کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2181661 1095314 2007 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Distribution of NRPS gene families within the Neotyphodium/Epichloë complex
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی بیولوژی سلول
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Distribution of NRPS gene families within the Neotyphodium/Epichloë complex
چکیده انگلیسی

Neotyphodium and Epichloë spp are closely related asexual and sexual endophytic fungi, respectively, that form mutualistic associations with cool season grasses of the subfamily Pooideae. The endophytes confer a number of advantages to their hosts, but also can cause animal toxicoses and these effects are, in many cases, due to the production of fungal secondary metabolites. In filamentous fungi, secondary metabolite genes are commonly clustered and, for those pathways involved in non-ribosomal peptide synthesis, a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene is always found as a key component of the cluster. Members of this gene family encode large multifunctional enzymes that synthesize a diverse range of bioactive compounds and in numerous cases have been shown to serve as pathogenicity or virulence factors, in addition to suggested roles in niche adaptation. We have used a degenerate PCR approach to identify members of the NRPS gene family from symbiotic fungi of the Neotyphodium/Epichloë complex, and have shown that collectively, at least 12 NRPS genes exist within the genomes examined. This suggests that secondary metabolites are important during the life cycles of these fungi with their hosts. Indeed, both the ergovaline and peramine biosynthetic pathways, which confer competitive abilities to Neotyphodium and Epichloë symbioses, contain NRPS genes at their core. The distribution of these genes among different Neotyphodium/Epichloë lineages suggests that a common ancestor contributed most of the complement of NRPS genes, which have been either retained or lost during the evolution of these fungi.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Fungal Genetics and Biology - Volume 44, Issue 11, November 2007, Pages 1180–1190
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