title: New proteins orthologous to cerato-platanin in various Ceratocystis species and the purification and characterization of cerato-populin from Ceratocystis populicola.
abstract: Natural variants of cerato-platanin (CP), a pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP) protein produced by Ceratocystis platani (the causal agent of the plane canker stain), have been found to be produced by other four species of the genus Ceratocystis, including five clones of Ceratocystis fimbriata isolated from different hosts. All these fungal strains were known to be pathogenic to plants with considerable importance in agriculture, forestry, and as ornamental plants. The putative premature proteins were deduced on the basis of the nucleotide sequence of genes orthologous to the cp gene of C. platani; the deduced premature proteins of Ceratocystis populicola and Ceratocystis variospora reduced the total identity of all the others from 87.3% to 60.3%. Cerato-populin (Pop1), the CP-orthologous protein produced by C. populicola, was purified and characterized. Pop1 was a well-structured alpha/beta protein with a different percentage of the alpha-helix than CP, and it self-assembled in vitro in ordered aggregates. Moreover, Pop1 behaved as PAMP, since it stimulated poplar leaf tissues to activate defence responses able to reduce consistently the C. populicola growth.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie, Sezione di Patologia Vegetale, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Comparini
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carresi
authors.forename: Eleonora
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pagni
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sbrana
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sebastiani
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Luchi
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santini
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Capretti
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tiribilli
authors.forename: Luigia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pazzagli
authors.forename: Gianni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cappugi
authors.forename: Aniello
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scala
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D001483:Base Sequence; D001565:Benzoates; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D005960:Glucosides; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010802:Phylogeny; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001565:Benzoates; C121379:Cerato-platanin protein, Ceratocystis fimbriata; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D005960:Glucosides; D009183:Mycotoxins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C058045:populin