A family of glycosyl hydrolase family 45 cellulases from the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
- 26 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 572 (1-3), 201-205
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2004.07.039
Abstract
We have characterized a family of GHF45 cellulases from the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The absence of such genes from other nematodes and their similarity to fungal genes suggests that they may have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from fungi. The cell wall degrading enzymes of other plant parasitic nematodes may have been acquired by HGT from bacteria. B. xylophilus is not directly related to other plant parasites and our data therefore suggest that horizontal transfer of cell wall degrading enzymes has played a key role in evolution of plant parasitism by nematodes on more than one occasionThis publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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