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Provedor de dados: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Molecular evolution and transcriptional profile of GH3 and GH20 β-N-acetylglucosaminidases in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae	
Autores: 	Oliveira,Eder Silva de; Junges,Ângela; Sbaraini,Nicolau; Andreis,Fábio Carrer; Thompson,Claudia Elizabeth; Staats,Charley Christian; Schrank,Augusto.	
Data: 	2018-12-01	
Ano: 	2018	
Palavras-chave: 	NAGases; GH20 and GH3; Metarhizium; Chitinolytic system; Entomopathogenesis.	
Resumo: 	Abstract Cell walls are involved in manifold aspects of fungi maintenance. For several fungi, chitin synthesis, degradation and recycling are essential processes required for cell wall biogenesis; notably, the activity of β-N-acetylglucosaminidases (NAGases) must be present for chitin utilization. For entomopathogenic fungi, such as Metarhizium anisopliae, chitin degradation is also used to breach the host cuticle during infection. In view of the putative role of NAGases as virulence factors, this study explored the transcriptional profile and evolution of putative GH20 NAGases (MaNAG1 and MaNAG2) and GH3 NAGases (MaNAG3 and MaNAG4) identified in M. anisopliae. While MaNAG2 orthologs are conserved in several ascomycetes, MaNAG1 clusters only with Aspergilllus sp. and entomopathogenic fungal species. By contrast, MaNAG3 and MaNAG4 were phylogenetically related with bacterial GH3 NAGases. The transcriptional profiles of M. anisopliae NAGase genes were evaluated in seven culture conditions showing no common regulatory patterns, suggesting that these enzymes may have specific roles during the Metarhizium life cycle. Moreover, the expression of MaNAG3 and MaNAG4 regulated by chitinous substrates is the first evidence of the involvement of putative GH3 NAGases in physiological cell processes in entomopathogens, indicating their potential influence on cell differentiation during the M. anisopliae life cycle.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572018000500843	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética	
Relação: 	10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-0363	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.41 n.4 2018	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess