PMID- 35287031 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220405 LR - 20220415 IS - 1879-3460 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1605 (Linking) VI - 369 DP - 2022 May 16 TI - Energy metabolism as the target of 3-phenyllactic acid against Rhizopus oryzae. PG - 109606 LID - S0168-1605(22)00077-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109606 [doi] AB - 3-phenyllactic acid (PLA) has broad anti-fungal activity, however, target sites of PLA on fungal cells and its anti-fungal mechanism of action have been poorly studied. In this study, we explored the inhibition mechanism of Rhizopus oryzae (R. oryzae) on rotten lily bulbs by PLA. The minimum inhibitory concentration value of PLA against R. oryzae was 8 mg/mL. We observed the ultrastructure of R. oryzae by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy which indicated that PLA did not damage the cell membrane, but destroyed the mitochondria and other organelles. Tandem mass tag proteomes showed that PLA significantly down-regulated (P < 0.05) the expression of hexokinase (HK), phosphofructokinase (PFK), a-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (a-KGDH), adenylate kinase (ADK1), Cytochrome C oxidase and NADH dehydrogenase, and up-regulated (P < 0.05) the expression of mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier proteins (AAC) and subunit IV (CCIO IV) in glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycle or oxidative phosphorylation metabolism. Following these findings, down-regulated HK and a-KGDH activity of aforementioned pathways was shown by enzyme activity assay, and regulated gene expression of ADK1, AAC, CCIO IV and NADH dehydrogenase was further confirmed by real-time quantitative PCR. Central carbon metabolomics showed that citric acid, cis-Aconitic acid, isocitric acid, alpha-Ketoglutaric acid, succinate, fumarate and malic acid of the tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolites were significantly down-regulated (P < 0.05), and ATP production by oxidative phosphorylation was also significantly reduced (P = 0.02), resulting in insufficient energy production. Thus, ROS levels increased by 141% of the control values and cytochrome C was released, resulting in gradual cell apoptosis. All data indicated that energy metabolism was the target of PLA against R. oryzae. This was the first study to show that energy metabolism could be the target of PLA against R. oryzae, which could provide a theoretical basis to study the mechanism of fungal inhibition. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Fan, Wenguang AU - Fan W AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. Electronic address: fanwenguang_88@163.com. FAU - Li, Baoyu AU - Li B AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. FAU - Du, Nana AU - Du N AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. FAU - Hui, Tian AU - Hui T AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. FAU - Cao, Yingying AU - Cao Y AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. FAU - Li, Xin AU - Li X AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. FAU - Ren, Haiwei AU - Ren H AD - School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730050, PR China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220301 PL - Netherlands TA - Int J Food Microbiol JT - International journal of food microbiology JID - 8412849 RN - 0 (Lactates) RN - 156-05-8 (3-phenyllactic acid) SB - IM EIN - Int J Food Microbiol. 2022 Jun 2;370:109676. PMID: 35422361 MH - *Energy Metabolism MH - Glycolysis MH - Lactates/metabolism MH - Rhizopus/metabolism MH - *Rhizopus oryzae OTO - NOTNLM OT - 3-phenyllactic acid OT - Anti-fungal mechanism OT - Energy metabolism OT - Rhizopus oryzae EDAT- 2022/03/15 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/06 06:00 CRDT- 2022/03/14 20:13 PHST- 2021/09/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/02/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/03/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/14 20:13 [entrez] AID - S0168-1605(22)00077-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109606 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Food Microbiol. 2022 May 16;369:109606. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109606. Epub 2022 Mar 1.