicles can be followed . The biological role of putative orthologues of seven secretion-specific genes, known to function in key aspects of the protein secretion machinery in , was analysed by constructing respective gene deletion mutants in the GFP-v-SNARE reporter strain. Comparison of the deletion phenotype of conserved proteins functioning in the secretory pathway revealed common features but also interesting differences between and . Deletion of the Sec2p orthologue in (SecB), encoding a guanine exchange factor for the GTPase Sec4p (SrgA in ), did not have an obvious phenotype, while deletion in is lethal. Similarly, deletion of the orthologue of the exocyst subunit Sec3p (SecC) did not result in a lethal phenotype as in , although severe growth reduction of was observed. Deletion of , and (encoding SecA, SecH and SsoA the orthologues of Sec1p, Sec8p and Sso1/2p, respectively) showed that these genes are essential for , similar to the situation in These data demonstrate that the orchestration of exocyst-mediated vesicle transport is only partially conserved in and .

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