The Role of Catalase-Peroxidase Secreted by Magnaporthe oryzae During Early Infection of Rice Cells

Autor: Shigeru Tanabe, Naoko Ishii-Minami, Ken-Ichiro Saitoh, Yuko Otake, Hanae Kaku, Naoto Shibuya, Yoko Nishizawa, Eiichi Minami
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol 24, Iss 2, Pp 163-171 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-7706
0894-0282
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-07-10-0175
Popis: The biological role of a secretory catalase of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae was studied. The internal amino acid sequences of the partially purified catalase in the culture filtrate enabled us to identify its encoding gene as a catalase-peroxidase gene, CPXB, among four putative genes for catalase or catalase-peroxidase in M. oryzae. Knockout of the gene drastically reduced the level of catalase activity in the culture filtrate and supernatant of conidial suspension (SCS), and increased the sensitivity to exogenously added H2O2 compared with control strains, suggesting that CPXB is the major gene encoding the secretory catalase and confers resistance to H2O2 in hyphae. In the mutant, the rate of appressoria that induced accumulation of H2O2 in epidermal cells of the leaf sheath increased and infection at early stages was delayed; however, the formation of lesions in the leaf blade was not affected compared with the control strain. These phenotypes were complimented by reintroducing the putative coding regions of CPXB driven by a constitutive promoter. These results suggest that CPXB plays a role in fungal defense against H2O2 accumulated in epidermal cells of rice at the early stage of infection but not in pathogenicity of M. oryzae.
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