Identification of two metallothioneins in Agaricus crocodilinus reveals gene duplication and domain expansion, a pattern conserved across fungal species

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F25%3A00637508" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/25:00637508 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/61389005:_____/25:00637663 RIV/60461373:22330/25:43932233 RIV/60461373:22340/25:43932233

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10534-025-00721-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10534-025-00721-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-025-00721-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10534-025-00721-6</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Identification of two metallothioneins in Agaricus crocodilinus reveals gene duplication and domain expansion, a pattern conserved across fungal species

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Agaricus crocodilinus (Agaricaceae), an edible saprotrophic mushroom, accumulates high concentrations of cadmium (Cd) in unpolluted environments. This study investigates whether this species has evolved mechanisms to store Cd complexed with metallothioneins (MTs), proteins that bind heavy metal ions via cysteinyl (Cys)–thiolate bonds, how these MTs originated, and how similar mechanisms are present in other fungal species. Size exclusion chromatography revealed that a substantial fraction of Cd in A. crocodilinus sporocarps was sequestered in a 3.4 kDa complex containing Cys-rich peptides. Screening a sporocarp cDNA expression library in a Cd-sensitive Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain identified two MT transcripts, AcMT1 and AcMT2, encoding 49-amino acid (AA) AcMT1 with 10 Cys and 32-AA AcMT2 with 7 Cys. The presence of AcMT2 in the 3.4 kDa Cd–peptide complex isolated from sporocarp was confirmed by mass spectrometry. In mycelial isolates exposed to heavy metals, AcMT1 was more strongly upregulated, while AcMT2 was more expressed under normal conditions. Sequence comparisons revealed that AcMT2 is closer to the ancestral gene, whereas AcMT1 is a more recent duplicate. Combined bioinformatic and functional evidence supports AcMT2 as a constitutively expressed MT involved in Cd binding in the sporocarp, while AcMT1, though more inducible in mycelia and more protective in yeast, appears to serve a transient detoxification role. Moreover, the gene duplication and domain rearrangement mechanism underlying this MT diversification was also identified in other Agaricales and Boletales species.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Identification of two metallothioneins in Agaricus crocodilinus reveals gene duplication and domain expansion, a pattern conserved across fungal species

Popis výsledku anglicky

Agaricus crocodilinus (Agaricaceae), an edible saprotrophic mushroom, accumulates high concentrations of cadmium (Cd) in unpolluted environments. This study investigates whether this species has evolved mechanisms to store Cd complexed with metallothioneins (MTs), proteins that bind heavy metal ions via cysteinyl (Cys)–thiolate bonds, how these MTs originated, and how similar mechanisms are present in other fungal species. Size exclusion chromatography revealed that a substantial fraction of Cd in A. crocodilinus sporocarps was sequestered in a 3.4 kDa complex containing Cys-rich peptides. Screening a sporocarp cDNA expression library in a Cd-sensitive Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain identified two MT transcripts, AcMT1 and AcMT2, encoding 49-amino acid (AA) AcMT1 with 10 Cys and 32-AA AcMT2 with 7 Cys. The presence of AcMT2 in the 3.4 kDa Cd–peptide complex isolated from sporocarp was confirmed by mass spectrometry. In mycelial isolates exposed to heavy metals, AcMT1 was more strongly upregulated, while AcMT2 was more expressed under normal conditions. Sequence comparisons revealed that AcMT2 is closer to the ancestral gene, whereas AcMT1 is a more recent duplicate. Combined bioinformatic and functional evidence supports AcMT2 as a constitutively expressed MT involved in Cd binding in the sporocarp, while AcMT1, though more inducible in mycelia and more protective in yeast, appears to serve a transient detoxification role. Moreover, the gene duplication and domain rearrangement mechanism underlying this MT diversification was also identified in other Agaricales and Boletales species.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10612 - Mycology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-06759S" target="_blank" >GA19-06759S: Hyperakumulace kadmia ve velkých houbách: od izotopů k proteinům a bakteriálním komunitám</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Biometals

ISSN

0966-0844

e-ISSN

1572-8773

Svazek periodika

38

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

1569-1585

Kód UT WoS článku

001531121400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105010946311