Sel’skokhozyaistvennaya Biologiya [Agricultural Biology], 2016, V. 51, № 4, pp. 533-542.

doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2016.4.533eng

UDC 636.085.19:615.917:579.64:579.222

Acknowledgements:
Supported financially by Russian Science Foundation (RSF project № 14-16-00150)

 

SOME NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS INHIBITING THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF AFLATOXIN B1 AND MELANIN IN Aspergillus flavus

V.G. Dzhavakhiya, T.M. Voinova, S.B. Popletaeva, N.V. Statsyuk,
O.D. Mikityuk, T.A. Nazarova, L.A. Shcherbakova

All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, 5, ul. Institute, pos. Bol’shie Vyazemy, Odintsovskii Region,Moscow Province, 143050 Russia,
e-mail dzhavakhiya@yahoo.com, tatiana.voinova@bk.ru, unavil@yandex.ru, nataafg@gmail.com, mod-39@list.ru, makeev@vniif.ru, larisa@vniif.ru

Received May 26, 2016

 

The control of the mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products represents a serious problem of the global food and feed industry. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is one of the most dangerous mycotoxins due to its hepatotoxicity, carcinogenicity, and temperature resistance. Thus, the search for substances able to block its biosynthesis and, therefore, to prevent the toxin accumulation in food and feed is still relevant. This paper is devoted to the study of the ability of some natural and synthesized compounds to block the biosynthesis of AFB1 and/or melanin (both are secondary metabolites, which have common intermediates and common initial stages of the polyketide biosynthetic pathway) in toxigenic Aspergillus flavus. The studied compounds included lovastatin, and several commercial compounds: (aminoethyl)thiophosphonic acid, (aminomethyl)thiophosphonic acid, alafosfalin, (1-aminoethyl)phosphonic acid, and N-hydroxyputrescine. A mutant Aspergillus terreus strain 45-50 obtained earlier from the A. terreus ATCC 20542 was used as the lovastatin producer. N-hydroxy-putrescine and some phosphoanalogues of amino acids were assessed by their influence on the pigmentation of fungal colonies grown on solid medium and on the specific AFB1 content in cultural broth determined after the cultivation of a fungus on liquid nutrition medium. According to the obtained results, the studied compounds were divided into three groups. To reveal changes in the colony morphology, toxigenic A. flavus strain AF11 was cultivated on agarized medium. Concentrations of tested compounds in the medium varied from 0.0001 to 0.1 % depending on their activity. To determine the effect of tested compounds on the AFB1 production, AF11 was cultivated for 170 h in a liquid Payne-Hagler medium. Solutions of the tested compounds were added to the medium up to the final concentration of 0.001-0.1 % (commercial compounds) or 0.0001 to 0.001 % (lovastatin). The efficiency of the AFB1 biosynthesis stimulation/inhibition was assessed by the comparison of its content in the cultural broth in the experimental and control (medium without additions) variants. In addition, the effect of lovastatin on the AFB1 accumulation in wheat grain contaminated with A. flavus AF11 was assessed. The performed screening allowed us to divide the studied compounds into three groups. The supplement of the nutrition medium with (aminoethyl)thiophosphonic acid, (aminomethyl)thiophosphonic acid, and alafosfalin caused a significant decrease in the AFB1 production, but did not influenced on the colony pigmentation. N-hydroxyputrescine and (1-aminoethyl)phosphonic acid were able to partially or completely block the melanin biosynthesis with the simultaneous increase in the AFB1 production. Lovastatin completely blocked both AFB1 and melanin production even at low concentrations (0.0005 %). Therefore, compounds from the first and second groups inhibit the AFB1 or melanin biosynthesis, respectively, via the blocking of stages located after the point of divergence of the corresponding biosynthetic pathways, whereas lovastatin either inhibits the polyketide biosynthesis before this divergence point, or simultaneously inhibits both AFB1 and melanin biosynthetic pathways after the divergence point. Thus, we first revealed the ability of lovastatin to efficiently inhibit the AFB1 biosynthesis and also to suppress the growth and development of a toxigenic A. flavus. We also showed that the treatment of wheat grain with lovastatin at 0.25 and 0.5 mg/g before the contamination of wheat with toxigenic A. flavus reduced the AFB1 accumulation in the grain 4-fold and 20-fold, respectively. Taking into account the non-toxicity of lovastatin and the possibility of its highly-productive microbiological synthesis, the further study of the revealed new property of this compound seems to be very promising for a development of new antiaflatoxigenic preparations able to prevent the contamination of animal feed with AFB1.

Keywords: aflatoxin B1, fungal melanins, polyketides, biosynthesis inhibitors, statins, amino acid analogues.

 

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