Publication Date:
2010-03-20
Description:
Fusarium species are among the most important phytopathogenic and toxigenic fungi. To understand the molecular underpinnings of pathogenicity in the genus Fusarium, we compared the genomes of three phenotypically diverse species: Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Our analysis revealed lineage-specific (LS) genomic regions in F. oxysporum that include four entire chromosomes and account for more than one-quarter of the genome. LS regions are rich in transposons and genes with distinct evolutionary profiles but related to pathogenicity, indicative of horizontal acquisition. Experimentally, we demonstrate the transfer of two LS chromosomes between strains of F. oxysporum, converting a non-pathogenic strain into a pathogen. Transfer of LS chromosomes between otherwise genetically isolated strains explains the polyphyletic origin of host specificity and the emergence of new pathogenic lineages in F. oxysporum. These findings put the evolution of fungal pathogenicity into a new perspective.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048781/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048781/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ma, Li-Jun -- van der Does, H Charlotte -- Borkovich, Katherine A -- Coleman, Jeffrey J -- Daboussi, Marie-Josee -- Di Pietro, Antonio -- Dufresne, Marie -- Freitag, Michael -- Grabherr, Manfred -- Henrissat, Bernard -- Houterman, Petra M -- Kang, Seogchan -- Shim, Won-Bo -- Woloshuk, Charles -- Xie, Xiaohui -- Xu, Jin-Rong -- Antoniw, John -- Baker, Scott E -- Bluhm, Burton H -- Breakspear, Andrew -- Brown, Daren W -- Butchko, Robert A E -- Chapman, Sinead -- Coulson, Richard -- Coutinho, Pedro M -- Danchin, Etienne G J -- Diener, Andrew -- Gale, Liane R -- Gardiner, Donald M -- Goff, Stephen -- Hammond-Kosack, Kim E -- Hilburn, Karen -- Hua-Van, Aurelie -- Jonkers, Wilfried -- Kazan, Kemal -- Kodira, Chinnappa D -- Koehrsen, Michael -- Kumar, Lokesh -- Lee, Yong-Hwan -- Li, Liande -- Manners, John M -- Miranda-Saavedra, Diego -- Mukherjee, Mala -- Park, Gyungsoon -- Park, Jongsun -- Park, Sook-Young -- Proctor, Robert H -- Regev, Aviv -- Ruiz-Roldan, M Carmen -- Sain, Divya -- Sakthikumar, Sharadha -- Sykes, Sean -- Schwartz, David C -- Turgeon, B Gillian -- Wapinski, Ilan -- Yoder, Olen -- Young, Sarah -- Zeng, Qiandong -- Zhou, Shiguo -- Galagan, James -- Cuomo, Christina A -- Kistler, H Corby -- Rep, Martijn -- BBS/E/C/00004973/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- DP1 OD003958/OD/NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086565/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086565-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG000225/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 18;464(7287):367-73. doi: 10.1038/nature08850.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20237561" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Chromosomes, Fungal/*genetics
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Evolution, Molecular
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Fusarium/classification/*genetics/*pathogenicity
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Genome, Fungal/*genetics
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*Genomics
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Host-Parasite Interactions/genetics
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Multigene Family/genetics
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Phenotype
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Phylogeny
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Proteome/genetics
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Synteny/genetics
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Virulence/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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