ArfB links protein lipidation and endocytosis to polarized growth of Aspergillus nidulans.
Aspergillus nidulans undergoes polarized hyphal growth during the majority of its life cycle. Regulatory mechanisms for hyphal polarity have been intensively investigated in a variety of filamentous fungi. Two important cellular processes, which have received recent attention, include protein myristoylation and endocytosis. It is clear that protein myristoylation is essential for polarity establishment because germinating A. nidulans conidia lost polarity in the presence of cerulenin, a lipid metabolism inhibitor and in an N-myristoyl transferase mutant background. Only 41 predicted proteins encoded by A. nidulans posses an N-myristoylation motif, one of which is ADP ribosylation factor B (ArfB). Disruption of ArfB leads to failure of polarity establishment and maintenance during early morphogenesis and in a delay in endocytosis. Therefore, ArfB connects N-myristoylation and endocytosis to polarized growth. Exocytotic vesicle trafficking through the Spitzenkörper may also require Arf proteins in their role in vesicle formation. Taken together, ArfB is one of the important key components for the fungal hyphal growth.
Lee
Soo Chan
SC
Program for the Biology of Filamentous Fungi; Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology; Texas A&M University; College Station; Texas USA.
Shaw
Brian D
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