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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 11, Pages 3812-3826Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13339
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012M511893]
- Chongqing Postdoctoral Science Foundation [XM2012009]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31201564, 30471174]
- 111 Project [B12006]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1557704] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Cyclophilins are ubiquitous proteins found in all domains of life, catalyzing peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerization (PPIase activity) and functioning in diverse cellular processes. The filamentous insect pathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, contains 11 cyclophilin genes whose roles were probed via individual gene knockouts, construction of overexpression strains, and a simultaneous gene knockdown strategy using tandem SiRNA. Mutants were examined for effects on conidiation, hyphal growth, cyclosporine and stress resistance, and insect virulence. BbCypA was found to be the most highly expressed cyclophilin during growth and purified recombinant BbCypA displayed cyclosporine sensitive PPIase activity. Except for Delta BbCypA, targeted gene knockouts or overexpression of any cyclophilin resulted in temperature sensitivity (TS). Specific cyclophilin mutants showed impaired hyphal growth and differential effects on conidiation and cyclosporine resistance. Insect bioassays revealed decreased virulence for two cyclophilins (Delta BbCypE and Delta BbCyp6) and the simultaneous gene knockdown mutant constructs (SiRNA30). The BbSiRNA30 strains were unaffected in growth, conidiation, or under osmotic or cell wall perturbing stress, but did show increased resistance to cyclosporine and a TS phenotype. These results revealed common and unique roles for cyclophilins in B. bassiana and validate a method for examining the effects of multi-gene families via simultaneous gene knockdown.
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