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http://dx.doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.2007.23.2.051

Functional Analysis of a Histidine Auxotrophic Mutation in Gibberella zeae  

Seo, Back-Won (Department of Biological Resources and Technology, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim, Hee-Kyoung (Department of Biological Resources and Technology, Soonchunhyang University)
Lee, Yin-Won (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Seoul National University)
Yun, Sung-Hwan (Department of Biological Resources and Technology, Soonchunhyang University)
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The Plant Pathology Journal / v.23, no.2, 2007 , pp. 51-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
A plant pathogenic fungus, Gibberella zeae (anamorph: Fusarium graminearum), not only generates economic losses by causing disease on cereal grains, but also leads to severe toxicosis in human and animals through the production of mycotoxins in infected plants. Here, we characterized a histidine auxotrophic mutant of G. zeae, designated Z43R1092, which was generated using a restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI) procedure. The mutant exhibited pleiotropic phenotypic changes, including a reduction in mycelial growth and virulence and loss of sexual reproduction. Outcrossing analysis confirmed that the histidine auxotrophy is linked to the insertional vector in Z43R1092. Molecular analysis showed that the histidine requirement of Z43R1092 is caused by a disruption of an open reading frame, designated GzHIS7. The deduced product of GzHIS7 encodes a putative enzyme with an N-terminal glutamine amidotransferase and a C-terminal cyclase domain, similar to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HIS7 required for histidine biosynthesis. The subsequent gene deletion and complementation analyses confirmed the functions of GzHIS7 in G. zeae. This is the first report of the molecular characterization of histidine auxotrophy in G. zeae, and our results demonstrate that correct histidine biosynthesis is essential for virulence, as well as sexual development, in G. zeae. In addition, our results could provide a G. zeae histidine auxotroph as a recipient strain for genetic transformation using this new selectable marker.
Keywords
Gibberella zeae; glutamine amidotransferase; histidine auxotrophy; REMI;
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