Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (Dec 2019)

TargeTALE: A Web Resource to Identify TALEs in Xanthomonas Genomes and Their Respective Targets

  • Frederico Schmitt Kremer,
  • Amanda Munari Guimarães,
  • Christian Domingues Sanchez,
  • Luciano da Silva Pinto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-08-19-0227-A
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 12
pp. 1577 – 1580

Abstract

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The Xanthomonas genus, comprises more than 30 species of gram-negative bacteria, most of which are pathogens of plants with high economic value, such as rice, common bean, and maize. Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs), which act by regulating the host gene expression, are some of the major virulence factors of these bacteria. We present a novel tool to identify TALE genes in the genome of Xanthomonas strains and their respective targets. The analysis of the results obtained by TargeTALE in a proof-of-concept validation demonstrate that, at optimum setting, approximately 93% of the predicted target genes with available expression data were confirmed as upregulated during the infection, indicating that the tool might be useful for researchers in the field.

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