ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2015
Appressorium formation in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis requires a G2 cell cycle arrest.
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- Biological characteristics and genetics differentiation of smut fungi inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Re-routing MAP kinase signaling for penetration peg formation in predator yeasts.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
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- Appressoria-Small but Incredibly Powerful Structures in Plant-Pathogen Interactions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Systematic characterization ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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- Incompatibility between proliferation and plant invasion is mediated by a regulator of appressorium formation in the corn smut fungusProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Cytoplasmic retention and degradation of a mitotic inducer enable plant infection by a pathogenic fungus.eLife · 2019Article
- New Insights of Ustilago maydis as Yeast Model for Genetic and Biotechnological Research: A Review.Current microbiology · 2019Review
- Fungal Morphogenesis, from the Polarized Growth of Hyphae to Complex Reproduction and Infection Structures.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2018Review
- Colletotrichum orbiculare Regulates Cell Cycle G1/S Progression via a Two-Component GAP and a GTPase to Establish Plant Infection.The Plant cell · 2015Article
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Abstract
Many of the most important plant diseases are caused by fungal pathogens that form specialized cell structures to breach the leaf surface as well as to proliferate inside the plant. To initiate pathogenic development, the fungus responds to a set of inductive cues. Some of them are of extracellular nature (environmental signals) while others respond to intracellular conditions (developmental signals). These signals have to be integrated into a single response that has as a major outcome changes in the morphogenesis of the fungus. The cell cycle regulation is pivotal during these cellular differentiations, and we hypothesized that cell cycle regulation would be likely to provide control points for infection development by fungal pathogens. Although efforts have been done in various fungal systems, there is still limited information available regarding the relationship of these processes with the induction of the virulence programs. Hence, the role of fungal cell cycle regulators -which are wide conserved elements- as true virulence factors, has yet to be defined. Here we discuss the recent finding that the formation of the appressorium, a structure required for plant penetration, in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis seems to be incompatible with an active cell cycle and, therefore genetic circuits evolved in this fungus to arrest the cell cycle during the growth of this fungus on plant surface, before the appressorium-mediated penetration into the plant tissue.
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