title: The CRE1 carbon catabolite repressor of the fungus Trichoderma reesei: a master regulator of carbon assimilation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The identification and characterization of the transcriptional regulatory networks governing the physiology and adaptation of microbial cells is a key step in understanding their behaviour. One such wide-domain regulatory circuit, essential to all cells, is carbon catabolite repression (CCR): it allows the cell to prefer some carbon sources, whose assimilation is of high nutritional value, over less profitable ones. In lower multicellular fungi, the C2H2 zinc finger CreA/CRE1 protein has been shown to act as the transcriptional repressor in this process. However, the complete list of its gene targets is not known.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here, we deciphered the CRE1 regulatory range in the model cellulose and hemicellulose-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (anamorph of Hypocrea jecorina) by profiling transcription in a wild-type and a delta-cre1 mutant strain on glucose at constant growth rates known to repress and de-repress CCR-affected genes. Analysis of genome-wide microarrays reveals 2.8% of transcripts whose expression was regulated in at least one of the four experimental conditions: 47.3% of which were repressed by CRE1, whereas 29.0% were actually induced by CRE1, and 17.2% only affected by the growth rate but CRE1 independent. Among CRE1 repressed transcripts, genes encoding unknown proteins and transport proteins were overrepresented. In addition, we found CRE1-repression of nitrogenous substances uptake, components of chromatin remodeling and the transcriptional mediator complex, as well as developmental processes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study provides the first global insight into the molecular physiological response of a multicellular fungus to carbon catabolite regulation and identifies several not yet known targets in a growth-controlled environment.
authors: Research Area Gene Technology and Applied Biochemistry, Institute of ChemicalEngineering, Technische Universität Wien, Getreidemarkt, Vienna, Austria.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Portnoy
authors: Antoine
authors: A
authors: Margeot
authors: Rita
authors: R
authors: Linke
authors: Lea
authors: L
authors: Atanasova
authors: Erzsébet
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authors: Fekete
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authors: Druzhinina
authors: Bernhard
authors: B
authors: Seiboth
authors: Stéphane
authors: S
authors: Le Crom
authors: Christian P
authors: CP
authors: Kubicek
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