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John E, Jacques S, Phan HTT, Liu L, Pereira D, Croll D, Singh KB, Oliver RP, Tan KC. Variability in an effector gene promoter of a necrotrophic fungal pathogen dictates epistasis and effector-triggered susceptibility in wheat. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1010149. [PMID: 34990464 PMCID: PMC8735624 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum uses proteinaceous necrotrophic effectors (NEs) to induce tissue necrosis on wheat leaves during infection, leading to the symptoms of septoria nodorum blotch (SNB). The NEs Tox1 and Tox3 induce necrosis on wheat possessing the dominant susceptibility genes Snn1 and Snn3B1/Snn3D1, respectively. We previously observed that Tox1 is epistatic to the expression of Tox3 and a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 2A that contributes to SNB resistance/susceptibility. The expression of Tox1 is significantly higher in the Australian strain SN15 compared to the American strain SN4. Inspection of the Tox1 promoter region revealed a 401 bp promoter genetic element in SN4 positioned 267 bp upstream of the start codon that is absent in SN15, called PE401. Analysis of the world-wide P. nodorum population revealed that a high proportion of Northern Hemisphere isolates possess PE401 whereas the opposite was observed in representative P. nodorum isolates from Australia and South Africa. The presence of PE401 removed the epistatic effect of Tox1 on the contribution of the SNB 2A QTL but not Tox3. PE401 was introduced into the Tox1 promoter regulatory region in SN15 to test for direct regulatory roles. Tox1 expression was markedly reduced in the presence of PE401. This suggests a repressor molecule(s) binds PE401 and inhibits Tox1 transcription. Infection assays also demonstrated that P. nodorum which lacks PE401 is more pathogenic on Snn1 wheat varieties than P. nodorum carrying PE401. An infection competition assay between P. nodorum isogenic strains with and without PE401 indicated that the higher Tox1-expressing strain rescued the reduced virulence of the lower Tox1-expressing strain on Snn1 wheat. Our study demonstrated that Tox1 exhibits both 'selfish' and 'altruistic' characteristics. This offers an insight into a complex NE-NE interaction that is occurring within the P. nodorum population. The importance of PE401 in breeding for SNB resistance in wheat is discussed.
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- Evan John
- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Floreat, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Gong X, Hurtado O, Wang B, Wu C, Yi M, Giraldo M, Valent B, Goodin M, Farman M. pFPL Vectors for High-Throughput Protein Localization in Fungi: Detecting Cytoplasmic Accumulation of Putative Effector Proteins. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2015; 28:107-121. [PMID: 25390188 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-05-14-0144-ta] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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As part of a large-scale project whose goal was to identify candidate effector proteins in Magnaporthe oryzae, we developed a suite of vectors that facilitate high-throughput protein localization experiments in fungi. These vectors utilize Gateway recombinational cloning to place a gene's promoter and coding sequences upstream and in frame with enhanced cyan fluorescent protein, green fluorescent protein (GFP), monomeric red fluorescence protein (mRFP), and yellow fluorescent protein or a nucleus-targeted mCHERRY variant. The respective Gateway cassettes were incorporated into Agrobacterium-based plasmids to allow efficient fungal transformation using hygromycin or geneticin resistance selection. mRFP proved to be more sensitive than the GFP spectral variants for monitoring proteins secreted in planta; and extensive testing showed that Gateway-derived fusion proteins produced localization patterns identical to their "directly fused" counterparts. Use of plasmid for fungal protein localization (pFPL) vectors with two different selectable markers provided a convenient way to label fungal cells with different fluorescent proteins. We demonstrate the utility of the pFPL vectors for identifying candidate effector proteins and we highlight a number of important factors that must be taken into consideration when screening for proteins that are translocated across the host plasma membrane.
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Disruption of the phospholipase D gene attenuates the virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus. Infect Immun 2011; 80:429-40. [PMID: 22083709 DOI: 10.1128/iai.05830-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Aspergillus fumigatus is the most prevalent airborne fungal pathogen that induces serious infections in immunocompromised patients. Phospholipases are key enzymes in pathogenic fungi that cleave host phospholipids, resulting in membrane destabilization and host cell penetration. However, knowledge of the impact of phospholipases on A. fumigatus virulence is rather limited. In this study, disruption of the pld gene encoding phospholipase D (PLD), an important member of the phospholipase protein family in A. fumigatus, was confirmed to significantly decrease both intracellular and extracellular PLD activity of A. fumigatus. The pld gene disruption did not alter conidial morphological characteristics, germination, growth, and biofilm formation but significantly suppressed the internalization of A. fumigatus into A549 epithelial cells without affecting conidial adhesion to epithelial cells. Importantly, the suppressed internalization was fully rescued in the presence of 100 μM phosphatidic acid, the PLD product. Indeed, complementation of pld restored the PLD activity and internalization capacity of A. fumigatus. Phagocytosis of A. fumigatus conidia by J774 macrophages was not affected by the absence of the pld gene. Pretreatment of conidia with 1-butanol and a specific PLD inhibitor decreased the internalization of A. fumigatus into A549 epithelial cells but had no effect on phagocytosis by J774 macrophages. Finally, loss of the pld gene attenuated the virulence of A. fumigatus in mice immunosuppressed with hydrocortisone acetate but not with cyclophosphamide. These data suggest that PLD of A. fumigatus regulates its internalization into lung epithelial cells and may represent an important virulence factor for A. fumigatus infection.
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Staal J, Kaliff M, Dewaele E, Persson M, Dixelius C. RLM3, a TIR domain encoding gene involved in broad-range immunity of Arabidopsis to necrotrophic fungal pathogens. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 55:188-200. [PMID: 18397376 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03503.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Here, we describe the rapid cloning of a plant gene, Leptosphaeria maculans 3 (RLM3(Col)), which encodes a putative Toll interleukin-1 receptor-nucleotide binding (TIR-NB) class protein, which is involved in defence against the fungal pathogen L. maculans and against three other necrotrophic fungi. We have, through microarray-based case control bulk segregant comparisons of transcriptomes in pools of Col-0 x An-1 progeny, identified the absence of a locus that causes susceptibility in An-1. The significance of this locus on chromosome 4 for L. maculans resistance was supported by PCR-based mapping, and denoted resistance to RLM3(Col). Differential susceptible phenotypes in four independent T-DNA insertion lines support the hypothesis that At4g16990 is required for RLM3(Col) function. The mutants in RLM3(Col) also exhibited an enhanced susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria brassicicola and Alternaria brassicae. Complementations of An-1 and T-DNA mutants using overexpression of a short transcript lacking the NB-ARC domain, or a genomic clone, restored resistance to all necrotrophic fungi. The elevated expression of RLM3(Col) on B. cinerea-susceptible mutants further suggested convergence in signalling and gene regulation between defence against B. cinerea and L. maculans. In the case of L. maculans, RLM3(Col) is required for efficient callose deposition downstream of RLM1(Col).
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- Jens Staal
- Department of Molecular Biomedical Research, Unit for Molecular Signal Transduction in Inflammation, VIB, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, Ghent (Zwijnaarde) B-9052, Belgium.
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Rouxel T, Balesdent MH. The stem canker (blackleg) fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans, enters the genomic era. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2005; 6:225-41. [PMID: 20565653 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2005.00282.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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UNLABELLED SUMMARY Leptosphaeria maculans is the most ubiquitous pathogen of Brassica crops, and mainly oilseed brassicas (oilseed rape, canola), causing the devastating 'stem canker' or 'blackleg'. This review summarizes our current knowledge on the pathogen, from taxonomic issues to specific life traits. It mainly illustrates the importance of formal genetics approaches on the pathogen side to dissect the interaction with the host plants. In addition, this review presents the main current research topics on L. maculans and focuses on the L. maculans genome initiative recently begun, including its main research issues. TAXONOMY Leptosphaeria maculans (Desm.) Ces. & de Not. (anamorph Phoma lingam Tode ex Fr.). Kingdom Fungi, Phylum Ascomycota, Class Dothideomycetes (Loculoascomycetes), Order Pleosporales, Genus Leptosphaeria, Species maculans. HOST RANGE cultivated Brassicas such as Brassica napus (oilseed rape, canola), B. rapa, B. juncea, B. oleracea, etc., along with numerous wild crucifers species. Arabidopsis thaliana was recently reported to be a potential host for L. maculans. Primary disease symptoms are greyish-green collapse of cotyledon or leaf tissue, without a visible margin, bearing tiny black spots (pycnidia). The fungus then develops an endophytic symptomless growth for many months. Secondary symptoms, at the end of the growing season, are dry necroses of the crown tissues with occasional blackening (stem canker or blackleg) causing lodging of the plants. Pseudothecia differentiate on leftover residues. Seedling damping-off and premature ripening are also reported under certain environmental conditions. USEFUL WEBSITES Leptosphaeria maculans sequencing project at Genoscope: http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/English/Projets/Projet_DM/organisme_DM.html; the SECURE site: http://www.secure.rothamsted.ac.uk/ the 'Blackleg' group at the University of Melbourne: http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/blackleg/overview.htm.
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- T Rouxel
- INRA-PMDV, Route de Saint Cyr, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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Fitzgerald AM, Mudge AM, Gleave AP, Plummer KM. Agrobacterium and PEG-mediated transformation of the phytopathogen Venturia inaequalis. MYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2003; 107:803-10. [PMID: 12967207 DOI: 10.1017/s0953756203008086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We report the development of two new transformation systems, polyethylene glycol (PEG)-mediated transformation of protoplasts and Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of mycelium, for the filamentous ascomycete Venturia inaequalis. New binary vectors have been created for the latter. Although transformation was initially achieved using a PEG-mediated method, this was superseded by the A. tumefaciens-mediated approach. The advantages of the latter include: ease of the protocol, no requirement for protoplasts; higher transformation efficiency; and single-site integration. A comparison between the two transformation methods is presented.
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- Anna M Fitzgerald
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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Howlett BJ, Idnurm A, Pedras MS. Leptosphaeria maculans, the causal agent of blackleg disease of Brassicas. Fungal Genet Biol 2001; 33:1-14. [PMID: 11407881 DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.2001.1274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The loculoascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans (anamorph: Phoma lingam) causes blackleg of Brassicas, including Brassica napus (canola or rapeseed). This fungus probably comprises several morphologically similar species; taxonomic relationships between them are being clarified and nomenclature is being revised. The pathotype ("A" group) responsible for major economic losses to canola has been studied in more detail than other members of this species complex and is the focus of this review. L. maculans is haploid, outcrossing, can be transformed, and has a genome size of about 34 Mb. Preliminary genetic and physical maps have been developed and three genes involved in host specificity have been mapped. As yet, few genes have been characterized. Chemical analysis of fungal secondary metabolites has aided understanding of taxonomic relationships and of the host-fungal interaction by the unraveling of pathways for detoxification of antimicrobial phytoalexins. Several phytotoxins (host and nonhost specific) have been identified and a complex pattern of regulation of their synthesis by fungal and host metabolites has been discovered.
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- B J Howlett
- School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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He C, Rusu AG, Poplawski AM, Irwin JA, Manners JM. Transfer of a supernumerary chromosome between vegetatively incompatible biotypes of the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Genetics 1998; 150:1459-66. [PMID: 9832523 PMCID: PMC1460434 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/150.4.1459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Two biotypes (A and B) of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides infect the tropical legumes Stylosanthes spp. in Australia. These biotypes are asexual and vegetatively incompatible. However, field isolates of biotype B carrying a supernumerary 2-Mb chromosome, thought to originate from biotype A, have been reported previously. We tested the hypothesis that the 2-Mb chromosome could be transferred from biotype A to biotype B under laboratory conditions. Selectable marker genes conferring resistance to hygromycin and phleomycin were introduced into isolates of biotypes A and B, respectively. A transformant of biotype A, with the hygromycin resistance gene integrated on the 2-Mb chromosome, was cocultivated with phleomycin-resistant transformants of biotype B. Double antibiotic-resistant colonies were obtained from conidia of these mixed cultures at a frequency of approximately 10(-7). Molecular analysis using RFLPs, RAPDs, and electrophoretic karyotypes showed that these colonies contained the 2-Mb chromosome in a biotype B genetic background. In contrast, no double antibiotic colonies developed from conidia obtained from mixed cultures of phleomycin-resistant transformants of biotype B with biotype A transformants carrying the hygromycin resistance gene integrated in chromosomes >2 Mb in size. The results demonstrated that the 2-Mb chromosome was selectively transferred from biotype A to biotype B. The horizontal transfer of specific chromosomes across vegetative incompatibility barriers may explain the origin of supernumerary chromosomes in fungi.
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- C He
- Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Pathology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Covert SF, Enkerli J, Miao VP, VanEtten HD. A gene for maackiain detoxification from a dispensable chromosome of Nectria haematococca. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 251:397-406. [PMID: 8709942 DOI: 10.1007/bf02172367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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In Nectria haematococca the MAK1 gene product converts a chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) phytoalexin, maackiain, into a less toxic compound. The presence of MAK1 in this fungal pathogen is also correlated with high virulence on chick-pea. Previous genetic analysis suggested that MAK1 is located on a meiotically unstable, dispensable chromosome. The unstable nature of this chromosome facilitated MAK1 cloning by allowing us to identify a subset of genomic cosmid clones likely to contain MAK1. Truncated forms of the chromosome, generated during meiosis, were isolated from strains either able (Mak+) or unable (Mak-) to metabolize maackiain and used to probe a chromosome-specific cosmid library. Only clones that hybridized exclusively to the chromosome from the Mak+ strain were then screened for their ability to transform a Mak- isolate to the Mak+ phenotype. A 2.7 kb HindIII-PstI fragment was subcloned from a cosmid conferring MAK1 activity, and its nucleotide sequence determined. Because MAK1 transcription is not induced strongly by maackiain, a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction was required to detect MAK1 transcription in a Mak+ strain, and to isolate MAK1 cDNA fragments. Comparison of the genomic and cDNA sequences of MAK1 revealed the presence of three introns and an open reading frame encoding a protein 460 amino acids in length. Two diagnostic domains in its deduced amino acid sequence suggest MAK1 encodes a flavin-containing mono-oxygenase. MAK1 is the first gene encoding maackiain detoxification to be cloned, and is the second functional gene cloned from this dispensable chromosome. Southern analysis of genomic DNA from ascospore isolates containing MAK2, MAK3, and MAK4 indicated that MAK1 is not homologous to other known maackianin-detoxifying genes.
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- S F Covert
- Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-2152, USA
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Herzog RW, Singh NK, Schmidt C, Lemke PA. Presence of a P1 bacteriophage sequence in transforming plasmids of Pleurotus ostreatus. Curr Genet 1995; 27:460-5. [PMID: 7586033 DOI: 10.1007/bf00311216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Replicative plasmids pP01 and pP02, recovered from Pleurotus ostreatus transformants, contain an insert of bacteriophage origin. These plasmids have been amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and have been shown to represent a low-grade component in the initial preparation of the vector pAN7-1. The pP01 and pP02 plasmids share an insert (P01A) of virtual identity with a SmaI-BamHI genomic fragment of P 1 bacteriophage and retain remnants of a polylinker at the 5' end of this fragment. Such an insert undoubtedly represents an in vitro-generated event and did not arise, as suggested previously, by recombination of pAN7-1 with the P. ostreatus genome. The P. ostreatus transformants, however, do select for the minority pP0 plasmid, apparently recognizing the P01A insert as a heterologous or surrogate replicon.
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- R W Herzog
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA
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Aleksenko AY. Cointegration of transforming DNAs in Aspergillus nidulans: a model using autonomously-replicating plasmids. Curr Genet 1994; 26:352-8. [PMID: 7882430 DOI: 10.1007/bf00310500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Transforming DNAs form cointegrates in Aspergillus nidulans by homologous and non-homologous recombination as well as by end-to-end ligation of linear fragments. This process has been studied by means of a model in which the linkage of a marker gene to the origin of autonomous replication AMA1 was selected for. Recombinant plasmids were rescued into Escherichia coli and subjected to restriction mapping and sequence analysis. It was shown that circular DNA molecules recombined predominantly within homologous fragments. Linear DNA fragments integrated into circular plasmids by invasion of their ends into random non-homologous sites, but exhibited some bias in choice of a target sequence. Cointegrates of multiple plasmid copies were often observed. In some of the plasmids analysed, short duplications of the target sequence flanking an inserted linear DNA fragment have been revealed.
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- A Y Aleksenko
- Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia
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Verdoes JC, van Diepeningen AD, Punt PJ, Debets AJ, Stouthamer AH, van den Hondel CA. Evaluation of molecular and genetic approaches to generate glucoamylase overproducing strains of Aspergillus niger. J Biotechnol 1994; 36:165-75. [PMID: 7765235 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1656(94)90052-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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To evaluate the possibility of improving glucoamylase (GLA) production in Aspergillus niger strains carrying multiple copies of the GLA encoding gene (glaA), additional glaA copies were introduced either by genetic recombination or retransformation. For strains to be used in such experiments a genetic analysis was first carried out. The results of this analysis clearly revealed that in each transformant integration had occurred at a chromosome corresponding to a single linkage group (LG). The GLA production per gene copy showed considerable variation in these strains, indicating a clear effect of the site of integration on gene expression. Introduction of additional gene copies by genetic recombination experiments was carried out for different combinations of strains, carrying glaA copies in different chromosomes. The introduction of additional glaA gene copies by genetic recombination did not result in a considerable increase in GLA production compared to the parental strains. In some strains recombination resulted in genetic instability, observed by the frequent loss of glaA copies. Also, retransformation of multi-copy glaA strains did not result in an increase in GLA production. In several strains even a decrease in GLA production was found after retransformation. Southern analysis of these transformants suggested that newly introduced gene copies were heavily rearranged, which partly explains why GLA production was not increased. Further analysis of one such transformant provided evidence that the overexpression of the glaA gene is limited by the amount of trans-acting regulatory protein(s) available.
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- J C Verdoes
- TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics and Gene-technology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Williams RS, Davis MA, Howlett BJ. Nitrate reductase of the ascomycetous fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans: gene sequence and chromosomal location. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1994; 244:1-8. [PMID: 8041355 DOI: 10.1007/bf00280180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The nitrate reductase (niaD) gene was isolated from the phytopathogenic loculoascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans by screening a genomic DNA library with the Aspergillus nidulans niaD gene. The L. maculans niaD gene is the first protein-encoding gene characterised from this fungus. It encodes a predicted protein of 893 amino acids and contains four putative introns at positions in the gene equivalent to those of four of the six introns in the A. nidulans niaD gene. Mutants defective in niaD and molybdenum cofactor gene(s) of L. maculans have been isolated. Transformation of a L. maculans niaD mutant with a 3.8 kb SacII fragment containing the L. maculans niaD gene restored wild-type growth on nitrate as a sole nitrogen source. The niaD gene is present as a single copy on a chromosome which ranges in size from 2.6 to 2.8 Mb between the different L. maculans isolates examined.
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- R S Williams
- Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia
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Gems DH, Clutterbuck AJ. Co-transformation with autonomously-replicating helper plasmids facilitates gene cloning from an Aspergillus nidulans gene library. Curr Genet 1993; 24:520-4. [PMID: 8299174 DOI: 10.1007/bf00351716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Autonomously-replicating, marker-less "helper" plasmids were added to transformations of Aspergillus nidulans with plasmids which normally transform by chromosomal integration. This resulted in as much as a 200-fold increase in transformation efficiency. Recovery of autonomously-replicating plasmid co-integrates indicated that co-transformation involves recombination between integrating and helper plasmids, which occurs at a high frequency. Increasing DNA sequence-homology between pairs of plasmids used in simultaneous transformations enhanced co-transformation efficiency. Using helper plasmids and an A. nidulans gene library in a normally-integrating vector, the genes adC and adD were cloned as part of such a co-integrate. In effect, the addition of helper plasmid converts an integrating into an autonomously-replicating gene library in vivo.
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- D H Gems
- Institute of Genetics, Glasgow University, Scotland, UK
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Judelson HS. Intermolecular ligation mediates efficient cotransformation in Phytophthora infestans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 239:241-50. [PMID: 8510651 DOI: 10.1007/bf00281624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The processing of DNA molecules during transformation was characterized in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans. Linear and circular forms of non-replicating transformation vectors supported similar rates of stable transformation. Remarkably, digestion of plasmids within the selectable marker genes neomycin phosphotransferase (npt) or hygromycin phosphotransferase (hpt) had little effect on the recovery of drug-resistant transformants, and the cleaved sites were shown to be reconstituted in the transformants. An assay for the transient expression of beta-glucuronidase (GUS) in protoplasts treated with partial or disrupted GUS genes demonstrated that active genes could be reconstituted through intramolecular and/or intermolecular ligation between compatible ends, while incompatible ends were inefficiently joined. Stable transformation studies also demonstrated that complementing portions of incomplete npt or hpt genes joined through homologous recombination. Based on the indication of efficient ligation between DNA molecules during transformation, an efficient procedure for cotransformation was developed. The frequency of cotransformation between vectors expressing selected genes (npt or hpt) and nonselected sequences (GUS, beta-galactosidase, or streptomycin phosphotransferase) approached unity when the plasmids were linearized with the same restriction enzyme before transformation. In contrast, cotransformation between circular plasmids or those cut with different enzymes occurred infrequently (10%). Hybridization analysis of DNA from cotransformants demonstrated that linearized plasmids became colocalized within genomic DNA, while circular plasmids typically inserted at unliked sites.
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- H S Judelson
- Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens (CEPRAP), University of California, Davis 95616
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