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- Title
A specialized ABC efflux transporter Gc ABC- G1 confers monoterpene resistance to Grosmannia clavigera, a bark beetle-associated fungal pathogen of pine trees.
- Authors
Wang, Ye; Lim, Lynette; DiGuistini, Scott; Robertson, Gordon; Bohlmann, Jörg; Breuil, Colette
- Abstract
Grosmannia clavigera is a bark beetle-vectored pine pathogen in the mountain pine beetle epidemic in western North America. Grosmannia clavigera colonizes pines despite the trees' massive oleoresin terpenoid defences. We are using a functional genomics approach to identify G. clavigera's mechanisms of adaptation to pine defences., We annotated the ABC transporters in the G. clavigera genome and generated RNA-seq transcriptomes from G. clavigera grown with a range of terpenes. We functionally characterized GcABC-G1, a pleiotropic drug resistance ( PDR) transporter that was highly induced by terpenes, using qRT-PCR, gene knock-out and heterologous expression in yeast., Deleting GcABC-G1 increased G. clavigera's sensitivity to monoterpenes and delayed development of symptoms in inoculated young lodgepole pine trees. Heterologous expression of GcABC-G1 in yeast increased tolerance to monoterpenes. G. clavigera but not the deletion mutant, can use (+)-limonene as a carbon source. Phylogenetic analysis placed GcABC-G1 outside the ascomycete PDR transporter clades., G. clavigera appears to have evolved two mechanisms to survive and grow when exposed to monoterpenes: GcABC-G1 controls monoterpene levels within the fungal cells and G. clavigera uses monoterpenes as a carbon source. This work has implications for understanding adaptation to host defences in an important forest insect-fungal system, and potentially for metabolic engineering of terpenoid production in yeast.
- Subjects
MONOTERPENES; BARK beetles; PINE tree diseases &; pests; FUNCTIONAL genomics; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; MULTIDRUG resistance; REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
- Publication
New Phytologist, 2013, Vol 197, Issue 3, p886
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nph.12063