Bioinformatic prediction of cis8208;acting elements in FUM gene promoters putatively involved in transcriptional control of fumonisins biosynthesis

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Author:

Valeria Montis,
Matias Pasquali,
Ivan Visentin,
Petr Karlovsky,
Francesca Cardinale

Author address:

Department of Plant Physiology - University of Turin  

Department of Environnement and Agro-biotechnologies - 
Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann  

Department of Crop Sciences, Molecular Phytopathology and
Mycotox

Full conference title:

11 th European Conference on Fungal Genetics

Abstract:

Fumonisins are secondary metabolites produced by the maize pathogen Fusarium verticillioides, agent of pink ear
rot; these mycotoxins cause agro8208;economical losses and detrimental health effects in animals and humans. The
FUM genes needed for fumonisins biosynthesis are clustered and co8208;expressed in the fumonisins producers.
In eukaryotes, coordination of gene transcription is mostly attained through transcription factors shared by co8208;
regulated genes, whose specificity relies on the recognition of cis8208;regulatory elements on the promoters of their
targets. A bioinformatic analysis of FUM gene promoters in F. verticillioides identified a partially degenerated motif
potentially involved in the regulation of FUM genes expression, and therefore in fumonisins biosynthesis. The
same oligomer was found in the clustered FUM genes of the other fumonisins producers Fusarium oxysporum and
Aspergillus niger; while it is not significantly over8208;represented in the scattered FUM homologs of the fumonisins
non8208;producing euascomycetes F. graminearum, A. nidulans, Magnaporthe grisea and Neurospora crassa.
Comparison of the transcriptional strength of the intact FUM1 promoter and of a synthetic version, where the
motif discovered had been mutated, was carried out in vivo and in planta by quantifying GFP transcripts in F.
verticillioides transformants, carrying either promoter upstream of the GFP reporter. Our results show that
mutation of the main motif in FUM1 promoter is sufficient to significantly impair its efficiency, thus validating our
in silico approach as a discovery tool. The presence of the degenerated 68208;mer in all clustered FUM genes suggests
that this set of oligomers includes candidate regulatory sequences.

Abstract Number: PR8.49

Conference Year: 2012

Link to conference website: http://www.ecfg.info/images/Abstract_Book_Electronic.pdf

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