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The peroxisomal matrix shuttling receptor Pex5 plays a role of FB1 production and virulence in Fusarium verticillioides
YU Wen-ying, LIN Mei, YAN Hui-juan, WANG Jia-jia, ZHANG Sheng-min, LU Guo-dong, WANG Zong-hua, Won-Bo SHIM
2022, 21 (10): 2957-2972.   DOI: 10.1016/j.jia.2022.07.044
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The peroxisomal matrix oxidase, catalase and peroxidase are imported peroxisomes through the shuttling receptors, which regulates the cellular oxidative homeostasis and function.  Here, we report that PTS1 shuttling receptor FvPex5 is involved in the localization of PTS1, utilization of carbon sources and lipids, elimination ROS, cell wall stress, conidiation, fumonisin B1 (FB1) production, and virulence in maize pathogen Fusarium verticillioides.  Significantly, differential expression of PTS1-, PTS2-, PEX- and FB1 toxin-related genes in wild type and ΔFvpex5 mutant were examined by RNA-Seq analyses and confirmed by RT-PCR assay.  In addition, different expression of PTS1 and PTS2 genes of the ΔFvpex5 mutant were enriched in diverse biochemical pathways, such as carbon metabolism, nitrogen metabolism, lipid metabolism and the oxidation balance by combining GO and KEGG annotations.  Overall, we showed that FvPex5 is involved in the regulation of genes associated with PTS, thereby affecting the oxidation balance, FB1 and virulence in Fverticillioides.  The results help to clarify the functional divergence of Pex5 orthologs, and may provide a possible target for controlling Fverticillioides infections and FB1 biosynthesis.

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The putative elongator complex protein Elp3 is involved in asexual development and pathogenicity by regulating autophagy in the rice blast fungus
ZHANG Li-mei, CHEN Shu-ting, QI Min, CAO Xue-qi, LIANG Nan, LI Qian, TANG Wei, LU Guo-dong, ZHOU Jie, YU Wen-ying, WANG Zong-hua, ZHENG Hua-kun
2021, 20 (11): 2944-2956.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63493-1
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Autophagy is responsible for maintaining fundamental cellular homeostasis and is, therefore, essential for diverse development processes.  This study reported that PoElp3, the putative catalytic subunit of Elongator complex, is involved in the maintenance of autophagy homeostasis to facilitate asexual development and pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae.  It was found that the ΔPoelp3 strains were defective in vegetative growth, conidiation, stress response, and pathogenicity.  The mutants exhibited hyper-activated autophagy in the vegetative hyphae under both nutrient-rich and nutrient-deficient conditions.  The hyper-activation of autophagy possibly suppressed the production of vegetative hyphae in the ΔPoelp3 strains.  Moreover, the ΔPoelp3 strains were found to be more sensitive to rapamycin during vegetative- and invasive-hyphal growth but have no effect on Target-of-Rapamycin (TOR) signaling inhibition.  Taken together, these results demonstrated that PoElp3 is involved in asexual development and pathogenicity by regulating autophagy in the rice blast fungus. 
 
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