Life (Jun 2022)

Effects of Heat Stress and Exogenous Salicylic Acid on Secondary Metabolites Biosynthesis in <i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i> (Jacq.) P. Kumm

  • Yanru Hu,
  • Qianqian Chai,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Yujie Chen,
  • Haozhe Dong,
  • Jinwen Shen,
  • Yuancheng Qi,
  • Haiyou Yu,
  • Fengqin Wang,
  • Qing Wen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/life12060915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 6
p. 915

Abstract

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Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm has high medicinal value, but few studies exist on regulating secondary metabolite biosynthesis. Environmental factors play a substantial role in the accumulation of microbial secondary metabolites. In this study, the effects of heat stress (24 h) and salicylic acid (0.05 mmol/L) treatment on the secondary metabolism of P. ostreatus were analyzed by metabolome, transcriptome, and gene differential expression analysis. Metabolome and transcriptome analyses showed that salicylic acid significantly increased the accumulation of antibiotics and polyketones, while heat stress increased the accumulation of flavonoids, polyketones, terpenoids, and polysaccharides. The content and the biosynthetic genes expression of heparin were markedly increased by heat stress, and the former was increased by 4565.54-fold. This study provides a reference for future studies on secondary metabolite accumulation in edible fungi.

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