Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Effector Candidates with Conserved Motif in Falciphora oryzae .
Mengdi DaiZhenzhu SuXue-Ming ZhuLin LiZiran YeXiangfeng TanDedong KongXiao-Hong LiuFucheng LinPublished in: International journal of molecular sciences (2024)
Microbes employ effectors to disrupt immune responses and promote host colonization. Conserved motifs including RXLR, LFLAK-HVLVxxP (CRN), Y/F/WxC, CFEM, LysM, Chitin-bind, DPBB_1 (PNPi), and Cutinase have been discovered to play crucial roles in the functioning of effectors in filamentous fungi. Nevertheless, little is known about effectors with conserved motifs in endophytes. This research aims to discover the effector genes with conserved motifs in the genome of rice endophyte Falciphora oryzae . SignalP identified a total of 622 secreted proteins, out of which 227 were predicted as effector candidates by EffectorP. By utilizing HMM features, we discovered a total of 169 effector candidates with conserved motifs and three novel motifs. Effector candidates containing LysM, CFEM, DPBB_1, Cutinase, and Chitin_bind domains were conserved across species. In the transient expression assay, it was observed that one CFEM and one LysM activated cell death in tobacco leaves. Moreover, two CFEM and one Chitin_bind inhibited cell death induced by Bax protein. At various points during the infection, the genes' expression levels were increased. These results will help to identify functional effector proteins involving omics methods using new bioinformatics tools, thus providing a basis for the study of symbiosis mechanisms.
Keyphrases
- type iii
- genome wide
- cell death
- regulatory t cells
- transcription factor
- dendritic cells
- poor prognosis
- immune response
- dna methylation
- binding protein
- genome wide identification
- gene expression
- high throughput
- long non coding rna
- single cell
- inflammatory response
- toll like receptor
- copy number
- signaling pathway
- cell proliferation
- amino acid
- bioinformatics analysis
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- genetic diversity
- cerebral ischemia