Verticillium disease or "dry bubble" of cultivated mushrooms: theAgaricus bisporuslectin recognizes and binds theVerticillium fungicolacell wall glucogalactomannan
Authors:
- Amelia Pérez CaboACAmelia Pérez Cabo
- Monique Novaes-LedieuMNMonique Novaes-Ledieu
- Concepción García MendozaCMConcepción García Mendoza
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 50 (9) , 729-735
Abstract
The step of recognition and (or) binding for the development of the disease of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus by the mycoparasite Verticillium fungicola was studied by several approaches: agglutination of V. fungicola germinated spores by an A. bisporus extract from fruit body cell walls, immunofluorescence microscopy of A. bisporus hyphae from fruit bodies and vegetative mycelia pretreated with purified V. fungicola cell wall glucogalactomannan, and finally, by hemagglutination experiments carried out with an A. bisporus fruit body lectin in the presence and absence of the same glucogalactomannan. Hemagglutinating activity of the purified A. bisporus fruit body lectin was clearly inhibited by the V. fungicola glucogalactomannan, whereas in the A. bisporus vegetative mycelium such lectin was not encountered. All the results obtained make evident the recognition and binding of the A. bisporus fruit body lectin to the V. fungicola cell wall glucogalactomannan, clarifying why the mushrooms, but not the vegetative mycelium, become diseased.Key words: Agaricus bisporus lectin, Verticillium fungicola glucogalactomannan, mycoparasitism.Keywords
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