Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
PLoS Genet. 2012;8(11):e1003088. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003088. Epub 2012 Nov 29.
We sequenced and compared the genomes of the Dothideomycete fungal plant pathogens Cladosporium fulvum (Cfu) (syn. Passalora fulva) and Dothistroma septosporum (Dse) that are closely related phylogenetically, but have different lifestyles and hosts. Although both fungi grow extracellularly in close contact with host mesophyll cells, Cfu is a biotroph infecting tomato, while Dse is a hemibiotroph infecting pine. The genomes of these fungi have a similar set of genes (70% of gene content in both genomes are homologs), but differ significantly in size (Cfu >61.1-Mb; Dse 31.2-Mb), which is mainly due to the difference in repeat content (47.2% in Cfu versus 3.2% in Dse). Recent adaptation to different lifestyles and hosts is suggested by diverged sets of genes. Cfu contains an α-tomatinase gene that we predict might be required for detoxification of tomatine, while this gene is absent in Dse. Many genes encoding secreted proteins are unique to each species and the repeat-rich areas in Cfu are enriched for these species-specific genes. In contrast, conserved genes suggest common host ancestry. Homologs of Cfu effector genes, including Ecp2 and Avr4, are present in Dse and induce a Cf-Ecp2- and Cf-4-mediated hypersensitive response, respectively. Strikingly, genes involved in production of the toxin dothistromin, a likely virulence factor for Dse, are conserved in Cfu, but their expression differs markedly with essentially no expression by Cfu in planta. Likewise, Cfu has a carbohydrate-degrading enzyme catalog that is more similar to that of necrotrophs or hemibiotrophs and a larger pectinolytic gene arsenal than Dse, but many of these genes are not expressed in planta or are pseudogenized. Overall, comparison of their genomes suggests that these closely related plant pathogens had a common ancestral host but since adapted to different hosts and lifestyles by a combination of differentiated gene content, pseudogenization, and gene regulation.
我们对亲缘关系密切的子囊菌门真菌植物病原体——球腔菌(Cfu)(又名拟茎点霉)和长蠕孢菌(Dse)的基因组进行了测序和比较。这两种真菌在生长过程中都与宿主叶肉细胞紧密接触,但前者是活体营养型病原菌,感染番茄,而后者是半活体营养型病原菌,感染松树。这两种真菌的基因组具有相似的基因集(两个基因组中有 70%的基因是同源的),但大小差异显著(Cfu>61.1-Mb;Dse 31.2-Mb),这主要是由于重复序列含量的差异(Cfu 为 47.2%,而 Dse 为 3.2%)。基因组大小的差异可能与基因重复序列的差异有关。一些基因的分化表明,这两种真菌在近期发生了适应不同生活方式和宿主的进化。Cfu 含有一个α-番茄凝乳蛋白酶基因,我们推测该基因可能有助于番茄素的解毒,而 Dse 中则没有该基因。许多编码分泌蛋白的基因是每种真菌所特有的,而且 Cfu 中的重复丰富区富含这些种特异性基因。相比之下,保守基因表明它们具有共同的宿主起源。Cfu 效应基因的同源基因,包括 Ecp2 和 Avr4,也存在于 Dse 中,并分别诱导 Cf-Ecp2-和 Cf-4 介导的过敏反应。引人注目的是,与 Dse 产毒(可能是 Dse 的毒力因子)有关的基因在 Cfu 中是保守的,但它们的表达差异很大,Cfu 在植物体内的表达基本为零。同样,Cfu 具有一个与坏死型或半活体营养型真菌更相似的碳水化合物降解酶目录,以及一个比 Dse 更大的果胶酶基因库,但这些基因中的许多在植物体内不表达或已失活。总的来说,对它们基因组的比较表明,这些亲缘关系密切的植物病原体具有共同的祖先宿主,但由于基因内容的差异、基因失活和基因调控,它们已经适应了不同的宿主和生活方式。