. CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.The copyright holder for this preprint . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/350785 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online 17 Abstract
18Cochliobolus heterostrophus is a crucial pathogenic fungus that causes southern 19 corn leaf blight (SCLB) in maize worldwide, however, the virulence mechanism of 20 the dominant race O remains unclear. In this report, the single-cell level of pathogen 21 tissue at three infection stages were collected from the host interaction-situ, and were 33 the pathogenic circRNA and host miRNA was predicted. An important exon-intron 34 circRNA Che-cirC2410 combines informatics characteristics above, and highly 35 expressed in the DY strain. Che-cirC2410 initiate from the pseudogene chhtt, which 36 doesn`t translate genetic code into protein. In-situ hybridization tells the sub-cellular 37 localization of Che-cirC2410 include pathogen`s mycelium, periplasm, and the 38 diseased host tissues. The target of Che-cirC2410 was predicted to be zma-miR399e-39 5P, and the interaction between noncoding RNAs was proved. More, the expression 40 of zma-miR399e-5P exhibited a negative correlation to Che-cirC2410 in vivo. The 41 deficiency of Che-circ2410 decreased the race O virulence. The host resistance to 42 SCLB was weakened when zma-miR399e-5P was silenced. Thus, a novel circRNA-43 type effector and its resistance related miRNA target are proposed cautiously in this 44 report. These findings enriched the pathogen-host dialogue by using noncoding (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.The copyright holder for this preprint . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/350785 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online 50 heterostrophus) is not optimistic in Asia, however we have limit knowledge about the 51 infection mechanism of the dominant C.heterostrophus race O. We take full 52 advantage of the ideal C.heterostrophus genome database, laser capture 53 microdissection and single-cell level RNA sequencing. Hence, we could avert the 54 artificial influence such as medium, and profile the real gene mobilization strategy in 55 the infection. The results of coding RNA section were accessible, virulence related 56 genes (such as the signal transduction, PKS, SSP) were detected in RNA-seq,which 57 accord with previous reports. However, the results of noncoding RNA was astonished, 58 2279 circular RNAs (circRNA) and 169 long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) were 59 revealed in our results. Generally, the function of noncoding RNA was hypothesized 60 in single species, but we boldly guess that the function of circRNA is rather 61 complicated in the pathogen-host interaction. Finally, the circRNA in-situ 62 hybridization (ISH) demonstrate the secretion of pathogen circRNA into the host 63 tissue. By bioinformatic prediction, we found a sole microRNA target, and prove...