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Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype

BACKGROUND: Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) disease is caused by endogenous, phloem-restricted, Gram negative, uncultured bacteria named Candidatus Liberibacter africanus (CaLaf), Ca. L. asiaticus (CaLas), and Ca. L. americanus (CaLam), depending on the continent where the bacteria were first detected. T...

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Autores principales: Mafra, Valéria, Martins, Polyana K, Francisco, Carolina S, Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo, Freitas-Astúa, Juliana, Machado, Marcos A
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23586643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-247
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author Mafra, Valéria
Martins, Polyana K
Francisco, Carolina S
Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo
Freitas-Astúa, Juliana
Machado, Marcos A
author_facet Mafra, Valéria
Martins, Polyana K
Francisco, Carolina S
Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo
Freitas-Astúa, Juliana
Machado, Marcos A
author_sort Mafra, Valéria
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description BACKGROUND: Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) disease is caused by endogenous, phloem-restricted, Gram negative, uncultured bacteria named Candidatus Liberibacter africanus (CaLaf), Ca. L. asiaticus (CaLas), and Ca. L. americanus (CaLam), depending on the continent where the bacteria were first detected. The Asian citrus psyllid vector, Diaphorina citri, transmits CaLas and CaLam and both Liberibacter species are present in Brazil. Several studies of the transcriptional response of citrus plants manifesting HLB symptoms have been reported, but only for CaLas infection. This study evaluated the transcriptional reprogramming of a susceptible genotype of sweet orange challenged with CaLam, using a customized 385K microarray containing approximately 32,000 unigene transcripts. We analyzed global changes in gene expression of CaLam-infected leaves of sweet orange during the symptomatic stage of infection and compared the results with previously published microarray studies that used CaLas-infected plants. Twenty candidate genes were selected to validate the expression profiles in symptomatic and asymptomatic PCR-positive leaves infected with CaLas or CaLam. RESULTS: The microarray analysis identified 633 differentially expressed genes during the symptomatic stage of CaLam infection. Among them, 418 (66%) were upregulated and 215 (34%) were down regulated. Five hundred and fourteen genes (81%) were orthologs of genes from Arabidopsis thaliana. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) revealed that several of the transcripts encoded transporters associated with the endomembrane system, especially zinc transport. Among the most biologically relevant gene transcripts in GSEA were those related to signaling, metabolism and/or stimulus to hormones, genes responding to stress and pathogenesis, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, oxidative stress and transcription factors belonging to different families. Real time PCR of 20 candidate genes validated the expression pattern of some genes in symptomatic and asymptomatic leaves infected with CaLam or CaLas. CONCLUSIONS: Many gene transcripts and biological processes are significantly altered upon CaLam infection. Some of them had been identified in response to CaLas infection, while others had not been previously reported. These data will be useful for selecting target genes for genetic engineering to control HLB.
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spelling pubmed-36359832013-04-26 Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype Mafra, Valéria Martins, Polyana K Francisco, Carolina S Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo Freitas-Astúa, Juliana Machado, Marcos A BMC Genomics Research Article BACKGROUND: Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) disease is caused by endogenous, phloem-restricted, Gram negative, uncultured bacteria named Candidatus Liberibacter africanus (CaLaf), Ca. L. asiaticus (CaLas), and Ca. L. americanus (CaLam), depending on the continent where the bacteria were first detected. The Asian citrus psyllid vector, Diaphorina citri, transmits CaLas and CaLam and both Liberibacter species are present in Brazil. Several studies of the transcriptional response of citrus plants manifesting HLB symptoms have been reported, but only for CaLas infection. This study evaluated the transcriptional reprogramming of a susceptible genotype of sweet orange challenged with CaLam, using a customized 385K microarray containing approximately 32,000 unigene transcripts. We analyzed global changes in gene expression of CaLam-infected leaves of sweet orange during the symptomatic stage of infection and compared the results with previously published microarray studies that used CaLas-infected plants. Twenty candidate genes were selected to validate the expression profiles in symptomatic and asymptomatic PCR-positive leaves infected with CaLas or CaLam. RESULTS: The microarray analysis identified 633 differentially expressed genes during the symptomatic stage of CaLam infection. Among them, 418 (66%) were upregulated and 215 (34%) were down regulated. Five hundred and fourteen genes (81%) were orthologs of genes from Arabidopsis thaliana. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) revealed that several of the transcripts encoded transporters associated with the endomembrane system, especially zinc transport. Among the most biologically relevant gene transcripts in GSEA were those related to signaling, metabolism and/or stimulus to hormones, genes responding to stress and pathogenesis, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, oxidative stress and transcription factors belonging to different families. Real time PCR of 20 candidate genes validated the expression pattern of some genes in symptomatic and asymptomatic leaves infected with CaLam or CaLas. CONCLUSIONS: Many gene transcripts and biological processes are significantly altered upon CaLam infection. Some of them had been identified in response to CaLas infection, while others had not been previously reported. These data will be useful for selecting target genes for genetic engineering to control HLB. BioMed Central 2013-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3635983/ /pubmed/23586643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-247 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mafra et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mafra, Valéria
Martins, Polyana K
Francisco, Carolina S
Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo
Freitas-Astúa, Juliana
Machado, Marcos A
Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title_full Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title_fullStr Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title_full_unstemmed Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title_short Candidatus Liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
title_sort candidatus liberibacter americanus induces significant reprogramming of the transcriptome of the susceptible citrus genotype
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23586643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-247
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