Transcriptomics Reveals the Putative Mycoparasitic Strategy of the Mushroom Entoloma abortivum on Species of the Mushroom Genus Armillaria
ABSTRACT
During mycoparasitism, a fungus—the host—is parasitized by another fungus—the mycoparasite. The genetic underpinnings of these relationships have been best characterized in ascomycete fungi. However, within basidiomycete fungi, there are rare instances of mushroom-forming species parasitizing the reproductive structures, or sporocarps, of other mushroom-forming species, which have been rarely investigated on a genetic level. One of the most enigmatic of these occurs between Entoloma abortivum and species of Armillaria, where hyphae of E. abortivum are hypothesized to disrupt the development of Armillaria sporocarps, resulting in the formation of carpophoroids. However, it remains unknown whether carpophoroids are the direct result of a mycoparasitic relationship. To address the nature of this unique interaction, we analyzed gene expression of field-collected Armillaria and E. abortivum sporocarps and carpophoroids. Transcripts in the carpophoroids are primarily from E. abortivum, supporting the hypothesis that this species is parasitizing Armillaria. Most notably, we identified differentially upregulated E. abortivum β-trefoil-type lectins in the carpophoroid, which we hypothesize bind to Armillaria cell wall galactomannoproteins, thereby mediating recognition between the mycoparasite and the host. The most differentially upregulated E. abortivum transcripts in the carpophoroid code for oxalate decarboxylases—enzymes that degrade oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is a virulence factor in many plant pathogens, including Armillaria species; however, E. abortivum has evolved a sophisticated strategy to overcome this defense mechanism. The number of gene models and genes that code for carbohydrate-active enzymes in the E. abortivum transcriptome was reduced compared to other closely related species, perhaps as a result of the specialized nature of this interaction.
IMPORTANCE By studying fungi that parasitize other fungi, we can understand the basic biology of these unique interactions. Studies focused on the genetic mechanisms regulating mycoparasitism between host and parasite have thus far concentrated on a single fungal lineage within the Ascomycota. The work presented here expands our understanding of mycoparasitic relationships to the Basidiomycota and represents the first transcriptomic study to our knowledge that examines fungal-fungal relationships in their natural setting. The results presented here suggest that even distantly related mycoparasites utilize similar mechanisms to parasitize their host. Given that species of the mushroom-forming pathogen Armillaria cause plant root-rot diseases in many agroecosystems, an enhanced understanding of this interaction may contribute to better control of these diseases through biocontrol applications.
INTRODUCTION
Fungal mycoparasitism is a nutritional strategy where a living fungus—the host—is parasitized by and acts as a nutrient source for another fungus—the mycoparasite. Certain species of fungi in the Hypocreales (Ascomycota) are among the best-studied mycoparasites. Perhaps the best known of these are species of Trichoderma and Clonostachys rosea, which have biocontrol activity against plant-pathogenic species of Botrytis, Fusarium, Pythium, and Rhizoctonia (1, 2). Other fungal mycoparasites in the Hypocreales include Tolypocladium species, many of which are parasites on the reproductive structures, or sporocarps, of species in the genus Elaphomyces (Eurotiales, Ascomycota) (3); Escovopsis weberi, which is a specialized necrotrophic parasite of fungal gardens of attine ants (4, 5); and Hypomyces lactifluorum, which parasitizes the mushrooms of Russula species and transforms them into the iconic “lobster mushroom” (6). Within the Basidiomycota, one well-studied genus of mycoparasites is Tremella, which contain parasites of corticiaceous basidiomycetes (7) and lichen-forming fungi (8).
Less-studied examples of mycoparasitism involve mushroom-forming fungi that parasitize other mushroom-forming fungi. Fewer than 20 reported mushroom species may engage in this type of interaction, making it an incredibly rare phenomenon given the total number of mushroom-forming fungi (9, 10). Examples of this interaction whereby the parasite does not appear to impact the fitness of the host include Volvariella surrecta, which fruits from the pileus of its host, Clitocybe nebularis (11), and Asterophora species, which colonize their Russula or Lactarius host after it dies (10). More commonly, though, mushroom mycoparasites deform host sporocarps and likely prevent the dispersal of their spores. Pseudoboletus parasiticus fruits from the sporocarps of Scleroderma species, which, after infection, are no longer able to mature and disperse their spores (12). Psathyrella epimyces causes the deformation of sporocarp tissue of its host, Coprinus comatus (13). Additionally, of the 10 mushroom species in the genus Squamanita, all are known to be parasites of sporocarps of species in the genera Cystoderma, Galerina, Hebeloma, and Inocybe (10).
One of the most frequently encountered putative mycoparasitic interactions between two mushrooms involves species of Armillaria and Entoloma abortivum (Fig. 1). Entoloma abortivum is often encountered fruiting in soil, humus, or decaying logs in deciduous woods (14), while Armillaria species are facultative necrotrophs that can cause root rot in forest and agronomic systems worldwide (15, 16). Entoloma abortivum was originally described to occur as two morphologies: the mushroom form, which has a pinkish-gray stipe and pileus and pink gills, and then the carpophoroid form, which is generally white and subglobose and does not develop well-formed gills (Fig. 1). Initially, the carpophoroid form was assumed to be E. abortivum sporocarps that were malformed due to parasitism by Armillaria species (14). However, macro- and microscopic studies of carpophoroid collections determined that they are actually Armillaria sporocarps permeated with E. abortivum hyphae (17). Laboratory inoculation experiments showed that E. abortivum interacts with Armillaria sporocarps to disrupt their morphological development (17).
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Whether carpophoroids are the result of a mycoparasitic relationship, where E. abortivum serves as the mycoparasite and Armillaria species serve as the host, remains unknown. To address this, we initiated a transcriptome study after we encountered all three components of this system fruiting in close proximity—carpophoroids and individual sporocarps of E. abortivum and Armillaria. For a mycoparasite to be successful, there are several crucial steps to the utilization of a fungal host for nutrition. These steps include (i) sensing the host, (ii) recognition and attachment to host hyphae, (iii) initiating defense responses, and (iv) the eventual demise of the host (18). Previous genomic and transcriptomic studies elucidated the genetic machinery that model mycoparasites utilize during each of these steps (18–20). In this work, we used transcriptomic and metatranscriptomic techniques to analyze the genomic toolbox of E. abortivum and Armillaria during the carpophoroid stage. We show that the gene expression profiles of E. abortivum resemble those of known mycoparasitic species, as well as predict certain genes in both species that facilitate this interaction. Additionally, we used transcriptomic information to determine the species of Armillaria involved in this association.
RESULTS
Transcriptome assemblies of Entoloma abortivum and Armillaria.
To benchmark gene diversity and baseline expression levels of the field-collected mushroom species in our study, we sequenced the sporocarp transcriptomes of E. abortivum and the Armillaria species found in close proximity to the carpophoroids. To date, there are several transcriptomic studies of Armillaria species (21, 22), but none for any Entoloma species. The assembled transcriptome of E. abortivum was just under 120 million bp. There was a total of 43,599 contigs and an N50 value of 3,527; 94.5% of benchmark universal single-copy orthologs (BUSCOs) from the Agaricales were present in the E. abortivum transcriptome. Nine internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences were extracted from the transcriptome, accounting for 5.96 × 10−4% to 1.82 × 10−3% of the mapped reads; all ITS sequences were from E. abortivum. Within the contigs, a total of 9,728 unique gene models were recovered in the transcriptome assembly (Fig. 2) with 603 transcripts differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue compared to the sporocarp tissue and 403 transcripts differentially upregulated in the sporocarp tissue compared to carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3). The transcriptome contained 195 genes that code for carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). The transcriptome lacks any genes that code for cellobiohydrolases (glycoside hydrolase [GH] 6 and GH7), xylanases (GH10, GH11, and GH30), and auxiliary proteins like polysaccharide monooxygenases (GH61) but does contain nine chitinases (GH18) (Fig. 2). Transcripts detected in the E. abortivum transcriptome that were previously determined to play important roles in mycoparasitic interactions (18–20) include 10 putative secondary metabolite gene clusters, one G-coupled protein receptor (GCPR), 38 ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, and 113 genes from the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) (Fig. 3). The average gene expression (in normalized units of trimmed mean of m-values [TMM]) of the 10 most abundant E. abortivum transcripts in the sporocarp ranged from 4,333 to 17,890. Information about the 10 most abundant transcripts in the sporocarps is available in Table 1.
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TABLE 1
| Gene | Annotation | Cond. | C (TMM) | S (TMM) | logFC | q value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENT_DN2762_c0_g3 | Oxalate decarboxylase | C | 68,724 | 238 | −8.5 | 4.5 × 10−317 |
| ENT_DN1212_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C/S | 55,939 | 12,590 | −2.5 | 4.3 × 10−49 |
| ENT_DN3063_c0_g2 | Oxalate decarboxylase | C | 48,157 | 135 | −8.8 | 0 |
| ENT_DN1952_c0_g2 | Acid phosphatase | C | 19,999 | 677 | −5.2 | 1.3 × 10−169 |
| ENT_DN4045_c1_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 19,965 | 3,374 | −2.9 | 3.4 × 10−63 |
| ENT_DN5742_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 11,229 | 23 | −9.3 | 6.9 × 10−220 |
| ENT_DN4332_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 11,038 | 607 | −4.5 | 4.7 × 10−77 |
| ENT_DN1952_c0_g1 | Acid phosphatase | C | 10,766 | 673 | −4.4 | 1.9 × 10−122 |
| ENT_DN2936_c0_g2 | Hypothetical protein | C | 9,212 | 3,686 | NS | |
| ENT_DN3086_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 9,076 | 1,563 | −2.9 | 2.2 × 10−62 |
| ENT_DN1375_c0_g1 | Trehalase | S | 1,934 | 17,890 | 2.9 | 6.5 × 10−37 |
| ENT_DN5247_c0_g3 | Hypothetical protein | S | 2,718 | 7,204 | NS | |
| ENT_DN761_c0_g2 | Hypothetical protein | S | 7,405 | 6,918 | NS | |
| ENT_DN521_c0_g2 | Hypothetical protein | S | 6,045 | 6,424 | NS | |
| ENT_DN852_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | S | 123 | 5,429 | 5.1 | 2.0 × 10−142 |
| ENT_DN3621_c0_g2 | RNA polymerase | S | 1,977 | 5,138 | NS | |
| ENT_DN6707_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | S | 1,654 | 5,027 | NS | |
| ENT_DN2379_c0_g1 | TPR-like protein | S | 4,862 | 5,017 | NS | |
| ENT_DN466_c0_g1 | Auxin efflux carrier | S | 1,205 | 4,333 | NS |
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Cond., condition under which each gene was most abundant, referring to either the carpophoroids (C) or sporocarps (S). NS, not significantly differentially upregulated. Negative logFC values are significantly differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid, whereas positive values are significantly differentially upregulated in the sporocarp. Transcripts discussed in the text include two oxalate decarboxylases (ENT_DN2762_c0_g3 and ENT_DN3063_c0_g2), three β-trefoil-type lectins (ENT_DN4359_c0_g1, ENT_DN1877_c0_g1, and ENT_DN4255_c0_g1), three ABC transporters (ENT_DN1537_c0_g1, ENT_DN189_c0_g1, and ENT_DN3860_c0_G1), two chitinases (ENT_DN2096_c0_g1 and ENG_DN4507_c0_g3), and 14 MFS transcripts (ENT_DN409_c0_g1, ENT_DN1954_c0_g1, ENT_DN1998_c0_g1, ENT_DN2070_c0_g1, ENT_DN2744_c0_g1, ENT_DN3292_c0_g1, ENT_DN3474_c0_g1, ENT_DN3861_c0_g1, ENT_DN3943_c0_g1, ENT_DN3943_c0_g2, ENT_DN3981_c0_g1, ENT_DN4751_c0_g2, ENT_DN6588_c0_g1, and ENT_DN6695_c0_g1).
The assembled transcriptome of Armillaria was just over 138 million bp. A total of 63,905 contigs, an N50 value of 2,845, and 97.8% of the BUSCOs representative of the Agaricales were present in the transcriptome. Eleven ITS sequences were extracted from the transcriptome, accounting for 2.77 × 10−5% to 6.26 × 10−4% of the mapped reads; six ITS sequences were from Armillaria, while five were from an uncharacterized species of the yeast Kodamaea. A total of 38,215 unique gene models were recovered, and, after bioinformatic filtering against public Armillaria genomes, 29,936 of these represented orthologs of Armillaria species (Fig. 2). In total, 2,619 transcripts were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue compared to the sporocarp tissue, whereas 9,820 transcripts were differentially upregulated in the sporocarp tissue compared to the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3). The transcriptome contained 580 genes that code for CAZymes, with 34 of those coding for chitinases (Fig. 2). Genes detected in the Armillaria transcriptome that might be important in mycoparasitic interactions include 12 putative secondary metabolite gene clusters, five GCPRs, 59 ABC transporters, and 144 MFS transcripts (Fig. 3). The average TMM (normalized units of trimmed mean of m-values) of the 10 most highly upregulated Armillaria transcripts in the sporocarp ranged from 8,438 to 36,477. The most differentially upregulated transcript was annotated as a cell wall galactomannoprotein (Fig. 4 and 5; Table 2), while, notably, the 14th most differentially upregulated transcript in the sporocarp coded for isocitrate lyase (Table 2; Fig. 5).
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TABLE 2
| Gene | Annotation | Cond. | C (TMM) | S (TMM) | logFC | q value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARM_DN1755_c2_g1 | Cell wall galactomannoprotein | S | 0 | 36,479 | 13.5 | 4.0 × 10−182 |
| ARM_DN3840_c0_g1 | Serine carboxypeptidase | S | 12 | 29,472 | 6.7 | 7.9 × 10−100 |
| ARM_DN22943_c1_g1 | Rab geranylgeranyltransferase | S | 21 | 18,649 | 5.1 | 3.8 × 10−89 |
| ARM_DN1737_c0_g1 | LysM-domain-containing protein | S | 0 | 14,557 | 15.9 | 3.0 × 10−159 |
| ARM_DN1699_c3_g1 | Hypothetical protein | S | 9 | 12,848 | 5.8 | 1.6 × 10−94 |
| ARM_DN1314_c0_g1 | Chondroitin AC/alginate lyase | S | 102 | 11,436 | 2.2 | 3.7 × 10−25 |
| ARM_DN20980_c0_g1 | Glycopeptide | S | 0 | 10,449 | 15.4 | 3.4 × 10−139 |
| ARM_DN8135_c0_g1 | Rasp f 7 allergen | S | 0 | 9,014 | 11.5 | 1.8 × 10−58 |
| ARM_DN4971_c0_g2 | Aldehyde dehydrogenase | S | 103 | 8,688 | NS | |
| ARM_DN1205_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | S/C | 9,049 | 8,348 | −4.8 | 2.1 × 10−74 |
| ARM_DN5170_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 2,086 | 377 | −7.1 | 6.9 × 10−150 |
| ARM_DN23207_c0_g2 | Senescence associated | C | 1,711 | 2,482 | −4.1 | 6.6 × 10−61 |
| ARM_DN996_c0_g1 | Senescence associated | C | 1,423 | 1,090 | −5.0 | 3.0 × 10−73 |
| ARM_DN409_c1_g1 | Elongation factor 1-alpha | C | 769 | 1,154 | −4.1 | 4.0 × 10−155 |
| ARM_DN1893_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 722 | 58 | −8.3 | 5.3 × 10−109 |
| ARM_DN693_c0_g1 | Hypothetical protein | C | 520 | 840 | −3.9 | 1.1 × 10−48 |
| ARM_DN1222_c0_g1 | CYS3-cystathionine gamma-lyase | C | 485 | 717 | −4.1 | 5.5 × 10−27 |
| ARM_DN1146_c0_g4 | Heat shock protein 70 | C | 431 | 2,361 | −2.2 | 1.7 × 10−54 |
| ARM_DN3800_c0_g1 | ATP synthase F1 | C | 300 | 4,686 | NS |
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Cond., condition under which each gene was most abundant, referring to either the carpophoroids (C) or sporocarps (S). NS, not significantly differentially upregulated. Negative logFC values are significantly differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid, whereas positive values are significantly differentially upregulated in the sporocarp. Transcripts discussed in the text were an isocitrate lyase (ARM_DN1_c7_g1), two putative senescence-associated proteins (ARM_DN23207_c0_g2 and ARM_DN996_c0_g1), and a heat shock protein (ARM_DN1146_c0_g4).
Metatranscriptomic analysis of combined fungal hyphae in carpophoroid tissue.
We sequenced the metatranscriptome of the mixed tissue in the carpophoroids that are typically found when E. abortivum and species of Armillaria are found in proximity. In the carpophoroid tissue, significantly more transcriptomic reads from E. abortivum were identified than from Armillaria sp. (t[8] = 16.6, P = 1.77 × 10−7, n = 9 replicates per species) (Fig. 6). The average number of E. abortivum mapped reads in the carpophoroid tissue was 2,613,988, while the average number of Armillaria mapped reads was 74,880 (Fig. 6).
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The average TMM of the top 10 most abundant E. abortivum transcripts in the carpophoroid ranged from 9,075 to 68,720 (Table 1), while the average TMM of the top 10 most abundant Armillaria transcripts in the carpophoroid ranged from 300 to 9,049 (Table 2). The first and third most highly upregulated E. abortivum transcripts in the carpophoroid tissue code for two oxalate decarboxylases, both of which were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue compared to the sporocarp (Fig. 3 to 5 and Table 1). There were other differentially upregulated E. abortivum transcripts in the carpophoroid that were not as highly upregulated that may also play a role in mycoparasitism. These include three β-trefoil-type lectins, three ABC transporters, two chitinases, and 14 MFS transcripts (Fig. 3; Table 1). We were unable to detect any transcripts belonging to secondary metabolite gene clusters that were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroids (Fig. 3). Two Armillaria transcripts coding for putative senescence-associated proteins, as well as a heat shock protein associated with cell death, were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid compared to the sporocarp (Table 2).
Phylogenetic placement of Armillaria reads.
Phylogenomic analysis of 100 Armillaria BUSCOs generated in this study, in conjunction with previously published Armillaria genomes, shows a strongly supported sister relationship with an Armillaria mellea specimen from France (100% bootstrap support [BS]) (Fig. 7A). Phylogenetic analysis of all ITS sequences characterized as A. mellea from GenBank shows that this specimen is conspecific with specimens from eastern North America (Fig. 7B).
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DISCUSSION
The formation of carpophoroids associated with species of E. abortivum has traditionally been thought to be the result of an Armillaria species attacking and parasitizing Entoloma sporocarps (14), hypothesized on the basis that Armillaria species are widespread generalist forest pathogens that have a broad range of host plants (15). However, subsequent studies suggested the opposite: the production of carpophoroids is the result of E. abortivum disrupting the development of Armillaria sporocarps (17). Here, we employed RNA sequencing and differential gene expression analysis on field-collected fungal tissue of each of the three components of this association to better understand the mechanistic basis of this interaction. We determined that E. abortivum reads in the metatranscriptome of the carpophoroid tissue—which can be interpreted as a measure of living tissue—are almost 35 times more abundant than A. mellea reads (Fig. 6). This finding suggests that carpophoroids are structures that result from E. abortivum parasitizing, and eventually killing, its Armillaria host under natural conditions.
Fungal-fungal necrotrophic mycoparasitic interactions are multistage processes that are best studied in model species, such as those in the genera Trichoderma, Coniothyrium, Clonostachys, and Tolypocladium (20). Genomic and transcriptomic studies of necrotrophic mycoparasites show a convergence of significant genetic mechanisms at each stage (20). The E. abortivum genes that are differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue are largely consistent with other examples of necrotrophic mycoparasites in the Ascomycota. In the carpophoroid tissues we analyzed, E. abortivum appears to employ much of its energy on recognition and defense responses (Fig. 5). Inversely, the Armillaria sporocarps we analyzed illuminate possible mechanisms by which these two species recognize one another and how Armillaria responds to parasitism (Fig. 5).
The genetics of the Entoloma-Armillaria mycoparasitic interaction.
A crucial step in a successful mycoparasite’s life history is the ability to sense its host. Genes involved in the recognition of the fungal prey include those that code for GPCRs (18, 20). However, we did not find any of these genes that were differentially upregulated by E. abortivum in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3). Given the significantly lower number of Armillaria reads in the carpophoroid tissue compared to E. abortivum, we presume that these carpophoroids are relatively advanced in age, and expression of the genes used for sensing the presence of the host is no longer necessary.
We also identified three E. abortivum transcripts that code for β-trefoil-type lectins—proteins that bind to galactose units of sugar chains (23)—that were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3 and 5). In well-studied mycoparasitic interactions, the recognition, attachment, and coiling around a fungal substrate are mediated by lectins expressed by at least one of the fungal partners (24–26). More specifically, basidiomycete β-trefoil-type lectins have previously been shown to play a role in the recognition of nonself glycans (27). Interestingly, the most abundant and differentially upregulated transcript produced in the Armillaria sporocarps, the substrate to which E. abortivum hyphae attach, codes for a cell wall galactomannoprotein (Fig. 4 and 5). These proteins belong to a group of glycans which consist of a mannose backbone with galactose side chains and are known to make up a major part of the cell wall of some fungal species (28). This particular galactomannoprotein appears to be specific to Armillaria species. Watling (14) commented on the highly specific nature of this interaction and that it has been documented only occurring between E. abortivum and Armillaria species. One possible mediator of the specificity of this interaction could be the galactose sugars on the mannose protein (known thus far only from Armillaria species) that are the means by which E. abortivum β-trefoil-type lectins recognize and attach to the Armillaria host. However, more genome sequencing of other Agaricales species is needed to determine whether this protein is truly specific to species in the genus Armillaria.
During mycoparasitic interactions, the fungal host responds by mounting its own defense, and a successful mycoparasite must be able to cope with this counterattack (18, 20). Oxalic acid (OA) is a virulence factor employed by some plant pathogens, including species of Armillaria, to compromise the defense responses of the host plant by creating an acidic environment (29, 30). One differentially upregulated Armillaria transcript in the sporocarps codes for isocitrate lyase (Fig. 5), which is involved in OA biosynthesis in other fungal pathogens (31, 32), and we suspect that Armillaria sporocarps may utilize OA to defend against the initial infection by E. abortivum. However, two of the most abundant and differentially upregulated E. abortivum transcripts in the carpophoroid tissue code for oxalate decarboxylases—enzymes responsible for the degradation of OA (Fig. 3, 4, and 5D; Table 1). In at least one known well-studied mycoparasitic interaction, OA is secreted by the fungal host, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, in reaction to penetration by its mycoparasite, Coniothyrium minitans. The acidic environment created by the secreted OA inhibits conidial germination and suppresses mycelial growth of C. minitans (33). However, C. minitans nullifies the growth-suppressing effects of OA or OA-mediated low pH by degrading the OA (34, 35), an enzymatic process largely mediated by oxalate decarboxylase. Because of this, oxalate decarboxylase plays an imperative role in mycoparasitism as OA degradation is vital for infection of the fungal host (36). Given the abundance of these genes produced by E. abortivum in the carpophoroid, we suspect a similar scenario in this mycoparasitic interaction. Subsequent downregulation of isocitrate lyase by Armillaria in the carpophoroids suggests that its genetic defense responses to infection were likely over at the time of our sampling.
Other ways that mycoparasites cope with the counterattack launched by their host include actively excreting host-secreted toxins. Here, we hypothesize that active extrusion of toxins secreted by the host occurs in the E. abortivum carpophoroid tissue via membrane transporters in the ABC superfamily (37–39). Three ABC transporters were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3). Another group of genes that were differentially upregulated by E. abortivum in the carpophoroid belong to the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters (Fig. 3). In C. rosea, there was selection for genes in this family that were related to drug resistance and the transport of secondary metabolites, small organic compounds, and carbohydrates (40). Their importance to mycoparasitism in C. rosea is predicted to invoke efflux-mediated protection against exogenous or endogenous secondary metabolites and nutrient uptake (40). MFS transporters have also been shown to be induced in other mycoparasitic species (19, 41), but their exact biological roles have not been investigated.
In mycoparasitism, the final death of the host often results from the synergistic actions of cell wall-hydrolytic enzymes and antifungal secondary metabolites (18, 20). No secondary metabolite gene clusters identified in the E. abortivum transcriptome were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3). In some mycoparasitic relationships, the secretion of secondary metabolites occurs early in the interaction, including in Escovopsis weberi, which secretes toxic compounds that kill the leafcutter ant garden before contact (5). In culture experiments between Armillaria isolates and E. abortivum, the growth of Armillaria was severely inhibited by the presence of E. abortivum (42). This suggests that E. abortivum may potentially secrete a toxic compound early in the interaction that inhibits the growth of Armillaria. Given that significantly more of the living tissue in the carpophoroids belonged to E. abortivum (Fig. 6), it is possible that much of the Armillaria tissue was killed preceding the full development of the carpophoroid.
Additionally, we hypothesize that the upregulated β-trefoil-type lectin in E. abortivum that may be important in hyphal recognition may also be cytotoxic toward Armillaria. This type of lectin has sequence homology, as well as putative structural similarity, to the B-subunit of ricin, a toxic protein from the castor bean Ricinus communis (43). An array of β-trefoil-type lectins have been characterized from the sporocarps of the mushroom-forming species Clitocybe nebularis (44), Coprinus cinerea (27), Macrolepiota procera (45), and Boletus edulis (46). Besides being important for nonself recognition, these same mushroom lectins also exhibit entomotoxic activity (47) as well as nematoxic activity (27, 45, 48). Taken together, it is possible that the E. abortivum β-trefoil-type lectins may also function as toxins toward Armillaria. While the E. abortivum transcripts coding for these lectins are not in the highest abundance in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 5), this could be because most of the Armillaria sporocarp tissue is already dead and the potential lethal effects produced by them are no longer necessary.
Chitin is an essential polymer in fungal cell walls (49) and is an important target during mycoparasitic attack (20). Indicative of the importance of chitinases in mycoparasitic interactions, members of the genus Trichoderma, as well as Tolypocladium ophioglossoides and Escovopsis weberi, have an increased number of genes coding for them (19, 50–53). Nine fungal chitinases were detected in the transcriptome of E. abortivum, which is fewer than the 13, 19, 20, and 29 detected in the closely related species Tricholoma matsutake (54), Clitocybe gibba (55), Lyophyllum atratum (56), and Lepista nuda (55), respectively (Fig. 2). Only two of those E. abortivum chitinases were differentially upregulated in the carpophoroid tissue (Fig. 3) and were not abundant in comparison to other genes, suggesting minimal significance at this stage in carpophoroid development. One possibility for this difference in abundance could be the result of the putatively acidic pH in the carpophoroid that we infer based on the high gene expression of oxalate decarboxylases. In C. minitans, chitinase activity is positively correlated with ambient pH ranging from 3 to 8 (57), so it is possible that chitinase activity in E. abortivum will increase after a neutral pH is restored. Another possibility for the low abundance is that most of the Armillaria host tissue was already broken down, reducing the need for chitinase activity.
Some of the putatively mycoparasitism-related genes outlined above were also differentially upregulated by Armillaria in the carpophoroid tissue. These include genes that code for MFS, ABC transporters, chitinases, and secondary metabolite gene clusters (Fig. 3). This suggests that Armillaria may be using many of the same genetic mechanisms to defend itself against parasitism by E. abortivum. Additionally, the degree of expression changes—in both the number of differentially upregulated transcripts and the log fold change (logFC)—between the sporocarp and carpophoroid is much greater in Armillaria than in E. abortivum (Fig. 3 and 4), which could reflect an increase in the level of defense from Armillaria. However, this defense is apparently not enough to overcome the parasitic adaptations of E. abortivum.
Gene and CAZyme content of E. abortivum.
The number of predicted gene models in the transcriptome of E. abortivum was 9,728, which is markedly fewer than the number of gene models in the genomes of its closest sequenced relatives (Fig. 2, middle panel). Additionally, relative to other closely related mushroom species, E. abortivum also exhibits a strong reduction in several gene families encoding CAZymes (Fig. 2, right panel) and contains no cellobiohydrolases, xylanases, or polysaccharide monooxygenases. This finding is consistent with what has been observed in obligate mycoparasites and animal pathogens, which also have reduced CAZyme repertoires compared to fungi that utilize other nutritional strategies, hypothesized to be the result of their highly specialized interactions with their hosts (50, 58, 59). Therefore, it is possible that E. abortivum retained only the CAZymes and accessory genes necessary to interact with Armillaria species. While a genome sequence of E. abortivum will be necessary to confirm this reduction, the BUSCO analysis verified that the E. abortivum transcriptome contains nearly 95% of the core set of eukaryotic genes, which suggests that our transcriptome is relatively complete, and it is unlikely that entire gene families are underrepresented.
Another possibility for the reduction in CAZymes could be explained by a broader nutritional strategy employed by Entoloma species, some of which form ectomycorrhiza-like structures on host plant species (60–62). Ectomycorrhizal species have a marked reduction in CAZymes in comparison to their saprotrophic ancestors (63), which we also observe with Tricholoma matsutake (Fig. 2, right panel). However, microscopic analyses of Entoloma ectomycorrhiza-like structures suggest that some species destroy root meristems and young root cells, suggestive of a more parasitic relationship (60, 61). One explanation is that Entoloma species, in general, are parasites of true ectomycorrhizae. More broadly, other species within the Entolomataceae are suspected mycoparasites, as they have been reported growing in close association with the sporocarps of other species (reviewed in reference 17), including Entoloma parasiticum (=Claudopus parasiticus) and Clitopilus fasciculatus (64, 65). This explanation would also add credence to the evidence that Entolomataceae species are difficult to culture and are slow growing (62). Additional research utilizing genomes and laboratory studies to understand the nutritional strategy employed by this lineage will inform us as to whether fungal parasitism in this group is more common than it is currently understood to be. Lastly, it should be noted that Entoloma species, and E. abortivum in particular, form sclerotia in culture and presumably in soil (14, 17). These resting structures are perhaps a dormancy mechanism in the soil to survive seasonality when host tissue is unavailable. Because the timing and presence of E. abortivum fruitings have been hard to predict, we were not able to observe or acquire a transcriptome for the sclerotia in the field.
Gene content and identity of Armillaria species in this interaction.
The number of predicted gene models in the transcriptome of this Armillaria species was 38,215 (Fig. 2, middle panel). This is substantially greater than all other sequenced Armillaria species, which range from 14,473 to 25,704 gene models (22, 66). However, when we looked for gene models in our transcriptome that belong to known Armillaria species, this reduced the total number of gene models to 29,936 (Fig. 2, middle panel). The excess gene models in the Armillaria transcriptome, compared to reference genomes, likely represent duplicated gene models with splice variants, a common artifact of transcriptome sequencing (67). Additionally, nearly one-quarter of the gene models in the Armillaria sporocarps were from organisms other than Armillaria, including the yeast Kodamaea, highlighting the fact that field-collected sporocarps are not composed of tissue from a single organism. However, none of these contaminating organisms had genes that were both abundant and differentially upregulated that we predicted to play a role in this interaction.
Phylogenomic analysis of the Armillaria transcripts generated in this study suggests that the specific Armillaria species parasitized in this relationship is sister to an A. mellea specimen collected from western Europe (Fig. 7A). An ITS-based phylogenetic analysis shows the Armillaria specimen collected in this study is conspecific with other A. mellea collections from eastern North America (Fig. 7B). Before now, observations of A. mellea sensu stricto fruiting in proximity to carpophoroids (17) hinted that it may be a host to E. abortivum. Here, though, we show for the first time using genomic data that A. mellea sensu stricto can definitively serve as a host for E. abortivum. However, our hypothesis is that this interaction does not appear specific to just A. mellea sensu stricto as Armillaria gallica, Armillaria ostoyae, Armillaria jezoensis, Armillaria sp. Nag. E, and Desarmillaria tabescens have been previously confirmed as hosts in this interaction as well (17, 42, 68). However, a broad geographic sampling of carpophoroids using molecular markers or genomic information could address this question more thoroughly. Interestingly, Armillaria species parasitized by E. abortivum appear to be only those present in eastern North America and eastern Asia (17, 42, 68).
Conclusions.
Data from this study support the hypothesis that E. abortivum is a mycoparasite of Armillaria sporocarps. Three β-trefoil-type lectins are differentially upregulated by E. abortivum in the carpophoroid tissue, and we propose that these lectins mediate recognition with Armillaria sporocarps through binding to an Armillaria-specific galactomannoprotein. We hypothesize that by using oxalate decarboxylase, E. abortivum is likely defending against the secretion of OA by Armillaria. These strategies employed by E. abortivum for recognition and defense are similar to mechanisms utilized by other mycoparasites, suggesting that even distantly related mycoparasites utilize similar genetic mechanisms to mediate mycoparasitic interactions. One weakness of this study is that we were limited to the carpophoroid life stage that was available at the point of collection, which led us to speculate about what is occurring during other stages of mycoparasitism (i.e., sensing the host, initiating the interaction, and killing and consuming the host). Therefore, future studies using culture methods, isotopic analysis, and metatranscriptomics of naturally collected carpophoroids at different life stages (i.e., younger and older carpophoroid specimens) will be necessary to completely tease apart the putative mycoparasitic strategies employed by E. abortivum and the defense responses by the Armillaria host. Finally, given that Armillaria species are pathogens in both natural and agronomic systems, a better understanding of this interaction may lead to the development of biocontrol methods for the control of Armillaria root rot.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample collection, preparation, and sequencing.
Sporocarps of Armillaria sp., E. abortivum, and the mixed-tissue carpophoroids were observed fruiting in proximity to one another on 18 September 2015 within the Baker Woodlot and Rajendra Neotropical Migrant Bird Sanctuary, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (42°42′56.4″ N, 84°28′34.4″ W) (collection accession no. JRH 2446). Entire sporocarps were collected, immediately flash frozen in liquid nitrogen, and subsequently stored at −80°C. At the time of processing, three biological replicates of each of the three tissue types (Armillaria sp. sporocarp, E. abortivum sporocarp, and carpophoroid) were individually ground in liquid N2. Total RNA was then extracted from the ground tissue using the Qiagen RNeasy kit (Qiagen Inc., Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. RNA concentration and quality for each of the samples were assessed on a DeNovix DS-11 FX spectrophotometer (DeNovix Inc., Wilmington, DE, USA) and then shipped directly to the University of Minnesota’s Genomics Center (https://genomics.umn.edu). Three technical replicates were sequenced for each biological replicate. Transcriptomic and metatranscriptomic libraries were constructed with the TruSeq standard total RNA library preparation kit with Ribo-Zero ribosomal reduction following the protocol developed by Schuierer et al. (69). Nucleotide sequencing was performed on the Illumina HiSeq 2500 system (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA), and paired-end RNA sequence reads of 51 bp were generated for further analysis.
De novo transcriptome assembly, transcript abundance estimation, and gene expression analysis.
The quality of the raw reads was assessed using FastQC version 0.11.9 (https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc). The range of the number of reads for each condition is as follows: E. abortivum sporocarps ranged from 10,584,302 to 14,473,328, Armillaria sporocarps ranged from 11,712,320 to 12,431,979, and the carpophoroids (containing reads from both organisms) ranged from 9,146,682 to 12,852,086. Sequencing adaptors were trimmed, and PhiX contaminants were filtered for each sample using BBDuk (https://jgi.doe.gov/data-and-tools/bbtools/bb-tools-user-guide/bbduk-guide/). Prior to transcriptome assembly, k-mer hash sizes were estimated with khmer (70). De novo assemblies were constructed independently for both Armillaria sp. and E. abortivum with Trinity version 2.11.0 (71) using the trimmed reads generated from the respective sporocarp reads. Assembly statistics for both transcriptomes were generated with QUAST version 5 (72), and transcriptome completeness was assessed by determining the percentage of sequenced BUSCOs in each (73).
The results of the de novo transcriptome assemblies were used as references to perform sample-specific expression analysis. The trimmed sporocarp reads from each of the nine replicates were mapped against their respective reference transcriptomes using Bowtie 2 (74) followed by calculation of abundance estimates using RSEM (75). The trimmed carpophoroid reads were also subsequently mapped, following the same protocol as described above, to both the Armillaria sp. and E. abortivum transcriptomes. Because of the close phylogenetic relatedness between these two species, and to filter out poorly aligned reads, we retained only mapped reads for all samples that had a MAPQ (MAPping Quality) value of 30 and above, which is equivalent to reads that have a 99.9% chance of hitting the correct match. The R package edgeR (76) and “trimmed mean of m-value” (TMM) normalization (77) were used to determine differentially upregulated transcripts between (i) Armillaria sporocarps and carpophoroids and (ii) E. abortivum sporocarps and carpophoroids. Transcripts were considered differentially upregulated if they had a logFC of two or greater and a false-discovery rate (FDR)-adjusted P value, or q value, of <0.05. All statistical analyses for the packages listed above were conducted using R version 4.0.3 (http://www.r-project.org/).
We used SAMtools (78) to determine the number of reads from the carpophoroids that mapped to our reference transcriptomes of E. abortivum and our particular Armillaria species. To understand whether the number of reads that mapped to the carpophoroids differed significantly between each fungal species, we performed an F test of equality of variances and then a two-tailed t test assuming unequal variance with a P value of <0.05 denoting significance.
Sporocarp transcriptome and carpophoroid metatranscriptome annotation.
We annotated the Armillaria sp. and E. abortivum transcriptomes using Trinotate version 3.2 (79). Briefly, the transcripts were translated to coding protein sequences using TransDecoder version 5.5.0 (http://transdecoder.github.io) following identification of the longest open reading frames. To identify the most likely homologous sequence data, we used blastx on the transcripts and blastp on the predicted protein sequences (80). Using the predicted protein sequences, we also ran an HMMER (81) search against the PFAM database (82) to identify conserved domains that might be suggestive of function. We also compared these results to currently curated annotation databases such as Gene Ontology (GO) (83) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) (84–86). We used dbCAN2 (87) to annotate the CAZymes present in both species and compared their CAZy content to other closely related Agaricales species (22, 54–56), along with antiSMASH version 5.0 (88) to identify transcripts that belong to secondary metabolite gene clusters for both Armillaria and E. abortivum.
Finally, because this work was based off de novo transcriptome assemblies, there was the possibility that transcripts from contaminating organisms, including insects, yeasts, and other fungi, were also present and might be confounding the results. We approached this issue multiple ways. First, we extracted all internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions from both transcriptomes, including the regions 18S, ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, and 28S, using ITSx (89), and identified the origin of those sequences. To verify the number of mapped reads that represent rRNA, we also calculated the proportion of reads that mapped to the transcripts that contained the ITS sequences to the total number of mapped reads. Second, because high-quality genome assemblies of Armillaria exist (22, 66), we used Exonerate (90) to determine how many of the gene models in our Armillaria transcriptome are orthologs of A. gallica—the Armillaria species with the largest number of known gene models. Finally, all genes that we report on as important to this interaction were manually verified to be from the target organism—Armillaria or E. abortivum—using the NCBI blastx tool (80) against the nonredundant protein sequences database and confirming a hit from the Physalacriaceae or Entolomataceae/Lyophyllaceae, respectively.
Phylogenetic analysis of Armillaria transcripts.
In order to identify the specific species of Armillaria associated in this relationship, we identified BUSCOs (73) from the transcriptome of our Armillaria sporocarps along with other Armillaria and Physalacriaceae species with previously sequenced genomes (22, 66, 91, 92). We randomly selected 100 BUSCOs to reconstruct a phylogenomic tree from the six Armillaria specimens (22, 66), Guyanagaster necrorhizus (92), and Cylindrobasidium torrendii (91), which served as the outgroup. Protein-coding sequences were aligned using MAFFT version 7 (93), and noninformative sites and nonaligning regions were trimmed with Gblocks (94). The 100 BUSCOs were concatenated into a supermatrix with 64,436 sites. This supermatrix was used to infer a species tree and branch support using RAxML-NG (95), using a partitioned WAG+G model, where each data partition represented an individual BUSCO.
To expand on the phylogenomic analysis above, we used the representative Armillaria ITS sequence obtained from ITSx, and given the close relationship of our Armillaria species to A. mellea, we pulled all A. mellea ITS sequences from GenBank that included associated location metadata (96–110) (see Table S1 in the supplemental material). These sequences were aligned using MAFFT version 7 (93), with refinements to the alignment performed manually. RAxML-NG (95) was used to reconstruct this phylogeny. Taxa used to root this phylogeny included Armillaria gemina, Armillaria sinapina, Armillaria puiggarii, and Armillaria luteobubalina—all members of the sister lineage to A. mellea fide (16).
Data and code availability.
The raw reads and assembled transcriptomes generated during this study have been deposited in NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus and are accessible through GEO series accession number GSE183699 or under the NCBI BioProject accession no. PRJNA761704. All other associated data, including analysis code and information on voucher collections, are available at https://github.com/HerrLab/Koch_Arma-Ento_2021.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We give special thanks to Ben Lemmond and Eva Skific for providing photos of this system and to Greg Bonito at Michigan State University for generously storing sporocarp and carpophoroid tissue until we were able to transport the tissue to our laboratory. We also thank three anonymous reviewers who provided feedback and comments on the initial submission of the manuscript.
This work was completed using the Holland Computing Center of the University of Nebraska, which receives support from the Nebraska Research Initiative. This research was directly supported by startup funding from the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division and the University of Nebraska Office of Research and Economic Development. Additionally, J.R.H. acknowledges funding from the U.S. National Air and Space Administration (grant 80NSSC17K0737), the U.S. National Science Foundation (EPSCoR grant 1557417), and the U.S. National Institute of Justice (grant 2017-IJ-CX-0025), all of which indirectly supported this research through the support of research in his laboratory. Funding agencies had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
J.R.H. initiated the work and sampled field collections; R.A.K. extracted RNA from all the tissue samples and performed the laboratory work; R.A.K. and J.R.H. processed the experimental data, analyzed the data, designed the figures, and drafted the manuscript.
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