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Blanco-Ulate B, Morales-Cruz A, Amrine KCH, Labavitch JM, Powell ALT, Cantu D. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of Botrytis cinerea genes targeting plant cell walls during infections of different hosts. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:435. [PMID: 25232357 PMCID: PMC4153048 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Cell walls are barriers that impair colonization of host tissues, but also are important reservoirs of energy-rich sugars. Growing hyphae of necrotrophic fungal pathogens, such as Botrytis cinerea (Botrytis, henceforth), secrete enzymes that disassemble cell wall polysaccharides. In this work we describe the annotation of 275 putative secreted Carbohydrate-Active enZymes (CAZymes) identified in the Botrytis B05.10 genome. Using RNAseq we determined which Botrytis CAZymes were expressed during infections of lettuce leaves, ripe tomato fruit, and grape berries. On the three hosts, Botrytis expressed a common group of 229 potentially secreted CAZymes, including 28 pectin backbone-modifying enzymes, 21 hemicellulose-modifying proteins, 18 enzymes that might target pectin and hemicellulose side-branches, and 16 enzymes predicted to degrade cellulose. The diversity of the Botrytis CAZymes may be partly responsible for its wide host range. Thirty-six candidate CAZymes with secretion signals were found exclusively when Botrytis interacted with ripe tomato fruit and grape berries. Pectin polysaccharides are notably abundant in grape and tomato cell walls, but lettuce leaf walls have less pectin and are richer in hemicelluloses and cellulose. The results of this study not only suggest that Botrytis targets similar wall polysaccharide networks on fruit and leaves, but also that it may selectively attack host wall polysaccharide substrates depending on the host tissue.
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- Barbara Blanco-Ulate
- Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
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- Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
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- Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, DavisDavis, CA, USA
- *Correspondence: Dario Cantu, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA e-mail:
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Kieu NP, Aznar A, Segond D, Rigault M, Simond-Côte E, Kunz C, Soulie MC, Expert D, Dellagi A. Iron deficiency affects plant defence responses and confers resistance to Dickeya dadantii and Botrytis cinerea. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2012; 13:816-27. [PMID: 22375884 PMCID: PMC6638873 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00790.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Iron is an essential element for most living organisms, and pathogens are likely to compete with their hosts for the acquisition of this element. The bacterial plant pathogen Dickeya dadantii has been shown to require its siderophore-mediated iron uptake system for systemic disease progression on several host plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana. In this study, we investigated the effect of the iron status of Arabidopsis on the severity of disease caused by D. dadantii. We showed that symptom severity, bacterial fitness and the expression of bacterial pectate lyase-encoding genes were reduced in iron-deficient plants. Reduced symptoms correlated with enhanced expression of the salicylic acid defence plant marker gene PR1. However, levels of the ferritin coding transcript AtFER1, callose deposition and production of reactive oxygen species were reduced in iron-deficient infected plants, ruling out the involvement of these defences in the limitation of disease caused by D. dadantii. Disease reduction in iron-starved plants was also observed with the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea. Our data demonstrate that the plant nutritional iron status can control the outcome of an infection by acting on both the pathogen's virulence and the host's defence. In addition, iron nutrition strongly affects the disease caused by two soft rot-causing plant pathogens with a large host range. Thus, it may be of interest to take into account the plant iron status when there is a need to control disease without compromising crop quality and yield in economically important plant species.
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- Nam Phuong Kieu
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Biotransformation, University of Science Ho Chi Minh City, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Kunz C, Vandelle E, Rolland S, Poinssot B, Bruel C, Cimerman A, Zotti C, Moreau E, Vedel R, Pugin A, Boccara M. Characterization of a new, nonpathogenic mutant of Botrytis cinerea with impaired plant colonization capacity. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2006; 170:537-50. [PMID: 16626475 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01682.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic pathogen that attacks more than 200 plant species. Here, the nonpathogenic mutant A336, obtained via insertional mutagenesis, was characterized. Mutant A336 was nonpathogenic on leaves and fruits, on intact and wounded tissue, while still able to penetrate the host plant. It grew normally in vitro on rich media but its conidiation pattern was altered. The mutant did not produce oxalic acid and exhibited a modified regulation of the production of some secreted proteins (acid protease 1 and endopolygalacturonase 1). Culture filtrates of the mutant triggered an important oxidative burst in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) suspension cells, and the mutant-plant interaction resulted in the formation of hypersensitive response-like necrosis. Genetic segregation analyses revealed that the pathogenicity phenotype was linked to a single locus, but showed that the mutated gene was not tagged by the plasmid pAN7-1. Mutant A336 is the first oxalate-deficient mutant to be described in B. cinerea and it differs from all the nonpathogenic B. cinerea mutants described to date.
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- Caroline Kunz
- Laboratoire Interactions Plantes-Pathogènes (UMR 217 INRA/INA-PG/Université Pierre et Marie Curie), INA-PG, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Kars I, McCalman M, Wagemakers L, VAN Kan JAL. Functional analysis of Botrytis cinerea pectin methylesterase genes by PCR-based targeted mutagenesis: Bcpme1 and Bcpme2 are dispensable for virulence of strain B05.10. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2005; 6:641-52. [PMID: 20565686 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2005.00312.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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SUMMARY Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic pathogen that produces an array of enzymes capable of attacking the plant cell wall components. We have previously shown that growth of the fungus in planta is accompanied by the degradation of pectin and that endopolygalacturonase (Bcpg) genes are expressed during infection of different plant tissues. It was assumed that pectin demethylation by pectin methylesterases (PME) was essential for the subsequent depolymerization by BcPGs to occur efficiently. We report here on the functional analysis of two Bcpme genes in strain B05.10, using a gene-replacement approach. The method used for the generation of constructs for gene replacement in B. cinerea circumvents the need for cloning and yielded a high proportion of homologous recombinants. Mutants lacking both Bcpme genes are not affected in their growth on highly methylated pectin, nor did they show any reduction in virulence. The results suggest that B. cinerea strain B05.10 can efficiently degrade pectin without prior demethylation.
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- Ilona Kars
- Wageningen University, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Xie M, Krooshof GH, Benen JAE, Atwood JA, King D, Bergmann C, Orlando R. Post-translational modifications of recombinant B. cinerea EPG 6. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2005; 19:3389-97. [PMID: 16259040 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The fungus Botrytis cinerea is a ubiquitous plant pathogen that infects more than 200 different plant species and causes substantial economic losses in a wide range of agricultural crops and harvested products. Endopolygalacturonases (EPGs) are among the first array of cell-wall-degrading enzymes secreted by fungi during infection. Up to 13 EPG glycoforms have been described for B. cinerea. The presence of multiple N-linked glycosylation modifications in BcPG1-6 is predicted by their deduced amino acid sequences. In this work, the glycosylation sites and the attached oligosaccharide structures on BcPG6 were analyzed. The molecular mass of the intact glycoprotein was determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometric (MALDI-TOFMS) analysis. BcPG6 contains seven potential N-linked glycosylation sites. Occupancy of these glycosylation sites and the attached carbohydrate structures were analyzed by tryptic digestion followed by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) using a stepped orifice voltage approach. Five out of seven potential N-linked sites present in BcPG6 were determined to be occupied by high-mannose-type oligosaccharides. Four of them were readily determined to be at Asn58 (T3 peptide), Asn198 (T7 peptide), Asn237 (T9 peptide) and Asn256 (T11 peptide), respectively. Another was located on the T8 peptide, which contained two potential N-linked sites, Asn224 and Asn227 (SNNN224VTN227ITFK). LC/MS/MS of a sample treated with N-glycanase placed the glycan in this peptide at Asn224 rather than at Asn227. The potential glycosylation site on Asn146 (T6 peptide) was not glycosylated. In addition, two disulfide bonds were observed, linking the Cys residues within the T13 and T16 peptides.
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- Min Xie
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602-4712, USA
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Lu SW, Kroken S, Lee BN, Robbertse B, Churchill ACL, Yoder OC, Turgeon BG. A novel class of gene controlling virulence in plant pathogenic ascomycete fungi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:5980-5. [PMID: 12730371 PMCID: PMC156312 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0931375100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Insertional mutants of the fungal maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus were screened for altered virulence. One mutant had 60% reduction in lesion size relative to WT but no other detectable change in phenotype. Analysis of sequence at the insertion site revealed a gene (CPS1) encoding a protein with two AMP-binding domains. CPS1 orthologs were detected in all Cochliobolus spp. examined, in several other classes of ascomycete fungi, and in animals but not in basidiomycete fungi, bacteria, or plants. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that CPS1 represents a previously undescribed subset of adenylate-forming enzymes that have diverged from certain acyl-CoA ligases, which in bacteria are involved in biosynthesis of nonribosomal peptides or polyketidepeptide hybrids. Disruption of CPS1 caused reduced virulence of both race T and race O of C. heterostrophus on maize, of Cochliobolus victoriae on oats, and of Gibberella zeae on wheat. These results suggest that CPS1 functions as a general fungal virulence factor in plant pathogenic ascomycetes.
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- Shun-Wen Lu
- Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Valette-Collet O, Cimerman A, Reignault P, Levis C, Boccara M. Disruption of Botrytis cinerea pectin methylesterase gene Bcpme1 reduces virulence on several host plants. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2003; 16:360-7. [PMID: 12744465 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2003.16.4.360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The pectinolytic enzyme pectin methylesterase (PME) hydrolyses pectin in methanol and polygalacturonic acid. In the expressed sequence tag library of Botrytis cinerea T4, we identified a 1,041 bp Bcpme1 cDNA potentially encoding a 346-amino acid protein of 37 kDa showing 46.8% identity with Aspergillus sp. PMEs. Bcpme1 is a single copy gene and is similarly expressed in glucose and pectin containing media. To evaluate the role of Bcpme1 in Botrytis cinerea virulence, a mutant in Bcpme1 was generated by gene disruption. The Bcpme1 mutant showed similar growth on rich medium but reduced growth on pectin medium. Two isozymes of pI 7.4 and 7.1 were detected in pectin liquid-culture supernatants of wild-type strain Bd90 analyzed by isoelectric focusing-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, while those of Bcpme1 mutant possessed only the pI 7.1 isozyme. BCPME1, the pI 7.4 isozyme, is the major PME activity, as PME activity is 75% reduced in Bcpme1 mutant. Moreover, the Bcpme1 mutant was less virulent on apple fruits, grapevine, and Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Those phenotypes were complemented by reintroducing a Bcpme1 copy in the Bcpme1 mutant. These results showed that B. cinerea possessed more than one PME-encoding gene and that BCPME1 is an important determinant of B. cinerea virulence.
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Cabanne C, Donèche B. Purification and characterization of two isozymes of polygalacturonase from Botrytis cinerea. Effect of calcium ions on polygalacturonase activity. Microbiol Res 2003; 157:183-9. [PMID: 12398287 DOI: 10.1078/0944-5013-00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea produces a set of polygalacturonases (PGs) which are involved in the enzymatic degradation of pectin during plant tissue infection. Two polygalacturonases secreted by B. cinerea in seven-day-old liquid culture were purified to apparent homogeneity by chromatography. PG I was an exopolygalacturonase of molecular weight 65 kDa and pI 8.0 and PG II was an endopolygalacturonase of 52 kDa and pI 7.8. Enzymatic activity of PG I and PG II was partially inhibited by 1 mM CaCl2, probably by calcium chelation of polygalacturonic acid, the substrate of the enzyme.
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- Charlotte Cabanne
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Végétale Appliquée, Universite V. Segalen Bordeaux 2/INRA, Faculté d'oenologie, Talence, France
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Cotton P, Rascle C, Fevre M. Characterization of PG2, an early endoPG produced by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, expressed in yeast. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2002; 213:239-44. [PMID: 12167544 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2002.tb11312.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, a plant pathogenic ascomycete, contains a neutral endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) subfamily of genes that was previously isolated. We report here that pg2, a member of this subfamily, is early and strongly expressed during the first steps of pathogenesis of sunflower cotyledons. The corresponding protein, PG2, was produced in the heterologous Kluyveromyces lactis system and purified. Characterization of the recombinant enzyme revealed a narrow pH activity curve with an optimal pH of 4.5. Hydrolysis of polygalacturonic acid by PG2 resulted in the accumulation of oligomers ranging from 2- to 9-mer. This degradation profile indicates a random attack on the polymer and demonstrates an endo-mode of action. These results provide evidence that pg2 contributes to the infection process during the early phase of host colonization.
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- Pascale Cotton
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire Fongique, UMR 5122 CNRS INSA UCB, Bat Lwoff, 10 rue Dubois, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
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