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PLoS Pathog ; 8(4): e1002643, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22496661

RESUMO

Phytopathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate their hosts for effective colonization. Hemibiotrophic fungi must maintain host viability during initial biotrophic growth and elicit host death for subsequent necrotrophic growth. To identify effectors mediating these opposing processes, we deeply sequenced the transcriptome of Colletotrichum higginsianum infecting Arabidopsis. Most effector genes are host-induced and expressed in consecutive waves associated with pathogenic transitions, indicating distinct effector suites are deployed at each stage. Using fluorescent protein tagging and transmission electron microscopy-immunogold labelling, we found effectors localised to stage-specific compartments at the host-pathogen interface. In particular, we show effectors are focally secreted from appressorial penetration pores before host invasion, revealing new levels of functional complexity for this fungal organ. Furthermore, we demonstrate that antagonistic effectors either induce or suppress plant cell death. Based on these results we conclude that hemibiotrophy in Colletotrichum is orchestrated through the coordinated expression of antagonistic effectors supporting either cell viability or cell death.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/microbiologia , Colletotrichum/metabolismo , Colletotrichum/patogenicidade , Hifas/metabolismo , Hifas/patogenicidade , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , Fatores de Virulência/biossíntese , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/ultraestrutura , Colletotrichum/ultraestrutura , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Hifas/ultraestrutura , Transcriptoma/fisiologia
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PLoS Genet ; 5(10): e1000703, 2009 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19876373

RESUMO

Mutations in LACERATA (LCR), FIDDLEHEAD (FDH), and BODYGUARD (BDG) cause a complex developmental syndrome that is consistent with an important role for these Arabidopsis genes in cuticle biogenesis. The genesis of their pleiotropic phenotypes is, however, poorly understood. We provide evidence that neither distorted depositions of cutin, nor deficiencies in the chemical composition of cuticular lipids, account for these features, instead suggesting that the mutants alleviate the functional disorder of the cuticle by reinforcing their defenses. To better understand how plants adapt to these mutations, we performed a genome-wide gene expression analysis. We found that apparent compensatory transcriptional responses in these mutants involve the induction of wax, cutin, cell wall, and defense genes. To gain greater insight into the mechanism by which cuticular mutations trigger this response in the plants, we performed an overlap meta-analysis, which is termed MASTA (MicroArray overlap Search Tool and Analysis), of differentially expressed genes. This suggested that different cell integrity pathways are recruited in cesA cellulose synthase and cuticular mutants. Using MASTA for an in silico suppressor/enhancer screen, we identified SERRATE (SE), which encodes a protein of RNA-processing multi-protein complexes, as a likely enhancer. In confirmation of this notion, the se lcr and se bdg double mutants eradicate severe leaf deformations as well as the organ fusions that are typical of lcr and bdg and other cuticular mutants. Also, lcr does not confer resistance to Botrytis cinerea in a se mutant background. We propose that there is a role for SERRATE-mediated RNA signaling in the cuticle integrity pathway.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/anatomia & histologia , Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Mutação , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Proteínas de Ligação ao Cálcio/metabolismo , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Fenótipo , Proteínas de Ligação a RNA , Proteínas Serrate-Jagged
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Development ; 131(23): 5981-90, 2004 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15539492

RESUMO

INCOMPOSITA (INCO) is a MADS-box transcription factor and member of the functionally diverse StMADS11 clade of the MADS-box family. The most conspicuous feature of inco mutant flowers are prophylls initiated prior to first whorl sepals at lateral positions of the flower primordium. The developing prophylls physically interfere with subsequent floral organ development that results in aberrant floral architecture. INCO, which is controlled by SQUAMOSA, prevents prophyll formation in the wild type, a role that is novel among MADS-box proteins, and we discuss evolutionary implications of this function. Overexpression of INCO or SVP, a structurally related Arabidopsis MADS-box gene involved in the negative control of Arabidopsis flowering time, conditions delayed flowering in transgenic plants, suggesting that SVP and INCO have functions in common. Enhanced flowering of squamosa mutants in the inco mutant background corroborates this potential role of INCO as a floral repressor in Antirrhinum. One further, hitherto hidden, role of INCO is the positive control of Antirrhinum floral meristem identity. This is revealed by genetic interactions between inco and mutants of FLORICAULA, a gene that controls the inflorescence to floral transition, together with SQUAMOSA. The complex regulatory and combinatorial relations between INCO, FLORICAULA and SQUAMOSA are summarised in a model that integrates observations from molecular studies as well as analyses of expression patterns and genetic interactions.


Assuntos
Antirrhinum/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Proteínas de Domínio MADS/genética , Proteínas de Domínio MADS/fisiologia , Alelos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Antirrhinum/fisiologia , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Northern Blotting , DNA/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Flores , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Genoma de Planta , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Hibridização In Situ , Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura , Modelos Biológicos , Modelos Genéticos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação , Filogenia , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Técnicas do Sistema de Duplo-Híbrido
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