Journal
BMC GENOMICS
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-336
Keywords
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; Effectors; Gene expression; Secretome; Necrotrophic fungal; Pathogen; Arabidopsis thaliana
Funding
- Marie Curie CIG grant [334036]
- European Research Council [336808]
- French Laboratory of Excellence project TULIP [ANR-10-LABX-41, ANR-11-IDEX-0002-02]
- European Research Council (ERC) [336808] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Background: The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a devastating necrotrophic plant pathogen with a remarkably broad host range. The interaction of necrotrophs with their hosts is more complex than initially thought, and still poorly understood. Results: We combined bioinformatics approaches to determine the repertoire of S. sclerotiorum effector candidates and conducted detailed sequence and expression analyses on selected candidates. We identified 486 S. sclerotiorum secreted protein genes expressed in planta, many of which have no predicted enzymatic activity and may be involved in the interaction between the fungus and its hosts. We focused on those showing (i) protein domains and motifs found in known fungal effectors, (ii) signatures of positive selection, (iii) recent gene duplication, or (iv) being S. sclerotiorum-specific. We identified 78 effector candidates based on these properties. We analyzed the expression pattern of 16 representative effector candidate genes on four host plants and revealed diverse expression patterns. Conclusions: These results reveal diverse predicted functions and expression patterns in the repertoire of S. sclerotiorum effector candidates. They will facilitate the functional analysis of fungal pathogenicity determinants and should prove useful in the search for plant quantitative disease resistance components active against the white mold.
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