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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-12-11
pubmed:abstractText
Interactions between plants and fungal pathogens require a complex interplay at the plant-fungus interface. Extracellular effector proteins are thought to play a crucial role in establishing a successful infection. To identify pathogenesis-related proteins in Ustilago maydis we combined the isolation of secreted proteins using a signal sequence trap approach with bioinformatic analyses and the subsequent characterization of knock-out mutants. We identified 29 secreted proteins including hydrophobins and proteins with a repetitive structure similar to the repellent protein Rep1. Hum3, a protein containing both, a hydrophobin domain and a repetitive Rep1-like region, is shown to be processed during passage through the secretory pathway. While single knock-outs of hydrophobin or repellent-like genes did not affect pathogenicity, we found a strong effect of a double knock-out of hum3 and the repetitive rsp1. Yeast-like growth, mating, aerial hyphae formation and surface hydrophobicity were unaffected in this double mutant. However, pathogenic development in planta stops early after penetration leading to a complete loss of pathogenicity. This indicates that Hum3 and Rsp1 are pathogenicity proteins that share an essential function in early stages of the infection. Our results demonstrate that focusing on secreted proteins is a promising way to discover novel pathogenicity proteins that might be broadly applied to a variety of fungal pathogens.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1617-4615
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
27-39
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Computational Biology, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-DNA, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Genes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Host-Pathogen Interactions, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Plant Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Ustilago, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Virulence, pubmed-meshheading:17917743-Zea mays
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification and characterization of secreted and pathogenesis-related proteins in Ustilago maydis.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829, Koeln, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't