Is Essential for Development and Virulence in Chestnut Blight Fungus.

Front Microbiol

State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Nanning, China.

Published: June 2018

Ubiquitination plays key roles in eukaryotic growth, stress adaptation, and metabolic regulation. In our previous work, ubiquitin was found to be secreted in the hypovirus-infected strain of , a phytopathogenic filamentous fungus responsible for the chestnut blight. Here we report the functional and molecular characterization of a polyubiquitin gene, , in . The expression of was upregulated by the infection of a hypovirus. Deletion of resulted in abnormal morphology, reduced sporulation, attenuation of virulence, and significant reduction in ubiquitination. A total of 378 sites in 236 proteins were identified to be significantly decreased in ubiquitination in the absence of . Quantitative proteome analysis revealed that 285 in 4,776 identified proteins changed in abundance (1.5-fold, < 0.05) in the null mutant, as compared with the wild-type strain.

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