title: Identifying pathogenicity genes in the rubber tree anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides through random insertional mutagenesis.
abstract: To gain more insight into the molecular mechanisms of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides pathogenesis, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (ATMT) was used to identify mutants of C. gloeosporioides impaired in pathogenicity. An ATMT library of 4128 C. gloeosporioides transformants was generated. Transformants were screened for defects in pathogenicity with a detached copper brown leaf assay. 32 mutants showing reproducible pathogenicity defects were obtained. Southern blot analysis showed 60.4% of the transformants had single-site T-DNA integrations. 16 Genomic sequences flanking T-DNA were recovered from mutants by thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR, and were used to isolate the tagged genes from the genome sequence of wild-type C. gloeosporioides by Basic Local Alignment Search Tool searches against the local genome database of the wild-type C. gloeosporioides. One potential pathogenicity genes encoded calcium-translocating P-type ATPase. Six potential pathogenicity genes had no known homologs in filamentous fungi and were likely to be novel fungal virulence factors. Two putative genes encoded Glycosyltransferase family 28 domain-containing protein and Mov34/MPN/PAD-1 family protein, respectively. Five potential pathogenicity genes had putative function matched with putative protein of other Colletotrichum species. Two known C. gloeosporioides pathogenicity genes were also identified, the encoding Glomerella cingulata hard-surface induced protein and C. gloeosporioides regulatory subunit of protein kinase A gene involved in cAMP-dependent PKA signal transduction pathway.
authors.affiliation: Environment and Plant Protection College, Hainan University, Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China; Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China; Yunnan Institute of Tropical Crops, Jinghong, Yunnan 666100, China.
authors.forename: Zhiying
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: Yunnan Institute of Tropical Crops, Jinghong, Yunnan 666100, China.
authors.forename: Guohua
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China.
authors.forename: Chunhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Plant Science and Technology College, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
authors.forename: Ligang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.affiliation: Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China.
authors.forename: Yipeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, Hainan 571737, China. Electronic address: hgxiu@vip.163.com.
authors.forename: Guixiu
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D020231:Colletotrichum / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D028482:Hevea / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014774:Virulence; D037521:Virulence Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D037521:Virulence Factors