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. 2023:2610:137-147.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2895-9_12.

The Rhizopus Holobiont: A Model to Decipher Fungal-Bacterial-Viral Symbioses

Astrid N Espino-Vázquez  1 , Gonzalo Córdova-López  1 , J Francisco Cabrera-Rangel  1 , J Valeria Mendoza-Servín  1 , Laila P Partida-Martínez  2
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The Rhizopus Holobiont: A Model to Decipher Fungal-Bacterial-Viral Symbioses

Astrid N Espino-Vázquez et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2023.

Abstract

Rhizopus microsporus is an early-diverging fungal species that inhabits the soil, is used for the fermentation of diverse Asian and African foods, and can be a pathogen of plants, animals, and humans.Toxin-producing strains of R. microsporus live in symbiosis with Gram-negative betaproteobacteria from the genus Mycetohabitans (Burkholderia sensu lato). These bacterial endosymbionts increase the metabolic plasticity of the fungal holobiont by producing the "mycotoxins," control their asexual reproduction, and influence their sexual success. Recently, we identified two viruses of the genus Narnavirus in some R. microsporus strains that harbor Mycetohabitans. By eliminating bacteria and/or viruses from host R. microsporus strains, we have been able to study the role of these symbionts in fungal biology. Remarkably, the absence of these bacterial and viral symbionts decreases sexual reproduction. In this chapter, the method developed to eliminate and genotype the Narnavirus RmNV-20S and RmNV-23S in R. microsporus is described in detail.

Keywords: Antiviral agents; Burkholderia sensu lato; Genotyping; Mucorales; Narnaviridae; Narnavirus; Viral elimination; ssRNA viruses.

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