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Eukaryotic Cell, October 2004, p. 1227-1232, Vol. 3, No. 5
1535-9778/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.5.1227-1232.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Linkage between Mitochondrial Hypovirulence and Viral Hypovirulence in the Chestnut Blight Fungus Revealed by cDNA Microarray Analysis

Todd D. Allen and Donald L. Nuss*

Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland

Received 17 June 2004/ Accepted 9 August 2004

The phenomenon of transmissible hypovirulence (virulence attenuation) associated with biological control of natural populations of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica can be experimentally reproduced by infection with hypovirus cDNA clones (viral hypovirulence) or by mutation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the absence of virus infection (mitochondrial hypovirulence). We now report the use of an established C. parasitica cDNA microarray to monitor nuclear transcriptional responses to an mtDNA mutation of C. parasitica strain EP155, designated EP155/mit2, which was previously shown to induce elevated alternative oxidase activity and hypovirulence (C. B. Monterio-Vitorello, J. A. Bell, D. W. Fulbright, and H. A. Bertrand, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:5935-5939, 1995). Approximately 10% of the 2,200 genes represented on the microarray exhibited altered transcript accumulation as a result of the mit2 mtDNA mutation. While genes involved in mitochondrial function were clearly represented in the EP155/mit2-responsive gene list, direct parallels to the well-characterized Saccharomyces cerevisiae retrograde response to mitochondrial dysfunction were not observed. Remarkably, 47% of the genes that were differentially expressed following the infection of strain EP155 by the prototypic hypovirus CHV1-EP713 had similarly changed transcript accumulation in the virus-free EP155/mit2 mutant. These results establish a linkage between viral and mitochondrial hypovirulence and raise questions regarding the relationship between hypovirus infection and mitochondrial dysfunction. The combined set of transcriptional profile data provides a foundation for future studies on mitochondrion-to-nucleus communications in the context of hypovirus infection and senescence associated with mitochondrial dysfunction in filamentous fungi.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 5115 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742-4450. Phone: (301) 405-0334. Fax: (301) 314-9075. E-mail: nuss{at}umbi.umd.edu.

Eukaryotic Cell, October 2004, p. 1227-1232, Vol. 3, No. 5
1535-9778/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.5.1227-1232.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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