Arachidonic acid metabolites in pathogenic yeasts

Lipids in Health and Disease

Review

Jacobus Albertyn¹  Ruan Ells¹  Johan LF Kock¹  Carolina H Pohl² 

[1] Department of Microbial, biochemical and food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, 9300, Bloemfontein, South Africa;Department of Microbial, biochemical and food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, 9300, Bloemfontein, South Africa;Department of Microbial, biochemical and food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, 9300, Bloemfontein, South Africa;

关键词: Arachidonic acid;    Oxylipins;    Pathogenic;    Yeasts;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-511X-11-100

 received in 2012-06-19, accepted in 2012-08-03,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Although most of what is known about the biology and function of arachidonic acid metabolites comes from the study of mammalian biology, these compounds can also be produced by lower eukaryotes, including yeasts and other fungi. It is also in this group of organisms that the least is known about the metabolic pathways leading to the production of these compounds as well as the functions of these compounds in the biology of fungi and yeasts. This review will deal with the discovery of oxylipins from polyunsaturated fatty acids, and more specifically the arachidonic acid derived eicosanoids, such as 3-hydroxy eicosatetraenoic acid, prostaglandin F2α and prostaglandin E2, in yeasts starting in the early 1990s. This review will also focus on what is known about the metabolic pathways and/or proteins involved in the production of these compounds in pathogenic yeasts. The possible roles of these compounds in the biology, including the pathology, of these organisms will be discussed.

【 授权许可】

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© Ells et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.