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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Calm before the storm: a glimpse into the Secondary Metabolism of Aspergillus welwitschiae, the etiologic agent of the sisal bole rot
Autor(es): Gabriel Quintanilha-Peixoto
Rosimére Oliveira Torres
Isabella Mary Alves Reis
Thiago Alves Santos de Oliveira
Dener Eduardo Bortolini
Elizabeth Amélia Alves Duarte
Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo
Bertram Brenig
Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar
Ana Cristina Fermino Soares
Aristóteles Góes-Neto
Alexsandro Branco
Resumo: Aspergillus welwitschiae is a species of the Nigri section of the genus Aspergillus. In nature, it is usually a saprotroph, decomposing plant material. However, it causes the bole rot disease of Agave sisalana (sisal), a plant species used for the extraction of hard natural fibers, causing great economic loss to this culture. In this study, we isolated and sequenced one genome of A. welwitschiae (isolate CCMB 674 (Collection of Cultures of Microorganisms of Bahia)) from the stem tissues of sisal and performed in silico and wet lab experimental strategies to describe its ability to produce mycotoxins. CCMB 674 possesses 64 secondary metabolite gene clusters (SMGCs) and, under normal conditions, it produces secondary metabolism compounds that could disturb the cellular cycle of sisal or induce abnormalities in plant growth, such as malformin C. This isolate also produces a pigment that might explain the characteristic red color of the affected tissues. Additionally, this isolate is defective for the production of fumonisin B1, and, despite bearing the full cluster for the synthesis of this compound, it did not produce ochratoxin A. Altogether, these results provide new information on possible strategies used by the fungi during the sisal bole rot, helping to better understand this disease and how to control it.
Assunto: Aspergillus
Micotoxinas
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Instituição: UFMG
Departamento: ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE MICROBIOLOGIA
Tipo de Acesso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11110631
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/55211
Data do documento: 2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/11/631
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Toxins
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