Comparative transcriptome and gene co-expression network analysis reveal genes and signaling pathways adaptively responsive to varied adverse stresses in the insect fungal pathogen, Beauveria bassiana
| Autor: | Yongjun Zhang, Huifang Wang, Zhangjiang He, Fanqin Zeng, Pengfei Liu, Xin Zhao, Zhuoyue Lu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Gene knockdown biology Genes Fungal fungi Beauveria bassiana Bassiana biology.organism_classification Adaptation Physiological Cell biology Transcriptome 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Stress Physiological Transcription (biology) Gene Expression Regulation Fungal Gene co-expression network Gene Regulatory Networks Beauveria Signal transduction Gene Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 151:169-181 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2011 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jip.2017.12.002 |
| Popis: | Sensing, responding, and adapting to the surrounding environment are crucial for all living organisms to survive, proliferate, and differentiate in their biological niches. Beauveria bassiana is an economically important insect-pathogenic fungus which is widely used as a biocontrol agent to control a variety of insect pests. The fungal pathogen unavoidably encounters a variety of adverse environmental stresses and defense response from the host insects during application of the fungal agents. However, few are known about the transcription response of the fungus to respond or adapt varied adverse stresses. Here, we comparatively analyzed the transcriptome of B. bassiana in globe genome under the varied stationary-phase stresses including osmotic agent (0.8 M NaCl), high temperature (32 °C), cell wall-perturbing agent (Congo red), and oxidative agents (H2O2 or menadione). Total of 12,412 reads were obtained, and mapped to the 6767 genes of the B. bassiana. All of these stresses caused transcription responses involved in basal metabolism, cell wall construction, stress response or cell rescue/detoxification, signaling transduction and gene transcription regulation, and likely other cellular processes. An array of genes displayed similar transcription patterns in response to at least two of the five stresses, suggesting a shared transcription response to varied adverse stresses. Gene co-expression network analysis revealed that mTOR signaling pathway, but not HOG1 MAP kinase pathway, played a central role in regulation the varied adverse stress responses, which was verified by RNAi-mediated knockdown of TOR1. Our findings provided an insight of transcription response and gene co-expression network of B. bassiana in adaptation to varied environments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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