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ArticleNature communications2019

The oomycete Lagenisma coscinodisci hijacks host alkaloid synthesis during infection of a marine diatom.

Marine Vallet, Tim U H Baumeister, Filip Kaftan, Veit Grabe, Anthony Buaya, Marco Thines, Aleš Svatoš, Georg Pohnert

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Dynamic Diatom-Bacteria Consortia in Synthetic Plankton Communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marine ValletResearch Group Plankton Community Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany. mvallet@ice.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6878-0459
Tim U H BaumeisterResearch Group Plankton Community Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8057-7066
Filip KaftanResearch Group Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.
Veit GrabeResearch Group Olfactory Coding, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-2771
Anthony BuayaSenckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Marco ThinesSenckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Aleš SvatošResearch Group Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1032-7288
Georg PohnertResearch Group Plankton Community Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany. georg.pohnert@uni-jena.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-6336
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DESenckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flagellated oomycetes frequently infect unicellular algae, thus limiting their proliferation. Here we show that the marine oomycete Lagenisma coscinodisci rewires the metabolome of the bloom-forming diatom Coscinodiscus granii, thereby promoting infection success. The algal alkaloids β-carboline and 4-carboxy-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H-β-carboline are induced during infection. Single-cell profiling with AP-MALDI-MS and confocal laser scanning microscopy reveals that algal carbolines accumulate in the reproductive form of the parasite. The compounds arrest the algal cell division, increase the infection rate and induce plasmolysis in the host. Our results indicate that the oomycete manipulates the host metabolome to support its own multiplication.

Indexed as

Host-Parasite InteractionsAlkaloidsCarbolinesCell DivisionDiatomsInfectionsMetabolomeMicroscopy, ConfocalOomycetesPrincipal Component AnalysisSingle-Cell AnalysisSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationAlkaloidsCarbolinesnorharmantryptoline

Identifiers

PMID31666506
PMCPMC6821873
OpenAlexW2982074413

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