Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea
The endo-β-1,4-xylanase BcXyn11A is one of several plant cell-wall degrading enzymes that the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea secretes during interaction with its hosts. In addition to its enzymatic activity, this protein also acts as an elicitor of the defense response in plants and has bee...
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| author | Néstor García Mario A. González Celedonio González Nélida Brito |
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| description | The endo-β-1,4-xylanase BcXyn11A is one of several plant cell-wall degrading enzymes that the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea secretes during interaction with its hosts. In addition to its enzymatic activity, this protein also acts as an elicitor of the defense response in plants and has been identified as a virulence factor. In the present work, other four endoxylanase coding genes (Bcxyn11B, Bcxyn11C, Bcxyn10A, and Bcxyn10B) were identified in the B. cinerea genome and the expression of all five genes was analyzed by Q-RT- PCR in vitro and in planta. A cross-regulation between xylanase genes was identified analyzing their expression pattern in the ΔBcxyn11A mutant strain and a putative BcXyn11A-dependt induction of Bcxyn10B gene was found. In addition, multiple knockdown strains were obtained for the five endoxylanase genes by transformation of B. cinerea with a chimeric DNA construct composed of 50-nt sequences from the target genes. The silencing of each xylanase gene was analyzed in axenic cultures and during infection and the results showed that the efficiency of the multiple silencing depends on the growth conditions and on the cross-regulation between them. Although the simultaneous silencing of the five genes was observed by Q-RT-PCR when the silenced strains were grown on medium supplemented with tomato extract, the endoxylanase activity measured in the supernatants was reduced only by 40%. Unexpectedly, the silenced strains overexpressed the Bcxyn11A and Bcxyn11C genes during the infection of tomato leaves, making difficult the analysis of the role of the endo-β-1,4-xylanases in the virulence of the fungus. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a9f313728caf45ac83539e0971e7cf532022-12-21T18:37:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2017-12-01810.3389/fpls.2017.02174301627Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinereaNéstor GarcíaMario A. GonzálezCeledonio GonzálezNélida BritoThe endo-β-1,4-xylanase BcXyn11A is one of several plant cell-wall degrading enzymes that the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea secretes during interaction with its hosts. In addition to its enzymatic activity, this protein also acts as an elicitor of the defense response in plants and has been identified as a virulence factor. In the present work, other four endoxylanase coding genes (Bcxyn11B, Bcxyn11C, Bcxyn10A, and Bcxyn10B) were identified in the B. cinerea genome and the expression of all five genes was analyzed by Q-RT- PCR in vitro and in planta. A cross-regulation between xylanase genes was identified analyzing their expression pattern in the ΔBcxyn11A mutant strain and a putative BcXyn11A-dependt induction of Bcxyn10B gene was found. In addition, multiple knockdown strains were obtained for the five endoxylanase genes by transformation of B. cinerea with a chimeric DNA construct composed of 50-nt sequences from the target genes. The silencing of each xylanase gene was analyzed in axenic cultures and during infection and the results showed that the efficiency of the multiple silencing depends on the growth conditions and on the cross-regulation between them. Although the simultaneous silencing of the five genes was observed by Q-RT-PCR when the silenced strains were grown on medium supplemented with tomato extract, the endoxylanase activity measured in the supernatants was reduced only by 40%. Unexpectedly, the silenced strains overexpressed the Bcxyn11A and Bcxyn11C genes during the infection of tomato leaves, making difficult the analysis of the role of the endo-β-1,4-xylanases in the virulence of the fungus.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.02174/fullendo-xylanasemultiple gene silencingRNAiBotrytis cinereavirulence |
| spellingShingle | Néstor García Mario A. González Celedonio González Nélida Brito Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea Frontiers in Plant Science endo-xylanase multiple gene silencing RNAi Botrytis cinerea virulence |
| title | Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea |
| title_full | Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea |
| title_fullStr | Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea |
| title_short | Simultaneous Silencing of Xylanase Genes in Botrytis cinerea |
| title_sort | simultaneous silencing of xylanase genes in botrytis cinerea |
| topic | endo-xylanase multiple gene silencing RNAi Botrytis cinerea virulence |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.02174/full |
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