PLPA 638 Cumulative Readings
Spring 2004



March 29, 2004
Placing the fungi

*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 31, 2004
Classical genetics

Genetics Review.
Problem set is due Wednesday, April 7, 2004.

Slides used in lecture

Overheads used in lecture


April 2 & 5, 2004
Moelcular genetic tools; transformation, mutagenesis/REMI

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

Reference List, PLPA638, April 2, 2004
B. G. Turgeon

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

Transformation

*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 7, 2004
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.



April 9, 2004 
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


April 12, 2004
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



April 23, 2004
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


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 28, 2004
Expression profiling

*Gasch. A.P. et al 2000.
11:4241-57 Molecular Biology of the Cell.


April 30, 2004
Filamentous fungal gene annotation tools; features of the fungal genome

See handout and K-drive/everyone/plpa 638


May 3, 2004
Plant/Microbe interactions

*ON THE TRAIL OF A CEREAL KILLER: Exploring the Biology ofMagnaporthe grisea
Nicholas J. Talbot


May 5, 2004
Phylogenomics, cross genome comparisons
See handout and k-drive/everyone/plpa638

Whole-Genome Analysis of Two-Component Signal Transduction Genes in Fungal Pathogens
Natalie L. Catlett, Olen C. Yoder, and B. Gillian Turgeon

Phylogenomic analysis of type I polyketide synthase genes in pathogenic and saprobic ascomycetes
Scott Kroken, N. Louise Glass, John W. Taylor, O. C. Yoder, and B. Gillian Turgeon

A complete inventory of fungal kinesins in representative filamentous ascomycetes

Conrad L. Schoch, James R. Aist, Olen C. Yoder, and B. Gillian Turgeon