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After a brief period of biotrophic growth, the anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum (Sacc. et Mgn.) Bri et Cav. develops extensively in bean leaf cells, causing severe wall alterations and death of the host protoplast. Aplysia gonad lectin, a polygalacturonic acid-binding agglutinin, was complexed to gold and used to study the extent of pectin breakdown during the necrotrophic phase of the infection process. In view of its specific binding properties for the endopolygalacturonase produced by C. lindemuthianum, a polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein isolated from bean cell walls was successfully tagged with gold particles and used for localizing the sites of enzyme accumulation in infected host tissues. The basal level of endopolygalacturonase produced by C. lindemuthianum grown in culture was found to increase severalfold when the fungus developed in host plant tissues. The enzyme was able to diffuse freely in the host cell wall, causing drastic degradation of the pectic material of primary walls and middle lamella matrices. The enzymatic alteration of plant cell walls was accompanied by the release of pectic fragments and by the accumulation of pectic molecules at specific sites, such as intercellular spaces and aggregated cytoplasm of infected host cells. The occurrence of pectic molecules at those sites where fungal growth is likely to be restricted is discussed in relation to their origin and their implication in the plant's defense system.
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