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ArticlePloS one2014

Characterizing the roles of Cryphonectria parasitica RNA-dependent RNA polymerase-like genes in antiviral defense, viral recombination and transposon transcript accumulation.

Dong-Xiu Zhang, Martin J Spiering, Donald L Nuss

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dong-Xiu ZhangInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America.
Martin J SpieringInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America.
Donald L NussInstitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America.
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology ResearchAdvanced Bioscience Laboratories (United States) · US

Funding

Role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungiR01AI076219 · NIAID · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI NUSS, DONALD L · 2009 to 2013
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS AI076219NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076219NIGMS NIH HHS GM555981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An inducible RNA-silencing pathway, involving a single Dicer protein, DCL2, and a single Argonaute protein, AGL2, was recently shown to serve as an effective antiviral defense response in the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs) are frequently involved in transcriptional and posttranscriptional gene silencing and antiviral defense. We report here the identification and characterization of four RdRP genes (rdr1-4) in the C. parasitica genome. Sequence relationships with other eukaryotic RdRPs indicated that RDR1 and RDR2 were closely related to QDE-1, an RdRP involved in RNA silencing ("quelling") in Neurospora crassa, whereas RDR3 was more closely related to the meiotic silencing gene SAD-1 in N. crassa. The RdRP domain of RDR4, related to N. crassa RRP-3 of unknown function, was truncated and showed evidence of alternative splicing. Similar to reports for dcl2 and agl2, the expression levels for rdr3 and rdr4 increased after hypovirus CHV-1/EP713 infection, while expression levels of rdr1 and rdr2 were unchanged. The virus-responsive induction patterns for rdr3 and rdr4 were altered in the Δdcl2 and Δagl2 strains, suggesting some level of interaction between rdr3 and rdr4 and the dcl2/agl2 silencing pathway. Single rdr gene knockouts Δrdr1-4, double knockouts Δrdr1/2, Δrdr2/3, Δrdr1/3, and a triple knockout, Δrdr1/2/3, were generated and evaluated for effects on fungal phenotype, the antiviral defense response, viral RNA recombination activity and transposon expression. None of the single or multiple rdr knockout strains displayed any phenotypic differences from the parental strains with or without viral infection or any significant changes in viral RNA accumulation or recombination activity or transposon RNA accumulation, indicating no detectable contribution by the C. parasitica rdr genes to these processes.

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Gene Expression Regulation, FungalGenes, FungalGenome, FungalAmino Acid SequenceAscomycotaDNA Transposable ElementsGene SilencingHost-Pathogen InteractionsMolecular Sequence DataProtein IsoformsRecombination, GeneticRepressor ProteinsRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA VirusesSequence AlignmentTranscription, GeneticDNA Transposable ElementsProtein IsoformsRepressor ProteinsRNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

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PMID25268858
PMCPMC4182546
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