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Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species

Colletotrichum species complexes are among the top 10 economically important fungal plant pathogens worldwide because they can infect climacteric and nonclimacteric fruit at the pre and/or postharvest stages. C. truncatum is the major pathogen responsible for anthracnose of green and red bell pepper...

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Autores principales: Villafana, Ria T., Rampersad, Sephra N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32076525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5998
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description Colletotrichum species complexes are among the top 10 economically important fungal plant pathogens worldwide because they can infect climacteric and nonclimacteric fruit at the pre and/or postharvest stages. C. truncatum is the major pathogen responsible for anthracnose of green and red bell pepper fruit worldwide. C. brevisporum was recently reported to be a minor pathogen of red bell pepper fruit in Trinidad, but has recently been reported as pathogenic to other host species in other countries. The ability of these phytopathogens to produce and secrete cutinase is required for dismantling the cuticle of the host plant and, therefore, crucial to the necrotrophic phase of their infection strategy. In vitro bioassays using different lipid substrates confirmed the ability of C. truncatum and C. brevisporum isolates from green and red bell peppers to secrete cutinase. The diversity, structure and organization and synteny of the cutinase gene were determined among different Colletotrichum species. Cluster analysis indicated a low level of nucleotide variation among C. truncatum sequences. Nucleotide sequences of C. brevisporum were more related to C. truncatum cutinase nucleotide sequences than to C. gloeosporioides. Cluster patterns coincided with haplotype and there was evidence of significant positive selection with no recombination signatures. The structure of the cutinase gene included two exons with one intervening intron and, therefore, one splice variant. Although amino acid sequences were highly conserved among C. truncatum isolates, diversity “hot spots” were revealed when the 66‐amino acid coding region of 200 fungal species was compared. Twenty cutinase orthologues were detected among different fungal species, whose common ancestor is Pezizomycotina and it is purported that these orthologues arose through a single gene duplication event prior to speciation. The cutinase domain was retained both in structure and arrangement among 34 different Colletotrichum species. The order of aligned genomic blocks between species and the arrangement of flanking protein domains were also conserved and shared for those domains immediately located at the N‐ and C‐terminus of the cutinase domain. Among these were an RNA recognition motif, translation elongation factor, signal peptide, pentatricopeptide repeat, and Hsp70 family of chaperone proteins, all of which support the expression of the cutinase gene. The findings of this study are important to understanding the evolution of the cutinase gene in C. truncatum as a key component of the biotrophic–necrotrophic switch which may be useful in developing gene‐targeting strategies to decrease the pathogenic potential of Colletotrichum species.
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spelling pubmed-70290522020-02-19 Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species Villafana, Ria T. Rampersad, Sephra N. Ecol Evol Original Research Colletotrichum species complexes are among the top 10 economically important fungal plant pathogens worldwide because they can infect climacteric and nonclimacteric fruit at the pre and/or postharvest stages. C. truncatum is the major pathogen responsible for anthracnose of green and red bell pepper fruit worldwide. C. brevisporum was recently reported to be a minor pathogen of red bell pepper fruit in Trinidad, but has recently been reported as pathogenic to other host species in other countries. The ability of these phytopathogens to produce and secrete cutinase is required for dismantling the cuticle of the host plant and, therefore, crucial to the necrotrophic phase of their infection strategy. In vitro bioassays using different lipid substrates confirmed the ability of C. truncatum and C. brevisporum isolates from green and red bell peppers to secrete cutinase. The diversity, structure and organization and synteny of the cutinase gene were determined among different Colletotrichum species. Cluster analysis indicated a low level of nucleotide variation among C. truncatum sequences. Nucleotide sequences of C. brevisporum were more related to C. truncatum cutinase nucleotide sequences than to C. gloeosporioides. Cluster patterns coincided with haplotype and there was evidence of significant positive selection with no recombination signatures. The structure of the cutinase gene included two exons with one intervening intron and, therefore, one splice variant. Although amino acid sequences were highly conserved among C. truncatum isolates, diversity “hot spots” were revealed when the 66‐amino acid coding region of 200 fungal species was compared. Twenty cutinase orthologues were detected among different fungal species, whose common ancestor is Pezizomycotina and it is purported that these orthologues arose through a single gene duplication event prior to speciation. The cutinase domain was retained both in structure and arrangement among 34 different Colletotrichum species. The order of aligned genomic blocks between species and the arrangement of flanking protein domains were also conserved and shared for those domains immediately located at the N‐ and C‐terminus of the cutinase domain. Among these were an RNA recognition motif, translation elongation factor, signal peptide, pentatricopeptide repeat, and Hsp70 family of chaperone proteins, all of which support the expression of the cutinase gene. The findings of this study are important to understanding the evolution of the cutinase gene in C. truncatum as a key component of the biotrophic–necrotrophic switch which may be useful in developing gene‐targeting strategies to decrease the pathogenic potential of Colletotrichum species. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7029052/ /pubmed/32076525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5998 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species
title_full Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species
title_fullStr Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species
title_full_unstemmed Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species
title_short Diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of Colletotrichum species
title_sort diversity, structure, and synteny of the cutinase gene of colletotrichum species
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32076525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5998
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