PLPA 638 Cumulative Readings

Spring 2005

Spring 2004



March 28, 2005

Assembling The Fungal Tree of Life: Progress, Classification, and Evolution of Subcellular Traits
Franc¸Ois Lutzoni, Frank Kauff, Cymon J. Cox, David McLaughlin, Gail Celio, Bryn Dentinger, Mahajabeen Padamsee, David Hibbett, Timothy Y. James, Elisabeth Baloch, Martin Grube, Vale´ Rie Reeb, Vale´ Rie Hofstetter, Conrad Schoch, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Joseph Spatafora, Desiree Johnson, Sarah Hambleton, Michael Crockett, Robert Shoemaker, Gi-Ho Sung, Robert Lu¨ Cking, Thorsten Lumbsch, Kerry O’Donnell, Manfred Binder, Paul Diederich, Damien Ertz, Ce´ Cile Gueidan, Karen Hansen, Richard C. Harris, Kentaro Hosaka, Young-Woon Lim, Brandon Matheny, Hiromi Nishida, Don Pfister, Jack Rogers, Amy Rossman, Imke Schmitt, Harrie Sipman, Jeffrey Stone, Junta Sugiyama, Rebecca Yahr, And Rytas Vilgalys

*Animals and fungi are each other's closest relatives: Congruent evidence from multiple proteins
Sandra L. Baldauf and Jeffrey D. Palmer

Loculoascomycete Origins and Evolution of Filamentous Ascomycete Morphology Based on 18s rRNA Gene Sequence Data
Mary L. Berbee

*Dating the Evolutionary Radiations of the True Fungi
Mary L. Berbee and John W. Taylor

New views on fungal evolution based on DNA markers and the fossil record
Dirk Redecker

Phylogenetic Relationships Among Ascomycetes: Evidence from an RNA Polymerse II Subunit
Yajuan J. Liu, Sally Whelen and Benjamin D. Hall


March 30, 2005

Classical genetics

Genetics Review. Problem set

Problem set is due Monday, April 4, 2005.

Slides used in lecture

Overheads used in lecture


April 1 & 4, 2005


Molecular genetic tools; transformation, mutagenesis/REMI


Lectures 3 & 4 (this is a link to the notes)

Lectures 3, 4 Functional analysis: Tools: transformation, REMI and whole genome gene deletion/disruption

Transformation

Reference List, PLPA638
*de Groot MJ, Bundock P, Hooykaas PJ, Beijersbergen AG. 1998.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of filamentous fungi.
Nat Biotechnol. 16(9):839-42.

Dunn-Coleman N, Wang H.
Agrobacterium T-DNA: a silver bullet for filamentous fungi? 1998.
Nat Biotechnol. 16(9):817-8.

*Hinnen, A., J. B. Hicks, and G. R. Fink. 1978. Transformation of yeast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 75:1929-1933.

Ito, H., Y. Fukuda , K. Murata, and A. Kimura. 1983. Transformation of intact yeast cells treated with alkali. J. Bacteriol. 153:163-168.

Mandel, M. and A. Higa. 1970. Calcium-dependent bacteriophage DNA infection. J. Mol. Biol. 53:159-162.

Turgeon, B. G., R. C. Garber, and O. C. Yoder. 1987. Development of a fungal transformation system based on selection of sequences with promoter activity. Mol Cell Biol 7:3297-3305.

Restriction Enzyme-Mediated Integration (REMI)

Kuspa, A. and W. F. Loomis. 1992. Tagging developmental genes in Dictyostelium by restriction enzyme-mediated integration of plasmid DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:8803-8807.

*Lu, S. W., L. Lyngholm, G. Yang, C. Bronson, O. C. Yoder, and B. G. Turgeon. 1994. Tagged mutations at the Tox1 locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus using Restriction Enzyme Mediated Integration. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:12649-12653

Schiestl, R. H. and T. D. Petes. 1991. Integration of DNA fragments by illegitimate recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:7585-7589.

April 6, 2005

Molecular genetic tools; S. cerevisiae whole genome mutagenesis; random vs directed

Yeast

Coelho PS, Kumar A, Snyder M. 2000. Genome-wide mutant collections: toolboxes for functional genomics. Curr Opin Microbiol. 3(3):309-15.

Kumar A, des Etages SA, Coelho PS, Roeder GS, Snyder M. 2000. High-throughput methods for the large scale analysis of gene function by transposon tagging. Methods Enzymol. 328:550-74.

*Kumar A, Snyder M. 2001. Emerging technologies in yeast genomics. Nat Rev Genet. Apr; 2 (4):302-12.

Ross-Macdonald P. 2000. Functional analysis of the yeast genome.
Funct Integr Genomics, 1:99-113.

Ross-Macdonald P, Coelho PS, Roemer T, Agarwal S, Kumar A, Jansen R, Cheung KH, Sheehan A,
Symoniatis D, Umansky L, Heidtman M, Nelson FK, Iwasaki H, Hager K, Gerstein M, Miller P, Roeder GS, Snyder M. 1999. Large-scale analysis of the yeast genome by transposon tagging and gene disruption. Nature. 25;402(6760):413-8.

Ross-Macdonald P, Sheehan A, Roeder GS, Snyder M. 1997
A multipurpose transposon system for analyzing protein production, localization, and function
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 7;94(1):190-5.

Vidan S, Snyder M. 2001. Large-scale mutagenesis: yeast genetics in the genome era.
Curr Opin Biotechnol. 12(1):28-34.

Large-Scale Mutagenesis of the Yeast Genome Using a Tn7-Derived Multipurpose Transposon
Anuj Kumar, Michael Seringhaus, Matthew C. Biery, Robert J. Sarnovsky, Lara Umansky, Stacy Piccirillo, Matthew Heidtman, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Craig J. Dobry, Mark B. Gerstein, Nancy L. Craig and Michael Snyder

April 8 & 11, 2005

Sequenced fungal genomes; S. cerevisiae

*Life with 6000 Genes
A. Goffeau, B. G. Barrell, H. Bussey, R. W. Davis, B. Dujon, H. Feldmann, F. Galibert, J. D. Hoheisel, C. Jacq, M. Johnston, E. J. Louis, H. W. Mewes, Y. Murakami, P. Philippsen, H. Tettelin, S. G. Oliver

Sequenced fungal genomes; comparative genomics S. pombe compared to S. cerevisiae

*The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

V. Wood, R. Gwilliam, M.-A. Rajandream, M. Lyne, R. Lyne, A. Stewart, J. Sgouros, N. Peat, J. Hayles, S. Baker, D.Basham, S. Bowman, K. Brooks, D. Brown, S. Brown, T. Chillingworth, C. Churcher, M. Collins, R. Connor, A. Cronin, P. Davis, T. Feltwell, A. Fraser, S. Gentles, A. Goble, N. Hamlin, D. Harris, J. Hidalgo, G. Hodgson, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, S. Howarth, E. J. Huckle, S. Hunt, K. Jagels, K. James, L. Jones, M. Jones, S. Leather, S. McDonald, J. McLean, P. Mooney, S. Moule, K. Mungall, L. Murphy, D. Niblett, C. Odell, K. Oliver, S. O'Neil, D. Pearson, M. A. Quail, E. Rabbinowitsch, K. Rutherford, S. Rutter, D. Saunders, K. Seeger, S. Sharp, J. Skelton, M. Simmonds, R. Squares, S. Squares, K. Stevens, K. Taylor, R. G. Taylor, A. Tivey, S. Walsh, T. Warren, S. Whitehead, J. Woodward, G. Volckaert, R. Aert, J. Robben, B. Grymonprez, I. Weltjens, E. Vanstreels, M. Rieger, M. SchaÈ fer, S.MuÈ ller-Auer, C. Gabel, M. Fuchs, C. Fritzc, E. Holzer D. Moestl 6 , H. Hilbert, K. Borzym, I. Langer, A. Beck, H. Lehrach, R. Reinhardt, T. M. Pohl, P. Eger, W. Zimmermann, H. Wedler, R. Wambutt, B. Purnelle,A. Goffeau, E. Cadieu, S. Dre ano, S. Gloux, V. Lelaure, S. Mottier, F. Galibert, S. J. Aves, Z. Xiang, C. Hunt, K. Moore, S. M. Hurst, M. Lucas, M. Rochet, C. Gaillardin, V. A. Tallada, A. Garzon , G. Thode , R. R. Daga, L. Cruzado, J. Jimenez, M. Sa nchez, F. del Rey, J. Benito, A. DomõÂnguez, J. L. Revuelta, S. Moreno, J. Armstrong, S. L. Forsburg, L. Cerrutti, T. Lowe, W. R. McCombie, I. Paulsen, J. Potashkin, G. V. Shpakovski, D. Ussery , B. G. Barrell& P. Nurse

Sequenced fungal genomes; comparative genomics N. crassa compared to S. cerevisiae and S. pombe

*The Genome Sequence of the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora crassa

James E. Galagan, Sarah E. Calvo, Katherine A. Borkovich, Eric U. Selker, Nick D. Read, David Jaffe1, William FitzHugh, Li-Jun Ma, Serge Smirnov, Seth Purcell, Bushra Rehman, Timothy Elkins, Reinhard Engels, Shunguang Wang, Cydney B. Nielsen, Jonathan Butler, Matthew Endrizzi, Dayong Qui, Peter Ianakiev, Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Mary Anne Nelson, Margaret Werner-Washburne, Claude P. Selitrennikoff, John A. Kinsey, Edward L. Braun, Alex Zelter, Ulrich Schulte, Gregory O. Kothe, Gregory Jedd, Werner Mewes, Chuck Staben, Edward Marcotte, David Greenberg, Alice Roy, Karen Foley, Jerome Naylor, Nicole Stange-Thomann, Robert Barrett, Sante Gnerre, Michael Kamal, Manolis Kamvysselis, Evan Mauceli, Cord Bielke, Stephen Rudd, Dmitrij Frishman, Svetlana Krystofova, Carolyn Rasmussen, Robert L. Metzenberg, David D. Perkins, Scott Kroken, Carlo Cogoni, Giuseppe Macino, David Catcheside22, Weixi Li16, Robert J. Pratt6, Stephen A. Osmani23, Colin P. C. DeSouza, Louise Glass, Marc J. Orbach, J. Andrew Berglund, Rodger Voelker, Oded Yarden, Michael Plamann, Stephan Seiler, Jay Dunlap, Alan Radford, Rodolfo Aramay, Donald O. Natvig, Lisa A. Alex, Gertrud Mannhaupt, Daniel J. Ebbole, Michael Freitag, Ian Paulsen, Matthew S. Sachs, Eric S. Lander, Chad Nusbaum & Bruce Birren

April 18, 2005

Lessons from the Genome Sequence of Neurospora crassa: Tracing the Path from Genomic Blueprint to Multicellular Organism
Katherine A. Borkovich, Lisa A. Alex, Oded Yarden, Michael Freitag, Gloria E. Turner, Nick D. Read, Stephan Seiler, Deborah Bell-Pedersen, John Paietta, Nora Plesofsky, Michael Plamann, Marta Goodrich-Tanrikulu, Ulrich Schulte, Gertrud Mannhaupt, Frank E. Nargang, Alan Radford, Claude Selitrennikoff, James E. Galagan, Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros, David Catcheside, Hirokazu Inoue, Rodolfo Aramayo, Michael Polymenis, Eric U. Selker, Matthew S. Sachs, George A. Marzluf, Ian Paulsen, Rowland Davis, Daniel J. Ebbole, Alex Zelter, Eric R. Kalkman, Rebecca O’Rourke, Frederick Bowring, Jane Yeadon, Chizu Ishii, Keiichiro Suzuki, Wataru Sakai, and Robert Pratt


April 20, 2005


Gene annotation tools

Overheads used in class

References

April 22 & 25, 2005

Slides used in lecture


Slides used in lecture


*On The Trail of a Cereal Killer: Exploring the Biology of Magnaporthe grisea
Nicholas J. Talbot


*The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
Ralph A. Dean, Nicholas J. Talbot, Daniel J. Ebbole, Mark L. Farman, Thomas K. Mitchell, Marc J. Orbach, Michael Thon, Resham Kulkarni, Jin-Rong Xu, Huaqin Pan, Nick D. Read, Yong-Hwan Lee, Ignazio Carbone, Doug Brown, Yeon Yee Oh, Nicole Donofrio, Jun Seop Jeong, Darren M. Soanes, Slavica Djonovic, Elena Kolomiets, Cathryn Rehmeyer, Weixi Li, Michael Harding, Soonok Kim, Marc-Henri Lebrun, Heidi Bohnert, Sean Coughlan, Jonathan Butler, Sarah Calvo, Li-Jun Ma, Robert Nicol, Seth Purcell, Chad Nusbaum, James E. Galagan & Bruce W. Birren

Howard, R. J. and B.Valent. 1996. Breaking and entering: host penetration by the fungal rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea. Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 50:491-512.

Howard, R. J. M. A. Ferrari, D. H Roach, and N. P. Money. 1991. Penetration of hard substrates by a fungus employing enormous turgor pressures. PNAS. 88:11281-84.

Park, G., K. S. Bruno, C. J. Staiger, N. J. Talbot, and J.-R Xu. 2004. Independent genetic mechanisms mediate turgor generation and penetration peg formation during plant infection in the rice blast fungus. Molec. Microbiol. 53:1695-1707.

Talbot, N. J., M. J. Kershaw, G. E. Wakley, O. M. H. de Vries, J. G. H. Wessels, and J. E. Hamer. 1996. MPGI encodes a funga1 hydrophobin involved in surface interactions during infection-related development of Magnaporthe grisea. The Plant Cell, Vol. 8, 985-999.