scholarly journals Balancing of the mitotic exit network and cell wall integrity signaling governs the development and pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e1009080
Author(s):  
Wanzhen Feng ◽  
Ziyi Yin ◽  
Haowen Wu ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Xinyu Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Cell Division ◽  
Magnaporthe Oryzae ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Mitotic Exit ◽  
Cellular Growth ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Fungal Cell ◽  
Blast Fungus ◽  
Mitotic Exit Network

The fungal cell wall plays an essential role in maintaining cell morphology, transmitting external signals, controlling cell growth, and even virulence. Relaxation and irreversible stretching of the cell wall are the prerequisites of cell division and development, but they also inevitably cause cell wall stress. Both Mitotic Exit Network (MEN) and Cell Wall Integrity (CWI) are signaling pathways that govern cell division and cell stress response, respectively, how these pathways cross talk to govern and coordinate cellular growth, development, and pathogenicity remains not fully understood. We have identified MoSep1, MoDbf2, and MoMob1 as the conserved components of MEN from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. We have found that blocking cell division results in abnormal CWI signaling. In addition, we discovered that MoSep1 targets MoMkk1, a conserved key MAP kinase of the CWI pathway, through protein phosphorylation that promotes CWI signaling. Moreover, we provided evidence demonstrating that MoSep1-dependent MoMkk1 phosphorylation is essential for balancing cell division with CWI that maintains the dynamic stability required for virulence of the blast fungus.

scholarly journals Deletion of YLR358C Contributes to Reduce Cell Wall Integrity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Mengyan Li ◽  
Hanying Wang ◽  
Juqing Deng ◽  
Jianxing Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Cell Wall ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Calcofluor White ◽  
Fungal Cell ◽  
Reading Frame ◽  
Stress Signals

Abstract The mechanism of fungal cell wall synthesis and assembly is still unclear. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) and pathogenic fungi are conserved in cell wall construction and response to stress signals, and often respond to cell wall stress through activated cell wall integrity (CWI) pathways. Whether the YLR358C open reading frame regulates CWI remains unclear. This study found that the growth of S. cerevisiae with YLR358C knockout was significantly inhibited on the medium containing different concentrations of cell wall interfering agents Calcofluor White (CFW), Congo Red (CR) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). CFW staining showed that the cell wall chitin was down-regulated, and transmission electron microscopy also observed a decrease in cell wall thickness. Transcriptome sequencing and analysis showed that YLR358C gene may be involved in the regulation of CWI signaling pathway. It was found by qRT-PCR that WSC3, SWI4 and HSP12 were differentially expressed after YLR358C was knocked out. The above results suggest that YLR358C may regulate the integrity of the yeast cell walls and has some potential for application in fermentation.

scholarly journals Characterization of Pneumocystis carinii PHR1, a pH-Regulated Gene Important for Cell Wall Integrity

2001 ◽  
Vol 183 (23) ◽  
pp. 6740-6745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore J. Kottom ◽  
Charles F. Thomas ◽  
Andrew H. Limper
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Pneumocystis Carinii ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Predicted Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Fungal Cell ◽  
Reading Frame ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen ◽  
Fungal Genes

ABSTRACT Pneumocystis carinii remains an important opportunistic fungal pathogen causing life-threatening pneumonia in patients with AIDS and malignancy. Currently, little is known about how the organism adapts to environmental stresses and maintains its cellular integrity. We recently discovered an open reading frame approximately 600 bp downstream of the region codingGSC-1, a gene mediating β-glucan cell wall synthesis in P. carinii. The predicted amino acid sequence of this new gene, termed P. carinii PHR1, exhibited 38% homology to Saccharomyces cerevisiae GAS1, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein essential to maintaining cell wall integrity, and 37% homology to Candida albicans PHR1/PHR2, pH-responsive genes encoding proteins recently implicated in cross-linking β-1,3- and β-1,6-glucans. In view of its homology to these related fungal genes, the pH-dependent expression of P. carinii PHR1 was examined. As in C. albicans, P. carinii PHR1 expression was repressed under acidic conditions but induced at neutral and more alkaline pH. PHR1-related proteins have been implicated in glucan cell wall stability under various environmental conditions. Although difficulties with P. carinii culture and transformation have traditionally limited assessment of gene function in the organism itself, we have successfully used heterologous expression of P. carinii genes in related fungi to address functional correlates of P. carinii-encoded proteins. Therefore, the potential role of P. carinii PHR1 in cell wall integrity was examined by assessing its ability to rescue an S. cerevisiae gas1 mutant with absent endogenous Phr1p-like activity. Interestingly, P. carinii PHR1 DNA successfully restored proliferation of S. cerevisiae gas1 mutants under lethal conditions of cell wall stress. These results indicate that P. carinii PHR1encodes a protein responsive to environmental pH and capable of mediating fungal cell wall integrity.

scholarly journals MoGLN2 Is Important for Vegetative Growth, Conidiogenesis, Maintenance of Cell Wall Integrity and Pathogenesis of Magnaporthe oryzae

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
Osakina Aron ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Lianyu Lin ◽  
Wajjiha Batool ◽  
Birong Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Glutamine Synthetase ◽  
Magnaporthe Oryzae ◽  
Vegetative Growth ◽  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Fungal Cell ◽  
Barley Leaves ◽  
Living Organisms

Glutamine is a non-essential amino acid that acts as a principal source of nitrogen and nucleic acid biosynthesis in living organisms. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, glutamine synthetase catalyzes the synthesis of glutamine. To determine the role of glutamine synthetase in the development and pathogenicity of plant fungal pathogens, we used S. cerevisiae Gln1 amino acid sequence to identify its orthologs in Magnaporthe oryzae and named them MoGln1, MoGln2, and MoGln3. Deletion of MoGLN1 and MoGLN3 showed that they are not involved in the development and pathogenesis of M. oryzae. Conversely, ∆Mogln2 was reduced in vegetative growth, experienced attenuated growth on Minimal Medium (MM), and exhibited hyphal autolysis on oatmeal and straw decoction and corn media. Exogenous l-glutamine rescued the growth of ∆Mogln2 on MM. The ∆Mogln2 mutant failed to produce spores and was nonpathogenic on barley leaves, as it was unable to form an appressorium-like structure from its hyphal tips. Furthermore, deletion of MoGLN2 altered the fungal cell wall integrity, with the ∆Mogln2 mutant being hypersensitive to H2O2. MoGln1, MoGln2, and MoGln3 are located in the cytoplasm. Taken together, our results shows that MoGLN2 is important for vegetative growth, conidiation, appressorium formation, maintenance of cell wall integrity, oxidative stress tolerance and pathogenesis of M. oryzae.

scholarly journals Heat-Shock Proteins MoSsb1, MoSsz1, and MoZuo1 Attenuate MoMkk1-Mediated Cell-Wall Integrity Signaling and Are Important for Growth and Pathogenicity of Magnaporthe oryzae

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1211-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Muxing Liu ◽  
Xinyu Liu ◽  
Ziyi Yin ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Heat Shock ◽  
Heat Shock Proteins ◽  
Magnaporthe Oryzae ◽  
Mapk Pathway ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase ◽  
Blast Fungus ◽  
High Amino Acid ◽  
Shock Proteins

The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) MoMkk1 governs the cell-wall integrity (CWI) pathway in rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. To understand the underlying mechanism, we have identified MoSsb1 as one of the MoMkk1-interacting proteins. MoSsb1 is a stress-seventy subfamily B (Ssb) protein homolog, sharing high amino acid sequence homology with the 70-kDa heat shock proteins (Hsp70s). Hsp70 are a family of conserved and ubiquitously expressed chaperones that regulate protein biogenesis by promoting protein folding, preventing protein aggregation, and controlling protein degradation. We found that MoSsb1 regulates the synthesis of nascent polypeptide chains and this regulation is achieved by being in complex with other members of Hsp70s MoSsz1 and 40-kDa Hsp40 MoZuo1. MoSsb1 is important for the growth, conidiation, and full virulence of the blast fungus and this role is also shared by MoSsz1 and MoZuo1. Importantly, MoSsb1, MoSsz1, and MoZuo1 are all involved in the regulation of the CWI MAPK pathway by modulating MoMkk1 biosynthesis. Our studies reveal novel insights into how MoSsb1, MoSsz1, and MoZuo1 affect CWI signaling that is involved in regulating growth, differentiation, and virulence of M. oryzae and highlight the conserved functional mechanisms of heat-shock proteins in pathogenic fungi.

scholarly journals Our Paths Might Cross: the Role of the Fungal Cell Wall Integrity Pathway in Stress Response and Cross Talk with Other Stress Response Pathways

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1616-1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Burgwyn Fuchs ◽  
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Cross Talk ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Mapk Cascade ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase ◽  
Fungal Cell

ABSTRACT Fungi occupy diverse environments and are subjected to many extreme conditions. Among the stressful conditions faced by fungi are pH changes, osmotic changes, thermal changes, oxide radicals, nutrient deprivation, and exposure to chemicals. These adversities can be found either in the environment or in animal and human hosts. The cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway provides a means to fortify and repair damages to the cell wall in order to withstand stressful environments. The CWI pathway in comprised of cell wall stress sensors that lead to activation of a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade. Signaling through the MAPK cascade leads to expression of transcription factors that facilitate biosynthesis of cell wall components and actin organization. Given the relatively limited number of components of the CWI pathway and the very diverse stimuli, there must be a means of expanding the pathway. To manage the diverse stress conditions, the CWI pathway cross talks with other pathways or proteins, and these cross talk events enhance the signaling capabilities of the CWI pathway. Lateral influences that facilitate maintaining the cell wall under stress conditions are TOR signaling, calcineurin signaling, the high-osmolarity glycerol pathway, the cyclic AMP-protein kinase A pathway, and additional proteins. In this article, we highlight several of the cross talk events that have been described for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and several other fungi.

A two-component histidine kinase, MoSLN1, is required for cell wall integrity and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 517-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Zhang ◽  
Kaiyue Liu ◽  
Xing Zhang ◽  
Wenwen Song ◽  
Qian Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Magnaporthe Oryzae ◽  
Histidine Kinase ◽  
Rice Blast ◽  
Rice Blast Fungus ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Blast Fungus ◽  
Two Component

scholarly journals Vacuolar Protein-Sorting Receptor MoVps13 Regulates Conidiation and Pathogenicity in Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1084
Author(s):  
Xueming Zhu ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Jiaoyu Wang ◽  
Lili Zhao ◽  
Huanbin Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Magnaporthe Oryzae ◽  
Rice Blast ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Rice Blast Fungus ◽  
Autophagic Flux ◽  
Cultivated Rice ◽  
Blast Fungus ◽  
Vacuolar Protein

Magnaporthe oryzae (synonym Pyricularia oryzae) is a filamentous fungal pathogen that causes major yield losses in cultivated rice worldwide. However, the mechanisms of infection of M. oryzae are not well characterized. The VPS13 proteins play vital roles in various biological processes in many eukaryotic organisms, including in the organization of actin cytoskeleton, vesicle trafficking, mitochondrial fusion, and phagocytosis. Nevertheless, the function of the Vps13 protein in plant pathogenic fungi has not been explored. Here, we analysed the biological functions of the Vps13 protein in the development and pathogenicity of M. oryzae. Deletion mutants of MoVps13 significantly reduced the conidiation and decreased the rate of fungal infection on hosts. Moreover, the loss of MoVps13 resulted in defective cell wall integrity (CWI) and plasma membrane (PM) homeostasis when treated with chemicals for inducing cell wall stress (200 mg/mL Congo Red or 0.005% SDS) and sphingolipid synthesis inhibitors (2 μM myriocin or 2 μM amphotericin B). This indicated that MoVps13 is also involved in cell wall synthesis and sphingolipid synthesis. Through immunoblotting, autophagic flux detection, co-localization, and chemical drug sensitivity assays, we confirmed the involvement of Movps13 in ER-phagy and the response to ER stress. Additionally, we generated the C-terminal structure of MoVps13 with high accuracy using the alphaflod2 database. Our experimental evidence indicates that MoVps13 is an important virulence factor that regulates the pathogenicity of M. oryzae by controlling CWI, lipid metabolism and the ER-phagy pathway. These results have expanded our knowledge about pathogenic fungi and will help exploration for novel therapeutic strategies against the rice blast fungus.

scholarly journals A novel connection between the Cell Wall Integrity and the PKA pathways regulates cell wall stress response in yeast

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl García ◽  
Enrique Bravo ◽  
Sonia Diez-Muñiz ◽  
Cesar Nombela ◽  
Jose M. Rodríguez-Peña ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Cell Wall Integrity ◽  
Cell Wall Stress
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