Inhibition of cereal rust fungi by both class I and II defensins derived from the flowers of Nicotiana alata

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-79

  Dracatos, Peter M ^a   Van Der Weerden, Nicole L ^a   Carroll, Kate T ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth D ^a   Plummer, Kim M ^a   Anderson, Marilyn A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; AVENA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. VASINFECTUM; GLYCINE MAX; HORDEUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ALATA; PUCCINIA; PUCCINIA CORONATA F. SP. AVENAE; PUCCINIA GRAMINIS; THIELAVIOPSIS BASICOLA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; UREDINALES; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DEFENSIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOASSAY; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWER; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OAT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AVENA SATIVA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CEREALS; DEFENSINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TOBACCO;

EID: 84889087139     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12066     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Anikster, Y. and Wahl, I. (1979) Coevolution of the rust fungi on Gramineae and Liliaceae and their hosts. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 17, 367-403.
2. Ayliffe, M., Singh, R. and Lagudah, E. (2008) Durable resistance to wheat stem rust needed. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 11, 187-192.
3. Barna, B., Leiter, É., Hegedus, N., Bíró, T. and Pócsi, I. (2008) Effect of the Penicillium chrysogenum antifungal protein (PAF) on barley powdery mildew and wheat leaf rust pathogens. J. Basic Microbiol. 48, 516-520.
4. Broekaert, W., Cammue, B., De Bolle, M., Thevissen, K., De Samblanx, G. and Osborne, R. (1997) Antimicrobial peptides from plants. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 16, 297-323.
5. Bulet, P., Hetru, C., Dimarcq, J. and Hoffmann, D. (1999) Antimicrobial peptides in insects; structure and function. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 23, 329-344.
6. Burdon, J.J. (1987) Disease and Plant Population Biology. London: Cambridge University Press.
7. Cawood, M., Pretorius, J., Westhuizen, A. and Pretorius, Z. (2010) Disease development and PR-protein activity in wheat (Triticum aestivum) seedlings treated with plant extracts prior to leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) infection. Crop Prot. 29, 1311-1319.
8. Chang, T., Schroder, L.A., Thomson, J.M., Klocman, A.S., Tomasini, A.J., Stromhaug, P.E. and Dunn, W.A., Jr (2005) PpATG9 encodes a novel membrane protein that traffics to vacuolar membranes, which sequester peroxisomes during pexophagy in Pichia pastoris. Mol. Biol. Cell 16, 4941-4953.
9. Dangl, J. and Jones, J. (2001) Plant pathogens and integrated defense responses to infection. Nature, 411, 826-833.
10. De Coninck, B., Cammue, B. and Thevissen, K. (2013) Mode of antifungal action and inplanta functions of plant defensins and defensin-like peptides. Fungal Biol. Rev. 26, 109-120.
11. De Samblanx, G.W., Goderis, I.J., Thevissen, K., Raemaekers, R., Fant, F., Borremans, F., Acland, D.P., Osborn, R.W., Patel, S. and Broekaert, W.F. (1997) Mutational analysis of a plant defensin from radish (Raphanus sativus L.) reveals two adjacent sites important for antifungal activity. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 1171-1179.
12. Dracatos, P., Dumsday, J., Stewart, A., Dobrowolski, M., Cogan, N., Smith, K. and Forster, J.W. (2008) Genetic diversity in Australasian populations of the crown rust pathogen of ryegrasses (Puccinia coronata f. sp. lolii). In: Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf: The Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf ( Yamada, T. and Spangenberg, G., eds), pp. 275-285. New York: Springer.
13. Dracatos, P.M., Dobrowolski, M., Lamb, J., Olle, R., Gendall, A., Cogan, N., Smith, K. and Forster, J.W. (2009) Development of genetically homogenised populations of the crown rust pathogen (Puccinia coronata f. sp. lolii) for disease trait dissection in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Australas. Plant Pathol. 38, 55-62.
14. Dracatos, P.M., Keane, P.J. and Forster, J.W. (2010) Development of an efficient and sensitive method for crown rust inoculation on ryegrasses in controlled environments. Australas. Plant Pathol. 39, 562-570.
15. Gao, A., Hakimi, S., Mittanck, C., Wu, Y., Woerner, M., Stark, D., Shah, D., Liang, J. and Rommens, C. (2000) Fungal pathogen protection in potato by expression of a plant defensin peptide. Nat. Biotech. 18, 1307-1310.
16. Ghag, S., Singh Shekhawat, U. and Ganapathi, T. (2012) Petunia floral defensins with unique prodomains as novel candidates for development of fusarium wilt resistance in transgenic banana plants. PLoS ONE 7, e39557.
17. Girgi, M., Breese, W., Lörz, H. and Oldach, K. (2006) Rust and downy mildew resistance in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) mediated by heterologous expression of the afp gene from Aspergillus giganteus. Transgen. Res. 15, 313-324.
18. Heath, R., McDonald, G., Bateman, K., Christeller, J., Lee, M., van Heeswijck, R. and Anderson, M. (1997) Proteinase inhibitors from Nicotiana alata enhance plant resistance to insect pests. J. Insect Physiol. 9, 833-842.
19. Hovmøller, M.S., Justesen, A.F. and Brown J.K.M. (2002) Clonality and long-distance migration of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in north-west Europe. Plant Pathol. 51, 24-32.
20. Kaur, J., Thokala, M., Robert-Seilaniantz, A., Zhao, P., Peyret, H., Berg, H., Pandey, S., Jones, J. and Shah, D. (2012) Subcellular targeting of an evolutionarily conserved plant defensin MtDef4.2 determines the outcome of plant-pathogen interaction in transgenic Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant Pathol. 13, 1032-1046.
21. Lay, F. and Anderson, M. (2005) Defensins-components of the innate immune system in plants. Curr. Protein Pept. Sci. 6, 85-101.
22. Lay, F., Mills, G., Poon, I., Cowieson, N., Kirby, N., Baxter, A., van der Weerden, N., Dogovski, C., Perugini, M., Anderson, M., Kvansakul, M. and Hulett, M. (2012) Dimerisation of plant defensin NaD1 enhances its antifungal activity. J. Biol. Chem. 287, 19961-19972.
23. Lay, F.T., Brugliera, F. and Anderson, M.A. (2003) Isolation and properties of floral defensins from ornamental tobacco and petunia. Plant Physiol. 131, 1283-1293.
24. Lehrer, R. and Ganz, T. (1999) Antimicrobial peptides in mammalian and insect host defence. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 11, 23-27.
25. Li, H.Y. and Gray, J.E. (1999) Molecular characterization of a cDNA, NTS13, encoding a defensin-like protein in tobacco styles. (PGR 99-071) Plant Physiol. 120, 663.
26. McDonald, B. and Linde, C. (2002) The population genetics of plant pathogens and breeding strategies for durable resistance. Euphytica, 124, 163-180.
27. Mygind, P., Fischer, R., Schnorr, K., Hansen, M., Sonksen, C., Ludvigsen, S., Raventos, D., Buskov, S., Christensen, B., De Maria, L., Taboureau, O., Yaver, D., Elvig-Jorgensen, S., Sorensen, M., Christensen, B., Kjaerulff, S., Frimodt-Moller, N., Lehrer, R., Zasloff, M. and Kristensen, H. (2005) Plectasin is a peptide antibiotic with therapeutic potential from a saprophytic fungus. Nature, 437, 975-980.
28. Oldach, K., Becker, D. and Lörz, H. (2001) Heterologous expression of genes mediating enhanced fungal resistance in transgenic wheat. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14, 832-838.
29. Park, R., Fetch, T., Hodson, D., Jin, Y., Nazari, K., Prashar, M. and Pretorius, Z. (2011) International surveillance of wheat rust pathogens-progress and challenges. Euphytica, 1, 109-117.
30. Potter, L.R., Cagas, B., Paul, V.H. and Birckenstaedt, E. (1990) Pathogenicity of some European collections of crown rust (Puccinia coronata Corda) on cultivars of perennial ryegrass. J. Phytopathol. 130, 119-126.
31. Pretorius, Z., Singh, R., Wagoire, W. and Payne, T. (2000) Detection of virulence to wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr31 in Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Uganda. Plant Dis. 84, 203.
32. Ramamoorthy, V., Zhao, X., Snyder, A., Xu, J.R. and Shah, D. (2007) Two mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling cascades mediate basal resistance to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum. Cell. Microbiol. 9, 1491-1506.
33. Sagaram, U., Pandurangi, R., Kaur, J., Smith, T. and Shah, D. (2011) Structure-activity determinants in antifungal plant defensins MsDef1 and MtDef4 with different modes of action against Fusarium graminearum. PLoS One 6, 1-13.
34. Schaaper, W.M., Posthuma, G.A., Plasman, H.H., Sijtsma, L., Fant, F., Borremans, F.A., Thevissen, K., Broekaert, W.F., Meloen, R.H. and van Amerongen, A. (2001) Synthetic peptides derived from the beta2-beta3 loop of Raphanus sativus antifungal protein 2 that mimic the active site. J. Pept. Res. 57, 409-418.
35. Seale, S. and Vordtriede, P. (2010) Amino acid sequence variant alfalfa antifungal protein and its use in plant disease control. Patent US 7728190 B1.
36. Silverstein, K., Graham, M., Paape, T. and VandenBosch, K. (2005) Genome organisation of more than 300 defensin-like genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 138, 600-610.
37. Silverstein, K., Graham, M. and van den Bosch, K. (2006) Novel paralogous gene families with potential function in legume nodules and seeds. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 9, 142-146.
38. Singh, R., Hodson, D., Jin, Y., Huerta-Espino, J., Kinyua, M., Wanyera, R., Njau, P. and Ward, R.W. (2006) Current status, likely migration and strategies to mitigate the threat to wheat production from race Ug99 (TTKS) of stem rust pathogen. CAB Rev. Perspect. Agric. Vet. Sci. Nutr. Nat. Resour. 1, 13.
39. Singh, R., Hodson, D., Huerta-Espino, J., Jin, Y., Njau, P., Wanyera, R., Herrera-Foessel, S. and Ward, R.W. (2008) Will stem rust destroy the worlds wheat crop? Adv. Agron. 98, 71-80.
40. Spelbrink, R.G., Dilmac, N., Allen, A., Smith, T.J., Shah, D.M. and Hockerman, G.H. (2004) Differential antifungal and calcium channel-blocking activity among structurally related plant defensins. Plant Physiol. 135, 2055-2067.
41. Terras, F., Schoofs, H., De Bolle, M., van Leuven, F. and Rees, S. (1992) Analysis of two novel classes of plant antifungal proteins from radish (Raphanus sativus L.) seeds. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 15301-15309.
42. Terras, F., Eggermont, K., Kovaleva, L., Raikhel, N., Osborn, R., Kester, A., Rees, S., Torrekens, S., Van Leuven, F., Vanderleyden, J., Cammue, B. and Broekaert, W. (1995) Small cysteine-rich antifungal proteins from radish: their role in host defense. Plant Cell, 7, 573-588.
43. Thevissen, K., Cammue, B., Lemaire, K., Winderickx, J. and Dickson, R. (2000) A gene encoding a sphingolipid biosynthesis enzyme determines the sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an antifungal plant defensin from dahlia (Dahlia merckii). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 9531-9536.
44. Thomma, B., Cammue, B. and Thevissen, K. (2002) Plant defensins. Planta, 216, 193-202.
45. Tregear, J.W., Morcillo, F., Richaud, F., Berger, A., Singh, R., Cheah, S.C., Hartmann, C., Rival, A. and Duval, Y. (2002) Characterization of a defensin gene expressed in oil palm inflorescences: induction during tissue culture and possible association with epigenetic somaclonal variation events. J. Exp. Bot. 53, 1387-1396.
46. Urdangarin, M., Norero, N., Broekaert, W. and de la Canal, L. (2000) A defensin gene expressed in sunflower inflorescence. Plant Phys. Biochem. 38, 253-258.
47. van der Weerden, N. and Anderson, M. (2013) Plant defensins: common fold, multiple functions. Fungal Biol. Rev. 26, 121-131.
48. van der Weerden, N., Lay, F. and Anderson, M. (2008) The plant defensin NaD1 enters the cytoplasm of Fusarium oxysporum hyphae. J. Biol. Chem. 283, 14445-14452.
49. van der Weerden, N., Hancock, R. and Anderson, M. (2010) Permeabilisation of fungal hyphae by the plant defensin NaD1 occurs through a cell wall-dependent process. J. Biol. Chem. 285, 37513-37520.
50. Wiethölter, N., Horn, S., Reisige, K., Beike, U. and Moerschbacher, B. (2003) Invitro differentiation of haustorial mother cells of the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, triggered by the synergistic action of chemical and physical signals. Fungal Genet. Biol. 38, 320-326.
51. Yount, N.Y. and Yeaman, M.R. (2004) Multidimensional signatures in antimicrobial peptides. PNAS, 101, 7363-7368.