Abstract
In contrast to mesophiles, in which levels of trehalose and phosphatidic acids (PA) increased only under heat shock (HS), in thermophiles trehalose and PA were predominant under optimal growth conditions. To study the role of trehalose protection in the adaptation of thermophiles to various stressors, the composition of osmolytes and membrane lipids in the thermophilic fungus Rhizomucor miehei was studied under cold (CS), osmotic (OS) and oxidative (OxS) shocks. CS resulted in no accumulation of glycerol in the mycelium, while the amount of trehalose decreased. The main lipid changes were the increase in the PA proportion with simultaneous decrease of sterols (St), the increase of the unsaturation degree of polar lipids and the decrease of the ergosterol proportion in total St. OS did not cause changes in the lipid composition, but led to the decrease of ergosterol proportion too. Despite the low ability of Mucorales to produce polyols, increase in the level of arabitol and glycerol was observed under OS. OxS led to the decrease of trehalose level and had no effect on the lipid composition. Thus, our results show the similarity (OS) and the difference (CS and OxS) between adaptation mechanisms of thermophiles and mesophiles.
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Abbreviations
- CL:
-
Cardiolipins
- CS:
-
Cold shock
- HS:
-
Heat shock
- LPE:
-
Lysophosphatidylethanolamines
- OS:
-
Osmotic shock
- OxS:
-
Oxidative shock
- PA:
-
Phosphatidic acids
- PC:
-
Phosphatidylcholines,
- PE:
-
Phosphatidylethanolamines
- PI:
-
Phosphatidylinositols
- PS:
-
Phosphatidylserines
- SL:
-
Sphingolipids
- St:
-
Sterols
- X1:
-
Unidentified lipid
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Ianutsevich, E.A., Danilova, O.A., Kurilov, D.V. et al. Osmolytes and membrane lipids in adaptive response of thermophilic fungus Rhizomucor miehei to cold, osmotic and oxidative shocks. Extremophiles 24, 391–401 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-020-01163-3
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