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Biochemical characterization of three distinct polygalacturonases from Neosartorya fischeri P1. Food Chem 2015; 188:569-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2014] [Revised: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Argôlo Santos Carvalho H, de Andrade Silva EM, Carvalho Santos S, Micheli F. Polygalacturonases from Moniliophthora perniciosa are regulated by fermentable carbon sources and possible post-translational modifications. Fungal Genet Biol 2013; 60:110-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2013] [Revised: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Castruita-Domínguez JP, González-Hernández SE, Polaina J, Flores-Villavicencio LL, Alvarez-Vargas A, Flores-Martínez A, Ponce-Noyola P, Leal-Morales CA. Analysis of a polygalacturonase gene of Ustilago maydis and characterization of the encoded enzyme. J Basic Microbiol 2013; 54:340-9. [PMID: 23686704 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201200606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 12/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ustilago maydis is a pathogenic fungus that produces the corn smut. It is a biotrophic parasite that depends on living plant tissues for its proliferation and development. Polygalacturonases are secreted by pathogens to solubilize the plant cell-wall and are required for pathogen virulence. In this paper, we report the isolation of a U. maydis polygalacturonase gene (Pgu1) and the functional and structural characterization of the encoded enzyme. The U. maydis Pgu1 gene is expressed when the fungus is grown in liquid culture media containing different carbon sources. In plant tissue, the expression increased as a function of incubation time. Pgu1 gene expression was detected during plant infection around 10 days post-infection with U. maydis FB-D12 strain in combination with teliospore formation. Synthesis and secretion of active recombinant PGU1 were achieved using Pichia pastoris, the purified enzyme had a optimum temperature of 34 °C, optimum pH of 4.5, a Km of 57.84 g/L for polygalacturonic acid, and a Vmax of 28.9 µg/min mg. Structural models of PGU1 based on homologous enzymes yielded a typical right-handed β-helix fold of pectinolytic enzymes classified in the glycosyl hydrolases family 28, and the U. maydis PGU1 is related with endo rather than exo polygalacturonases.
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- José P Castruita-Domínguez
- Departamento de Biología, División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Campus Guanajuato, Universidad de Guanajuato. Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto., México
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YOSHINO-YASUDA S, KATO M, KITAMOTO N. Sequence Analysis and Heterologous Expression of Polygalacturonase Gene (AspecA) from a Shoyu Koji Mold, Aspergillus sojae KBN1340. FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH 2011. [DOI: 10.3136/fstr.17.579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Cleveland TE, Yu J, Bhatnagar D, Chen Z, Brown RL, Chang P, Cary JW. Progress in Elucidating the Molecular Basis of the Host Plant—AspergillusFlavusInteraction, a Basis for Devising Strategies to Reduce Aflatoxin Contamination in Crops. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1081/txr-200027892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Bhatnagar D, Cary JW, Ehrlich K, Yu J, Cleveland TE. Understanding the genetics of regulation of aflatoxin production and Aspergillus flavus development. Mycopathologia 2006; 162:155-66. [PMID: 16944283 DOI: 10.1007/s11046-006-0050-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Aflatoxins are polyketide-derived, toxic, and carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced primarily by two fungal species, Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, on crops such as corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and treenuts. Regulatory guidelines issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prevent sale of commodities if contamination by these toxins exceeds certain levels. The biosynthesis of these toxins has been extensively studied. About 15 stable precursors have been identified. The genes involved in encoding the proteins required for the oxidative and regulatory steps in the biosynthesis are clustered in a 70 kb portion of chromosome 3 in the A. flavus genome. With the characterization of the gene cluster, new insights into the cellular processes that govern the genes involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis have been revealed, but the signaling processes that turn on aflatoxin biosynthesis during fungal contamination of crops are still not well understood. New molecular technologies, such as gene microarray analyses, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and chromatin immunoprecipitation are being used to understand how physiological stress, environmental and soil conditions, receptivity of the plant, and fungal virulence lead to episodic outbreaks of aflatoxin contamination in certain commercially important crops. With this fundamental understanding, we will be better able to design improved non-aflatoxigenic biocompetitive Aspergillus strains and develop inhibitors of aflatoxin production (native to affected crops or otherwise) amenable to agricultural application for enhancing host-resistance against fungal invasion or toxin production. Comparisons of aflatoxin-producing species with other fungal species that retain some of the genes required for aflatoxin formation is expected to provide insight into the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster, and its role in fungal physiology. Therefore, information on how and why the fungus makes the toxin will be valuable for developing an effective and lasting strategy for control of aflatoxin contamination.
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- Deepak Bhatnagar
- Food and Feed Safety Research Unit, U.S.D.A., A.R.S., Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA 70124, USA.
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Panda T, Nair SR, Kumar M. Regulation of synthesis of the pectolytic enzymes of Aspergillus niger. Enzyme Microb Technol 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2003.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ribon AOB, Queiroz MV, Araújo EFD. Structural organization of polygalacturonase-encoding genes from Penicillium griseoroseum. Genet Mol Biol 2002. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572002000400020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Sawada K, Suzumatsu A, Kobayashi T, Ito S. Molecular cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding an exopolygalacturonase of a Bacillus isolate and properties of its recombinant enzyme. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1568:162-70. [PMID: 11750764 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(01)00213-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An exopolygalacturonase (exo-PGase; EC 3.2.1.82) was found in the culture broth of a Bacillus isolate. The gene encoding the exo-PGase, pehK, was cloned by polymerase chain reaction using mixed primers designed from N-terminal and internal amino acid (aa) sequences of the enzyme (PehK). The determined nucleotide (nt) sequence of pehK revealed a 2940 bp open reading frame (980 aa) that encoded a putative signal sequence (27 aa) and a mature protein (953 aa; 103810 Da). The recombinant enzyme was purified to homogeneity from a culture broth of Bacillus subtilis harboring a pehK-containing plasmid. It had a molecular mass of 105 kDa and a pI value of 5.0. The maximum activity was observed at pH 8 and 55 degrees C in Tris-HCl buffer. The degradation products from polygalacturonic or oligogalacturonic acids were digalacturonic acid, like the exo-PGases, PehX of Erwinia chrysanthemi and PehB of Ralstonia solanacearum. The deduced aa sequence of PehK exhibited moderate homology to those of PehX and PehB with approx. 30% identity for both. High homology was observed in a suitably aligned internal region of the three enzymes (65% identity), and some of the conserved aa residues appeared to form the catalytic core of the enzymes.
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- K Sawada
- Tochigi Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, 2606 Akabane, Ichikai, Haga, 321-3497 Tochigi, Japan
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de Vries RP, Visser J. Aspergillus enzymes involved in degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2001; 65:497-522, table of contents. [PMID: 11729262 PMCID: PMC99039 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.65.4.497-522.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 542] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides is of major importance in the food and feed, beverage, textile, and paper and pulp industries, as well as in several other industrial production processes. Enzymatic degradation of these polymers has received attention for many years and is becoming a more and more attractive alternative to chemical and mechanical processes. Over the past 15 years, much progress has been made in elucidating the structural characteristics of these polysaccharides and in characterizing the enzymes involved in their degradation and the genes of biotechnologically relevant microorganisms encoding these enzymes. The members of the fungal genus Aspergillus are commonly used for the production of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes. This genus produces a wide spectrum of cell wall-degrading enzymes, allowing not only complete degradation of the polysaccharides but also tailored modifications by using specific enzymes purified from these fungi. This review summarizes our current knowledge of the cell wall polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from aspergilli and the genes by which they are encoded.
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- R P de Vries
- Molecular Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, Wageningen University, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Nakamura M, Suprapta DN, Iwai H, Arai K. Comparison of endo-polygalacturonase activities of citrus and non-citrus races of Geotrichum candidum, and cloning and expression of the corresponding genes. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2001; 2:265-274. [PMID: 20573014 DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-6722.2001.00075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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summary Geotrichum candidum citrus race, a fungus that causes a sour rot disease in citrus fruits, secretes an endo-polygalacturonase (PG) that may facilitate the disease. There also exists a non-citrus race that is non-pathogenic to citrus fruits. In this research, we found that the PG activity of the citrus race isolates was much higher than that of the non-citrus race isolates in culture medium and inoculated lemon peel, and that there was a significant correlation between the PG activity and pathogenicity. We isolated the two corresponding PG genes, S31pg1 and S63pg1, from citrus race S31 and non-citrus race S63, respectively. S31PG1 and S63PG1 consisted of 368 and 369 amino acids, respectively. The two PG genes showed 68% identity at the amino acid level. In expression studies, S31pg1 transcript was detected in mycelia grown in liquid cultures of citrus race S31 containing either glucose, pectin or lemon peel broth. The transcript was also detected in lemon peel inoculated with the isolate. On the other hand, no transcript of S63pg1 was detected in mycelia grown on any liquid cultures of non-citrus race S63 and lemon peel inoculated with the isolate. These results indicate that PG may play an important role in the development of the sour rot symptom and be involved in the difference of pathogenicity between the two races.
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- M Nakamura
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
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Prade RA, Zhan D, Ayoubi P, Mort AJ. Pectins, pectinases and plant-microbe interactions. Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 2000; 16:361-91. [PMID: 10819085 DOI: 10.1080/02648725.1999.10647984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- R A Prade
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078, USA
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Wagner F, Kusserow H, Schäfer W. Cloning and targeted disruption of two polygalacturonase genes in Penicillium olsonii. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2000; 186:293-9. [PMID: 10802187 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2000.tb09120.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The filamentous fungus Penicillium olsonii secretes several polygalacturonases (PGs) with molecular masses of about 47 kDa. These enzymes consist of several basic and acidic isoforms, with dominant activities at pI 4.5 and pI 7.9. Two polygalacturonase genes, pg1 and pg2, have been cloned. The corresponding enzymes, PG1 and PG2, consist of 370 and 380 amino acids, respectively, and show significant similarities to endo-polygalacturonases from other filamentous fungi. Targeted disruption of pg1 resulted in the elimination of all basic PG isoforms. In contrast, disruption of pg2 reduced, but did not eliminate the acidic PG activities. The PGs of P. olsonii must therefore be encoded by a gene family of at least three genes. Induction studies with various carbon sources revealed that the acidic and basic isoforms are differentially regulated. Pectin is the best inducer of the acidic PG isoforms. The basic isoforms, however, are best induced by monosaccharides like glucose, alpha-L-rhamnose and alpha-L-arabinose.
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- F Wagner
- Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg, Ohnhorststrasse 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany.
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Wubben JP, Mulder W, ten Have A, van Kan JA, Visser J. Cloning and partial characterization of endopolygalacturonase genes from Botrytis cinerea. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:1596-602. [PMID: 10103256 PMCID: PMC91226 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1596-1602.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Botrytis cinerea is a plant-pathogenic fungus infecting over 200 different plant species. We use a molecular genetic approach to study the process of pectin degradation by the fungus. Recently, we described the cloning and characterization of an endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) gene from B. cinerea (Bcpg1) which is required for full virulence. Here we describe the cloning and characterization of five additional endoPG-encoding genes from B. cinerea SAS56. The identity at the amino acid level between the six endoPGs of B. cinerea varied from 34 to 73%. Phylogenetic analysis, by using a group of 35 related fungal endoPGs and as an outgroup one plant PG, resulted in the identification of five monophyletic groups of closely related proteins. The endoPG proteins from B. cinerea SAS56 could be assigned to three different monophyletic groups. DNA blot analysis revealed the presence of the complete endoPG gene family in other strains of B. cinerea, as well as in other Botrytis species. Differential gene expression of the gene family members was found in mycelium grown in liquid culture with either glucose or polygalacturonic acid as the carbon source.
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- J P Wubben
- Section of Molecular Genetics of Industrial Micro-organisms, Wageningen Agricultural University, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Siekstele R, Bartkeviciute D, Sasnauskas K. Cloning, targeted disruption and heterologous expression of the Kluyveromyces marxianus endopolygalacturonase gene (EPG1). Yeast 1999; 15:311-22. [PMID: 10206190 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(19990315)15:4<311::aid-yea379>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus strain BKM Y-719 produces an efficient pectin-degrading endopolygalacturonase (EPG) that cleaves the internal alpha-1,4-D-glycosidic linkages to yield oligomers of varying sizes. The EPG1 gene encoding this industrially important EPG was cloned by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and degenerate primers to generate a 135 bp DNA fragment with which a genomic library was screened. The cloned fragment contained an open reading frame (ORF) of 1083 bp, encoding a 361 amino acid polypeptide. The predicted amino acid (aa) sequence of EPG showed similarity with polygalacturonases (PGs) of fungi. Analysis of the aa sequence indicated that the first 25 aa constitute a signal sequence and a motif (C218XGGHGXSIGSVG230) that is usually associated with a PG active site. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis resolved chromosomal bands for K. marxianus BKM Y-719 and using chromoblotting it seems that EPG1 is present as only a single copy in the genome.
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- R Siekstele
- Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Gognies S, Gainvors A, Aigle M, Belarbi A. Cloning, sequence analysis and overexpression of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae endopolygalacturonase-encoding gene (PGL1). Yeast 1999; 15:11-22. [PMID: 10028181 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(19990115)15:1<11::aid-yea336>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Only a few yeast strains produce pectin-degrading enzymes such as pectin esterases and depolymerases (hydrolases and lyases). Strain SCPP is the only known Saccharomyces strain to produce these pectinases. One of these pectolytic enzymes. PGL1-encoded endopolygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15), hydrolyses the alpha-1,4-glycosidic bonds within the rhamnogalacturonan chains in pectic substances. This paper presents the cloning and sequencing of the first S. cerevisiae gene involved in pectin degradation. Few differences were found between the two deduced amino acid sequences encoded by PGL1-1 from a pectolytic (PG+) strain (SCPP) and PGL1-2 from a non-pectolytic (PG-) strain (X2180-1B). Similarities were found with other polygalacturonases from plants and other microorganisms. Of the two S. cerevisiae genes, only the one isolated from strain SCPP was able, by overexpression, to confer endopolygalacturonase activity to a laboratory strain of S. cerevisiae. Overexpression of PGL1-1 gene in a non-pectolytic strain resulted in halo formation on polygalacturonic acid-containing agar plates stained with ruthenium red.
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- S Gognies
- Université de Reims, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire de Microbiologie Générale et Moléculaire, Europol'Agro, France
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Biological and biochemical studies on the ‘basic’ isoenzyme of endo-polygalacturonase secreted by Monilinia fructigena. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1017/s0953756297003766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Shieh MT, Brown RL, Whitehead MP, Cary JW, Cotty PJ, Cleveland TE, Dean RA. Molecular genetic evidence for the involvement of a specific polygalacturonase, P2c, in the invasion and spread of Aspergillus flavus in cotton bolls. Appl Environ Microbiol 1997; 63:3548-52. [PMID: 9293005 PMCID: PMC168660 DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.9.3548-3552.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Isolates of Aspergillus flavus can be differentiated based on production of the polygalacturonase P2c. One group of isolates produces P2c, whereas the other group does not. In general, the group that produces P2c causes more damage and spreads to a greater extent in cotton bolls than those isolates that do not produce P2c. To determine whether P2c contributes to disease, the expression of pecA, the gene previously determined to encode P2c, was genetically altered. Adding the pecA gene to a strain previously lacking the gene resulted in the ability to cause significantly more damage to the intercarpellary membrane and the ability spread to a greater extent within the adjacent locule compared to the abilities of a control transformant. Conversely, eliminating the expression of pecA by targeted disruption caused a significant reduction in aggressiveness compared to that of a nondisrupted control transformant. These results provide direct evidence that P2c contributes to the invasion and spread of A. flavus during infection of cotton bolls. However, other factors not evaluated in this study also contribute to aggressiveness.
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- M T Shieh
- Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology, Clemson University, South Carolina 29634-0377, USA
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Martínez-Ruiz A, Martínez del Pozo A, Lacadena J, Mancheño JM, Oñaderra M, Gavilanes JG. Characterization of a natural larger form of the antifungal protein (AFP) from Aspergillus giganteus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1340:81-7. [PMID: 9217017 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(97)00038-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Two major proteins, alpha-sarcin and an antifungal polypeptide (AFP), are secreted by the mould Aspergillus giganteus MDH 18894 when it is cultured for 70-80 h. A third major protein is also found in the extracellular medium at 48-60 h, but it disappears as the culture proceeds. This protein has been isolated and characterized in terms of apparent molecular mass, electrophoretic and chromatographic behaviour, NH2-terminal primary structure, amino acid content, spectroscopical features, reactivity against anti-AFP antibodies, and antifungal activity. Based on the obtained results it would be an extracellular inactive precursor form of AFP, designated as the large form of AFP (lf-AFP). Its amino acid composition is identical to that of AFP but containing six extra residues. NH2-terminal sequence analysis of the first eight amino acid residues of this polypeptide revealed that the extra residues can be perfectly accommodated within the DNA-deduced sequence of the precursor form of AFP. Its alignment with precursor sequences of different proteins, secreted by a variety of Aspergillus spp., reveals the existence of a common tetrapeptide at the carboxy-terminal end of their leader peptides. This sequence would be Ile/Leu-Xaa-Yaa-Arg, being mostly Xaa and Yaa an acid residue (Asp/Glu) and alanine, respectively. The presence of lf-AFP as an extracellular protein would be in perfect agreement with the existence of this tetrapeptide motif, that can be involved in the protein secretion mechanisms of filamentous fungi.
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- A Martínez-Ruiz
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Quimíca, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Hugouvieux V, Centis S, Lafitte C, Esquerre-Tugaye M. Induction by (alpha)-L-Arabinose and (alpha)-L-Rhamnose of Endopolygalacturonase Gene Expression in Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. Appl Environ Microbiol 1997; 63:2287-92. [PMID: 16535626 PMCID: PMC1389181 DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2287-2292.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The production of endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) by Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, a fungal pathogen causing anthracnose on bean seedlings, was enhanced when the fungus was grown in liquid medium with L-arabinose or L-rhamnose as the sole carbon source. These two neutral sugars are present in plant cell wall pectic polysaccharides. The endolytic nature of the enzyme was demonstrated by its specific interaction with the polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein of the host plant as well as by sugar analysis of the products released from its action on oligogalacturonides. Additional characterization of the protein was achieved with an antiserum raised against the pure endoPG of the fungus. Induction by arabinose and rhamnose was more prolonged and led to a level of enzyme activity at least five times higher than that on pectin. Northern blot experiments showed that this effect was correlated to the induction of a 1.6-kb transcript. A dose-response study indicated that the endoPG transcript level was already increased at a concentration of each sugar as low as 2.75 mM in the medium and was maximum at 55 mM arabinose and 28 mM rhamnose. Glucose, the main plant cell wall sugar residue which is also present in the apoplast, prevented endoPG gene expression, partially when added to pectin at concentrations ranging from 5 to 110 mM and totally when added at 55 mM to arabinose. Inhibition by glucose of the rhamnose-induced endoPG was correlated to nonuptake of rhamnose. This is the first report that arabinose and rhamnose stimulate endoPG gene expression in a fungus. The possible involvement of these various sugars on endoPG gene expression during pathogenesis is discussed.
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Cloning and characterization of a polygalacturonase-encoding gene from Penicillium janthinellum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0922-338x(97)82065-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Stratilová E, Dzúrová M, Markovic O, Jörnvall H. An essential tyrosine residue of Aspergillus polygalacturonase. FEBS Lett 1996; 382:164-6. [PMID: 8612742 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00146-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Based on strict conservation of a tyrosine residue in 24 polygalacturonases, tyrosine modification was assessed in two different forms of the Aspergillus enzyme. The second subform was unknown in structure but submitted to sequence analysis and was found also to have the conserved tyrosine residue. Results of chemical modifications are consistent in showing inactivation of the proteins with all tyrosine-reactive agents tested, acetic anhydride, N-acetyl imidazole, and tetranitromethane. Furthermore, after acetylation, regeneration of enzyme activity was possible with hydroxylamine. Spectrophotometric pH titration showed that one accessible tyrosine residue is ionized at pH 9.3-9.5, whereas the remaining, masked residues are all ionized at pH 10.5. It is concluded that one tyrosine residue is catalytically important, in agreement with the inactivation and reactivation data, that this residue is accessible, and that it is likely to correspond to the strictly conserved residue observed in all forms.
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- E Stratilová
- Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Benen J, Parenicova L, Kusters-van Someren M, Kester H, Visser J. Molecular genetic and biochemical aspects of pectin degradation in Aspergillus. PROGRESS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0921-0423(96)80265-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Yu J, Chang PK, Payne GA, Cary JW, Bhatnagar D, Cleveland TE. Comparison of the omtA genes encoding O-methyltransferases involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis from Aspergillus parasiticus and A. flavus. Gene X 1995; 163:121-5. [PMID: 7557460 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00397-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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O-methyltransferase (OMT) is one of the key enzymes in aflatoxin (AF) biosynthesis in the fungi, Aspergillus flavus (Af) and A. parasiticus (Ap). Genomic DNA clones containing the omtA genes from Ap strain SRRC 143 and Af strain CRA01-2B were sequenced. Comparison of the genomic DNA sequences with the cDNA of this Ap gene revealed the presence of four introns ranging from 52 to 60 bp in length in both species; the region encoding the putative S-adenosylmethionine-binding motif was located between the third and fourth introns. The coding sequence of omtA from Ap strain SRRC 143 demonstrated a greater than 97% sequence identity with that from Af strain CRA01-2B, within the coding region.
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- J Yu
- USDA/ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA 70179, USA
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Whitehead MP, Shieh MT, Cleveland TE, Cary JW, Dean RA. Isolation and characterization of polygalacturonase genes (pecA and pecB) from Aspergillus flavus. Appl Environ Microbiol 1995; 61:3316-22. [PMID: 7574642 PMCID: PMC167612 DOI: 10.1128/aem.61.9.3316-3322.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Two genes, pecA and pecB, encoding endopolyglacturonases were cloned from a highly aggressive strain of Aspergillus flavus. The pecA gene consisted of 1,228 bp encoding a protein of 363 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 37.6 kDa, interrupted by two introns of 58 and 81 bp in length. Accumulation of pecA mRNA in both pectin- or glucose-grown mycelia in the highly aggressive strain matched the activity profile of a pectinase previously identified as P2c. Transformants of a weakly aggressive strain containing a functional copy of the pecA gene produced P2c in vitro, confirming that pecA encodes P2c. The coding region of pecB was determined to be 1,217 bp in length interrupted by two introns of 65 and 54 bp in length. The predicted protein of 366 amino acids had an estimated molecular mass of 38 kDa. Transcripts of this gene accumulated in mycelia grown in medium containing pectin alone, never in mycelia grown in glucose-containing medium, for both highly and weakly aggressive strains. Thus, pecB encodes the activity previously identified as P1 or P3. pecA and pecB share a high degree of sequence identity with polygalacturonase genes from Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus oryzae, further establishing the close relationships between members of the A. flavus group. Conservation of intron positions in these genes also indicates that they share a common ancestor with genes encoding endopolyglacturonases of Aspergillus niger.
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- M P Whitehead
- Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology, Clemson University, South Carolina 29634-0377, USA
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