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STRIPAK复合体缺陷导致新型隐球菌出现假性有性生殖。

STRIPAK complex defects result in pseudosexual reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans.

作者信息

Peterson Patricia P, Croog Sarah, Choi Yeseul, Sun Sheng, Heitman Joseph

机构信息

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

出版信息

PLoS Genet. 2025 Jun 30;21(6):e1011774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011774. eCollection 2025 Jun.

Abstract

STRIPAK is an evolutionarily conserved signaling complex that coordinates diverse cellular processes across fungi and animals. In the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, STRIPAK was recently shown to play critical roles in maintaining genome stability and controlling both sexual and asexual development. In Cryptococcus, sexual reproduction is closely linked to virulence, and our findings demonstrate that the STRIPAK complex plays key roles in both processes. Here, we further investigate the specific roles of the STRIPAK catalytic subunit Pph22 and its regulatory partner Far8 during sexual development. We show that while pph22Δ mutants are defective in α-a sexual reproduction, exhibiting impaired meiotic progression and a failure to produce viable spores, deletion of PPH22 results in exclusive pseudosexual reproduction, with progeny inheriting nuclear genomes solely from the wild-type parent. This nuclear selection appears to result from haploinsufficiency of PPH22, in which the mutant nucleus is excluded following cell-cell fusion. Overexpression of PPG1, a related phosphatase, rescued growth and developmental defects in pph22Δ mutants, and restored the preference for α-a sexual reproduction over pseudosexual reproduction during mating, suggesting functional redundancy within the STRIPAK signaling network. Furthermore, deletion of FAR8, another component of the STRIPAK complex, also led to a high rate of pseudosexual reproduction during α-a sexual mating, reinforcing the role of STRIPAK in modulating reproductive modes in C. neoformans, possibly through regulating nuclear inheritance and meiotic progression. Transcriptomic profiling of pph22Δ and far8Δ mutants revealed dysregulation of genes involved in nuclear organization, DNA replication and repair, RNA processing, cell cycle progression, and morphogenesis, suggesting that STRIPAK disruption broadly impairs cellular programs important for faithful sexual reproduction. Together, these findings highlight the distinct contributions of STRIPAK to sexual reproduction in C. neoformans and suggest that disruptions of this complex affect genome integrity and inheritance mechanisms, with broader implications for fungal adaptation and pathogenesis.

摘要

STRIPAK是一种进化上保守的信号复合体,可协调真菌和动物体内的多种细胞过程。在人类真菌病原体新型隐球菌中,最近发现STRIPAK在维持基因组稳定性以及控制有性和无性发育方面发挥着关键作用。在隐球菌中,有性生殖与毒力密切相关,我们的研究结果表明STRIPAK复合体在这两个过程中都起着关键作用。在此,我们进一步研究STRIPAK催化亚基Pph22及其调节伴侣Far8在有性发育过程中的具体作用。我们发现,虽然pph22Δ突变体在α-a有性生殖方面存在缺陷,减数分裂进程受损且无法产生有活力的孢子,但PPH22的缺失会导致排他性的准性生殖,后代仅从野生型亲本继承核基因组。这种核选择似乎是由于PPH22的单倍体不足,突变细胞核在细胞间融合后被排除。相关磷酸酶PPG1的过表达挽救了pph22Δ突变体的生长和发育缺陷,并在交配过程中恢复了对α-a有性生殖而非准性生殖的偏好,这表明STRIPAK信号网络内存在功能冗余。此外,STRIPAK复合体的另一个组分FAR8的缺失也导致α-a有性交配过程中准性生殖的发生率很高,这进一步证明了STRIPAK在调节新型隐球菌生殖模式中的作用,可能是通过调节核遗传和减数分裂进程来实现的。pph22Δ和far8Δ突变体的转录组分析揭示了参与核组织、DNA复制和修复、RNA加工、细胞周期进程和形态发生的基因失调,这表明STRIPAK的破坏广泛损害了对忠实有性生殖至关重要的细胞程序。总之,这些发现突出了STRIPAK对新型隐球菌有性生殖的独特贡献,并表明该复合体的破坏会影响基因组完整性和遗传机制,对真菌的适应性和致病性具有更广泛的影响。

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