Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.20217
Title: Sorting nexin Snx41 is essential for conidiation and mediates glutathione-based antioxidant defense during invasive growth in Magnaporthe oryzae
Authors: Deng, Y.Z.
Qu, Z.
He, Y.
Naqvi, N.I. 
Keywords: Antioxidant
Atg20
Fungal virulence
GSH
Magnaporthe
Snx41
Sorting nexin
Issue Date: Jul-2012
Citation: Deng, Y.Z., Qu, Z., He, Y., Naqvi, N.I. (2012-07). Sorting nexin Snx41 is essential for conidiation and mediates glutathione-based antioxidant defense during invasive growth in Magnaporthe oryzae. Autophagy 8 (7) : 1058-1070. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.20217
Abstract: The sorting nexins Atg20/Snx42 and Snx41 regulate membrane traffic and endosomal protein sorting and are essential for Cvt and/or pexophagy in yeast. Previously, we showed that macroautophagy is necessary for conidiation in the rice-blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Here, we analyzed the physiological function(s) of selective autophagy in Magnaporthe through targeted deletion of MGG-12832, an ortholog of yeast SNX41 and ATG20/SNX42. Loss of MGG-12832 (hereafter SNX41) abolished conidia formation and pathogenesis in M. oryzae. Snx41-GFP localized as dynamic puncta or short tubules that are partially associated with autophagosomes and/or autophagic vacuoles. PX domain, but not macroautophagy per se, was required for such localization of Snx41-GFP in Magnaporthe. Although not required for nonselective autophagy, Snx41 was essential for pexophagy in Magnaporthe. We identified Oxp1, an ATP-dependent oxoprolinase in the gamma-glutamyl cycle, as a binding partner and potential retrieval target of Snx41-dependent protein sorting. The substrate of Oxp1, 5-oxoproline, could partially restore conidiation in the snx41Δ. Exogenous glutathione, a product of the gamma-glutamyl cycle, significantly restored pathogenicity in the snx41Δ mutant, likely through counteracting the oxidative stress imposed by the host. We propose that the gamma-glutamyl cycle and glutathione biosynthesis are subject to regulation by Snx41-dependent vesicular trafficking, and mediate antioxidant defense crucial for in planta growth and pathogenic differentiation of Magnaporthe at the onset of blast disease in rice. © 2012 Landes Bioscience.
Source Title: Autophagy
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/128878
ISSN: 15548627
DOI: 10.4161/auto.20217
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