Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides

Evolved resistance to fungicides is a major problem limiting our ability to control agricultural, medical and veterinary pathogens and is frequently associated with substitutions in the amino acid sequence of the target protein. The convention for describing amino acid substitutions is to cite the w...

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Main Authors: Mair, W., Lopez-Ruiz, F., Stammler, G., Clark, W., Burnett, F., Hollomon, D., Ishii, H., Thind, T., Brown, J., Fraaije, B., Cools, H., Shaw, M., Fillinger, S., Walker, A., Mellado, E., Schnabel, G., Mehl, A., Oliver, Richard
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Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20464
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author Mair, W.
Lopez-Ruiz, F.
Stammler, G.
Clark, W.
Burnett, F.
Hollomon, D.
Ishii, H.
Thind, T.
Brown, J.
Fraaije, B.
Cools, H.
Shaw, M.
Fillinger, S.
Walker, A.
Mellado, E.
Schnabel, G.
Mehl, A.
Oliver, Richard
author_facet Mair, W.
Lopez-Ruiz, F.
Stammler, G.
Clark, W.
Burnett, F.
Hollomon, D.
Ishii, H.
Thind, T.
Brown, J.
Fraaije, B.
Cools, H.
Shaw, M.
Fillinger, S.
Walker, A.
Mellado, E.
Schnabel, G.
Mehl, A.
Oliver, Richard
author_sort Mair, W.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Evolved resistance to fungicides is a major problem limiting our ability to control agricultural, medical and veterinary pathogens and is frequently associated with substitutions in the amino acid sequence of the target protein. The convention for describing amino acid substitutions is to cite the wild-type amino acid, the codon number and the new amino acid, using the one-letter amino acid code. It has frequently been observed that orthologous amino acid mutations have been selected in different species by fungicides from the same mode of action class, but the amino acids have different numbers. These differences in numbering arise from the different lengths of the proteins in each species. The purpose of the present paper is to propose a system for unifying the labelling of amino acids in fungicide target proteins. To do this we have produced alignments between fungicide target proteins of relevant species fitted to a well-studied ‘archetype’ species. Orthologous amino acids in all species are then assigned numerical ‘labels’ based on the position of the amino acid in the archetype protein.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-204642017-09-13T13:49:39Z Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides Mair, W. Lopez-Ruiz, F. Stammler, G. Clark, W. Burnett, F. Hollomon, D. Ishii, H. Thind, T. Brown, J. Fraaije, B. Cools, H. Shaw, M. Fillinger, S. Walker, A. Mellado, E. Schnabel, G. Mehl, A. Oliver, Richard Evolved resistance to fungicides is a major problem limiting our ability to control agricultural, medical and veterinary pathogens and is frequently associated with substitutions in the amino acid sequence of the target protein. The convention for describing amino acid substitutions is to cite the wild-type amino acid, the codon number and the new amino acid, using the one-letter amino acid code. It has frequently been observed that orthologous amino acid mutations have been selected in different species by fungicides from the same mode of action class, but the amino acids have different numbers. These differences in numbering arise from the different lengths of the proteins in each species. The purpose of the present paper is to propose a system for unifying the labelling of amino acids in fungicide target proteins. To do this we have produced alignments between fungicide target proteins of relevant species fitted to a well-studied ‘archetype’ species. Orthologous amino acids in all species are then assigned numerical ‘labels’ based on the position of the amino acid in the archetype protein. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20464 10.1002/ps.4301 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. fulltext
spellingShingle Mair, W.
Lopez-Ruiz, F.
Stammler, G.
Clark, W.
Burnett, F.
Hollomon, D.
Ishii, H.
Thind, T.
Brown, J.
Fraaije, B.
Cools, H.
Shaw, M.
Fillinger, S.
Walker, A.
Mellado, E.
Schnabel, G.
Mehl, A.
Oliver, Richard
Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title_full Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title_fullStr Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title_full_unstemmed Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title_short Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
title_sort proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20464