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Mol Microbiol ; 121(5): 912-926, 2024 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38400525

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Fungal cell walls represent the frontline contact with the host and play a prime role in pathogenesis. While the roles of the cell wall polymers like chitin and branched ß-glucan are well understood in vegetative and pathogenic development, that of the most prominent galactose-containing polymers galactosaminogalactan and fungal-type galactomannan is unknown in plant pathogenic fungi. Mining the genome of the maize pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola identified the single-copy key galactose metabolism genes UGE1 and UGM1, encoding a UDP-glucose-4-epimerase and UDP-galactopyranose mutase, respectively. UGE1 is thought to be required for biosynthesis of both polymers, whereas UGM1 is specifically required for fungal-type galactomannan formation. Promoter:eGFP fusion strains revealed that both genes are expressed in vegetative and in pathogenic hyphae at all stages of pathogenesis. Targeted deletion of UGE1 and UGM1, and fluorescence-labeling of galactosaminogalactan and fungal-type galactomannan confirmed that Δuge1 mutants were unable to synthesize either of these polymers, and Δugm1 mutants did not exhibit fungal-type galactomannan. Appressoria of Δuge1, but not of Δugm1 mutants, were defective in adhesion, highlighting a function of galactosaminogalactan in the establishment of these infection cells on hydrophobic surfaces. Both Δuge1 and Δugm1 mutants showed cell wall defects in older vegetative hyphae and severely reduced appressorial penetration competence. On intact leaves of Zea mays, both mutants showed strongly reduced disease symptom severity, indicating that UGE1 and UGM1 represent novel virulence factors of C. graminicola.


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Colletotrichum , Proteínas Fúngicas , Galactose , Doenças das Plantas , Fatores de Virulência , Zea mays , Parede Celular/metabolismo , Colletotrichum/genética , Colletotrichum/metabolismo , Colletotrichum/patogenicidade , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo , Galactanos/metabolismo , Galactose/metabolismo , Galactose/análogos & derivados , Hifas/metabolismo , Transferases Intramoleculares/genética , Transferases Intramoleculares/metabolismo , Mananas/metabolismo , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , UDPglucose 4-Epimerase/metabolismo , UDPglucose 4-Epimerase/genética , Virulência/genética , Fatores de Virulência/genética , Fatores de Virulência/metabolismo , Zea mays/microbiologia
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