Qin Luo1
Jun-Wei Xu- 1Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
- 2Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
The methyltransferase LaeA is a global regulator involved in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites by ascomycete fungi. However, little is known of its regulatory role in basidiomycete fungi. In this study, the laeA gene was identified in the basidiomycete Ganoderma lingzhi and its function in regulating the biosynthesis of anti-tumor ganoderic acids was evaluated. A laeA deletion (ΔlaeA) Ganoderma strain exhibited significantly reduced concentration of ganoderic acids. qRT-PCR analysis further revealed that the transcription levels of genes involved in the biosynthesis of ganoderic acids were drastically lower in the ΔlaeA strain. Moreover, deletion of laeA resulted in decreased accumulation of intermediates and abundances of asexual spores in liquid static culture of G. lingzhi. In contrast, constitutive overexpression of laeA resulted in increased concentration of ganoderic acids. These results demonstrate an essential role of LaeA in the regulation of ganoderic acid biosynthesis in Ganoderma.
Introduction
Ganoderm lingzhi is a well-known medicinal fungus that has been used to improves health and prevent human diseases for over 2000 years (Bishop et al., 2015; Hsu and Cheng, 2018). Ganoderic acids (GAs) are lanosterol-type triterpenoids produced by Ganoderma that possess multiple bioactivities including anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-HIV activities (Xu et al., 2010b; Ahmad et al., 2022). Moreover, different types of GAs exhibit distinct bioactivities. For example, ganoderic acid T (GA-T) induces apoptosis of lung cancer cells (Tang et al., 2006), and ganoderic acid Me (GA-Me) inhibits lung cancer metastasis (Chen et al., 2008).
GAs are synthesized from the triterpene squalene, and the early biosynthetic steps are common for both GA and ergosterol pathways, including the sequential conversion of squalene to 2, 3-oxidosqualene, and lanosterol (Shi et al., 2010; Xu and Zhong, 2015). The downstream biosynthetic steps after lanosterol formation include several oxidation, reduction, and acetylation reactions (Xu et al., 2010a; Chen et al., 2012; Sun et al., 2021). During GA biosynthesis, squalene synthase (SQS) catalyzes the first step specific to triterpene synthesis, while lanosterol synthase (LS) is responsible for the formation of the lanostane skeletons of GAs (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The biosynthetic pathway of ganoderic acids.
Interest in regulating GA biosynthesis by Ganoderma has increased in recent years, due to their important pharmacological activities and commercial value. Environmental factors like heat stress, pH, and nitrogen sources all affect GA biosynthesis in Ganoderma (Zhao et al., 2011; Wu et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2016). Further, signaling molecules like reactive oxygen species (ROS), cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), nitric oxide (NO), and Ca2+ participate in Ganoderma GA biosynthesis (Xu and Zhong, 2012; You et al., 2017; Ren et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2021). Moreover, the transcription factors AreA, PacC, and MADS1 are involved in regulating GA biosynthesis (Wu et al., 2016; Zhu et al., 2019; Meng et al., 2021). Besides, promoting sporulation was favorable to the biosynthesis of ganoderic acids in G. lucidum (Sun et al., 2021). Previous studies have indicated that the regulation of GA biosynthesis comprises a complex regulatory system. Further investigation of this system is needed to improve our understanding of GA biosynthesis regulation in Ganoderma.
The methyltransferase LaeA (loss of aflR expression-A) has been demonstrated to be involved in regulating the biosynthesis of numerous secondary metabolites in ascomycete fungi like Aspergillus nidulans, Fusarium fujikuroi, Penicillium chrysogenum, and Trichoderma longibrachiatum (Bok and Keller, 2004; Kosalkova et al., 2009; Wiemann et al., 2010; Shi et al., 2020). However, the function of LaeA has never been reported in other basidiomycete fungi, with the exception of Coprinopsis cinerea, in which the knockout of laeA improved coprinoferrin production (Tsunematsu et al., 2019). A LaeA ortholog has been identified in Ganoderma (Chen et al., 2012). However, it is currently unclear if and how LaeA influences GA biosynthesis in Ganoderma.
Here, we show that LaeA positively regulates GA biosynthesis in the basidiomycete Ganoderma for the first time. Targeted deletion of laeA significantly reduced GA production. Moreover, the expression of GA biosynthetic genes, accumulation of intermediates, and the abundance of asexual spores also decreased in the ΔlaeA Ganoderma. Further analysis revealed that constitutive overexpression of laeA increased the production of GAs in Ganoderma.
Materials and methods
Strains and culture conditions
The strains G. lingzhi pJW-EXP-intron-opCas9 (Tu et al., 2021) and G. lingzhi CGMCC 5.616-1 (Sun et al., 2021) were maintained in our laboratory and used in this study. These strains were routinely maintained on potato dextrose agar and incubated at 30°C. The genotypes of the used Ganoderma strains are given in Supplementary Table S1. Escherichia coli JM109 was used for plasmid construction and cloning. Pre-culturing and liquid static fermentation of G. lingzhi mycelia were conducted as previously described (Xu et al., 2010a, 2012a). The fermentation medium for liquid static culture consisted of the following components (g/l): lactose, 35; KH2PO4·H2O, 1; MgSO4·7H2O, 0.5; peptone, 5; yeast extract, 5; and vitamin B1, 0.05. Asexual spores formed after 3 days of cultivation in liquid static condition.
In vitro transcription of laeA sgRNAs and construction of the pJW-EXP-LaeA plasmid
Two sgRNA cassettes (Supplementary Data S1), including two laeA targeting sequences and a sgRNA sequence, were generated with a T7 promoter. The sequences were synthesized by Shanghai Sangon Led., Corp. (Shanghai, China). The two sgRNA cassettes were transcribed in vitro using a HiScribe™ T7 High Yield RNA Kit (NEB, Beijing, China) and purified using the RNA Clean and Concentration™ − 25 Kit (Zymo Research, Beijing, China).
The laeA sequence was amplified from G. lingzhi genomic DNA using the primers gpd-LaeA-F: 5′-ttcatccccctctcaacATGGCCATCGAATACGCCCG-3′ and ter-LaeA-R: 5′-ctctctgacccgctcat CTACAGGCGGCGCGCGT-3′. The amplified PCR product was fused with the plasmid pJW-EXP (Yu et al., 2014) that was digested with NheI using the ClonExpress MutiS one-step cloning kit (Vazyme, Nanjing, China) to produce the PJW-EXP-LaeA plasmid.
Genetic transformation of Ganoderma lingzhi protoplasts and identification of transformants
PEG-mediated genetic transformation of G. lingzhi protoplasts was conducted as previously described (Xu and Zhong, 2015). Following the genetic transformation of the plasmid pJW-EXP-LaeA into the wild-type strain (monokaryotic CGMCC 5.616–1), LaeA transformants were screened on CYM selective plates containing 2 mg/l carboxin (Fei et al., 2019). Selective transformants were analyzed by PCR amplification of the fusion fragment containing the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (gpd) promoter and laeA using the primers gpd-F: 5′-CGAGTGACGCAGGTGGTGAC-3′ and ter-R: 5′-GCAGTCGCACAATCTAGCCCT-3′. To screen the ΔlaeA mutants, transformants were picked from CYM selective plates containing 250 mg/l hygromycin B after genetic transformation of G. lingzhi (the pJW-EXP-intron-opCas9 strain) protoplasts with the pJW-EXP-ophph plasmid (Tu et al., 2021) and the transcribed sgRNAs that targeted laeA. laeA was amplified from the genomic DNA of the control and mutant strains and then sequenced to confirm the gene deletion.
Determination of mycelial growth, asexual spore numbers, GA contents, and the accumulation of squalene and lanosterol
Mycelial dry weight were measured using the gravimetric method. Briefly, mycelia were scraped from the surface of the liquid static culture and washed three times with distilled water. Mycelia were scraped from the surface of the liquid static culture and inoculated into H2O. The number of asexual spores (Xu et al., 2012b) was determined with a hemacytometer and expressed as the number of asexual spores per 1 cm2 (Zhang and Zhong, 2010; Sun et al., 2021). Total GAs and individual GAs, in addition to squalene and lanosterol, were extracted from G. lingzhi and determined using previously described methods (Zhou et al., 2014; Xu et al., 2019) and are shown in the Supplementary Data S2.
Nucleic acid isolation
Ganoderma lingzhi mycelia were collected by filtration, washed with distilled water, frozen, and ground with liquid nitrogen. Genomic DNA was then extracted using the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide method (Saghai-Maroof et al., 1984), and RNA was extracted using TRIzol (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
Quantitative real time-PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis
Following RNA isolation, 1 μg of total RNA was treated with DNase I (Fermentas, Canada) and reverse-transcribed using the PrimeScript™ RT reagent kit (Takara, China). The transcription levels of the squalene synthase gene (sqs), lanosterol synthase gene (ls), laeA, and gl25098 were then determined with the cDNA pools by qRT-PCR, as previously described (Zhang et al., 2017). The qRT-PCR primers used for amplification of sqs, ls, and gl25098 were also previously described (Sun et al., 2021). In addition, the primers used to amplify laeA included: qRT-LaeA-F: 5′-CCCACTCCGATCATTACCTCTC-3′ and qRT-LaeA-R: 5′-GGTTTAGCCCGTTTTGTCTTTC-3′. The transcription levels of target genes were normalized to the levels of the internal reference, the 18S-rRNA gene. Gene expression from the control strain was defined as 1.0, and the transcription levels of genes from other strains were expressed as fold changes in comparison to control strain expression. Relative expression levels were calculated using the 2ΔΔCt method.
Sequence analysis
Amino acid sequence alignments were performed using Clustal W (Thompson et al., 2002). Phylogenetic tree was constructed with MEGA 7.0 using the neighbor-joining method with 1,000 bootstraps (Kumar et al., 2016).
Statistical analysis
Data are presented as averages for three biological replicates, and the error bars indicate standard deviations from three replicates. Statistical analysis were performed using student’s t-test. Differences with value of p < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Results
Identification of a laeA ortholog in Ganoderma lingzhi
To identify laeA ortholog encoded by G. lingzhi, its genome was queried using the LaeA amino acid sequence of Hypsizygus marmoreus (RDB17513). The protein encoding gene gl27879 that is hereafter referred to as LaeA was identified with 44% to RDB17543 and with a corresponding E value of <1.00E−80. G. lingzhi laeA is 1,379-bp long and has an open reading frame of 1,125-bp that encodes a protein of 375 amino acids. The amino acid residues in the 115–295 region of G. lingzhi LaeA encode an S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase domain (Kadooka et al., 2020). Protein BLAST analysis revealed that G. lingzhi LaeA shares sequence identity with LaeA from H. marmoreus, C. cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum, and A. nidulans, (Figure 2A). Further, phylogenetic analysis indicated that G. lingzhi LaeA is more closely related to LaeA from basidiomycetes than to homologs in ascomycetes (Figure 2B).
Figure 2. (A) Multiple alignment of amino acid sequences of GL-LaeA (G. lingzhi) and homologous proteins including CC-LaeA (C. cinerea, CC1G_00498), FO-LaeA (F. oxysporum, RKL38237.1), AN-LaeA (A. nidulans, C8VQG9.1), and HM-LaeA (H. marmoreus, RDB17513.1). Alignments were generated using ClustalW. (B) Phylogenetic reconstruction of amino acid sequences of LaeA from different strains. The tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method with complete gap deletion in MEGA version 6.0.
Deletion of Ganoderma lingzhi laeA
To delete the laeA of G. lingzhi, two in vitro-transcribed sgRNAs and the pJW-EXP-ophph plasmid were combined and transformed into G. lingzhi pJW-EXP-intron-opCas9 protoplasts using a PEG-mediated method (Liu et al., 2020; Tu et al., 2021). Numerous colonies were present on the selective CYM plates containing 250 mg/l hygromycin B (Figure 3A). Putative transformants were chosen from the selective CYM plates after three rounds of growth on nonselective CYM plates (Figure 3B). No evident morphological differences were observed when comparing the transformants and control strains (data not shown). The transformants were subsequently characterized by genomic PCR. Amplification of a clear band for laeA (950 bp) was observed in the control strain and transformants 1 and 2, while amplification of an approximately 250 bp band was observed for the transformant 3 (Figure 3C). Further, a > 1,000 bp amplicon was identified in transformant 4, indicating the presence of an insertion mutant. Sequence analysis of the PCR products indicated that the sequence between LaeA-sgRNA1 and LaeA-sgRNA2 was deleted, as expected in transformant 3 (Figure 3D). Thus, laeA was successfully deleted from G. lingzhi.
Figure 3. Deletion of laeA in G. lingzhi. (A) Screening and (B) re-selection of hygromycine resistant transformants after sgRNA1 and sgRNA2 targeted the laeA were delivered into the Cas9 strain. (C) Determination of laeA deletion in G. lingzhi transformants by genomic PCR. (D) TA-cloning of laeA deletions in selected transformant 3. The sgRNA-guiding sequences are highlighted in yellow. WT, wild-type strain; 3, the laeA deletion strain.
Deletion of laeA reduced GA concentration by Ganoderma lingzhi
To analyze the effects of laeA deletion on GA production by G. lingzhi, the kinetics of mycelial growth, total GA concentration, and the concentrations of GA-T and GA-Me were determined in liquid static culture conditions. Mycelial growth and accumulation of GA exhibited similar trends in the control and ΔlaeA strain (Figure 4). The maximum dry cell weights in the control and ΔlaeA strains were 8.13 and 6.95 g/l on day 12, respectively (Figure 4A). Thus, the ΔlaeA strain exhibited a decrease in biomass accumulation by 15%. GA-T and GA-Me are the major GA components of G. lingzhi mycelia (Xu et al., 2019). Temporal analysis of total GAs, GA-T, and GA-Me in both the control and ΔlaeA strains is shown in Figures 4B–D. GA concentrations significantly increased and reached maximum values at day 9, followed by a slight decrease until the end of the fermentation. The maximum concentrations of total GAs, GA-T, and GA-Me in the ΔlaeA strain were 2.46 mg, 277 μg, and 115 μg per 100 mg dry weight on day 9, 12 and 12, respectively, representing decreases of 67, 60, and 49% compared to values on day 9 for the control strain, respectively.
Figure 4. Temporal profiles of (A) mycelial growth (A) and (B) concentrations of total GAs, (C) GA-T and (D) GA-Me in liquid static culture of control (filled) and ΔlaeA (open) strains.*a significantly different value compared to the control strain.
Effects of laeA deletion on accumulation of intermediates and expression of GA biosynthesis genes
Squalene and lanosterol are key intermediates in GA biosynthesis, and their accumulations were consequently determined in the control and ΔlaeA strains. The concentrations of squalene and lanosterol increased until day 9 and day 6 (Figures 5A,B), respectively, and then decreased thereafter in both strains. The maximum squalene concentration observed in the ΔlaeA strain was 0.5 μg/100 mg DW, representing a 0.51–time decrease in concentration compared to the control strain. The maximum lanosterol concentration in the ΔlaeA strain was 4.5 μg/100 mg DW, representing a 67% decrease compared to the control strain. Thus, less intermediates accumulated in the ΔlaeA strain compared to the control strain. The transcription levels of sqs in the ΔlaeA strain were 62, 18, and 30% those of the control strain on days 6, 9, and 12, respectively (Figure 5C). ls transcription levels in the ΔlaeA strain decreased to 46, 62, and 38% of the levels of the control strain on days 6, 9, and 12, respectively (Figure 5D).
Figure 5. Effects of laeA deletion on intermediate accumulation and gene expression levels of sqs and ls. Accumulation of (A) squalene and (B) lanosterol in the control (filled) and ΔlaeA (open) strains. Transcriptional levels of (C) sqs and (D) ls in the control and ΔlaeA strains. Expression of genes in the control strain is defined as 1.0, and the expression levels in the ΔlaeA strain are shown as fold changes compared to the reference.
Deletion of laeA decreased asexual spore abundances in Ganoderma lingzhi
The numbers of asexual spores were measured in both strains under liquid static culture condition. Temporal trends of asexual spore numbers were similar in the control (pJW-EXP-intron-opCas9 strain) and ΔlaeA strains, wherein asexual spore numbers increased during fermentation and reached maximum values on day 12 (Figure 6A). The ΔlaeA strain produced 1.72 × 107 asexual spores per cm2 on day 12, representing 81% of that produced by the control strain. The transcription levels of the asexual sporulation specific gene gl25098 (Sun et al., 2021) were also examined in the control and ΔlaeA strains. The transcription levels of gl25098 in the ΔlaeA strain were 20, 47, and 3% of the levels in the control strain on days 6, 9, and 12, respectively (Figure 6B).
Figure 6. Temporal profiles of asexual spore numbers (A) and (B) transcription levels of gl25098 during liquid static culture of the control (filled) and ΔlaeA (open) strains. *, significant difference compared to the control value. The transcription levels of genes in the control strain are defined as 1.0, and the transcription levels of genes in the ΔlaeA strain are expressed as fold changes relative to the control references.
LaeA overexpression in Ganoderma lingzhi
The plasmid pJW-Exp-LaeA (Figure 7A) was transformed into G. lingzhi (wild-type strain) protoplasts. Transformants were selected on CYM plates containing 2 mg/l carboxin after three rounds of growth on nonselective CYM plates (Figure 7B). The obtained transformants were confirmed with genomic PCR. Amplification yielded a clear band for the fused gpd promoter and the laeA fragment (1,670 bp) in the positive control and transformants 1, 2, 3, and 5 (Figure 7C). qRT-PCR analysis was then conducted to compare the transcription level of laeA in the mycelia of the wild type (WT) and the transformant 1 strains. laeA was overexpressed in transformant 1 under liquid static culture conditions. Further, the transcription levels of laeA in transformant 1 were 5.0-, 4.1-, and 5.5-fold higher than those of the WT strain on days 3, 6, and 9, respectively (Figure 7D).
Figure 7. (A) Plasmid pJW-EXP-LaeA used for transformation of G. lingzhi protoplasts and identification of laeA overexpressing strains. (B) Selection of laeA transformants on selective CYM plates. (C) Amplification patterns obtained with primers for the fusion gpd promoter-laeA fragment in genomic DNA isolated from different strains. (D) Relative transcriptional levels of laeA in the WT and laeA transformant strains. M, DNA marker; P, positive control; WT, wild-type strain.
LaeA overexpression increased GA concentration in Ganoderma lingzhi
The temporal trends of mycelial growth, concentrations of GA-Me and GA-T, and the abundances of asexual spores were evaluated in the laeA overexpressing and WT strains. Mycelial growth exhibited similar trends in both strains, with the maximum dry weights in the WT and laeA overexpressing strains being 9.31 and 9.75 g/l, respectively, under liquid static culture conditions (Figure 8A). Similar GA concentrations and asexual spore abundances were also observed for both strains (Figures 8B-D and Supplementary Figure S1). GA-T and GA-Me concentrations reached maximum levels on day 9 and declined on day 12, whereas the numbers of asexual spores increased during fermentation and reached maximum values at the end of fermentation. The maximum GA-T and GA-Me concentrations were 497 and 234 μg/100 mg DW in the laeA overexpressing strain, respectively, representing 1.25- and 1.20-fold higher values in the WT strain, respectively. In addition, the laeA overexpressing strain produced 2.70 × 107 asexual spores per cm2 on day 12, representing a 25% higher abundance than the WT strain.
Figure 8. Temporal profiles of (A) mycelial growth, (B) Concentrations of GA-T and (C) GA-Me, and (D) asexual spore numbers in liquid static culture of wild-type G. lingzhi (open) and laeA overexpressing strains (filled).* significantly difference in values compared to the wild-type G. lingzhi.
Discussion
Here, the involvement of LaeA in GA biosynthesis regulation was investigated by gene deletion and overexpression experiments. Deletion of laeA led to reduced GA concentration, whereas overexpression of laeA led to increased GA concentration. These results indicated that LaeA is a positive regulator of GA biosynthesis in Ganoderma. Previous studies have shown that LaeA plays an important role in regulating some secondary metabolites in ascomycetes. For example, LaeA is a positive regulator of the biosynthesis of helvolic acid (Tsunematsu et al., 2019), penicillin (Kosalkova et al., 2009), bikaverin (Wiemann et al., 2010) and mycotoxins (Estiarte et al., 2016) in Aspergillus fumigatus, P. chrysogenum, F. fujikuroi, and Alternaria alternata CBS 116.329 strain, respectively. LaeA also negatively regulates the biosynthesis of the virulence factor dothistromin (Chettri and Bradshaw, 2016) and the mycotoxin alternariol (Estiarte et al., 2016) in Dothistroma septosporum and A. alternata ATCC 66981 strain, respectively. Tsunematsu et al. recently reported that the deletion of laeA resulted in increased production of the siderophore coprinoferrin in the basidiomycete C. cinerea (Tsunematsu et al., 2019). Thus, the identification and characterization of different laeA will facilitate a broader understanding of GA biosynthesis regulation in Ganoderma.
sqs and ls transcription levels were drastically decreased in the ΔlaeA strain, suggesting LaeA regulated expression of GA biosynthesis genes. Similarly, deletion of laeA was shown to reduce the expression of the biosynthetic genes of sterigmatocystin (Bok and Keller, 2004) and bikaverin (Butchko et al., 2012) in A. nidulans and Fusarium verticillioides, respectively. It was hypothesized that LaeA could regulate the expression of genes involved in secondary metabolism by modifying fungal chromatin structure (Jain and Keller, 2013; Sarikaya-Bayram et al., 2015). However, the regulatory mechanism of GA biosynthesis by LaeA remains unclear and requires further investigation. The concentrations of the intermediates squalene and lanosterol were lower in the ΔlaeA strain compared to the control strain, consistent with decreased production of GA. Decreased transcription levels of sqs and ls may lead to lower accumulations of squalene and lanosterol in the ΔlaeA strains (Zhou et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2017). The results from this study indicated that the decreased concentration of GAs in the ΔlaeA strain could be attributed to the down-regulated expression of biosynthesis genes and decreased precursor concentrations. These results are consistent with previous observation of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin gene overexpression (Li et al., 2016a) and nitrogen limitation (Li et al., 2016b) in G. lucidum.
The ΔlaeA strain accumulates fewer asexual spores than the control strain, and the numbers of asexual spores were higher in the laeA overexpressing strain than in the WT strain. qRT-PCR indicated that the expression levels of asexual sporulation-specific genes were lower in the ΔlaeA strain. Thus, these results suggest that LaeA may be involved in the regulation of asexual sporulation in Ganoderma. Decreased asexual sporulation in Aspergillus flavus (Kale et al., 2008), Alternaria alternate (Takao et al., 2016), and T. longibrachiatum (Shi et al., 2020) laeA deletion strains had been previously documented. The influence of LaeA on asexual sporulation may be related to the expression of velvet family proteins in fungi (Jain and Keller, 2013; Aghcheh et al., 2014; Sarikaya-Bayram et al., 2015). Previous studies have shown that asexual spores accumulate higher levels of GAs than mycelia in liquid static culture of G. lucidum (Zhang and Zhong, 2010; Sun et al., 2021). The results of this study suggest that the decreased GA concentration in the ΔlaeA strain may be at least partially related to decreased accumulation of asexual spores.
Conclusion
In this study, the function of LaeA was investigated by gene deletion and overexpression in G. lingzhi. The results suggested that LaeA plays an important role in GA biosynthesis by regulating the expression of biosynthetic genes and asexual sporulation. These new insights help improve our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of GA biosynthesis in Ganoderma.
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Author contributions
QL and NL: methodology, validation, investigation and writing—original draft preparation. J-WX: supervision, project administration, funding acquisition and writing—review and editing. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81860668) and the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project (No. 2018FB065). J-WX also thanks to the Yunnan 10,000 Talents Plan-Young and Elite Talents Project.
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Keywords: ganoderma, ganoderic acids, regulator LaeA, biosynthesis, secondary metabolite
Citation: Luo Q, Li N and Xu J-W (2022) A methyltransferase LaeA regulates ganoderic acid biosynthesis in Ganoderma lingzhi. Front. Microbiol. 13:1025983. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1025983
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