Large-Scale Metabolomics Reveals a Complex Response of Aspergillus nidulans to Epigenetic Perturbation

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• 作者：Jessica C. Albright ; Matthew T. Henke ; Alexandra A. Soukup ; Ryan A. McClure ; Regan J. Thomson ; Nancy P. Keller ; Neil L. Kelleher
• 刊名：ACS Chemical Biology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 19, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：10
• 期：6
• 页码：1535-1541
• 全文大小：307K
• ISSN：1554-8937

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The microbial world offers a rich source of bioactive compounds for those able to sift through it. Technologies capable of quantitatively detecting natural products while simultaneously identifying known compounds would expedite the search for new pharmaceutical leads. Prior efforts have targeted histone deacetylases in fungi to globally activate the production of new secondary metabolites, yet no study has directly assessed its effects with minimal bias at the metabolomic level. Using untargeted metabolomics, we monitored changes in >1000 small molecules secreted from the model fungus, Aspergillus nidulans, following genetic or chemical reductions in histone deacetylase activity (HDACi). Through quantitative, differential analyses, we found that nearly equal numbers of compounds were up- and down-regulated by >100 fold. We detected products from both known and unknown biosynthetic pathways and discovered that A. nidulans is capable of producing fellutamides, proteasome inhibitors whose expression was induced by 鈭?00 fold or greater upon HDACi. This work adds momentum to an 鈥渙mics鈥?driven resurgence in natural products research, where direct detection replaces bioactivity as the primary screen for new pharmacophores.