title: Fusarium graminearum on plant cell wall: no fewer than 30 xylanase genes transcribed.
abstract: The transcription of a set of 32 putative xylanase genes from Fusarium graminearum was examined by quantitative PCR after growth on different carbon sources (hop cell wall, xylan, xylose, or carboxymethylcellulose). Growing on plant cell wall medium, this fungus displays a great diversity of expression of xylan-related genes, with 30 being induced. A second level of diversity exists because expression patterns can be very different for loci encoding enzymes with the same activity (the same EC number). The wealth of xylan-degrading enzymes and the differential expression confer on the fungus a great flexibility of reaction to variation in its environment.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Médecine Légale, Université Louis Pasteur, 11 rue Humann, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hatsch
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Phalip
authors.forename: Elizabet
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petkovski
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jeltsch
mesh_terms: D002473:Cell Wall / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D043364:Endo-1,4-beta Xylanases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005670:Fusarium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry; D027582:Humulus / Q000382:microbiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014990:Xylans / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014990:Xylans; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C023305:hemicellulase; D043364:Endo-1,4-beta Xylanases