Zhao Mengxin, Zhang Yanhui, Guo Hualong, Gan Pengfei, Cai Mengmeng, Kang Zhensheng, Cheng Yulin
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China.
College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China.
J Fungi (Basel). 2023 Jul 7;9(7):734. doi: 10.3390/jof9070734.
Cysteine-rich secretory proteins (C), antigen 5 (A), and pathogenesis-related 1 proteins (P) comprise widespread CAP superfamily proteins, which have been proven to be novel virulence factors of mammalian pathogenic fungi and some plant pathogens. Despite this, the identification and function of CAP proteins in more species of plant pathogens still need to be studied. This work presents the identification and functional analysis of CAP superfamily proteins from f. sp. (), an important fungal pathogen that causes wheat stripe rust on wheat worldwide. A total of six genes were identified in the genome, designated as -. Five PsCAP proteins, including PsCAP1, PsCAP2, PsCAP3, PsCAP4, and PsCAP5, have N-terminal signal peptides secreted with the yeast signal sequence trap assay. Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis indicated that they showed a low level of intraspecies polymorphism. The expression abundance of genes at different infection stages was detected by RT-qPCR, and most of them were highly expressed during infection on wheat and also sexual reproduction on barberry (). Noticeably, the silencing of these six genes by BSMV-mediated HIGS indicated that , , and contribute significantly to infection in wheat. These results indicate that PsCAP proteins may act as virulence factors during infection, which also provides insights into pathogenicity.
富含半胱氨酸的分泌蛋白(C)、抗原5(A)和病程相关蛋白1(P)构成了广泛存在的CAP超家族蛋白,这些蛋白已被证明是哺乳动物致病真菌和一些植物病原体的新型毒力因子。尽管如此,CAP蛋白在更多植物病原体物种中的鉴定和功能仍有待研究。这项工作展示了来自小麦条锈菌()的CAP超家族蛋白的鉴定和功能分析,小麦条锈菌是一种在全球范围内导致小麦条锈病的重要真菌病原体。在小麦条锈菌基因组中总共鉴定出6个基因,命名为-。包括PsCAP1、PsCAP2、PsCAP3、PsCAP4和PsCAP5在内的5个PsCAP蛋白通过酵母信号序列捕获试验分泌出N端信号肽。单核苷酸多态性(SNP)分析表明它们在种内多态性水平较低。通过RT-qPCR检测了这些基因在不同感染阶段的表达丰度,其中大多数在侵染小麦以及在小檗属植物上进行有性繁殖期间高表达。值得注意的是,通过BSMV介导的基因沉默表明,、和对小麦条锈菌侵染小麦有显著贡献。这些结果表明,PsCAP蛋白可能在侵染过程中作为毒力因子发挥作用,这也为小麦条锈菌的致病性提供了见解。