PAT1 — Verticillium dahliae

Summary

VdPAT1 (VDAG_09905) on chromosome DS572723 of Verticillium dahliae encodes a Pat1-like mRNA decay factor domain-containing protein with RNA-binding activity. The gene is associated with P-body assembly, deadenylylation-dependent decapping, mRNA processing, and regulation of translation, and localises to P-bodies, cytoplasm, cytosol and nucleus. It is linked to jasmonic acid signalling, chitin anabolism, nucleotide-sugar metabolism and homologous recombination. Associations with traits include germination rate, increased virulence, increased thermotolerance, altered cell cycle progression, absent mating efficiency, abnormal prion inheritance, and altered nucleophagy and pexophagy. The gene is also linked to vegetative growth, fermentative metabolism, pseudohyphal growth, and responses to hydrostatic pressure and chemical compound excretion.