Abstract
The GAL pathway of yeasts has long served as a model system for understanding of how regulatory mode of eukaryotic metabolic pathways evolves. While Gal4 mode has been well-characterized in Saccharomycetaceae clade, little is known about the regulation of the GAL pathway in other yeasts. Here, we find that Rep1, a Ndt80-like family transcription factor, serves as a galactose sensor in the commensal-pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. It is presented at the GAL gene promoters independent of the presence of galactose. Rep1 recognizes galactose via a direct physical interaction. The net result of this interaction is the recruitment of a transcriptional activator Cga1 (Candida galactose gene activator, orf19.4959) and transcription of the GAL genes proceeds. Rep1 and Cga1 are conserved across the CTG species. Rep1 itself does not possess transcriptional activity. Instead, it provides a scaffold to recruit different factors for transcriptional regulation. Rep1-Cga1 mode of regulation represents a new example of network rewiring in fungi, which provides insight into how C. albicans evolves transcriptional programs to colonize diverse host niches.
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The mass spectrometry proteomics data are deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with the dataset identifier PXD037522. The ChIP-Seq data are deposited to Dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tqjq2bw35. Source Data files have been provided in Figure 1-Source data, Figure 1-figure supplement 2-Source data, Figure 1-figure supplement 3-Source data, Figure 2-Source Data 1&2, Figure 2-figure supplement 4-Source data, Figure 3-Source Data 1&2, Figure 3-figure supplement 5-Source data 1&2, Figure 4-Source Data 1&2, and Figure 4-figure supplement 6-Source data.
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Candida albicans transcription factor Rep1 ChIP-SeqDryad Digital Repository, doi:10.5061/dryad.tqjq2bw35.
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070074)
- Yang Lu
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32170089)
- Chang Su
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81973370)
- Chang Su
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2022CFB103)
- Chang Su
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2023, Sun et al.
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Recognition of galactose by a scaffold protein recruits a transcriptional activator for the GAL regulon induction in Candida albicans
eLife 12:e84155.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84155
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