Left panel shows a circular phylogeny with different clusters highlighted by different colors. The highlighted clusters are: Gamma-crystallin-like, Ribotoxin/ribonuclease, Match to Zymoseptoria effector 8acx, CFEM-like, NTF2/SnoaL-like, Thaumatin-like, Lectin-like, Match to Trichoderma effector Tsp1. Right panel shows structural models of two proteins from the lichen aligned to the models of two effectors (one from Zymoseptoria, one from Trichoderma) that are quite similar.
In the lichen secretome, we identified a large group of KP4-like proteins, many symbiosis-upregulated. These and other secreted proteins are similar to known #effectors from plant pathogens, suggesting that similar mechanisms are used in lichen symbioses 5/7