The intersection between stress responses and inositol pyrophosphates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

VA Morrissette, RJ Rolfes - Current genetics, 2020 - Springer
Saccharomyces cerevisiae adapts to oxidative, osmotic stress and nutrient deprivation
through transcriptional changes, decreased proliferation, and entry into other developmental …

Microbial inositol polyphosphate metabolic pathway as drug development target

A Saiardi, C Azevedo, Y Desfougères… - Advances in biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Inositol polyphosphates are a diverse and multifaceted class of intracellular messengers
omnipresent in eukaryotic cells. These water-soluble molecules regulate many aspects of …

Multiple substrate recognition by yeast diadenosine and diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase through phosphate clamping

MÁ Márquez-Moñino, R Ortega-García, ML Shipton… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The yeast diadenosine and diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase DDP1 is a
Nudix enzyme with pyrophosphatase activity on diphosphoinositides, dinucleotides, and …

Inositol Signaling in the Basidiomycete Fungus Schizophyllum commune

R Murry, L Traxler, J Pötschner, T Krüger, O Kniemeyer… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intracellular signaling is conserved in eukaryotes to allow for response to extracellular
signals and to regulate development and cellular functions. In fungi, inositol phosphate …

A metabolite sensor subunit of the Atg1/ULK complex regulates selective autophagy

AS Gross, R Ghillebert, M Schuetter, E Reinartz… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Cells convert complex metabolic information into stress-adapted autophagy responses.
Canonically, multilayered protein kinase networks converge on the conserved Atg1/ULK …

Deciphering the Dynamics of Signaling Cascades and Virulence Factors of B. cinerea during Tomato Cell Wall Degradation

A Escobar-Niño, IM Morano Bermejo… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ascomycete Botrytis cinerea is one of the most relevant plant pathogenic fungi, affecting
fruits, flowers, and greenhouse-grown crops. The infection strategy used by the fungus …

Ceratocystis cacaofunesta genome analysis reveals a large expansion of extracellular phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase-C genes (PI-PLC)

EPL Molano, OG Cabrera, J Jose, LC do Nascimento… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The Ceratocystis genus harbors a large number of phytopathogenic
fungi that cause xylem parenchyma degradation and vascular destruction on a broad range …

Arg1 from Cryptococcus neoformans lacks PI3 kinase activity and conveys virulence roles via its IP3-4 kinase activity

D Desmarini, G Liu, H Jessen, B Bowring, A Connolly… - mBio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Inositol tris/tetrakis phosphate kinases (IP3-4K) in the human fungal priority pathogens,
Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn Arg1) and Candida albicans (Ca Ipk2), convey numerous …

TNP Analogues Inhibit the Virulence Promoting IP3-4 Kinase Arg1 in the Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

D Desmarini, D Truong, L Wilkinson-White… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
New antifungals with unique modes of action are urgently needed to treat the increasing
global burden of invasive fungal infections. The fungal inositol polyphosphate kinase (IPK) …

Inositol polyphosphate–protein interactions: Implications for microbial pathogenicity

S Lev, B Bowring, D Desmarini… - Cellular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inositol polyphosphates (IPs) and inositol pyrophosphates (PP–IPs) regulate diverse cellular
processes in eukaryotic cells. IPs and PP–IPs are highly negatively charged and exert their …