The neighbouring genes AvrLm10A and AvrLm10B are part of a large multigene family of cooperating effector genes conserved in Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes.

ABSTRACT: Fungal effectors (small-secreted proteins) have long been considered as species or even subpopulation-specific. The increasing availability of high-quality fungal genomes and annotations has allowed the identification of trans-species or trans-genera families of effectors. Two avirulence effectors, AvrLm10A and AvrLm10B, of Leptosphaeria maculans, the fungus causing stem canker of oilseed rape, are members of such a large family of effectors. AvrLm10A and AvrLm10B are neighbouring genes, organized in divergent transcriptional orientation. Sequence searches within the L. maculans genome showed that AvrLm10A/AvrLm10B belong to a multigene family comprising five pairs of genes with a similar tail-to-tail organization. The two genes, in a pair, always had the same expression pattern and two ex

SUBMITTER: Talbi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10346447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature