BcSas2-mediated histone H4K16 acetylation is critical for virulence and oxidative stress response of Botrytis cinerea

Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions : MPMI
Guangyuan WangWenxing Liang

Abstract

Histone acetyltransferase plays a critical role in transcriptional regulation by increasing accessibility of target genes to transcriptional activators. Botrytis cinerea is an important necrotrophic fungal pathogen with worldwide distribution and a very wide host range but little is known of how the fungus regulates the transition from saprophytic growth to infectious growth. Here, the function of BcSas2, a histone acetyltransferase of B. cinerea, was investigated. Deletion of the BcSAS2 gene resulted in significantly reduced acetylation levels of histone H4, particularly of H4K16ac. The deletion mutant ΔBcSas2.1 was not only less pathogenic but also more sensitive to oxidative stress than the wild-type strain. RNA-Seq analysis revealed that a total of 13 B. cinerea genes associated with pathogenicity were down-regulated in the ΔBcSas2.1 mutant. Independent knockouts of two of these genes, BcXYGA (xyloglucanase) and BcCAT (catalase) led to dramatically decreased virulence and hypersensitivity to oxidative stress, respectively. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by qPCR confirmed that BcSas2 bound directly to the promoter regions of both of these pathogenicity related genes. These observations indicated that BcSas2 regulated...Continue Reading

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