Genome-wide functional analysis reveals that autophagy is necessary for growth, sporulation, deoxynivalenol production and virulence in Fusarium graminearum

Lv, Wuyun, Wang, Chunyan, Yang, Nan, Que, Yawei, Talbot, Nicholas J. and Wang, Zhengyi (2017) Genome-wide functional analysis reveals that autophagy is necessary for growth, sporulation, deoxynivalenol production and virulence in Fusarium graminearum. Scientific Reports, 7. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Autophagy is a conserved cellular recycling and trafficking pathway in eukaryotic cells and has been reported to be important in the virulence of a number of microbial pathogens. Here, we report genome-wide identification and characterization of autophagy-related genes (ATGs) in the wheat pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum. We identified twenty-eight genes associated with the regulation and operation of autophagy in F. graminearum. Using targeted gene deletion, we generated a set of 28 isogenic mutants. Autophagy mutants were classified into two groups by differences in their growth patterns. Radial growth of 18 Group 1 ATG mutants was significantly reduced compared to the wild-type strain PH-1, while 10 Group 2 mutants grew normally. Loss of any of the ATG genes, except FgATG17, prevented the fungus from causing Fusarium head blight disease. Moreover, subsets of autophagy genes were necessary for asexual/sexual differentiation and deoxynivalenol (DON) production, respectively. FgATG1 and FgATG5 were investigated in detail and showed severe defects in autophagy. Taken together, we conclude that autophagy plays a critical role in growth, asexual/sexual sporulation, deoxynivalenol production and virulence in F. graminearum.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	molecular-mechanisms,magnaporthe-oryzae,vegetative growth,aspergillus-oryzae,gibberella-zeae,self-digestion,head blight,cell-death,yeast,kinase
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > The Sainsbury Laboratory
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2019 10:30
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 08:16
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69936
DOI:	10.1038/s41598-017-11640-z

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