Mariana Schuster, Gabriel Schweizer, Stefanie Reissmann, Petra Happel, Daniela Assmann, Nicole Roessel, Ulrich Gueldener, Gertrud Mannhaupt, Nicole Ludwig, Sarah Winterberg, Clement Pellegrin, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Volker Vincon, Libera Lo Presti, Lei Wang, Lena Bender, Carla Gonzalez, Miroslav Vranes, Joerg Kaemper, Kyungyong Seong, Ksenia Krasileva, Regine Kahmann
Fungal pathogens deploy a set of molecules (proteins, specialized metabolites, and sRNA), so called effectors, to aid the infection process. In comparison to other plant pathogens, smut fungi have small genomes and secretomes of 20 Mb and around 500 proteins, respectively.. Previous comparative genomic studies have shown that many secreted effector proteins without known domains i.e., novel, are conserved only in the Ustilaginaceae family. By analyzing the secretome of 11 species within Ustilaginaceae, we identified 53 core homologous groups commonly present in this lineage...
February 28, 2024: Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions: MPMI