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Li S, Chen F, Wei X, Yuan L, Qin J, Li R, Chen B. CpSmt3, an ortholog of small ubiquitin-like modifier, is essential for growth, organelle function, virulence, and antiviral defense in Cryphonectria parasitica. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1391855. [PMID: 38784801 PMCID: PMC11111931 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1391855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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Introduction SUMOylation is an important post-translational modification that regulates the expression, localization, and activity of substrate proteins, thereby participating in various important cellular processes such as the cell cycle, cell metabolism, gene transcription, and antiviral activity. However, the function of SUMOylation in phytopathogenic fungi has not yet been adequately explored. Methods A comprehensive analysis composed of proteomics, affinity pull-down, molecular and cellular approaches was performed to explore the roles of SUMOylation in Cryphonectria parasitica, the fungal pathogen responsible for chestnut blight. Results and discussion CpSmt3, the gene encoding the SUMO protein CpSmt3 in C. parasitica was identified and characterized. Deletion of the CpSmt3 gene resulted in defects in mycelial growth and hyphal morphology, suppression of sporulation, attenuation of virulence, weakening of stress tolerance, and elevated accumulation of hypovirus dsRNA. The ΔCpSmt3 deletion mutant exhibited an increase in mitochondrial ROS, swollen mitochondria, excess autophagy, and thickened cell walls. About 500 putative SUMO substrate proteins were identified by affinity pull-down, among which many were implicated in the cell cycle, ribosome, translation, and virulence. Proteomics and SUMO substrate analyses further revealed that deletion of CpSmt3 reduced the accumulation of CpRho1, an important protein that is involved in TOR signal transduction. Silencing of CpRho1 resulted in a phenotype similar to that of ΔCpSmt3, while overexpression of CpRho1 could partly rescue some of the prominent defects in ΔCpSmt3. Together, these findings demonstrate that SUMOylation by CpSmt3 is vitally important and provide new insights into the SUMOylation-related regulatory mechanisms in C. parasitica.
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- Shuangcai Li
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzyme Engineering Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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Wang J, Quan R, He X, Fu Q, Tian S, Zhao L, Li S, Shi L, Li R, Chen B. Hypovirus infection induces proliferation and perturbs functions of mitochondria in the chestnut blight fungus. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1206603. [PMID: 37448575 PMCID: PMC10336323 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1206603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Introduction The chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, and hypovirus have been used as a model to probe the mechanism of virulence and regulation of traits important to the host fungus. Previous studies have indicated that mitochondria could be the primary target of the hypovirus. Methods In this study, we report a comprehensive and comparative study comprising mitochondrion quantification, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and respiratory efficiency, and quantitative mitochondrial proteomics of the wild-type and virus-infected strains of the chestnut blight fungus. Results and discussion Our data show that hypovirus infection increases the total number of mitochondria, lowers the general ROS level, and increases mitochondrial respiratory efficiency. Quantification of mitochondrial proteomes revealed that a set of proteins functioning in energy metabolism and mitochondrial morphogenesis, as well as virulence, were regulated by the virus. In addition, two viral proteins, p29 and p48, were found to co-fractionate with the mitochondrial membrane and matrix. These results suggest that hypovirus perturbs the host mitochondrial functions to result in hypovirulence.
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- Jinzi Wang
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory for Polysaccharide Materials and Modifications, Key Laboratory of Protection and Utilization of Marine Resources, School of Marine Sciences and Biotechnology, Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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Francisco CS, McDonald BA, Palma-Guerrero J. A transcription factor and a phosphatase regulate temperature-dependent morphogenesis in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Fungal Genet Biol 2023; 167:103811. [PMID: 37196910 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2023.103811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Naturally fluctuating temperatures provide a constant environmental stress that requires adaptation. Some fungal pathogens respond to heat stress by producing new morphotypes that maximize their overall fitness. The fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici responds to heat stress by switching from its yeast-like blastospore form to hyphae or chlamydospores. The regulatory mechanisms underlying this switch are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that a differential heat stress response is ubiquitous in Z. tritici populations around the world. We used QTL mapping to identify a single locus associated with the temperature-dependent morphogenesis and we found two genes, the transcription factor ZtMsr1 and the protein phosphatase ZtYvh1, regulating this mechanism. We find that ZtMsr1 regulates repression of hyphal growth and induces chlamydospore formation whereas ZtYvh1 is required for hyphal growth. We next showed that chlamydospore formation is a response to the intracellular osmotic stress generated by the heat stress. This intracellular stress stimulates the cell wall integrity (CWI) and high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) MAPK pathways resulting in hyphal growth. If cell wall integrity is compromised, however, ZtMsr1 represses the hyphal development program and may induce the chlamydospore-inducing genes as a stress-response survival strategy. Taken together, these results suggest a novel mechanism through which morphological transitions are orchestrated in Z. tritici - a mechanism that may also be present in other pleomorphic fungi.
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- Plant Pathology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, 8092 ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Plant Pathology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, 8092 ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
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Ko Y, Chun J, Yang H, Kim D. Hypoviral-regulated HSP90 co-chaperone p23 (CpCop23) determines the colony morphology, virulence, and viral response of chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2023; 24:413-424. [PMID: 36762926 PMCID: PMC10098053 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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We previously identified a protein spot that showed down-regulation in the presence of Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1) and tannic acid supplementation as a Hsp90 co-chaperone p23 gene (CpCop23). The CpCop23-null mutant strain showed retarded growth with less aerial mycelia and intense pigmentation. Conidia of the CpCop23-null mutant were significantly decreased and their viability was dramatically diminished. The CpCop23-null mutant showed hypersensitivity to Hsp90 inhibitors. However, no differences in responsiveness were observed after exposure to other stressors such as temperature, reactive oxygen species, and high osmosis, the exception being cell wall-disturbing agents. A severe reduction in virulence was observed in the CpCop23-null mutant. Interestingly, viral transfer to the CpCop23-null mutant from CHV1-infected strain via anastomosis was more inefficient than a comparable transfer with the wild type as a result of decreased hyphal branching of the CpCop23-null mutant around the peripheral region, which resulted in less fusion of the hyphae. The CHV1-infected CpCop23-null mutant exhibited recovered mycelial growth with less pigmentation and sporulation. The CHV1-transfected CpCop23-null mutant demonstrated almost no virulence, that is, even less than that of the CHV1-infected wild type (UEP1), a further indication that reduced virulence of the mutant is not attributable exclusively to the retarded growth but rather is a function of the CpCop23 gene. Thus, this study indicates that CpCop23 plays a role in ensuring appropriate mycelial growth and development, spore viability, responses to antifungal drugs, and fungal virulence. Moreover, the CpCop23 gene acts as a host factor that affects CHV1-infected fungal growth and maintains viral symptom development.
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- Yo‐Han Ko
- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and GeneticsJeonbuk National UniversityJeonjuSouth Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and GeneticsJeonbuk National UniversityJeonjuSouth Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and GeneticsJeonbuk National UniversityJeonjuSouth Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and GeneticsJeonbuk National UniversityJeonjuSouth Korea
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Müller M, Kües U, Budde KB, Gailing O. Applying molecular and genetic methods to trees and their fungal communities. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 107:2783-2830. [PMID: 36988668 PMCID: PMC10106355 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12480-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Forests provide invaluable economic, ecological, and social services. At the same time, they are exposed to several threats, such as fragmentation, changing climatic conditions, or increasingly destructive pests and pathogens. Trees, the inherent species of forests, cannot be viewed as isolated organisms. Manifold (micro)organisms are associated with trees playing a pivotal role in forest ecosystems. Of these organisms, fungi may have the greatest impact on the life of trees. A multitude of molecular and genetic methods are now available to investigate tree species and their associated organisms. Due to their smaller genome sizes compared to tree species, whole genomes of different fungi are routinely compared. Such studies have only recently started in forest tree species. Here, we summarize the application of molecular and genetic methods in forest conservation genetics, tree breeding, and association genetics as well as for the investigation of fungal communities and their interrelated ecological functions. These techniques provide valuable insights into the molecular basis of adaptive traits, the impacts of forest management, and changing environmental conditions on tree species and fungal communities and can enhance tree-breeding cycles due to reduced time for field testing. It becomes clear that there are multifaceted interactions among microbial species as well as between these organisms and trees. We demonstrate the versatility of the different approaches based on case studies on trees and fungi. KEY POINTS: • Current knowledge of genetic methods applied to forest trees and associated fungi. • Genomic methods are essential in conservation, breeding, management, and research. • Important role of phytobiomes for trees and their ecosystems.
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- Markus Müller
- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty for Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
- Center for Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed), University of Goettingen, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Molecular Wood Biotechnology and Technical Mycology, Faculty for Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- Center of Sustainable Land Use (CBL), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty for Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- Center of Sustainable Land Use (CBL), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty for Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- Center for Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed), University of Goettingen, 37073, Göttingen, Germany
- Center of Sustainable Land Use (CBL), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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Shao L, Tan Y, Song S, Wang Y, Liu Y, Huang Y, Ren X, Liu Z. Achog1 is required for the asexual sporulation, stress responses and pigmentation of Aspergillus cristatus. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1003244. [PMID: 36504805 PMCID: PMC9733950 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1003244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Aspergillus cristatus is the dominant fungus during the fermentation of Fuzhuan brick tea; hypotonic conditions only induce its sexual development to produce ascospores, while hypertonic conditions only induce its asexual development to produce conidia, indicating that osmotic stress can regulate spore production in A. cristatus. However, the underlying regulatory mechanism is unclear. In this study, the role of Achog1, which is homologous to hog1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in sporulation, different kinds of stress responses and pigment production was investigated. Deletion mutants of Achog1 were obtained by homologous recombination. Phenotypic observations showed that the time required to produce conidia was delayed, and the number of conidia produced was significantly reduced in the deletion mutants of Achog1 in hypertonic media, indicating that Achog1 plays a positive role in asexual development. Stress sensitivity tests showed that ΔAchog1 strains were sensitive to hyperosmolarity, and the order of the sensitivity of ΔAchog1 to different osmotic regulators was 3 M sucrose >3 M NaCl >3 M sorbitol. Moreover, the deletion mutants were sensitive to high oxidative stress. pH sensitivity tests indicated that Achog1 inhibited the growth of A. cristatus under alkaline stress. Additionally, pigmentation was decreased in the Achog1 deletion mutants compared with the WT. All the above developmental defects were reversed by the reintroduction of the Achog1 gene in ΔAchog1. Pull-down and LC-MS/MS analysis showed that the expression levels of proteins interacting with Achog1 were significantly different under low and high osmotic stress, and proteins related to conidial development were present only in the cultures treated with hyperosmotic stress. Transcription profiling data showed that Achog1 suppressed the expression of several genes related to asexual development, osmotic and oxidative stress resistance. On the basis of gene knockout, pull-down mass spectrometry and RNA-seq analyses, a regulatory pathway for Achog1 was roughly identified in A. cristatus.
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- Lei Shao
- College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China,*Correspondence: Yumei Tan,
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guiyang, China,Institute of Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, China,Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China,Zuoyi Liu,
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Chun J, Ko YH, So KK, Cho SH, Kim DH. A fungal GPI-anchored protein gene functions as a virulence and antiviral factor. Cell Rep 2022; 41:111481. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Zhang M, Wang T, Li Y, Bi Y, Li R, Yuan J, Xu W, Prusky D. AaHog1 Regulates Infective Structural Differentiation Mediated by Physicochemical Signals from Pear Fruit Cuticular Wax, Stress Response, and Alternaria alternata Pathogenicity. J Fungi (Basel) 2022; 8:jof8030266. [PMID: 35330268 PMCID: PMC8952436 DOI: 10.3390/jof8030266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The high-osmolarity glycerol response kinase, Hog1, affects several cellular responses, but the precise regulatory role of the Hog1 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase in the differentiation of the infective structure of Alternariaalternata induced by pear cuticular wax and hydrophobicity has not yet clarified. In this study, the AaHog1 in A. alternata was identified and functionally characterized. AaHog1 has threonine-glycine-tyrosine (TGY) phosphorylation sites. Moreover, the expression level of AaHog1 was significantly upregulated during the stages of appressorium formation of A. alternata on the fruit-wax-extract-coated GelBond hydrophobic film surface. Importantly, our results showed that the appressorium and infection hyphae formation rates were significantly reduced in ΔAaHog1 mutants. Furthermore, AaHog1 is beneficial for the growth and development, stress tolerance, virulence, and cell-wall-degrading enzyme activity of A. alternata. These findings may be useful for dissecting the AaHog1 regulatory mechanism in relation to the pathogenesis of A. alternata.
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- Miao Zhang
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
- Correspondence:
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China; (M.Z.); (T.W.); (Y.B.); (R.L.); (J.Y.); (W.X.); (D.P.)
- Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 50250, Israel
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Yang Z, Liu Q, Sun Y, Sun X, Chen L, Sun L, Gu W. Synthesis, Antifungal Activity, DFT Study and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Novel 4-(1,2,4-Oxadiazol-3-yl)-N-(4-phenoxyphenyl)benzamide Derivatives. Chem Biodivers 2021; 18:e2100651. [PMID: 34626068 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202100651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In order to find novel potential antifungal agrochemicals, a series of new 4-(1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)-N-(4-phenoxyphenyl)benzamide derivatives 3a-j were designed, synthesized and characterized by their 1 H-, 13 C-NMR and HRMS spectra. The preliminary antifungal assay in vitro revealed that compounds 3a-j exhibited moderate to good antifungal activity against five plant pathogenic fungi. Especially, compound 3e presented significant antifungal activity against Alternaria solani, Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, superior to positive control boscalid. In the in vivo antifungal assay on tomato plants and cucumber leaves, compound 3e presented good inhibition rate against B. cinerea at 200 mg/L. Molecular dynamics simulation revealed that compound 3e could bind with the active site of class II histone deacetylase (HDAC).
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- Zihui Yang
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass, Jiangsu Key Lab of Biomass-based Green Fuels, Chemicals, Co - Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Products, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, P. R. China
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Zhang X, Wang Z, Jiang C, Xu JR. Regulation of biotic interactions and responses to abiotic stresses by MAP kinase pathways in plant pathogenic fungi. STRESS BIOLOGY 2021; 1:5. [PMID: 37676417 PMCID: PMC10429497 DOI: 10.1007/s44154-021-00004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Like other eukaryotes, fungi use MAP kinase (MAPK) pathways to mediate cellular changes responding to external stimuli. In the past two decades, three well-conserved MAP kinase pathways have been characterized in various plant pathogenic fungi for regulating responses and adaptations to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses encountered during plant infection or survival in nature. The invasive growth (IG) pathway is homologous to the yeast pheromone response and filamentation pathways. In plant pathogens, the IG pathway often is essential for pathogenesis by regulating infection-related morphogenesis, such as appressorium formation, penetration, and invasive growth. The cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway also is important for plant infection although the infection processes it regulates vary among fungal pathogens. Besides its universal function in cell wall integrity, it often plays a minor role in responses to oxidative and cell wall stresses. Both the IG and CWI pathways are involved in regulating known virulence factors as well as effector genes during plant infection and mediating defenses against mycoviruses, bacteria, and other fungi. In contrast, the high osmolarity growth (HOG) pathway is dispensable for virulence in some fungi although it is essential for plant infection in others. It regulates osmoregulation in hyphae and is dispensable for appressorium turgor generation. The HOG pathway also plays a major role for responding to oxidative, heat, and other environmental stresses and is overstimulated by phenylpyrrole fungicides. Moreover, these three MAPK pathways crosstalk and coordinately regulate responses to various biotic and abiotic stresses. The IG and CWI pathways, particularly the latter, also are involved in responding to abiotic stresses to various degrees in different fungal pathogens, and the HOG pathway also plays a role in interactions with other microbes or fungi. Furthermore, some infection processes or stress responses are co-regulated by MAPK pathways with cAMP or Ca2+/CaM signaling. Overall, functions of individual MAP kinase pathways in pathogenesis and stress responses have been well characterized in a number of fungal pathogens, showing the conserved genetic elements with diverged functions, likely by rewiring transcriptional regulatory networks. In the near future, applications of genomics and proteomics approaches will likely lead to better understanding of crosstalk among the MAPKs and with other signaling pathways as well as roles of MAPKs in defense against other microbes (biotic interactions).
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- Xue Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and NWAFU-Purdue Joint Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and NWAFU-Purdue Joint Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Distinct Roles of Two DNA Methyltransferases from Cryphonectria parasitica in Fungal Virulence, Responses to Hypovirus Infection, and Viral Clearance. mBio 2021; 12:mBio.02890-20. [PMID: 33563819 PMCID: PMC8545091 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02890-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Two DNA methyltransferase (DNMTase) genes from Cryphonectria parasitica have been previously identified as CpDmt1 and CpDmt2, which are orthologous to rid and dim-2 of Neurospora crassa, respectively. While global changes in DNA methylation have been associated with fungal sectorization and CpDmt1 but not CpDmt2 has been implicated in the sporadic sectorization, the present study continues to investigate the biological functions of both DNMTase genes. Transcription of both DNMTases is regulated in response to infection with the Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1-EP713). CpDmt1 is upregulated and CpDmt2 is downregulated by CHV1 infection. Conidium production and response to heat stress are affected only by mutation of CpDmt1, not by CpDmt2 mutation. Significant changes in virulence are observed in opposite directions; i.e., the CpDmt1-null mutant is hypervirulent, while the CpDmt2-null mutant is hypovirulent. Compared to the CHV1-infected wild type, CHV1-transferred single and double mutants show severe growth retardation: the colony size is less than 10% that of the parental virus-free null mutants, and their titers of transferred CHV1 are higher than that of the wild type, implying that no defect in viral replication occurs. However, as cultivation proceeds, spontaneous viral clearance is observed in hypovirus-infected colonies of the null mutants, which has never been reported in this fungus-virus interaction. This study demonstrates that both DNMTases are significant factors in fungal development and virulence. Each fungal DNMTase affects fungal biology in both common and separate ways. In addition, both genes are essential to the antiviral responses, including viral clearance which depends on their mutations.
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Plaza V, Silva-Moreno E, Castillo L. Breakpoint: Cell Wall and Glycoproteins and their Crucial Role in the Phytopathogenic Fungi Infection. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2021; 21:227-244. [PMID: 31490745 DOI: 10.2174/1389203720666190906165111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The cell wall that surrounds fungal cells is essential for their survival, provides protection against physical and chemical stresses, and plays relevant roles during infection. In general, the fungal cell wall is composed of an outer layer of glycoprotein and an inner skeletal layer of β-glucans or α- glucans and chitin. Chitin synthase genes have been shown to be important for septum formation, cell division and virulence. In the same way, chitin can act as a potent elicitor to activate defense response in several plant species; however, the fungi can convert chitin to chitosan during plant infection to evade plant defense mechanisms. Moreover, α-1,3-Glucan, a non-degradable polysaccharide in plants, represents a key feature in fungal cell walls formed in plants and plays a protective role for this fungus against plant lytic enzymes. A similar case is with β-1,3- and β-1,6-glucan which are essential for infection, structure rigidity and pathogenicity during fungal infection. Cell wall glycoproteins are also vital to fungi. They have been associated with conidial separation, the increase of chitin in conidial cell walls, germination, appressorium formation, as well as osmotic and cell wall stress and virulence; however, the specific roles of glycoproteins in filamentous fungi remain unknown. Fungi that can respond to environmental stimuli distinguish these signals and relay them through intracellular signaling pathways to change the cell wall composition. They play a crucial role in appressorium formation and penetration, and release cell wall degrading enzymes, which determine the outcome of the interaction with the host. In this review, we highlight the interaction of phypatophogen cell wall and signaling pathways with its host and their contribution to fungal pathogenesis.
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- Verónica Plaza
- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Temuco, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
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Igbalajobi O, Gao J, Fischer R. The HOG Pathway Plays Different Roles in Conidia and Hyphae During Virulence of Alternaria alternata. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2020; 33:1405-1410. [PMID: 33104446 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-06-20-0165-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The black mold Alternaria alternata causes dramatic losses in agriculture due to postharvest colonization and mycotoxin formation and is a weak pathogen on living plants. Fungal signaling processes are crucial for successful colonization of a host plant. Because the mitogen-activated protein kinase HogA is important for the expression of stress-associated genes, we tested a ∆hogA-deletion strain for pathogenicity. When conidia were used as inoculum, the ∆hogA-deletion strain was largely impaired in colonizing tomato and apple. In comparison, hyphae as inoculum colonized the fruit very well. Hence, HogA appears to be important only in the initial stages of plant colonization. A similar difference between conidial inoculum and hyphal inoculum was observed on artificial medium in the presence of different stress agents. Whereas wild-type conidia adapted well to different stresses, the ∆hogA-deletion strain failed to grow under the same conditions. With hyphae as inoculum, the wild type and the ∆hogA-deletion strain grew in a very similar way. At the molecular level, we observed upregulation of several catalase (catA, -B, and -D) and superoxide dismutase (sodA, -B, and -E) genes in germlings but not in hyphae after exposure to 4 mM hydrogen peroxide. The upregulation required the high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway. In contrast, in mycelia, catD, sodA, sodB, and sodE were upregulated upon stress in the absence of HogA. Several other stress-related genes behaved in a similar way.
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- Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)-South Campus, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Microbiology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4,D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)-South Campus, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Microbiology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4,D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)-South Campus, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Microbiology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4,D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Chun J, Na B, Kim DH. Characterization of a novel dsRNA mycovirus of Trichoderma atroviride NFCF377 reveals a member of "Fusagraviridae" with changes in antifungal activity of the host fungus. J Microbiol 2020; 58:1046-1053. [PMID: 33095387 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-020-0380-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Trichoderma atroviride is a common fungus found in various ecosystems that shows mycoparasitic ability on other fungi. A novel dsRNA virus was isolated from T. atroviride NFCF377 strain and its molecular features were analyzed. The viral genome consists of a single segmented double-stranded RNA and is 9,584 bp in length, with two discontinuous open reading frames (ORF1 and ORF2). A mycoviral structural protein and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) are encoded by ORF1 and ORF2, respectively, between which is found a canonical shifty heptameric signal motif (AAAAAAC) followed by an RNA pseudoknot. Analysis of sequence similarity and phylogeny showed that it is closely related to members of the proposed family "Fusagraviridae", with a highest similarity to the Trichoderma atroviride mycovirus 1 (TaMV1). Although the sequence similarity of deduced amino acid to TaMV1 was evident, sequence deviations were distinctive at untranslated regions (UTRs) due to the extended size. Thus, we inferred this dsRNA to be a different strain of Trichoderma atroviride mycovirus 1 (TaMV1-NFCF377). Electron microscopy image exhibited an icosahedral viral particle of 40 nm diameter. Virus-cured isogenic isolates were generated and no differences in growth rate, colony morphology, or conidia production were observed between virus-infected and virus-cured strains. However, culture filtrates of TaMV1-NFCF377-infected strain showed enhanced antifungal activity against the plant pathogen Rhizoctonia solani but not to edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus. These results suggested that TaMV1-NFCF377 affected the metabolism of the fungal host to potentiate antifungal compounds against a plant pahogen, but this enhanced antifungal activity appeared to be species-specific.
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- Jeesun Chun
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Molecular Biology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea.
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Chun J, Ko YH, Kim DH. Transcriptome Analysis of Cryphonectria parasitica Infected With Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1) Reveals Distinct Genes Related to Fungal Metabolites, Virulence, Antiviral RNA-Silencing, and Their Regulation. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1711. [PMID: 32765480 PMCID: PMC7379330 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Comprehensive transcriptome analysis was conducted to elucidate the molecular basis of the interaction between chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, and single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) mycovirus Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1), using RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq). A total of 1,023 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were affected by CHV1 infection, of which 753 DEGs were upregulated and 270 DEGs were downregulated. Significant correlations in qRT-PCR analysis of 20 randomly selected DEGs and agreement with previously characterized marker genes validated our RNA-seq analysis as representing global transcriptional profiling of virus-free and -infected isogenic strains of C. parasitica. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis of DEGs indicated that “cellular aromatic compound metabolic process” and “transport” were the two most enriched components in the “biological process.” In addition, “cytoplasm” was the most enriched term in the “cellular component” and “nucleotide binding” and “cation binding” were the two most enriched terms in the “molecular function” category. These results suggested that altered expression of genes encoding numerous intracellular proteins due to hypoviral infection resulted in changes in specific metabolic processes as well as transport processes. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes function analysis demonstrated that pathways for “biosynthesis of other secondary metabolites,” “amino acid metabolism,” “carbohydrate metabolism,” and “translation” were enriched among the DEGs in C. parasitica. These results demonstrate that hypoviral infection resulted in massive but specific changes in primary and secondary metabolism, of which antiviral fungal metabolites were highly induced. The results of this study provide further insights into the mechanism of fungal gene regulation by CHV1 at the transcriptome level.
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- Jeesun Chun
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.,Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.,Department of Molecular Biology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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Two Verticillium dahliae MAPKKKs, VdSsk2 and VdSte11, Have Distinct Roles in Pathogenicity, Microsclerotial Formation, and Stress Adaptation. mSphere 2019; 4:4/4/e00426-19. [PMID: 31292234 PMCID: PMC6620378 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00426-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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These data provide insights into the distinctive functions of VdSsk2 and VdSte11 in pathogenicity, stress adaptation, and microsclerotial formation in V. dahliae. Verticillium dahliae causes destructive vascular wilt diseases on more than 200 plant species, including economically important crops and ornamental trees worldwide. The melanized microsclerotia enable the fungus to survive for years in soil and are crucial for its disease cycle. Previously, we found that the VdPbs2-VdHog1 (V. dahliae Pbs2-V. dahliae Hog1) module plays key roles in microsclerotial formation, stress responses, and virulence in V. dahliae. In this study, two mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinases (MAPKKKs) homologous to Ssk2p and Ste11p, which activate the Pbs2p-Hog1p module by phosphorylation in budding yeast, were identified in the genome of V. dahliae. Both ΔVdSsk2 (V. dahliaeSsk2) and ΔVdSte11 strains showed severe defects in microsclerotial formation and melanin biosynthesis, but the relative importance of these two genes in microsclerotial development was different. Deletion of VdSsk2, but not VdSte11, affected responses to osmotic stress, fungicidal response, and cell wall stressors. The ΔVdSsk2 strain exhibited a significant reduction in virulence, while the ΔVdSte11 strain was nonpathogenic due to failure to penetrate and form hyphopodia. Phosphorylation assays demonstrated that VdSsk2, but not VdSte11, can phosphorylate VdHog1 in V. dahliae. Moreover, VdCrz1, encoding a calcineurin-responsive zinc finger transcription factor and a key regulator of calcium signaling in fungi, was misregulated in the ΔVdSsk2, ΔVdPbs2, and ΔVdHog1 mutants. IMPORTANCE These data provide insights into the distinctive functions of VdSsk2 and VdSte11 in pathogenicity, stress adaptation, and microsclerotial formation in V. dahliae.
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Aulia A, Andika IB, Kondo H, Hillman BI, Suzuki N. A symptomless hypovirus, CHV4, facilitates stable infection of the chestnut blight fungus by a coinfecting reovirus likely through suppression of antiviral RNA silencing. Virology 2019; 533:99-107. [PMID: 31146252 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Field-collected US strain C18 of Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus, was earlier reported to be infected by a double-stranded RNA virus, mycoreovirus 2 (MyRV2). Next-generation sequencing has revealed co-infection of C18 by a positive-strand RNA virus, hypovirus 4 (CHV4). The current molecular and genetic analyses showed interesting commensal interactions between the two viruses. CHV4 facilitated the stable infection and enhanced vertical transmission of MyRV2, which was readily lost during subculturing and showed reduced vertical transmission in single infections. Deletion of a key antiviral RNA silencing gene, dcl2, in isolate C18 increased stability of MyRV2 in single infections. The ability of CHV4 to facilitate stable infection with MyRV2 appears to be associated with the inhibitory effect of CHV4 on RNA silencing via compromising the induction of transcriptional up-regulation of dcl2. These results suggest that natural infection of isolate C18 by MyRV2 in the field was facilitated by CHV4 co-infection.
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- Annisa Aulia
- Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan; Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan
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- Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan.
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Xiong Q, Zhang L, Waletich J, Zhang L, Zhang C, Zheng X, Qian Y, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Cheng Q. Characterization of the Papain-Like Protease p29 of the Hypovirus CHV1-CN280 in Its Natural Host Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica and Nonhost Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2019; 109:736-747. [PMID: 30592694 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-08-18-0318-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 strain CN280 (CHV1-CN280) was isolated from North China and exhibited typical hypovirulence-associated traits. We previously reported that CHV1-CN280 was more aggressive and had a higher horizontal transmission ability between Cryphonectria parasitica isolates belonging to different vegetative compatibility groups than two other CHV1 hypoviruses (namely, CHV1-EP713 and CHV1-Euro7), thus displaying greater potential for biological control of chestnut blight. The genome sequence of CHV1-CN280 shared approximately 70% identity with three other hypoviruses (CHV1-EP713, CHV1-Euro7, and CHV1-EP721). The coding region for p29, a papain-like protease encoded by CHV1-CN280 hypovirus, displayed an average of only approximately 60% amino acid identity among them, while the identity between the other three CHV1 isolates was higher than 89%. Protease p29 acted as a virus-encoded determinant responsible for altering fungal host phenotypes in other CHV1 isolates. In this study, the impacts of CHV1-CN280 p29 expression in virus-free C. parasitica were investigated. CHV1-CN280 p29 expression in C. parasitica resulted in significantly reduced sporulation, pigmentation, extracellular laccase activities, and pathogenicity, which is consistent with previous investigations. Subsequently, the potential of CHV1-CN280 p29 as a viral determinant responsible for suppression of host phenotypes in other phytopathogenic fungi such as Magnaporthe oryzae, the causal agent of rice blast disease, was discussed. However, heterologous expression of p29 in M. oryzae induced the opposite effect on sporulation, extracellular laccase activities, and pathogenicity; had no significant effect on pigmentation and mycelial growth; and contributed to extracellular peroxidase activities, suggesting that CHV1-CN280 p29 may disturb a unique regulatory pathway in C. parasitica, rather than a basic regulatory pathway conserved in diverse range of fungi. Alternatively, CHV1-CN280 p29-mediated modulation of fungal phenotypes may be facilitated by the specific interaction between p29 and a special fungal-host component, which exists only with C. parasitica but not M. oryzae.
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- Qin Xiong
- 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
- 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
- 3 Institute of Agricultural Sciences for Lixiahe Region in Jiangsu, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- 4 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A.; and
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- 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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- 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- 5 The Southern Modern Forestry Collaborative Innovation Center, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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Chun J, So KK, Ko YH, Kim JM, Kim DH. Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of MAPK-Mediated Regulation of Sectorization in Cryphonectria parasitica. Mol Cells 2019; 42:363-375. [PMID: 31091557 PMCID: PMC6530638 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2019.0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Fungal sectorization is a complex trait that is still not fully understood. The unique phenotypic changes in sporadic sectorization in mutants of CpBck1, a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) gene, and CpSlt2, a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) gene, in the cell wall integrity pathway of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica have been previously studied. Although several environmental and physiological factors cause this sectoring phenotype, genetic variants can also impact this complex morphogenesis. Therefore, RNA sequencing analysis was employed to identify candidate genes associated with sectorization traits and understand the genetic mechanism of this phenotype. Transcriptomic analysis of CpBck1 and CpSlt2 mutants and their sectored progeny strains revealed a number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) related to various cellular processes. Approximately 70% of DEGs were common between the wild-type and each of CpBck1 and CpSlt2 mutants, indicating that CpBck1 and CpSlt2 are components of the same MAPK pathway, but each component governs specific sets of genes. Functional description of the DEGs between the parental mutants and their sectored progenies revealed several key pathways, including the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, translation, amino acid metabolism, and carbohydrate metabolism; among these, pathways for secondary metabolism and translation appeared to be the most common pathway. The results of this comparative study provide a better understanding of the genetic regulation of sector formation and suggest that complex several regulatory pathways result in interplays between secondary metabolites and morphogenesis.
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- Jeesun Chun
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
Korea
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- Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Wonkwang University, Chonbuk 54538,
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
Korea
- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
Korea
- Department of Molecular Biology, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk 54896,
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Sensing and transduction of nutritional and chemical signals in filamentous fungi: Impact on cell development and secondary metabolites biosynthesis. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 37:107392. [PMID: 31034961 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 04/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Filamentous fungi respond to hundreds of nutritional, chemical and environmental signals that affect expression of primary metabolism and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. These signals are sensed at the membrane level by G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs contain usually seven transmembrane domains, an external amino terminal fragment that interacts with the ligand, and an internal carboxy terminal end interacting with the intracellular G protein. There is a great variety of GPCRs in filamentous fungi involved in sensing of sugars, amino acids, cellulose, cell-wall components, sex pheromones, oxylipins, calcium ions and other ligands. Mechanisms of signal transduction at the membrane level by GPCRs are discussed, including the internalization and compartmentalisation of these sensor proteins. We have identified and analysed the GPCRs in the genome of Penicillium chrysogenum and compared them with GPCRs of several other filamentous fungi. We have found 66 GPCRs classified into 14 classes, depending on the ligand recognized by these proteins, including most previously proposed classes of GPCRs. We have found 66 putative GPCRs, representatives of twelve of the fourteen previously proposed classes of GPCRs, depending on the ligand recognized by these proteins. A staggering fortytwo putative members of the new GPCR class XIV, the so-called Pth11 sensors of cellulosic material as reported for Neurospora crassa and some other fungi, were identified. Several GPCRs sensing sex pheromones, known in yeast and in several fungi, were also identified in P. chrysogenum, confirming the recent unravelling of the hidden sexual capacity of this species. Other sensing mechanisms do not involve GPCRs, including the two-component systems (HKRR), the HOG signalling system and the PalH mediated pH transduction sensor. GPCR sensor proteins transmit their signals by interacting with intracellular heterotrimeric G proteins, that are well known in several fungi, including P. chrysogenum. These G proteins are inactive in the GDP containing heterotrimeric state, and become active by nucleotide exchange, allowing the separation of the heterotrimeric protein in active Gα and Gβγ dimer subunits. The conversion of GTP in GDP is mediated by the endogenous GTPase activity of the G proteins. Downstream of the ligand interaction, the activated Gα protein and also the Gβ/Gγ dimer, transduce the signals through at least three different cascades: adenylate cyclase/cAMP, MAPK kinase, and phospholipase C mediated pathways.
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Zhen Z, Xiong X, Liu Y, Zhang J, Wang S, Li L, Gao M. NaCl Inhibits Citrinin and Stimulates Monascus Pigments and Monacolin K Production. Toxins (Basel) 2019; 11:toxins11020118. [PMID: 30769930 PMCID: PMC6409629 DOI: 10.3390/toxins11020118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Applications of beneficial secondary metabolites produced by Monascus purpureus (M. purpureus) could be greatly limited for citrinin, a kidney toxin. The link of NaCl with cell growth and secondary metabolites in M. purpureus was analyzed with supplementations of different concentrations of NaCl in medium. The content of citrinin was reduced by 48.0% but the yellow, orange, red pigments and monacolin K productions were enhanced by 1.7, 1.4, 1.4 and 1.4 times, respectively, compared with those in the control using NaCl at 0.02 M at the 10th day of cultivation. NaCl didn’t affect the cell growth of M. purpureus. This was verified through the transcriptional up-regulation of citrinin synthesis genes (pksCT and ctnA) and the down-regulation of the Monascus pigments (MPs) synthesis genes (pksPT and pigR). Moreover, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels were promoted by NaCl at the 2nd day of cultivation, and then inhibited remarkably with the extension of fermentation time. Meanwhile, the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), and the contents of total glutathione (T-GSH) were significantly enhanced in the middle and late stages of cultivation. The inhibition effect on colony size and the growth of aerial mycelia was more obvious with an increased NaCl concentration. Acid and alkaline phosphatase (ACP and AKP) activities dramatically increased in NaCl treatments. NaCl could participate in secondary metabolites synthesis and cell growth in M. purpureus.
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- Zhixin Zhen
- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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- College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China.
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Chen Q, Li Y, Wang J, Li R, Chen B. cpubi4 Is Essential for Development and Virulence in Chestnut Blight Fungus. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1286. [PMID: 29963030 PMCID: PMC6013588 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Ubiquitination plays key roles in eukaryotic growth, stress adaptation, and metabolic regulation. In our previous work, ubiquitin was found to be secreted in the hypovirus-infected strain of Cryphonectria parasitica, a phytopathogenic filamentous fungus responsible for the chestnut blight. Here we report the functional and molecular characterization of a polyubiquitin gene, cpubi4, in C. parasitica. The expression of cpubi4 was upregulated by the infection of a hypovirus. Deletion of cpubi4 resulted in abnormal morphology, reduced sporulation, attenuation of virulence, and significant reduction in ubiquitination. A total of 378 sites in 236 proteins were identified to be significantly decreased in ubiquitination in the absence of cpubi4. Quantitative proteome analysis revealed that 285 in 4,776 identified proteins changed in abundance (1.5-fold, P < 0.05) in the cpubi4 null mutant, as compared with the wild-type strain.
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- Qi Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Nanning, China.,College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Nanning, China.,College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Nanning, China.,College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Nanning, China.,College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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Adaption to stress via Pbs2 during Metarhizium rileyi conidia and microsclerotia development. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 34:107. [PMID: 29971586 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-018-2475-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway plays important role in Metarhizium rileyi microsclerotia (MS) development. To investigate how M. rileyi transduce growth stress and regulate MS development via mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAPKK) Pbs2, phenotypic characterization of the yeast Pbs2 homolog were performed. Expression of pbs2 peaked when MS formation occurred day 3 in liquid amended medium. Compared with wild-type and complemented strains, deletion mutant of pbs2 (Δpbs2) delayed dimorphic switch and vegetative growth, displayed sensitivities to various stress, and significantly reduced conidial (98%) and MS (40%) yields. Furthermore, transcription analysis showed that other genes of HOG signaling pathway were down-regulated in Δpbs2 mutants. Insect bioassays revealed that Δpbs2 mutants had decreased virulence levels in topical (24%) and injection (53%) bioassays. This study confirmed that Pbs2 play important roles in colony morphology, conidiation, stresses response and MS development in M. rileyi.
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Li R, Zhou S, Li Y, Shen X, Wang Z, Chen B. Comparative Methylome Analysis Reveals Perturbation of Host Epigenome in Chestnut Blight Fungus by a Hypovirus. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1026. [PMID: 29875746 PMCID: PMC5974932 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In eukaryotic genomes, DNA methylation is an important type of epigenetic modification that plays crucial roles in many biological processes. To investigate the impact of a hypovirus infection on the methylome of Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus, whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) was employed to generate single-base resolution methylomes of the fungus with/without hypovirus infection. The results showed that hypovirus infection alters methylation in all three contexts (CG, CHG, and CHH), especially in gene promoters. A total of 600 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified, of which 144 could be annotated to functional genes. RNA-seq analysis revealed that DNA methylation in promoter is negatively correlated with gene expression. Among DMRs, four genes were shown to be involved in conidiation, orange pigment production, and virulence. Taken together, our DNA methylomes analysis provide valuable insights into the understanding of the relationship between DNA methylation and hypovirus infection, as well as phenotypic traits in C. parasitica.
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- Ru Li
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.,Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.,Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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So KK, Ko YH, Chun J, Bal J, Jeon J, Kim JM, Choi J, Lee YH, Huh JH, Kim DH. Global DNA Methylation in the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica and Genome-Wide Changes in DNA Methylation Accompanied with Sectorization. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:103. [PMID: 29456549 PMCID: PMC5801561 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Mutation in CpBck1, an ortholog of the cell wall integrity mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica resulted in a sporadic sectorization as culture proceeded. The progeny from the sectored area maintained the characteristics of the sector, showing a massive morphogenetic change, including robust mycelial growth without differentiation. Epigenetic changes were investigated as the genetic mechanism underlying this sectorization. Quantification of DNA methylation and whole-genome bisulfite sequencing revealed genome-wide DNA methylation of the wild-type at each nucleotide level and changes in DNA methylation of the sectored progeny. Compared to the wild-type, the sectored progeny exhibited marked genome-wide DNA hypomethylation but increased methylation sites. Expression analysis of two DNA methyltransferases, including two representative types of DNA methyltransferase (DNMTase), demonstrated that both were significantly down-regulated in the sectored progeny. However, functional analysis using mutant phenotypes of corresponding DNMTases demonstrated that a mutant of CpDmt1, an ortholog of RID of Neurospora crassa, resulted in the sectored phenotype but the CpDmt2 mutant did not, suggesting that the genetic basis of fungal sectorization is more complex. The present study revealed that a mutation in a signaling pathway component resulted in sectorization accompanied with changes in genome-wide DNA methylation, which suggests that this signal transduction pathway is important for epigenetic control of sectorization via regulation of genes involved in DNA methylation.
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- Kum-Kang So
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life and Applied Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
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- Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Wonkwang University, Iksan, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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Rigling D, Prospero S. Cryphonectria parasitica, the causal agent of chestnut blight: invasion history, population biology and disease control. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2018; 19:7-20. [PMID: 28142223 PMCID: PMC6638123 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Revised: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/26/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Chestnut blight, caused by Cryphonectria parasitica, is a devastating disease infecting American and European chestnut trees. The pathogen is native to East Asia and was spread to other continents via infected chestnut plants. This review summarizes the current state of research on this pathogen with a special emphasis on its interaction with a hyperparasitic mycovirus that acts as a biological control agent of chestnut blight. TAXONOMY Cryphonectria parasitica (Murr.) Barr. is a Sordariomycete (ascomycete) fungus in the family Cryphonectriaceae (Order Diaporthales). Closely related species that can also be found on chestnut include Cryphonectria radicalis, Cryphonectria naterciae and Cryphonectria japonica. HOST RANGE Major hosts are species in the genus Castanea (Family Fagaceae), particularly the American chestnut (C. dentata), the European chestnut (C. sativa), the Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) and the Japanese chestnut (C. crenata). Minor incidental hosts include oaks (Quercus spp.), maples (Acer spp.), European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) and American chinkapin (Castanea pumila). DISEASE SYMPTOMS Cryphonectria parasitica causes perennial necrotic lesions (so-called cankers) on the bark of stems and branches of susceptible host trees, eventually leading to wilting of the plant part distal to the infection. Chestnut blight cankers are characterized by the presence of mycelial fans and fruiting bodies of the pathogen. Below the canker the tree may react by producing epicormic shoots. Non-lethal, superficial or callusing cankers on susceptible host trees are usually associated with mycovirus-induced hypovirulence. DISEASE CONTROL After the introduction of C. parasitica into a new area, eradication efforts by cutting and burning the infected plants/trees have mostly failed. In Europe, the mycovirus Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV-1) acts as a successful biological control agent of chestnut blight by causing so-called hypovirulence. CHV-1 infects C. parasitica and reduces its parasitic growth and sporulation capacity. Individual cankers can be therapeutically treated with hypovirus-infected C. parasitica strains. The hypovirus may subsequently spread to untreated cankers and become established in the C. parasitica population. Hypovirulence is present in many chestnut-growing regions of Europe, either resulting naturally or after biological control treatments. In North America, disease management of chestnut blight is mainly focused on breeding with the goal to backcross the Chinese chestnut's blight resistance into the American chestnut genome.
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- Daniel Rigling
- Swiss Federal Institute for ForestSnow and Landscape Research (WSL)Birmensdorf8903Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for ForestSnow and Landscape Research (WSL)Birmensdorf8903Switzerland
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So KK, Kim DH. Role of MAPK Signaling Pathways in Regulating the Hydrophobin Cryparin in the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. MYCOBIOLOGY 2017; 45:362-369. [PMID: 29371804 PMCID: PMC5780368 DOI: 10.5941/myco.2017.45.4.362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We assessed the regulation of cryparin, a class II hydrophobin, using three representative mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways in Cryphonectria parasitica. Mutation of the CpSlt2 gene, an ortholog of yeast SLT2 in the cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway, resulted in a dramatic decrease in cryparin production. Similarly, a mutant of the CpBck1 gene, a MAP kinase kinase kinase gene in the CWI pathway, showed decreased cryparin production. Additionally, mutation of the cpmk1 gene, an ortholog of yeast HOG1, showed decreased cryparin production. However, mutation of the cpmk2 gene, an ortholog of yeast Kss1/Fus3, showed increased cryparin production. The easy-wet phenotype and accumulation of the cryparin transcript in corresponding mutants were consistent with the cryparin production results. In silico analysis of the promoter region of the cryparin gene revealed the presence of binding motifs related to downstream transcription factors of CWI, HOG1, and pheromone responsive pathways including MADS-box- and Ste12-binding domains. Real-time reverse transcriptase PCR analyses indicated that both CpRlm1, an ortholog of yeast RLM1 in the CWI pathway, and cpst12, an ortholog of yeast STE12 in the mating pathway, showed significantly reduced transcription levels in the mutant strains showing lower cryparin production in C. prasitica. However, the transcription of CpMcm1, an ortholog of yeast MCM1, did not correlate with that of the mutant strains showing downregulation of cryparin. These results indicate that three representative MAPK pathways played a role in regulating cryparin production. However, regulation varied depending on the MAPK pathways: the CWI and HOG1 pathways were stimulatory, whereas the pheromone-responsive MAPK was repressive.
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- Kum-Kang So
- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea
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Segorbe D, Di Pietro A, Pérez‐Nadales E, Turrà D. Three Fusarium oxysporum mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) have distinct and complementary roles in stress adaptation and cross-kingdom pathogenicity. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2017; 18:912-924. [PMID: 27301316 PMCID: PMC6638227 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades mediate cellular responses to environmental signals. Previous studies in the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum have revealed a crucial role of Fmk1, the MAPK orthologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fus3/Kss1, in vegetative hyphal fusion and plant infection. Here, we genetically dissected the individual and combined contributions of the three MAPKs Fmk1, Mpk1 and Hog1 in the regulation of development, stress response and virulence of F. oxysporum on plant and animal hosts. Mutants lacking Fmk1 or Mpk1 were affected in reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis and impaired in hyphal fusion and aggregation. Loss of Mpk1 also led to increased sensitivity to cell wall and heat stress, which was exacerbated by simultaneous inactivation of Fmk1, suggesting that both MAPKs contribute to cellular adaptation to high temperature, a prerequisite for mammalian pathogens. Deletion of Hog1 caused increased sensitivity to hyperosmotic stress and resulted in partial rescue of the restricted colony growth phenotype of the mpk1Δ mutant. Infection assays on tomato plants and the invertebrate animal host Galleria mellonella revealed distinct and additive contributions of the different MAPKs to virulence. Our results indicate that positive and negative cross-talk between the three MAPK pathways regulates stress adaptation, development and virulence in the cross-kingdom pathogen F. oxysporum.
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- David Segorbe
- Departamento de Genética, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3Universidad de Córdoba14071CórdobaSpain
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Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of ScienceCharles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
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- Departamento de Genética, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3Universidad de Córdoba14071CórdobaSpain
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- Departamento de Genética, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3Universidad de Córdoba14071CórdobaSpain
- Present address:
Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC)Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Universidad deCórdobaEspaña
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- Departamento de Genética, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3Universidad de Córdoba14071CórdobaSpain
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Mutation of the Slt2 ortholog from Cryphonectria parasitica results in abnormal cell wall integrity and sectorization with impaired pathogenicity. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9038. [PMID: 28831166 PMCID: PMC5567307 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09383-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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We assessed the biological function of CpSlt2, an ortholog of the cell wall integrity (CWI) MAPK of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. The CpSlt2-null mutant exhibited marked changes in colonial growth, near absence of conidiation and aerial hyphae, and abnormal pigmentation. In addition, the CpSlt2-null mutant exhibited CWI-related phenotypic defects including hypersensitivity to cell wall-disturbing agents and other stresses. Electron microscopy revealed the presence of abnormal hyphae such as intrahyphal hyphae. In addition, virulence assays indicated that the CpSlt2 gene plays an important role in fungal pathogenesis. As cultivation of the mutant strains progressed, the majority of the colonies showed sporadic sectorization and mycelia from the sectored area stably maintained the sectored phenotype. Although mycelial growth was partially recovered, the sectored progeny had dramatically impaired virulence, confirming the CpSlt2 gene has a role in pathogenicity. Compared to a previous mutant of the CpBck1 gene, a MAPKKK gene in CWI pathway, the CpSlt2-null mutant showed similar, although not identical, phenotypic changes and most phenotypic changes were less severe than those of the CpBck1-null mutant. These results suggest that the unique sectorization is CWI pathway-specific, though the components in the same CWI pathway have common and specific functions.
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The Hog1-like MAPK Mpk3 collaborates with Hog1 in response to heat shock and functions in sustaining the biological control potential of a fungal insect pathogen. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2017; 101:6941-6949. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8434-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Revised: 07/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Liu J, Tong SM, Qiu L, Ying SH, Feng MG. Two histidine kinases can sense different stress cues for activation of the MAPK Hog1 in a fungal insect pathogen. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:4091-4102. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Jing Liu
- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University; Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058 China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University; Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058 China
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- School of Bioengineering; Qilu University of Technology; Jinan, Shandong 250353 China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University; Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058 China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University; Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058 China
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Suwandi S, Akino S, Kondo N. Enhanced virulence of Fusarium species associated with spear rot of oil palm following recovery from osmotic stress. Mycology 2017; 9:20-28. [PMID: 30123657 PMCID: PMC6059076 DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2017.1336497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Fusarium spp., which are common inhabitants of oil palm leaves, are weak pathogens of common spear rot (CSR). We investigated the influence of osmotic stress on the growth, virulence, and activity of cell wall-degrading enzymes of CSR fungi, using potato dextrose agar (PDA) supplemented with KCl or sucrose (hyperosmotic medium). Hyperosmotic stress significantly inhibited mycelial growth, but growth rapidly recovered when mycelia were transferred to control medium. When inoculated into oil palm spear leaflets, Fusarium sp., and F. incarnatum precultured on 1.0 and 1.5 M KCl-hyperosmotic medium induced lesions that were two to four times larger than those in non-stressed cultures, suggesting enhanced virulence of the weak pathogens. Lesion size was not greatly affected in hyperosmotic cultures of moderately virulent F. sacchari. No activity of pectin lyase was detected in liquid cultures of the Fusarium isolates. All isolates except F. incarnatum BT48 secreted polygalacturonase (PG), which was active in both liquid cultures and inoculated leaves. Significantly increased PG activity (5-32-fold) was observed on leaves inoculated with hyperosmotic cultures of Fusarium sp. and F. sacchari. These findings suggest that Fusarium sp., F. incarnatum, and F. sacchari exhibit an adaptive physiological plasticity to hyperosmotic stress that results in enhanced virulence.
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- Suwandi Suwandi
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Division of Bioresources and Product Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Division of Bioresources and Product Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Liu J, Wang ZK, Sun HH, Ying SH, Feng MG. Characterization of the Hog1 MAPK pathway in the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:1808-1821. [PMID: 28076898 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Revised: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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High-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway required for yeast osmoregulation relies upon the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) Hog1 cascade that comprise the MAPKKKs Ssk2/Ssk22 and Ste11 converging on the MAPKK Pbs2. Here we show a Hog1 cascade with the unique MAPKKK Ssk2 acting in Beauveria bassiana. Hypersensitivity to high osmolarity and high resistance to fludioxonil fungicide appeared in Δssk2, Δpbs2 and Δhog1 mutants whereas the two hallmark phenotypes were reversed in Δste11. Increased sensitivity to heat shock and decreased sensitivity to cell wall perturbation also occurred in the three mutants but not in Δste11 although antioxidant phenotypes were different in all deletion mutants. Intriguingly, signals of Hog1 phosphorylation induced by osmotic, oxidative and thermal cues were present in Δste11 but absent in Δssk2 and Δpbs2. Moreover, vegetative growth on minimal media with different carbon/nitrogen sources was much more suppressed in Δste11 and Δssk2 than in Δpbs2 and Δhog1 although all mutants suffered similar, but severe, conidiation defects on a standard medium. Normal host infection was abolished in Δste11 while virulence was differentially attenuated in other mutants. Our findings exclude Ste11 from the Hog1 cascade that regulates multiple stress responses and environmental adaptation of B. bassiana and perhaps other filamentous fungi.
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- Jing Liu
- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China
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Wang M, Zhang M, Li L, Dong Y, Jiang Y, Liu K, Zhang R, Jiang B, Niu K, Fang X. Role of Trichoderma reesei mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in cellulase formation. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2017; 10:99. [PMID: 28435444 PMCID: PMC5397809 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0789-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Despite being the most important cellulase producer, the cellulase-regulating carbon source signal transduction processes in Trichoderma reesei are largely unknown. Elucidating these processes is the key for unveiling how external carbon sources regulate cellulase formation, and ultimately for the improvement of cellulase production and biofuel production from lignocellulose. RESULTS In this work, the role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathways on cellulase formation was investigated. The deletion of yeast FUS3-like tmk1 in T. reesei leads to improved growth and significantly improved cellulase formation. However, tmk1 deletion has no effect on the transcription of cellulase-coding genes. The involvement of the cell wall integrity maintenance governing yeast Slt2-like Tmk2 in cellulase formation was investigated by overexpressing tmk3 in T. reesei Δtmk2 to restore cell wall integrity. Transcriptional analysis found little changes in cellulase-coding genes between T. reesei parent, Δtmk2, and Δtmk2::OEtmk3 strains. Cell wall integrity decreased in T. reesei Δtmk2 over the parent strain and restored in Δtmk2::OEtmk3. Meanwhile, cellulase formation is increased in T. reesei Δtmk2 and then decreased in T. reesei Δtmk2::OEtmk3. CONCLUSIONS These investigations elucidate the role of Tmk1 and Tmk2 on cellulase formation: they repress cellulase formation, respectively, by repressing growth and maintaining cell wall integrity, while neither MAPK regulates the transcription of cellulase-coding genes. This work, together with the previous investigations, suggests that all MAPKs are involved in cellulase formation, while Tmk3 is the only MAPK involved in signal transduction for the regulation of cellulase expression on the transcriptional level.
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- Mingyu Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Yun SH, Lee SH, So KK, Kim JM, Kim DH. Incidence of diverse dsRNA mycoviruses in Trichoderma spp. causing green mold disease of shiitake Lentinula edodes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2016; 363:fnw220. [PMID: 27664058 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A total of 315 fungal isolates causing green mold disease were collected from contaminated artificial logs and sawdust bags used for cultivating shiitake Lentinula edodes in Korea and were analyzed for the presence of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). dsRNA, which was purified using dsRNA-specific chromatography and verified by dsRNA-specific RNaseIII digestion, was detected in 32 isolates. The molecular taxonomy of dsRNA-infected isolates indicated that all isolates belonged to the Trichoderma spp.. The number and size of dsRNAs varied among isolates and the band patterns could be categorized into 15 groups. Although there were seven dsRNA groups observed in multiple isolates, eight groups were found to occur in single isolates. The most common dsRNA group, group VI, which contained a band of 10 kb, occurred in 10 isolates encompassing three species of Trichoderma. Partial sequence analysis of two selected dsRNA groups revealed a high degree of similarity to sequences of a RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, hypothetical protein and polyprotein genes of other hypoviruses such as Macrophomina phaseolina hypovirus 1, Trichoderma hypovirus, and Fusarium graminearum hypovirus 2, respectively, indicating the occurrence of mycoviruses in Trichoderma spp.. Northern blot analysis suggested that many different mycoviruses, which have not been identified yet, exist in Trichoderma.
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- Suk-Hyun Yun
- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Chonbuk 570-749, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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Son M, Lee Y, Kim KH. The Transcription Cofactor Swi6 of the Fusarium graminearum Is Involved in Fusarium Graminearum Virus 1 Infection-Induced Phenotypic Alterations. THE PLANT PATHOLOGY JOURNAL 2016; 32:281-289. [PMID: 27493603 PMCID: PMC4968638 DOI: 10.5423/ppj.oa.12.2015.0267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Revised: 02/24/2016] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The transcription cofactor Swi6 plays important roles in regulating vegetative growth and meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Functions of Swi6 ortholog were also characterized in Fusarium graminearum which is one of the devastating plant pathogenic fungi. Here, we report possible role of FgSwi6 in the interaction between F. graminearum and Fusarium graminearum virus 1 (FgV1) strain DK21. FgV1 perturbs biological characteristics of host fungi such as vegetative growth, sporulation, pigmentation, and reduction of the virulence (hypovirulence) of its fungal host. To characterize function(s) of FgSWI6 gene during FgV1 infection, targeted deletion, over-expression, and complementation mutants were generated and further infected successfully with FgV1. Deletion of FgSwi6 led to severe reduction of vegetative growth even aerial mycelia while over-expression did not affect any remarkable alteration of phenotype in virus-free isolates. Virus-infected (VI) FgSWI6 deletion isolate exhibited completely delayed vegetative growth. However, VI FgSWI6 over-expression mutant grew faster than any other VI isolates. To verify whether these different growth patterns in VI isolates, viral RNA quantification was carried out using qRT-PCR. Surprisingly, viral RNA accumulations in VI isolates were similar regardless of introduced mutations. These results provide evidence that FgSWI6 might play important role(s) in FgV1 induced phenotype alteration such as delayed vegetative growth.
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- Moonil Son
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
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- Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
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- Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
Korea
- Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826,
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Kim JM, Lee JG, Yun SH, So KK, Ko YH, Kim YH, Park SM, Kim DH. A Mutant of the Bck1 Homolog from Cryphonectria parasitica Resulted in Sectorization with an Impaired Pathogenicity. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2016; 29:268-276. [PMID: 26757242 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-15-0185-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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CpBck1, an ortholog of the cell-wall integrity mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was cloned and characterized from the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. The CpBck1-null mutant displayed cell wall integrity-related phenotypic changes such as abnormal cell morphology and wall formation and hypersensitivity to cell wall-disrupting agents. In addition, the mutant showed severely retarded growth without any sign of normal development, such as hyphal differentiation, conidiation, or pigmentation. As the culture proceeded, the mutant colony showed sporadic sectorization. Once sectored, the sectored phenotype of robust mycelial growth without differentiation was stably inherited. Compared with the wild type, both the parental CpBck1-null mutant and the sectored progeny exhibited marked impaired virulence. The present study revealed that a mutation in a signaling pathway component related to cell-wall integrity resulted in sporadic sectorization and these sectored phenotypes were stably inherited, suggesting that this signal transduction pathway is implicated in adaptive genetic changes for sectorization.
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- Jung-Mi Kim
- 1 Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Chonbuk 570-749, Korea
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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- 3 Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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- 2 Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; and
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Bruder Nascimento ACMDO, Dos Reis TF, de Castro PA, Hori JI, Bom VLP, de Assis LJ, Ramalho LNZ, Rocha MC, Malavazi I, Brown NA, Valiante V, Brakhage AA, Hagiwara D, Goldman GH. Mitogen activated protein kinases SakA(HOG1) and MpkC collaborate for Aspergillus fumigatus virulence. Mol Microbiol 2016; 100:841-59. [PMID: 26878695 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Here, we investigated which stress responses were influenced by the MpkC and SakA mitogen-activated protein kinases of the high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway in the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. The ΔsakA and the double ΔmpkC ΔsakA mutants were more sensitive to osmotic and oxidative stresses, and to cell wall damaging agents. Both MpkC::GFP and SakA::GFP translocated to the nucleus upon osmotic stress and cell wall damage, with SakA::GFP showing a quicker response. The phosphorylation state of MpkA was determined post exposure to high concentrations of congo red and Sorbitol. In the wild-type strain, MpkA phosphorylation levels progressively increased in both treatments. In contrast, the ΔsakA mutant had reduced MpkA phosphorylation, and surprisingly, the double ΔmpkC ΔsakA had no detectable MpkA phosphorylation. A. fumigatus ΔsakA and ΔmpkC were virulent in mouse survival experiments, but they had a 40% reduction in fungal burden. In contrast, the ΔmpkC ΔsakA double mutant showed highly attenuated virulence, with approximately 50% mice surviving and a 75% reduction in fungal burden. We propose that both cell wall integrity (CWI) and HOG pathways collaborate, and that MpkC could act by modulating SakA activity upon exposure to several types of stresses and during CW biosynthesis.
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Plant Science and Crop Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Leibniz Junior Research Group Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Jena, Germany; Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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John E, Lopez-Ruiz F, Rybak K, Mousley CJ, Oliver RP, Tan KC. Dissecting the role of histidine kinase and HOG1 mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling in stress tolerance and pathogenicity of Parastagonospora nodorum on wheat. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2016; 162:1023-1036. [PMID: 26978567 PMCID: PMC5042077 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The HOG1 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is activated through two-component histidine kinase (HK) signalling. This pathway was first characterized in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a regulator of osmotolerance. The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum is the causal agent of septoria nodorum blotch of wheat. This pathogen uses host-specific effectors in tandem with general pathogenicity mechanisms to carry out its infection process. Genes showing strong sequence homology to S. cerevisiae HOG1 signalling pathway genes have been identified in the genome of P. nodorum. In this study, we examined the role of the pathway in the virulence of P. nodorum on wheat by disrupting putative pathway component genes: HOG1 (SNOG_13296) MAPK and NIK1 (SNOG_11631) hybrid HK. Mutants deleted in NIK1 and HOG1 were insensitive to dicarboximide and phenylpyrrole fungicides, but not a fungicide that targets ergosterol biosynthesis. Furthermore, both Δnik1 and Δhog1 mutants showed increased sensitivity to hyperosmotic stress. However, HOG1, but not NIK1, is required for tolerance to elevated temperatures. HOG1 deletion conferred increased tolerance to 6-methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone, a cereal phytoalexin. This suggests that the HOG1 signalling pathway is not exclusively associated with NIK1. Both Δnik1 and Δhog1 mutants retained the ability to infect and cause necrotic lesions on wheat. However, we observed that the Δhog1 mutation resulted in reduced production of pycnidia, asexual fruiting bodies that facilitate spore dispersal during late infection. Our study demonstrated the overlapping and distinct roles of a HOG1 MAPK and two-component HK signalling in P. nodorum growth and pathogenicity.
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- Evan John
- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, CHIRI Biosciences Research Precinct and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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Wang Y, Tian L, Xiong D, Klosterman SJ, Xiao S, Tian C. The mitogen-activated protein kinase gene, VdHog1, regulates osmotic stress response, microsclerotia formation and virulence in Verticillium dahliae. Fungal Genet Biol 2016; 88:13-23. [PMID: 26812120 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2016.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Revised: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The fungus Verticillium dahliae has gained worldwide notoriety as a destructive plant pathogen, causing vascular wilt diseases on diverse plant species. V. dahliae produces melanized resting bodies, known as microsclerotia, which can survive for 15 years in the soil, and are thus critically important in its disease cycle. However, the molecular mechanisms that underpin microsclerotia formation, survival, and germination remain poorly understood. In this study, we observed that deletion of VdHog1 (ΔVdHog1), encoding a homolog of a high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) response mitogen-activated protein kinase, displayed decreased numbers of melanized microsclerotia in culture, heightened sensitivity to hyperosmotic stress, and increased resistance to the fungicide fludioxonil. Through RNA-Seq analysis, we identified 221 genes differentially expressed in the ΔVdHog1 strain. Interestingly, the expression levels of genes involved in melanin biosynthesis, as well as the hydrophobin gene VDH1, involved in the early stage of microsclerotia formation, were significantly decreased in the ΔVdHog1 strains relative to the wild-type expression levels. The ΔVdHog1 strains exhibited decreased virulence relative to the wild type strain on smoke tree seedlings. These results indicate that VdHog1 regulates hyperosmotic stress responses in V. dahliae, and establishes the Hog1-mediated pathway as a target to further probe the up- and downstream processes that regulate asexual development in this fungus.
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- Yonglin Wang
- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA, USA
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
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So KK, Chung YJ, Kim JM, Kim BT, Park SM, Kim DH. Identification of a Polyketide Synthase Gene in the Synthesis of Phleichrome of the Phytopathogenic Fungus Cladosporium phlei. Mol Cells 2015; 38:1105-10. [PMID: 26612679 PMCID: PMC4697002 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2015.0208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Phleichrome, a pigment produced by the phytopathogenic fungus Cladosporium phlei, is a fungal perylenequinone whose photodynamic activity has been studied intensively. To determine the biological function of phleichrome and to engineer a strain with enhanced production of phleichrome, we identified the gene responsible for the synthesis of phleichrome. Structural comparison of phleichrome with other fungal perylenequinones suggested that phleichrome is synthesized via polyketide pathway. We recently identified four different polyketide synthase (PKS) genes encompassing three major clades of fungal PKSs that differ with respect to reducing conditions for the polyketide product. Based on in silico analysis of cloned genes, we hypothesized that the non-reducing PKS gene, Cppks1, is involved in phleichrome biosynthesis. Increased accumulation of Cppks1 transcript was observed in response to supplementation with the application of synthetic inducer cyclo-(l-Pro-l-Phe). In addition, heterologous expression of the Cppks1 gene in Cryphonectria parasitica resulted in the production of phleichrome. These results provide convincing evidence that the Cppks1 gene is responsible for the biosynthesis of phleichrome.
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- Kum-Kang So
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756,
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- Physical Lab., Center for University-wide Research Facilities, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756,
Korea
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- Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Wonkwang University, Iksan 570-749,
Korea
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- Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756,
Korea
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756,
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- Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756,
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- Moonil Son
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Chiba S, Suzuki N. Highly activated RNA silencing via strong induction of dicer by one virus can interfere with the replication of an unrelated virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E4911-8. [PMID: 26283371 PMCID: PMC4568273 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509151112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Viruses often coinfect single host organisms in nature. Depending on the combination of viruses in such coinfections, the interplay between them may be synergistic, apparently neutral with no effect on each other, or antagonistic. RNA silencing is responsible for many cases of interference or cross-protection between viruses, but such antagonistic interactions are usually restricted to closely related strains of the same viral species. In this study, we present an unprecedented example of RNA silencing-mediated one-way interference between unrelated viruses in a filamentous model fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. The replication of Rosellinia necatrix victorivirus 1 (RnVV1; Totiviridae) was strongly impaired by coinfection with the prototypic member of the genus Mycoreovirus (MyRV1) or a mutant of the prototype hypovirus (Cryphonectria hypovirus 1, CHV1) lacking the RNA silencing suppressor (CHV1-Δp69). This interference was associated with marked transcriptional induction of key genes in antiviral RNA silencing, dicer-like 2 (dcl2) and argonaute-like 2 (agl2), following MyRV1 or CHV1-Δp69 infection. Interestingly, the inhibition of RnVV1 replication was reproduced when the levels of dcl2 and agl2 transcripts were elevated by transgenic expression of a hairpin construct of an endogenous C. parasitica gene. Disruption of dcl2 completely abolished the interference, whereas that of agl2 did not always lead to its abolishment, suggesting more crucial roles of dcl2 in antiviral defense. Taken altogether, these results demonstrated the susceptible nature of RnVV1 to the antiviral silencing in C. parasitica activated by distinct viruses or transgene-derived double-stranded RNAs and provide insight into the potential for broad-spectrum virus control mediated by RNA silencing.
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- Sotaro Chiba
- Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan
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Yu J, Lee KM, Son M, Kim KH. Effects of the deletion and over-expression of Fusarium graminearum gene FgHal2 on host response to mycovirus Fusarium graminearum virus 1. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2015; 16:641-652. [PMID: 25431083 PMCID: PMC6638490 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The mycovirus Fusarium graminearum virus 1 (FgV1) is associated with reduced virulence (hypovirulence) of Fusarium graminearum. Transcriptomic and proteomic expression profiling have shown that many F. graminearum genes are differentially expressed as a consequence of FgV1 infection. Several of these genes may be related to the maintenance of the virus life cycle. The host gene, FgHal2, which has a highly conserved 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphatase (PAP phosphatase-like) domain or inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) superfamily domain, shows reduced expression in response to FgV1 infection. We generated targeted gene deletion and over-expression mutants to clarify the possible function(s) of FgHal2 and its relationship to FgV1. The gene deletion mutant showed retarded growth, reduced aerial mycelia formation and reduced pigmentation, whereas over-expression mutants were morphologically similar to the wild-type (WT). Furthermore, compared with the WT, the gene deletion mutant produced fewer conidia and these showed abnormal morphology. The FgHal2 expression level was decreased by FgV1 infection at 120 h post-inoculation (hpi), whereas the levels were nine-fold greater for both the virus-free and virus-infected over-expression mutant than for the WT. FgV1 RNA accumulation was decreased in the deletion mutant at 48, 72 and 120 hpi. FgV1 RNA accumulation in the over-expression mutant was reduced relative to that of the WT at 48 and 120 hpi, but was similar to that of the WT at 72 hpi. The vertical transmission rate of FgV1 in the gene deletion mutant was low, suggesting that FgHal2 may be required for the maintenance of FgV1 in the host cell. Together, these results indicate that the putative 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase gene, FgHal2, has diverse biological functions in the host fungus and may affect the viral RNA accumulation and transmission of FgV1.
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- Jisuk Yu
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, South Korea
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Leng Y, Zhong S. The Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein (MAP) Kinase Signaling Components in the Fungal Development, Stress Response and Virulence of the Fungal Cereal Pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0128291. [PMID: 26011429 PMCID: PMC4443973 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) have been demonstrated to be involved in fungal development, sexual reproduction, pathogenicity and/or virulence in many filamentous plant pathogenic fungi, but genes for MAPKs in the fungal cereal pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana have not been characterized. In this study, orthologues of three MAPK genes (CsSLT2, CsHOG1 and CsFUS3) and one MAPK kinase kinase (MAPKKK) gene (CsSTE11) were identified in the whole genome sequence of the B. sorokiniana isolate ND90Pr, and knockout mutants were generated for each of them. The ∆Csfus3 and ∆Csste11 mutants were defective in conidiation and formation of appressoria-like structures, showed hypersensitivity to oxidative stress and lost pathogenicity on non-wounded leaves of barley cv. Bowman. When inoculated on wounded leaves of Bowman, the ∆Csfus3 and ∆Csste11 mutants were reduced in virulence compared to the wild type. No morphological changes were observed in the ∆Cshog1 mutants in comparison with the wild type; however, they were slightly reduced in growth under oxidative stress and were hypersensitive to hyperosmotic stress. The ∆Cshog1 mutants formed normal appressoria-like structures but were reduced in virulence when inoculated on Bowman leaves. The ∆Csslt2 mutants produced more vegetative hyphae, had lighter pigmentation, were more sensitive to cell wall degrading enzymes, and were reduced in virulence on Bowman leaves, although they formed normal appressoria like the wild type. Root infection assays indicated that the ∆Cshog1 and ∆Csslt2 mutants were able to infect barley roots while the ∆Csfus3 and ∆Csste11 failed to cause any symptoms. However, no significant difference in virulence was observed for ∆Cshog1 mutants while ∆Csslt2 mutants showed significantly reduced virulence on barley roots in comparison with the wild type. Our results indicated that all of these MAPK and MAPKKK genes are involved in the regulation of fungal development under normal and stress conditions and required for full virulence on barley plants.
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- Yueqiang Leng
- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America
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Gao J, Cao M, Ye W, Li H, Kong L, Zheng X, Wang Y. PsMPK7, a stress-associated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in Phytophthora sojae, is required for stress tolerance, reactive oxygenated species detoxification, cyst germination, sexual reproduction and infection of soybean. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2015; 16:61-70. [PMID: 24889742 PMCID: PMC6638454 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The sensing of stress signals and their transduction into appropriate responses are crucial for the adaptation, survival and infection of phytopathogenic fungi and oomycetes. Amongst evolutionarily conserved pathways, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades function as key signal transducers that use phosphorylation to convey information. In this study, we identified a gene, designated PsMPK7, one of 14 predicted genes encoding MAPKs in Phytophthora sojae. PsMPK7 was highly transcribed in each tested stage, but was up-regulated in the zoospore, cyst and cyst germination stages. Silencing of PsMPK7 affected the growth of germinated cysts, oospore production and the pathogenicity of soybean. PsMPK7 transcription was induced by stresses from sorbitol, NaCl and hydrogen peroxide. Transformants in which PsMPK7 expression was silenced (PsMPK7-silenced) were significantly more sensitive to osmotic and oxidative stress. Aniline blue and diaminobenzidine staining revealed that the silenced lines did not suppress the host reactive oxygen species (ROS) burst, indicating that either the inoculated plants activated stronger defence responses to the transformants and/or the PsMPK7-silenced transformants failed to overcome plant defences. In addition, extracellular secretion of laccase decreased in the silenced lines. Overall, our results indicate that the PsMPK7 gene encodes a stress-associated MAPK in P. sojae that is important not only for responses to various stresses, but also for ROS detoxification, cyst germination, sexual oospore production and infection of soybean.
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- Jian Gao
- Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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Wang M, Dong Y, Zhao Q, Wang F, Liu K, Jiang B, Fang X. Identification of the role of a MAP kinase Tmk2 in Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei). Sci Rep 2014; 4:6732. [PMID: 25339247 PMCID: PMC4206845 DOI: 10.1038/srep06732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Despite the important role of MAPKs in signal transduction, their functions in the cellulase hyper-producing filamentous fungus Hypocrea jecorina haven't been studied except for the Hog1-like Tmk3. In this work, we constructed and explored the features of H. jecorina Δtmk2 to identify the role of this Slt2-homologous Tmk2. It is suggested from the results that Tmk2 is involved in cell wall integrity, sporulation and cellulase production. Although bearing similar roles in cell wall integrity maintenance, Tmk2 and Tmk3 appear to also have distinct functions: Tmk3 participates in high osmolarity resistance while Tmk2 does not; Tmk2 participates in sporulation but not Tmk3; Tmk3 is involved in promoting cellulase production while Tmk2 is involved in repressing cellulase formation. These studies provide the first insight into the function of Tmk2 in H. jecorina and contribute to understanding the signal transduction processes leading to the regulation of cellulase production in this important cellulase hyper-producer.
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- Mingyu Wang
- 1] State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China [2] National Glycoengineering Research Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- 1] State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China [2] National Glycoengineering Research Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Moretti M, Rossi M, Ciuffo M, Turina M. Functional characterization of the three mitogen-activated protein kinase kinases (MAP2Ks) present in the Cryphonectria parasitica genome reveals the necessity of Cpkk1 and Cpkk2, but not Cpkk3, for pathogenesis on chestnut (Castanea spp.). MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2014; 15:500-12. [PMID: 24373159 PMCID: PMC6638907 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The biological function(s) of the cpkk1, cpkk2 and cpkk3 genes, encoding the three mitogen-activated protein kinase kinases (MAP2Ks) of Cryphonectria parasitica, the causal agent of chestnut blight, were examined through knockout strains. Cpkk1, the Mkk1 orthologue, acts in a phosphorylation cascade essential for cell integrity; Cpkk2 is the Ste7 orthologue involved in the pheromone response pathway; Cpkk3 is the Pbs2 orthologue, the MAP2K activated during the high-osmolarity response. Our analysis confirmed the role of each MAP2K in its respective signalling cascade with some peculiarities: abnormal hyphae with a reduced number of septa and thinner cell walls were observed in Δcpkk1 mutants, and a strong growth defect on solid media was evident in Δcpkk2 mutants, when compared with the controls. Virulence on chestnut was affected in both the Δcpkk1 and Δcpkk2 strains, which were also unable to complete the developmental steps essential for mating. No alterations were reported in Δcpkk3, except under hyperosmotic conditions and in the presence of fludioxonil. Δcpkk2 mutants, however, showed higher sensitivity during growth in medium containing the antibiotic G418 (Geneticin).
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- Marino Moretti
- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale, CNR, Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135, Torino, Italy
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Talhinhas P, Azinheira HG, Vieira B, Loureiro A, Tavares S, Batista D, Morin E, Petitot AS, Paulo OS, Poulain J, Da Silva C, Duplessis S, Silva MDC, Fernandez D. Overview of the functional virulent genome of the coffee leaf rust pathogen Hemileia vastatrix with an emphasis on early stages of infection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:88. [PMID: 24672531 PMCID: PMC3953675 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Hemileia vastatrix is the causal agent of coffee leaf rust, the most important disease of coffee Arabica. In this work, a 454-pyrosequencing transcriptome analysis of H. vastatrix germinating urediniospores (gU) and appressoria (Ap) was performed and compared to previously published in planta haustoria-rich (H) data. A total of 9234 transcripts were identified and annotated. Ca. 50% of these transcripts showed no significant homology to international databases. Only 784 sequences were shared by the three conditions, and 75% were exclusive of either gU (2146), Ap (1479) or H (3270). Relative transcript abundance and RT-qPCR analyses for a selection of genes indicated a particularly active metabolism, translational activity and production of new structures in the appressoria and intense signaling, transport, secretory activity and cellular multiplication in the germinating urediniospores, suggesting the onset of a plant-fungus dialogue as early as at the germ tube stage. Gene expression related to the production of carbohydrate-active enzymes and accumulation of glycerol in germinating urediniospores and appressoria suggests that combined lytic and physical mechanisms are involved in appressoria-mediated penetration. Besides contributing to the characterization of molecular processes leading to appressoria-mediated infection by rust fungi, these results point toward the identification of new H. vastatrix candidate virulence factors, with 516 genes predicted to encode secreted proteins.
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- Pedro Talhinhas
- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaLisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre INRA Nancy Lorraine, UMR 1136 INRA/Université de Lorraine Interactions Arbres/Micro-organismesChampenoux, France
- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 INRA/Université de Lorraine Interactions Arbres/Micro-organismes, Faculté des Sciences et TechnologiesVandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 186 IRD-Cirad-UM2 Résistance des Plantes aux BioagresseursMontpellier, France
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- Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaLisboa, Portugal
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- Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut de GénomiqueEvry, France
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- Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut de GénomiqueEvry, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre INRA Nancy Lorraine, UMR 1136 INRA/Université de Lorraine Interactions Arbres/Micro-organismesChampenoux, France
- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 INRA/Université de Lorraine Interactions Arbres/Micro-organismes, Faculté des Sciences et TechnologiesVandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro/BioTrop/Instituto de Investigação Científica TropicalOeiras, Portugal
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR 186 IRD-Cirad-UM2 Résistance des Plantes aux BioagresseursMontpellier, France
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Turrà D, Segorbe D, Di Pietro A. Protein kinases in plant-pathogenic fungi: conserved regulators of infection. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2014; 52:267-88. [PMID: 25090477 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-102313-050143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Phytopathogenic fungi have evolved an amazing diversity of infection modes and nutritional strategies, yet the signaling pathways that govern pathogenicity are remarkably conserved. Protein kinases (PKs) catalyze the reversible phosphorylation of proteins, regulating a variety of cellular processes. Here, we present an overview of our current understanding of the different classes of PKs that contribute to fungal pathogenicity on plants and of the mechanisms that regulate and coordinate PK activity during infection-related development. In addition to the well-studied PK modules, such as MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) and cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate)-PKA (protein kinase A) cascades, we also discuss new PK pathways that have emerged in recent years as key players of pathogenic development and disease. Understanding how conserved PK signaling networks have been recruited during the evolution of fungal pathogenicity not only advances our knowledge of the highly elaborate infection process but may also lead to the development of novel strategies for the control of plant disease.
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- David Turrà
- Departamento de Genética and Campus de Excelencia Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain; , ,
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