Transcriptomic Evidence of Base and Nucleotide Excision Repair Mechanisms in Response to UV-B Radiation in an Arctic Fungus Pseudogymnoascus australis Strain HNDR4
Teow Chong Teoh, M. Rizman-Idid, H. J. Wong, N. Mohamad-Fauzi, Nurlizah Abu Bakar, Jerzy Smykla, Siti Aisyah Alias
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Abstract
Polar micro-fungi are known to have developed protective mechanisms and responses against the harmful effects of UV radiation. In this study, physiological, cellular, and transcriptomic responses of an Arctic fungal strain of Pseudogymnoascus australis towards UV-B radiation were examined. Fungal isolate was cultured on 0.45μm nylon membranes overlayed on Czapex-Dox agar (CDA) at 15ºC for 10 d in dark condition to reach the mid-log phase. To assess DNA damage and recovery, the isolates were exposed to UV-B radiation (UV dosage of 6.1 kj m-2 d-1) for 130 min, followed by 0, 2 and 6 hr incubation under light condition. Differential gene expression in DNA repair after UV-B treatment at these time points was analysed based on RNA-Seq data output of 40 million reads per sample from an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 system platform. The results revealed that radiation-repair (RAD) genes were upregulated and the photoreactivation (PHR1) gene was downregulated after UV-B exposure in light condition. Downregulation of oxidoreductase activity was observed from the GO enrichment analysis. The KEGG pathway enrichment analysis exhibited upregulation of base excision repair (BER) genes and nucleotide excision repair (NER) genes upon UV-B exposure. This is the fi rst RNASeq transcriptomic study on the DNA repair mechanisms employed by a polar fungus to mitigate UV-induced DNA damage.
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The Chiang Mai Journal of Science is an international English language peer-reviewed journal which is published in open access electronic format 6 times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November by the Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University. Manuscripts in most areas of science are welcomed except in areas such as agriculture, engineering and medical science which are outside the scope of the Journal. Currently, we focus on manuscripts in biology, chemistry, physics, materials science and environmental science. Papers in mathematics statistics and computer science are also included but should be of an applied nature rather than purely theoretical. Manuscripts describing experiments on humans or animals are required to provide proof that all experiments have been carried out according to the ethical regulations of the respective institutional and/or governmental authorities and this should be clearly stated in the manuscript itself. The Editor reserves the right to reject manuscripts that fail to do so.