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Identification and Characterization of Novel Candidate Effector Proteins from Magnaporthe oryzae

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JOURNAL OF FUNGI
卷 9, 期 5, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jof9050574

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Magnaporthe oryzae; secreted effector; cell death; ROS; pathogenicity

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The fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae secretes a large number of unknown effector proteins that facilitate infection. Through functional screening, we identified four effector genes that induce cell death in rice and one effector gene that induces cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. Additionally, we found that six effector genes can suppress flg22-induced ROS burst. Further studies showed that the deletion mutants of three effector genes exhibited reduced virulence on rice and barley plants.
The fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae secretes a large number of effector proteins to facilitate infection, most of which are not functionally characterized. We selected potential candidate effector genes from the genome of M. oryzae, field isolate P131, and cloned 69 putative effector genes for functional screening. Utilizing a rice protoplast transient expression system, we identified that four candidate effector genes, GAS1, BAS2, MoCEP1 and MoCEP2 induced cell death in rice. In particular, MoCEP2 also induced cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves through Agrobacteria-mediated transient gene expression. We further identified that six candidate effector genes, MoCEP3 to MoCEP8, suppress flg22-induced ROS burst in N. benthamiana leaves upon transient expression. These effector genes were highly expressed at a different stage after M. oryzae infection. We successfully knocked out five genes in M. oryzae, MoCEP1, MoCEP2, MoCEP3, MoCEP5 and MoCEP7. The virulence tests suggested that the deletion mutants of MoCEP2, MoCEP3 and MoCEP5 showed reduced virulence on rice and barley plants. Therefore, those genes play an important role in pathogenicity.

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