Friend or foe? Evolutionary history of glycoside hydrolase family 32 genes encoding for sucrolytic activity in fungi and its implications for plant-fungal symbioses |
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Authors: | Jeri Lynn Parrent Timothy Y James Rimvydas Vasaitis Andrew FS Taylor |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, Ulls v?g 26a, SE 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden 2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada 3. Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Kraus Natural Science Building, 830 North University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1048, USA 4. Current address: Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB158QH, UK
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Abstract: | Background Many fungi are obligate biotrophs of plants, growing in live plant tissues, gaining direct access to recently photosynthesized carbon. Photosynthate within plants is transported from source to sink tissues as sucrose, which is hydrolyzed by plant glycosyl hydrolase family 32 enzymes (GH32) into its constituent monosaccharides to meet plant cellular demands. A number of plant pathogenic fungi also use GH32 enzymes to access plant-derived sucrose, but less is known about the sucrose utilization ability of mutualistic and commensal plant biotrophic fungi, such as mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi. The aim of this study was to explore the distribution and abundance of GH32 genes in fungi to understand how sucrose utilization is structured within and among major ecological guilds and evolutionary lineages. Using bioinformatic and PCR-based analyses, we tested for GH32 gene presence in all available fungal genomes and an additional 149 species representing a broad phylogenetic and ecological range of biotrophic fungi. |
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