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Oliveira-Garcia E, Hamilton AJ. A pharmacological approach to investigating effector translocation in rice- Magnaporthe oryzae interactions. Plant Signal Behav 2024; 19:2350869. [PMID: 38722963 PMCID: PMC11085958 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2024.2350869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Fungal pathogens deliver effector proteins into living plant cells to suppress plant immunity and control plant processes that are needed for infection. During plant infection, the devastating rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, forms the specialized biotrophic interfacial complex (BIC), which is essential for effector translocation. Cytoplasmic effectors are first focally secreted into BICs, and subsequently packaged into dynamic membranous effector compartments (MECs), then translocated via clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) into the host cytoplasm. This study demonstrates that clathrin-heavy chain inhibitors endosidin-9 (ES9) and endosidin-9-17 (ES9-17) blocked the internalization of the fluorescently labeled effectors Bas1 and Pwl2 in rice cells, leading to swollen BICs lacking MECs. In contrast, ES9-17 treatment had no impact on the localization pattern of the apoplastic effector Bas4. This study provides further evidence that cytoplasmic effector translocation occurs by CME in BICs, suggesting a potential role for M. oryzae effectors in co-opting plant endocytosis.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Budot BO, Manangkil J, Lana FD, Angira B, Famoso A, Jia Y. An Efficient Method for Screening Rice Breeding Lines Against Races of Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Dis 2024:PDIS05230922RE. [PMID: 37807096 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-05-23-0922-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is the most destructive rice disease worldwide. The disease symptoms are usually expressed on the leaf and panicle. The leaf disease intensity in controlled environmental conditions is frequently quantified using a 0 to 5 scale, where 0 represents the absence of symptoms, and 5 represents large eyespot lesions. However, this scale restricts the qualitative classification of the varieties into intermediate resistant and susceptible categories. Here, we develop a 0 to 6 scale for blast disease that allows proper assignment of rice breeding lines and varieties into six resistance levels (highly resistant, resistant, moderately resistant, moderately susceptible, susceptible, and highly susceptible). We evaluated 40 common rice varieties against four major blast races (IB1, IB17, IB49, and IE1-K). Varieties carrying the Pi-ta gene were either highly resistant, resistant, or moderately resistant to IB17. The IE1-K race was able to break Pi-ta-mediated resistance of the rice varieties. The Pi-z gene conferred resistance to the IB17 and IE1-K races. The varieties M201, Cheniere, and Frontier were highly susceptible (score 6; 100% disease) to the race IE1-K. Moreover, varieties that were resistant or susceptible to all four blast races also showed similar levels of resistance/susceptibility to blast disease in the field. Taken together, our data proved that the 0 to 6 blast scale can efficiently determine the resistance levels of rice varieties against major blast races. This robust method will assist rice breeding programs to incorporate durable resistance against major and emerging blast races.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A
- University of the Philippines Los Baños, Los Baños, Philippines
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, LA 70578, U.S.A
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, LA 70578, U.S.A
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, LA 70578, U.S.A
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- H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, LA 70578, U.S.A
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- Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, AR 72160, U.S.A
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Yan X, Oses-Ruiz M, de Paula S, Talbot NJ. Effector-triggered susceptibility by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. New Phytol 2024; 241:1007-1020. [PMID: 38073141 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Rice blast, the most destructive disease of cultivated rice world-wide, is caused by the filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. To cause disease in plants, M. oryzae secretes a diverse range of effector proteins to suppress plant defense responses, modulate cellular processes, and support pathogen growth. Some effectors can be secreted by appressoria even before host penetration, while others accumulate in the apoplast, or enter living plant cells where they target specific plant subcellular compartments. During plant infection, the blast fungus induces the formation of a specialized plant structure known as the biotrophic interfacial complex (BIC), which appears to be crucial for effector delivery into plant cells. Here, we review recent advances in the cell biology of M. oryzae-host interactions and show how new breakthroughs in disease control have stemmed from an increased understanding of effector proteins of M. oryzae are deployed and delivered into plant cells to enable pathogen invasion and host susceptibility.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- IMAB, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Campus Arrosadia, 31006, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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Wang H, Oliveira-Garcia E, Boevink PC, Talbot NJ, Birch PRJ, Valent B. Filamentous pathogen effectors enter plant cells via endocytosis. Trends Plant Sci 2023; 28:1214-1217. [PMID: 37586981 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
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Recent findings demonstrate that cytoplasmic effectors from fungal and oomycete pathogens enter plant cells via clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). This raises several questions: Does effector secretion pathway facilitate host uptake? How is CME triggered in host cells? How are the effectors released from endosomal compartments to reach diverse subcellular destinations?
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- Haixia Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shanxi 712100, China; Division of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA; Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Division of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK; Cell and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Tamang TM, Park J, Dalby M, Martin-Urdiroz M, Rodriguez Herrero C, Vu AH, Park S, Talbot NJ, Valent B. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis facilitates the internalization of Magnaporthe oryzae effectors into rice cells. Plant Cell 2023:koad094. [PMID: 36976907 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Fungi and oomycetes deliver effectors into living plant cells to suppress defenses and control plant processes needed for infection. Little is known about the mechanism by which these pathogens translocate effector proteins across the plasma membrane into the plant cytoplasm. The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae secretes cytoplasmic effectors into a specialized biotrophic interfacial complex (BIC) before translocation. Here we show that cytoplasmic effectors within BICs are packaged into punctate membranous effector compartments that are occasionally observed in the host cytoplasm. Live cell imaging with fluorescently labeled proteins in rice (Oryza sativa) showed that these effector puncta colocalize with the plant plasma membrane and with CLATHRIN LIGHT CHAIN 1, a component of clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). Inhibiting CME using virus-induced gene silencing and chemical treatments resulted in cytoplasmic effectors in swollen BICs lacking effector puncta. By contrast, fluorescent marker co-localization, gene silencing and chemical inhibitor studies failed to support a major role for clathrin-independent endocytosis in effector translocation. Effector localization patterns indicated that cytoplasmic effector translocation occurs underneath appressoria before invasive hyphal growth. Taken together, this study provides evidence that cytoplasmic effector translocation is mediated by clathrin-mediated endocytosis in BICs and suggests a role for M. oryzae effectors in co-opting plant endocytosis.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
- Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Pharmacological approaches have made a tremendous impact on the field of microbial secretion systems. This protocol describes the inhibition of Golgi-dependent secretion in Magnaporthe oryzae though brefeldin A (BFA) treatment. State-of-the-art live-cell imaging allows tracking secreted proteins in their secretion pathways. Here we applied this protocol for defining the secretion systems of two fluorescently labeled effectors, Bas4 (apoplastic) and Pwl2 (cytoplasmic). Secretion of Bas4 is clearly inhibited by brefeldin A (BFA), indicating its Golgi-dependent secretion pathway. By contrast, secretion of Pwl2 is BFA insensitive and follows a nonconventional secretion pathway that is Snare and Exocyst dependent. The protocol is suitable to other plant-microbial systems and in vitro secreted microbial proteins.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Peng Z, Oliveira-Garcia E, Lin G, Hu Y, Dalby M, Migeon P, Tang H, Farman M, Cook D, White FF, Valent B, Liu S. Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008272. [PMID: 31513573 PMCID: PMC6741851 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Newly emerged wheat blast disease is a serious threat to global wheat production. Wheat blast is caused by a distinct, exceptionally diverse lineage of the fungus causing rice blast disease. Through sequencing a recent field isolate, we report a reference genome that includes seven core chromosomes and mini-chromosome sequences that harbor effector genes normally found on ends of core chromosomes in other strains. No mini-chromosomes were observed in an early field strain, and at least two from another isolate each contain different effector genes and core chromosome end sequences. The mini-chromosome is enriched in transposons occurring most frequently at core chromosome ends. Additionally, transposons in mini-chromosomes lack the characteristic signature for inactivation by repeat-induced point (RIP) mutation genome defenses. Our results, collectively, indicate that dispensable mini-chromosomes and core chromosomes undergo divergent evolutionary trajectories, and mini-chromosomes and core chromosome ends are coupled as a mobile, fast-evolving effector compartment in the wheat pathogen genome. The emerging blast disease on wheat is proving even harder to control than the ancient, still-problematic rice blast disease. Potential wheat resistance identified using strains isolated soon after disease emergence are no longer effective in controlling recent aggressive field isolates from wheat in South America and South Asia. We construct a high-quality assembly of an aggressive, recently-isolated wheat blast fungal strain and the first assembled mini-chromosome genome sequence of wheat and rice blast pathogens. We report that recent wheat pathogens can contain one or two highly-variable dispensable mini-chromosomes, each with an amalgamation of fungal effector genes and other sequences that are duplicated or absent from indispensable core chromosome ends. Well-studied effectors found on different core chromosomes in rice pathogens appear side-by-side in wheat pathogen mini-chromosomes. The rice pathogen often overcomes deployed resistance genes by deleting triggering effector genes. We propose that the fast-evolving effector-rich compartment of the wheat blast fungus is a combination of core chromosome ends and mobile mini-chromosomes that are easily lost from individual strains. Localization of effectors on mini-chromosomes would therefore accelerate pathogen adaptation in the field.
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- Zhao Peng
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Center for Genomics and Biotechnology and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
- * E-mail: (BV); (SL)
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
- * E-mail: (BV); (SL)
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Peng Z, Oliveira-Garcia E, Lin G, Hu Y, Dalby M, Migeon P, Tang H, Farman M, Cook D, White FF, Valent B, Liu S. Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008272. [PMID: 31513573 DOI: 10.1101/359455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Newly emerged wheat blast disease is a serious threat to global wheat production. Wheat blast is caused by a distinct, exceptionally diverse lineage of the fungus causing rice blast disease. Through sequencing a recent field isolate, we report a reference genome that includes seven core chromosomes and mini-chromosome sequences that harbor effector genes normally found on ends of core chromosomes in other strains. No mini-chromosomes were observed in an early field strain, and at least two from another isolate each contain different effector genes and core chromosome end sequences. The mini-chromosome is enriched in transposons occurring most frequently at core chromosome ends. Additionally, transposons in mini-chromosomes lack the characteristic signature for inactivation by repeat-induced point (RIP) mutation genome defenses. Our results, collectively, indicate that dispensable mini-chromosomes and core chromosomes undergo divergent evolutionary trajectories, and mini-chromosomes and core chromosome ends are coupled as a mobile, fast-evolving effector compartment in the wheat pathogen genome.
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- Zhao Peng
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Center for Genomics and Biotechnology and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Deising HB. The Glycosylphosphatidylinositol Anchor Biosynthesis Genes GPI12, GAA1, and GPI8 Are Essential for Cell-Wall Integrity and Pathogenicity of the Maize Anthracnose Fungus Colletotrichum graminicola. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2016; 29:889-901. [PMID: 27937175 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-09-16-0175-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring of proteins is one of the most common posttranslational modifications of proteins in eukaryotic cells and is important for associating proteins with the cell surface. In fungi, GPI-anchored proteins play essential roles in cross-linking of β-glucan cell-wall polymers and cell-wall rigidity. GPI-anchor synthesis is successively performed at the cytoplasmic and the luminal face of the ER membrane and involves approximately 25 proteins. While mutagenesis of auxiliary genes of this pathway suggested roles of GPI-anchored proteins in hyphal growth and virulence, essential genes of this pathway have not been characterized. Taking advantage of RNA interference (RNAi) we analyzed the function of the three essential genes GPI12, GAA1 and GPI8, encoding a cytoplasmic N-acetylglucosaminylphosphatidylinositol deacetylase, a metallo-peptide-synthetase and a cystein protease, the latter two representing catalytic components of the GPI transamidase complex. RNAi strains showed drastic cell-wall defects, resulting in exploding infection cells on the plant surface and severe distortion of in planta-differentiated infection hyphae, including formation of intrahyphal hyphae. Reduction of transcript abundance of the genes analyzed resulted in nonpathogenicity. We show here for the first time that the GPI synthesis genes GPI12, GAA1, and GPI8 are indispensable for vegetative development and pathogenicity of the causal agent of maize anthracnose, Colletotrichum graminicola.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- 1 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, and
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- 1 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, and
- 2 Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Nutzpflanzenforschung; Betty-Heimann-Str. 3. D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
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Chen W, Kastner C, Nowara D, Oliveira-Garcia E, Rutten T, Zhao Y, Deising HB, Kumlehn J, Schweizer P. Host-induced silencing of Fusarium culmorum genes protects wheat from infection. J Exp Bot 2016; 67:4979-91. [PMID: 27540093 PMCID: PMC5014151 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plants producing antisense or double-stranded RNA molecules that target specific genes of eukaryotic pests or pathogens can become protected from their attack. This beneficial effect was also reported for plant-fungus interactions and is believed to reflect uptake of the RNAs by the fungus via an as yet unknown mechanism, followed by target gene silencing. Here we report that wheat plants pre-infected with Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) strains containing antisense sequences against target genes of the Fusarium head blight (FHB) fungus F. culmorum caused a reduction of corresponding transcript levels in the pathogen and reduced disease symptoms. Stable transgenic wheat plants carrying an RNAi hairpin construct against the β-1, 3-glucan synthase gene FcGls1 of F. culmorum or a triple combination of FcGls1 with two additional, pre-tested target genes also showed enhanced FHB resistance in leaf and spike inoculation assays under greenhouse and near-field conditions, respectively. Microscopic evaluation of F. culmorum development in plants transiently or stably expressing FcGls1 silencing constructs revealed aberrant, swollen fungal hyphae, indicating severe hyphal cell wall defects. The results lead us to propose host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) as a plant protection approach that may also be applicable to highly FHB-susceptible wheat genotypes.
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- Wanxin Chen
- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, Betty Heimann Straße 3, D-06120 Halle, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, Betty Heimann Straße 3, D-06120 Halle, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Deising HB. Attenuation of PAMP-triggered immunity in maize requires down-regulation of the key β-1,6-glucan synthesis genes KRE5 and KRE6 in biotrophic hyphae of Colletotrichum graminicola. Plant J 2016; 87:355-75. [PMID: 27144995 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In plants, pathogen defense is initiated by recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) via plasma membrane-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs). Fungal structural cell wall polymers such as branched β-glucans are essential for infection structure rigidity and pathogenicity, but at the same time represent PAMPs. Kre5 and Kre6 are key enzymes in β-1,6-glucan synthesis and formation of branch points of the β-glucan network. In spite of the importance of branched β-glucan for hyphal rigidity and plant-fungus interactions, neither the role of KRE5 and KRE6 in pathogenesis nor mechanisms allowing circumventing branched β-glucan-triggered immune responses are known. We functionally characterized KRE5 and KRE6 of the ascomycete Colletotrichum graminicola, a hemibiotroph that infects maize (Zea mays). After appressorial plant invasion, this fungus sequentially differentiates biotrophic and highly destructive necrotrophic hyphae. RNAi-mediated reduction of KRE5 and KRE6 transcript abundance caused appressoria to burst and swelling of necrotrophic hyphae, indicating that β-1,6-glucosidic bonds are essential in these cells. Live cell imaging employing KRE5:mCherry and KRE6:mCherry knock-in strains and probing of infection structures with a YFP-conjugated β-1,6-glucan-binding protein showed expression of these genes and exposure of β-1,6-glucan in conidia, appressoria and necrotrophic, but not in biotrophic hyphae. Overexpression of KRE5 and KRE6 in biotrophic hyphae led to activation of broad-spectrum plant defense responses, including papilla and H2 O2 formation, as well as transcriptional activation of several defense-related genes. Collectively, our results strongly suggest that down-regulation of synthesis and avoidance of exposure of branched β-1,3-β-1,6-glucan in biotrophic hyphae is required for attenuation of plant immune responses.
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- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3., D-06120, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Phytopathologie und Pflanzenschutz, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3., D-06120, Halle/Saale, Germany.
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Nutzpflanzenforschung, Betty-Heimann-Str. 3., D-06120, Halle/Saale, Germany.
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Zheng H, Chen S, Chen X, Liu S, Dang X, Yang C, Giraldo MC, Oliveira-Garcia E, Zhou J, Wang Z, Valent B. The Small GTPase MoSec4 Is Involved in Vegetative Development and Pathogenicity by Regulating the Extracellular Protein Secretion in Magnaporthe oryzae. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:1458. [PMID: 27729922 PMCID: PMC5037964 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
The Rab GTPase proteins play important roles in the membrane trafficking, and consequently protein secretion and development of eukaryotic organisms. However, little is known about the function of Rab GTPases in Magnaporthe oryzae. To further explore the function of Rab GTPases, we deleted the ortholog of the yeast Sec4p protein in M. oryzae, namely MoSEC4. The ΔMosec4 mutant is defective in polarized growth and conidiation, and it displays decreased appressorium turgor pressure and attenuated pathogenicity. Notably, the biotrophic invasive hyphae produced in rice cells are more bulbous and compressed in the ΔMosec4 mutant. Further studies showed that deletion of the MoSEC4 gene resulted in decreased secretion of extracellular enzymes and mislocalization of the cytoplasmic effector PWL2-mCherry-NLS. In accordance with a role in secretion, the GFP-MoSec4 fusion protein mainly accumulates at tips of growing vegetative hyphae. Our results suggest that the MoSec4 protein plays important roles in the secretion of extracellular proteins and consequently hyphal development and pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus.
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- Huakun Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
- Basic Forestry and Proteomics Research Center, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology (HIST), Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Jie Zhou
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- Basic Forestry and Proteomics Research Center, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology (HIST), Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou, China
- Zonghua Wang
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
- Barbara Valent
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Lange M, Oliveira-Garcia E, Deising HB, Peiter E. A modular plasmid system for protein co-localization and bimolecular fluorescence complementation in filamentous fungi. Curr Genet 2014; 60:343-50. [PMID: 24792241 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-014-0429-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
To elucidate the function of a protein, it is crucial to know its subcellular location and its interaction partners. Common approaches to resolve those questions rely on the genetic tagging of the gene-of-interest (GOI) with fluorescent reporters. To determine the location of a tagged protein, it may be co-localized with tagged marker proteins. The interaction of two proteins under investigation is often analysed by tagging both with the C- and N-terminal halves of a fluorescent protein. In fungi, the tagged GOI are commonly introduced by serial transformation with plasmids harbouring a single tagged GOI and subsequent selection of suitable strains. In this study, a plasmid system is presented that allows the tagging of several GOI on a single plasmid. This novel double tagging plasmid system (DTPS) allows a much faster and less laborious generation of double-labelled fungal strains when compared with conventional approaches. The DTPS also enables the combination of as many tagged GOI as desired and a simple exchange of existing tags. Furthermore, new tags can be introduced smoothly into the system. In conclusion, the DTPS allows an efficient tagging of GOI with a high degree of flexibility and therefore accelerates functional analysis of proteins in vivo.
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- Mario Lange
- Plant Nutrition Laboratory, Faculty of Natural Sciences III, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 06099, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Oliveira-Garcia E, Deising HB. Infection structure-specific expression of β-1,3-glucan synthase is essential for pathogenicity of Colletotrichum graminicola and evasion of β-glucan-triggered immunity in maize. Plant Cell 2013; 25:2356-78. [PMID: 23898035 PMCID: PMC3723631 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.103499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2012] [Revised: 05/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
β-1,3-Glucan and chitin are the most prominent polysaccharides of the fungal cell wall. Covalently linked, these polymers form a scaffold that determines the form and properties of vegetative and pathogenic hyphae. While the role of chitin in plant infection is well understood, the role of β-1,3-glucan is unknown. We functionally characterized the β-1,3-glucan synthase gene GLS1 of the maize (Zea mays) pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola, employing RNA interference (RNAi), GLS1 overexpression, live-cell imaging, and aniline blue fluorochrome staining. This hemibiotroph sequentially differentiates a melanized appressorium on the cuticle and biotrophic and necrotrophic hyphae in its host. Massive β-1,3-glucan contents were detected in cell walls of appressoria and necrotrophic hyphae. Unexpectedly, GLS1 expression and β-1,3-glucan contents were drastically reduced during biotrophic development. In appressoria of RNAi strains, downregulation of β-1,3-glucan synthesis increased cell wall elasticity, and the appressoria exploded. While the shape of biotrophic hyphae was unaffected in RNAi strains, necrotrophic hyphae showed severe distortions. Constitutive expression of GLS1 led to exposure of β-1,3-glucan on biotrophic hyphae, massive induction of broad-spectrum defense responses, and significantly reduced disease symptom severity. Thus, while β-1,3-glucan synthesis is required for cell wall rigidity in appressoria and fast-growing necrotrophic hyphae, its rigorous downregulation during biotrophic development represents a strategy for evading β-glucan-triggered immunity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ely Oliveira-Garcia
- Faculty of Natural Sciences III, Institute for Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences III, Institute for Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
- Interdisciplinary Center for Crop Plant Research, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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