Cyst germination proteins of the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans share homology with human mucins

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-42

  Görnhardt, Birgit ^a   Rouhara, Ila ^a   Schmelzer, Elmon ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catabolite repression; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

CYST GERMINATION PROTEIN; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GERMINATION; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN MUCIN; MICROBIAL ADHESION; MOLECULAR CLONING; POTATO LATE BLIGHT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURFACE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0343920738     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.1.32     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Bergeron, A., Champetier, S., LaRue, H., and Fradet, Y. 1996. MAUB is a new mucin antigen associated with bladder cancer. J. Biol. Chem. 271:6933-6940.
2. Burton, Z., Burgess, R. R., Lin, J. D. M., Holder, S., and Gros, C. A. 1981. The nucleotide sequence of the cloned rpoD gene for the RNA polymerase sigma subunit from E. coli K12. Nucleic Acids Res. 9: 2889-2903.
3. Carraway, K. L., and Hull, S. R. 1989. O-glycosylation pathway for mucin type glycoproteins. BioEssays 10:117-121.
4. Caten, C. E., and Jinks, J. L. 1968. Spontaneous variability of single isolates of Phytophthora infestans. I. Cultural variation. Can. J. Bot. 46:329-347.
5. Chen, Y., and Roxby, R. 1996. Characterization of a Phytophthora infestans gene involved in vesicle transport. Gene 181:89-94.
6. Chen, Y., and Roxby, R. 1997. Identification of a functional CT-element in the Phytophthora infestons piypt1. Gene 198:159-164.
7. de Bary, A. 1863. Recherches sur le devlopement de quelques champignons parasites. Ann. Sci. Natur. 20:5-148.
8. de Bary, A. 1876. Researches into the nature of the potato fungus, Phytophthora infestans. J. R. Agric. Soc. Eng. 7:357-391.
9. Devine, P. L., and McKenzie, I. F. C. 1992. Mucins: Structure, function, and associations with malignancy. BioEssays 14:619-625.
10. Eagland, D. 1988. Adhesion and adhesion performance: The scientific background. Endeav. New Ser. 12:179-184.
11. Epstein, L., and Nicholson, R. L. 1997. Adhesion of spores and hyphae to plant surfaces. Pages 11-25 in: The Mycota, Part A. G. C. Carroll and P. Tudzynski, eds. Springer, Berlin.
12. Erwin, D. C., Bartnicki-Garcia, S., and Tsao, P. H., eds. 1983. Phytophthora: Its Biology, Taxonomy, Ecology, and Pathology. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN.
13. Freytag, S., Bruscaglioni, L., Gold, R. E., and Mendgen, K. 1988. Basidiospores of rust fungi (Uromyces species) differentiate infection structures in vitro. Exp. Mycol. 12:275-283.
14. Frischauf, A.-M., Lehrach, H., Poustka, A., and Murray, N. 1983. Lambda replacement vectors carrying polylinker sequences. J. Mol. Biol. 170:827-842.
15. Giorda, R., Ohmachi, T., Shaw, D. R., and Ennis, H. L. 1990. A shared internal threonine-glutamic acid-threonine-proline repeat defines a family of Dictyostelium discoideum spore germination specific proteins. Biochemistry 29:7264-7269.
16. Gum, J. R. J. 1992. Mucin genes and the proteins they encode structure diversity and regulation. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 7:557-564.
17. Guyonnet Duperat, V., Audie, J.-P., Debailleul, V., Laine, A., Buisine, M.-P., Galiegue-Zouitina, S., Pigny, P., Degand, P., Aubert, J.-P., and Porchet, N. 1995. Characterization of the human mucin gene MUC5AC: A consensus cysteine-rich domain for 11p15 mucin genes? Biochem. J. 305:211-219.
18. Ingram, D. S. and Williams, P. H. 1991. Phytophthora infestans, the Cause of Late Blight of Potato. Adv. Plant Pathol. Vol. 7. Academic Press, London.
19. Judelson, H. S., Dudler, R., Pieterse, C. M. J., Unkles, S. E., and Michelmore, R. W. 1993. Expression and antisense inhibition of transgenes in Phytophthora infestons is modulated by choice of promoter and position effects. Gene 133:63-69.
20. Judelson, H. S., Tyler, B. M., and Michelmore, R. W. 1991. Transformation of the oomycete pathogen, Phytophthora infestans. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 4:602-607.
21. Kamoun, S., van West, P., de Jong, A. J., de Groot, K. E., Vleeshouwers, V. G. A. A., and Govers, F. 1997. A gene encoding a protein elicitor of Phytophthora infestans is down-regulated during infection of potato. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 10:13-20.
22. Kamper, J. T., Kamper, U., Rogers, L. M., and Kolattukudy, P. E. 1994. Identification of regulatory elements in the cutinase promoter from Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi (Nectria haematococca). J. Biol. Chem. 269:9195-9204.
23. Kaufmann, E., Geisler, N., and Weber, K. 1984. SDS-PAGE strongly overestimates the molecular masses of the neurofilament proteins. FEBS Lett. 170:81-84.
24. Knogge, W. 1998. Fungal pathogenicity. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 1:324-328.
25. Krämer, R., Freytag, S., and Schmelzer, E. 1997. In vitro formation of infection structures of Phytophthora infestans is associated with synthesis of stage specific polypeptides. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 103:43-53.
26. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
27. Logemann, J., Schell, J., and Willmitzer, L. 1987. Improved method for the isolation of RNA from plant tissues. Anal. Biochem. 163:16-20.
28. Lucas, J. A., Shattock, R. C., Shaw, D. S., and Cooke, L. R. 1991. Phytophthora. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
29. Lundin, M., Nehlin, J. O., and Ronne, H. 1994. Importance of a flanking AT-rich region in target site recognition by the GC-box binding zinc-finger protein MIG1. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:1979-1985
30. Merberg, D. M., Fitz, L. J., Temple, P., Giannotti, J., Mutha, P., Fitzgerald, M., Scaltreto, H., Kelleher, K., Preissner, K., Kriz, R., Jacobs, K., and Turner, K. 1993. A comparison of vitronectin and megakaryocyte stimulating factor. Pages 45-53 in: Biology of Vitronectins and Their Receptors. K. Preissner, S. Rosenblatt, C. Kost, J. Wegerhoff, and D. F. Mosher, eds. Elsevier Science Pub., Amsterdam.
31. Moon, R. P., Unkles, S. E., Duncan, J. M., Hawkins, A. R., and Kinghom, J. R. 1992. Sequence of the Phytophthora infestans glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase encoding gene (gpdA). Plant. Mol. Biol. 18:1209-1211.
32. Nehlin, J. O., Carlberg, M., and Ronne, H. 1991. Control of yeast Gal genes by MIG1 represser - a transcriptional cascade in the glucose response. EMBO J. 10:3373-3378.
33. Pieterse, C. M. J., Derksen, A.-M. C. E., Folders, J., and Govers, F. 1994a. Expression of the Phytophthora infestans ipiB and ipiO genes in planta and in vitro. Mol. Gen. Genet 244:269-277.
34. Pieterse, C. M. J., Risseuw, E. P., and Davidse, L. C. 1991. An in planta induced gene of Phytophthora infestons codes for ubiquitin. Plant Mol. Biol. 17:799-811.
35. Pieterse, C. M. J., van West, P., Verbrakel, H. M., Brasse, P. W. H. M., van den Berg-Velthuis, G. C. M., and Covers, F. 1994b. Structure and genomic organization of the ipiB and ipiO gene clusters of Phytophthora infestans. Gene 138:67-77.
36. Pieterse, C. M. J., Van'T Klooster, J., Van den Berg-Velthuis, G. C. M., and Govers, F. 1995. NiaA, the structural nitrate reductase gene of Phytophthora infestans: Isolation, characterization and expression analysis in Aspergillus nidulans. Curr. Genet. 27:359-366.
37. Pieterse, C. M. J., Verbakel, H. M., Spaans, J. H., Davidse, L. C., and Govers, F. 1993. Increased expression of the calmodulin gene of the late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans during pathogenesis on potato. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 6:164-172.
38. Pristou, R., and Gallegly, M. E. 1954. Leaf penetration by Phytophthora infestans. Phytopathology 44:81-86.
39. Rohwer, F., Fritzemeier, K.-H., Scheel, D., and Hahlbrock, K. 1987. Biochemical reactions of different tissues of potato (Solanum tuberosum) to zoospores and elicitors from Phytophthora infestans. Planta 170:556-561.
40. Rose, M. C. 1992. Mucins structure function and role in pulmonary diseases. Am. J. Physiol. 263:L413-L429.
41. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F., and Maniatis, T. A. 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
42. Schmelzer, E., Jahnen, W., and Hahlbrock, K. 1988. In situ localization of light induced chalcone synthase mRNA, chalcone synthase, and flavonoid end products in epidermal cells of parsley leaves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:2989-2993.
43. Sharma, P., Lönneborg, A., and Stougaard, P. 1993. PCR-based construction of subtractive cDNA library using magnetic beads. BioTechniques 15:610-611.
44. Shaw, D. S. 1983. The Peronosporales. A fungal geneticist's nightmare. Pages 85-121 in: Zoosporic Plant Pathogens, A Modern Perspective. S. T. Buczacki, ed. Academic Press, London.
45. Staples, R. C., Yoder, O. C., Hoch, H. C., Epstein, L., and Bhairi, S. 1986. Gene expression during infection structure development by germlings of rust fungi. Nato ASI Series H1, pp. 133-143.
46. Talbot, N. J., Ebbole, D. J., and Hamer, J. E. 1993. Identification and characterization of MPG1, a gene involved in pathogenicity from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Plant Cell 5:1575-1590.
47. Tooley, P. W., and Carras, M. M. 1992. Separation of chromosomes of Phytophthora species using CHEF gel electrophoresis. Exp. Mycol. 16:188-196.
48. Unkles, S. E., Moon, R. P., Hawkins, A. R., Duncan, J. M., and Kinghorn, J. R. 1991. Actin in the oomycetous fungus Phytophthora infestans is the product of several genes. Gene 100:105-112.
49. von Heijne, G. 1986. A new method for predicting signal sequence cleavage sites. Nucleic Acids Res. 14:4683-4690.