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During the colonization of tomato leaves, the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum excretes low-molecular-weight proteins in the intercellular spaces of the host tissue. These proteins are encoded by the ecp genes which are highly expressed in C. fulvum while growing in planta but are not, or are only weakly, expressed in C. fulvum grown in vitro. To investigate the function of the putative pathogenicity gene ecp2, encoding the 17-kDa protein ECP2, we performed two successive disruptions of the gene. In the first of these, the ecp2 gene was interrupted by a hygromycin B resistance gene cassette. In the second gene disruption, the ecp2 gene was completely deleted from the genome, and replaced by a phleomycin resistance gene cassette. Both disruption mutants were still pathogenic on tomato seedlings, indicating that the C. fulvum ecp2 gene is not essential for pathogenicity in tomato.
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Marmeisse, R., Van den Ackerveken, G.F.J.M., Goosen, T. et al. The in-planta induced ecp2 gene of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum is not essential for pathogenicity. Curr Genet 26, 245–250 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309555
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