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Xue J, Guo X, Xu G, Chen X, Jiao L, Tang X. Discovery, Identification, and Mode of Action of Phenolics from Marine-Derived Fungus Aspergillus ustus as Antibacterial Wilt Agents. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024; 72:2989-2996. [PMID: 38214488 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c07826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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The bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum seriously affects crop yield and safety and is difficult to control. Biological activity-guided screening led to the isolation of 11 phenolic compounds including three undescribed compounds (carnemycin H-I and stromemycin B) from the secondary metabolites of a marine-derived Aspergillus ustus. One new compound is an unusual phenolic dimer. Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive spectroscopic data and J-based configurational analysis. The antibacterial activities of the isolated compounds against R. solanacearum were evaluated. Compound 3 exhibited excellent inhibitory activity with an MIC value of 3 μg/mL, which was comparable to that of streptomycin sulfate. Additionally, 3 significantly changed the morphology and inhibited the activity of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) to interfere with the growth of R. solanacearum. Molecular docking was conducted to clarify the potential mechanisms of compound 3 with SDH. Further in vivo experiments demonstrated that 3 could remarkably inhibit the occurrence of bacterial wilt on tomatoes.
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- Jingjing Xue
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Structure-Based Drug Design & Discovery, Ministry of Education and School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography State, Ministry of Natural Resources, Da-Xue Road, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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Liu D, Pan Y, Li K, Li D, Li P, Gao Z. Proteomics Reveals the Mechanism Underlying the Inhibition of Phytophthora sojae by Propyl Gallate. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:8151-8162. [PMID: 32633954 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c02371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Phytophthora sojae is a serious soil-borne pathogen, and the major control measures undertaken include the induction of soybean-resistance genes, fungicides, and scientific and reasonable planting management. Owing to the safety and resistance of fungicides, it is of great importance to screen new control alternatives. In a preliminary study, we observed that propyl gallate (PG) exerts a considerable inhibitory effect on P. sojae and can effectively prevent and cure soybean diseases, although the underlying mechanism remains unclear. To explore the inhibitory mechanism of PG on P. sojae, we analyzed the differences in the protein profile of P. sojae before and after treatment with PG using tandem mass tag (TMT) proteomics. Proteomic analysis revealed that the number of differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) was 285, of which 75 were upregulated and 210 were downregulated, and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways primarily comprised glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, secondary metabolite generation, and other pathways. Among the DEPs involved in PG inhibition of P. sojae are two closely related uncharacterized proteins encoded by PHYSODRAFT_522340 and PHYSODRAFT_344464, denoted PsFACL and PsCPT herein. The CRISPR/Cas9 knockout technique revealed that PsFACL and PsCPT were involved in the growth rate and pathogenicity. In addition, the results of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) showed that there were differences in fatty acid levels between wild-type (WT) and CRISPR/Cas9 knockout transformants. Knocking out PsFACL and PsCPT resulted in the restriction of the synthesis and β-oxidation of long-chain fatty acids, respectively. These suggest that PsFACL and PsCPT were also involved in the regulation of the fatty acid metabolism. Our results aid in understanding the mechanism underlying the inhibition of P. sojae growth by PG.
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- Dong Liu
- College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape, Anqing Vocational and Technical College, 99 North of Tianzhushan Road, Anqing 246003, Anhui, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Sustainable Management of Plant Diseases and Pests of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Anhui Agricultural University, Anqing 246003, Anhui, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape, Anqing Vocational and Technical College, 99 North of Tianzhushan Road, Anqing 246003, Anhui, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China
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Silencing Dicer-Like Genes Reduces Virulence and sRNA Generation in Penicillium italicum, the Cause of Citrus Blue Mold. Cells 2020; 9:cells9020363. [PMID: 32033176 PMCID: PMC7072147 DOI: 10.3390/cells9020363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Revised: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The Dicer protein is one of the most important components of RNAi machinery because it regulates the production of small RNAs (sRNAs) in eukaryotes. Here, Dicer1-like gene (Pit-DCL1) and Dicer2-like gene (Pit-DCL2) RNAi transformants were generated via pSilent-1 in Penicillium italicum (Pit), which is the causal agent of citrus blue mold. Neither transformant showed a change in mycelial growth or sporulation ability, but the pathogenicity of the Pit-DCL2 RNAi transformant to citrus fruits was severely impaired, compared to that of the Pit-DCL1 RNAi transformant and the wild type. We further developed a citrus wound-mediated RNAi approach with a double-stranded fragment of Pit-DCL2 generated in vitro, which achieved an efficiency in reducing Pi-Dcl2 expression and virulence that was similar to that of protoplast-mediated RNAi in P. italicum, suggesting that this approach is promising in the exogenous application of dsRNA to control pathogens on the surface of citrus fruits. In addition, sRNA sequencing revealed a total of 69.88 million potential sRNAs and 12 novel microRNA-like small RNAs (milRNAs), four of which have been predicated on target innate immunity or biotic stress-related genes in Valencia orange. These data suggest that both the Pit-DCL1 and Pit-DCL2 RNAi transformants severely disrupted the biogenesis of the potential milRNAs, which was further confirmed for some milRNAs by qRT-PCR or Northern blot analysis. These data suggest the sRNAs in P. italicum that may be involved in a molecular virulence mechanism termed cross-kingdom RNAi (ck-RNAi) by trafficking sRNA from P. italicum to citrus fruits.
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Burgos-Canul YY, Canto-Canché B, Berezovski MV, Mironov G, Loyola-Vargas VM, Barba de Rosa AP, Tzec-Simá M, Brito-Argáez L, Carrillo-Pech M, Grijalva-Arango R, Muñoz-Pérez G, Islas-Flores I. The cell wall proteome from two strains of Pseudocercospora fijiensis with differences in virulence. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 35:105. [PMID: 31267317 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-019-2681-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pseudocercospora fijiensis causes black Sigatoka disease, the most important threat to banana. The cell wall is crucial for fungal biological processes, including pathogenesis. Here, we performed cell wall proteomics analyses of two P. fijiensis strains, the highly virulent Oz2b, and the less virulent C1233 strains. Strains were starved from nitrogen to mimic the host environment. Interestingly, in vitro cultures of the C1233 strain grew faster than Oz2b in PDB medium, suggesting that C1233 survives outside the host better than the highly virulent Oz2b strain. Both strains were submitted to nitrogen starvation and the cell wall proteins were isolated and subjected to nano-HPLC-MS/MS. A total of 2686 proteins were obtained from which only 240 had a known function and thus, bioinformatics analyses were performed on this group. We found that 90 cell wall proteins were shared by both strains, 21 were unique for Oz2b and 39 for C1233. Shared proteins comprised 24 pathogenicity factors, including Avr4 and Ecp6, two effectors from P. fijiensis, while the unique proteins comprised 16 virulence factors in C1233 and 11 in Oz2b. The P. fijiensis cell wall proteome comprised canonical proteins, but thirty percent were atypical, a feature which in other phytopathogens has been interpreted as contamination. However, a comparison with the identities of atypical proteins in other reports suggests that the P. fijiensis proteins we detected were not contaminants. This is the first proteomics analysis of the P. fijiensis cell wall and our results expands the understanding of the fundamental biology of fungal phytopathogens and will help to decipher the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and virulence in P. fijiensis.
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- Yamily Y Burgos-Canul
- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Biotecnología, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., Mexico
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Recursos Naturales, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C., Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, C.P. 97205, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
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Liu D, Li K, Hu J, Wang W, Liu X, Gao Z. Biocontrol and Action Mechanism of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Bacillus subtilis in Soybean Phytophthora Blight. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E2908. [PMID: 31207889 PMCID: PMC6628291 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20122908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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With the improper application of fungicides, Phytophthora sojae begins to develop resistance to fungicides, and biological control is one of the potential ways to control it. We screened two strains of Bacillus; Bacillus amyloliquefaciens JDF3 and Bacillus subtilis RSS-1, which had an efficient inhibitory effect on P. sojae. They could inhibit mycelial growth, the germination of the cysts, and the swimming of the motile zoospores. To elucidate the response of P. sojae under the stress of B. amyloliquefaciens and B. subtilis, and the molecular mechanism of biological control, comparative transcriptome analysis was applied. Transcriptome analysis revealed that the expression gene of P. sojae showed significant changes, and a total of 1616 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were detected. They participated in two major types of regulation, namely "specificity" regulation and "common" regulation. They might inhibit the growth of P. sojae mainly by inhibiting the activity of ribosome. A pot experiment indicated that B. amyloliquefaciens and B. subtilis enhanced the resistance of soybean to P. sojae, and their control effects of them were 70.7% and 65.5%, respectively. In addition, B. amyloliquefaciens fermentation broth could induce an active oxygen burst, NO production, callose deposition, and lignification. B. subtilis could also stimulate the systemic to develop the resistance of soybean by lignification, and phytoalexin.
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- Dong Liu
- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
- School of life sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape, Anqing Vocational and Technical College, 99 North of Tianzhushan Road, Anqing 246003, Anhui, China.
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- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
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- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
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- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
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- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
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- College of plant protection, Anhui Agricultural University, 130 West of Changjiang Road, Hefei 230036, Anhui, China.
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Hu X, Zhao Z, Zhuo T, Fan X, Zou H. The RSc0454-Encoded FAD-Linked Oxidase Is Indispensable for Pathogenicity in Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2019; 32:697-707. [PMID: 30540527 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-18-0224-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of bacterial wilt disease. Here, we report that a large FAD-linked oxidase encoded by RSc0454 in GMI1000 is required for pathogenicity. The FAD-linked oxidase encoded by RSc0454 is composed of 1,345 amino acids, including DUF3683, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) domains. The RSc0454 protein showed both LDH and SDH activities. To investigate its role in pathogenicity, a deletion mutant of the RSc0454 gene was constructed in GMI1000, which was impaired in its ability to cause bacterial wilt disease in tomato. A single DUF3683, LDH, or SDH domain was insufficient to restore bacterial pathogenicity. Mutagenesis of the RSc0454 gene did not affect growth rate but caused cell aggregation at the bottom of the liquid nutrient medium, which was reversed by exogenous applications of lactate, fumarate, pyruvate, and succinate. qRT-PCR and promoter LacZ fusion experiments demonstrated that RSc0454 gene transcription was induced by lactate and fumarate (both substrates of LDH). Compared with the downregulation of the succinate dehydrogenase gene sdhBADC and the lactate dehydrogenase gene ldh, RSc0454 gene transcription was enhanced in planta. This suggests that the oxidase encoded by RSc0454 was involved in a redox balance, which is in line with the different living conditions of R. solanacearum.
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- Xun Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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