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July 7, 2019

The gold-standard genome of Aspergillus niger NRRL 3 enables a detailed view of the diversity of sugar catabolism in fungi.

Authors: Aguilar-Pontes, M V and Brandl, J and McDonnell, E and Strasser, K and Nguyen, T T M and Riley, R and Mondo, S and Salamov, A and Nybo, J L and Vesth, T C and Grigoriev, I V and Andersen, M R and Tsang, A and de Vries, R P

The fungal kingdom is too large to be discovered exclusively by classical genetics. The access to omics data opens a new opportunity to study the diversity within the fungal kingdom and how adaptation to new environments shapes fungal metabolism. Genomes are the foundation of modern science but their quality is crucial when analysing omics data. In this study, we demonstrate how one gold-standard genome can improve functional prediction across closely related species to be able to identify key enzymes, reactions and pathways with the focus on primary carbon metabolism. Based on this approach we identified alternative genes encoding various steps of the different sugar catabolic pathways, and as such provided leads for functional studies into this topic. We also revealed significant diversity with respect to genome content, although this did not always correlate to the ability of the species to use the corresponding sugar as a carbon source.

Journal: Studies in mycology
DOI: 10.1016/j.simyco.2018.10.001
Year: 2018

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