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Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production

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  • Laila P. Partida-Martinez

    (Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, HKI)

  • Christian Hertweck

    (Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, HKI)

Abstract

For fungal, read bacterial The antitumour agent rhizoxin is a fungal metabolite produced by Rhizopus microsporus, the pathogen that causes one of the most destructive diseases of rice crops, rice seedling blight. Or so we thought. Now it has been discovered that Rhizopus is not the true producer of rhizoxin. In fact it is synthesized by a bacterium of the genus Burkholderia, living in the fungus as an endosymbiont. Rhizoxin causes cell-cycle arrest in the plant cells, and the fungal pathogen and its symbiont both benefit from the decaying plant matter produced.

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  • Laila P. Partida-Martinez & Christian Hertweck, 2005. "Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production," Nature, Nature, vol. 437(7060), pages 884-888, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:437:y:2005:i:7060:d:10.1038_nature03997
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03997
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    1. Rosario Nicoletti & Antonio Fiorentino, 2015. "Plant Bioactive Metabolites and Drugs Produced by Endophytic Fungi of Spermatophyta," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-53, September.
    2. Carlos Lax & Stephen J. Mondo & Macario Osorio-Concepción & Anna Muszewska & María Corrochano-Luque & Gabriel Gutiérrez & Robert Riley & Anna Lipzen & Jie Guo & Hope Hundley & Mojgan Amirebrahimi & Vi, 2024. "Symmetric and asymmetric DNA N6-adenine methylation regulates different biological responses in Mucorales," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-21, December.

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