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MYCOPATHOLOGIA
Volume 163, Issue 6, Pages 335-347Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9008-9
Keywords
glutathione peroxidase; glutathione reductase; sclerotium; S-transferase; thiol redox state; thiol transferase
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In this study, sclerotial differentiation in filamentous phytopathogenic fungi, representing the four main types of sclerotia, was studied in relation to thiol redox state (TRS)-related enzymes and their substrates/products. TRS was altered by the general TRS modulator N-acetylcysteine (AcCSH) and by the glutathione (GSH) biosynthesis modulators L-oxo-thiazolidine-4-carboxylate (OTC), and L-buthionine-S,R-sulfoximine (BSO). This study showed that the four studied types of sclerotial differentiation are directly related with the antioxidant -SH groups of GSH and/or CSH, since the decrease of sclerotial differentiation concurred with an increase of these thiols by the GSH biosynthesis modulators AcCSH, OTC, and BSO. Supportive to that conclusion is the fact that, in general, the activities of the TRS-related enzymes GR/GPDH and Ttase decrease in the end of the undifferentiated stage due to the substitution of their antioxidant function by the antioxidant potential of the -SH group providers AcCSH and OTC. Moreover, it was found that BSO expectedly suppressed GSH biosynthesis in the tested fungi, and unexpectedly decreased their sclerotial differentiation by a dose-dependent manner typical for antioxidants. The possible antioxidant role of BSO was supported by the decrease it caused in the antioxidant enzymes GR/GPDH and Ttase. The results of this study are in accordance with our hypothesis that sclerotial differentiation in phytopathogenic fungi is induced by oxidative stress.
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