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      Comparative Genomics of Early-Diverging Mushroom-Forming Fungi Provides Insights into the Origins of Lignocellulose Decay Capabilities.

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          Evolution of lignocellulose decomposition was one of the most ecologically important innovations in fungi. White-rot fungi in the Agaricomycetes (mushrooms and relatives) are the most effective microorganisms in degrading both cellulose and lignin components of woody plant cell walls (PCW). However, the precise evolutionary origins of lignocellulose decomposition are poorly understood, largely because certain early-diverging clades of Agaricomycetes and its sister group, the Dacrymycetes, have yet to be sampled, or have been undersampled, in comparative genomic studies. Here, we present new genome sequences of ten saprotrophic fungi, including members of the Dacrymycetes and early-diverging clades of Agaricomycetes (Cantharellales, Sebacinales, Auriculariales, and Trechisporales), which we use to refine the origins and evolutionary history of the enzymatic toolkit of lignocellulose decomposition. We reconstructed the origin of ligninolytic enzymes, focusing on class II peroxidases (AA2), as well as enzymes that attack crystalline cellulose. Despite previous reports of white rot appearing as early as the Dacrymycetes, our results suggest that white-rot fungi evolved later in the Agaricomycetes, with the first class II peroxidases reconstructed in the ancestor of the Auriculariales and residual Agaricomycetes. The exemplars of the most ancient clades of Agaricomycetes that we sampled all lack class II peroxidases, and are thus concluded to use a combination of plesiomorphic and derived PCW degrading enzymes that predate the evolution of white rot.

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          Journal
          Mol. Biol. Evol.
          Molecular biology and evolution
          Oxford University Press (OUP)
          1537-1719
          0737-4038
          Apr 2016
          : 33
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, BRC-HAS, Szeged, Hungary lnagy@brc.hu dhibbett@clarku.edu.
          [2 ] US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA.
          [3 ] Department of Biology, Microbial Ecology Group, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
          [4 ] Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
          [5 ] Museum of Natural History, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway.
          [6 ] Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
          [7 ] US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA Department of Microbiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
          [8 ] National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
          [9 ] Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte De Recherche 1136 Université Henri Poincaré, Interactions Arbres/Micro-Organismes, Champenoux, France.
          [10 ] Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA lnagy@brc.hu dhibbett@clarku.edu.
          Article
          msv337
          10.1093/molbev/msv337
          26659563
          95e2e55f-01ad-457b-927e-26f7d02cb9c2
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