生物
附着胞
过氧化氢酶
微生物学
蝗虫
氧化应激
过氧化物酶
活性氧
表皮(毛发)
节肢动物角质层
绿僵菌
飞蝗
昆虫病原真菌
毒力
菌丝
植物
昆虫
生物化学
酶
分生孢子
生物病虫害防治
球孢白僵菌
基因
遗传学
作者
Guohong Li,Anni Fan,Guoxiong Peng,Nemat O. Keyhani,Jiankang Xin,Yueqing Cao,Yuxian Xia
标识
DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.13932
摘要
Microbial pathogens are exposed to damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from a variety of sources including chemical reactions due to exposure to stress (UV, heat) or by hosts as a defense response. Here, we demonstrate that a bifunctional catalase-peroxidase, MakatG1, in the locust-specific fungal pathogen, Metarhizium acridum, functions as a ROS detoxification mechanism during host cuticle penetration. MakatG1 expression was highly induced during on-cuticle appressoria development as compared to vegetative (mycelia) growth or during in vivo growth in the insect hemocoel. A MakatG1 deletion mutant strain (ΔMakatG1) showed decreased catalase and peroxidase activities and significantly increased susceptibility to oxidative (H2 O2 and menadione) and UV stress as compared to wild-type and complemented strains. Insect bioassays revealed significantly reduced virulence of the ΔMakatG1 mutant when topically inoculated, but no impairment when the insect cuticle was bypassed. Germination and appressoria formation rates for the ΔMakatG1 mutant were decreased on locust wings and quinone/phenolic compounds derived from locust wings, but were not affected on plastic surfaces compared with the wild-type strain. These data indicate that MakatG1 plays a pivotal role in penetration, reacting to and detoxifying specific cuticular compounds present on the host cuticle during the early stages of fungal infection.
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