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Construction of HPV52L1 Expression Vector

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Escherichia coli strain TOP 10 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and the destination vector pPZP200/Ubi-HA-ccdB-Nos-35S-hpt-tml (Chiang et al., 2017) were respectively used for gene construction and transformation. Briefly, HPV52L1 was constructed by the Invitrogen pENTR/D-TOPO Expression Vector System ® for plant transformation. HPV-52L1 was amplified with the above-described paired primers (HPV52L1-5F and -3R) from the RT-PCR using high-fidelity DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, USA). HPV52L1 fragments were amplified to 1.59 kb, in which water was used as a negative control. The PCR product was purified using the SNAP Gel Purification Kit (Invitrogen), ligated to the pENTR TOPO vector, and transformed into TOP10. After pENTR cloning, the constructed plasmid, named pENTR-OsHPV52L1 (Supplemental Figure S1A), was cloned into the destination vector, pPZP200/Ubi-HA-ccdB-Nos-35S-hpt-tml. After Spectinomycin screening of the colony, plasmid insertion was confirmed by PCR, and DNA sequences of the pPZP200/Ubi-HA-HPV52L1-Nos (pPZP200-OsHPV52L1) clones were confirmed (Supplemental Figure S1B).
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Escherichia coli and Ustilago maydis Strains

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The Escherichia coli strain Top10 (Life technologies) and BL21(DE3)pLysS (Promega) were used for cloning purposes and for expression of recombinant Ros1 protein respectively. U. maydis strains used in this study are listed in S5 Table, they are derivates of haploid strains FB1 and FB2 [77 (link)] or AB33 [39 (link)]. Cells were grown in liquid YEPSL (0.4% yeast extract, 0.4% peptone, 2% sucrose) at 28°C on a rotary shaker at 220 rpm. For virulence assays, compatible haploid strains were grown separately in YEPSL to an OD600 of 1.0, transferred to the same volume of sterile water and mixed in equal amounts prior to injection into maize seedlings.
For premature ros1 expression studies, AB33 and strains derived from AB33 were grown in complete medium (CM) [78 ] supplemented with glucose (2%) to an OD600 of 0.5. Cells were collected by centrifugation, washed with H2O and resuspended in nitrate minimal medium (NM) [78 ] containing arabinose (2%) as sole carbon source. Cells were subsequently grown for 12h for microscopic observation. To induce ros1 after the switch to filamentous growth, AB33 or AB33 derived strains were incubated for 6 h in NM + glucose and then shifted to NM + arabinose for 6 h. All chemicals used for media preparation were of analytical grade and were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich.
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Fission Yeast Strain Selection Protocol

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All the S. pombe strains used in this study are shown in Table 1. Selection for strains containing telomere cassettes was performed in Edinburgh minimal medium with sodium glutamate substituted for ammonium chloride (EMMG) without uracil and with appropriate amino acid supplements and 100 μg/ml HygroGold (InvivoGen) (81 (link)). Nonselective growth of strains bearing the telomere cassettes was done in EMMG with adenine, histidine, uracil, leucine, lysine, and arginine (EMMG plus AHULKR) and without hygromycin. Preparation of 10 mM ahTET stock and plates was performed as described previously (34 (link)). 5-Fluoroorotic acid (5-FOA) plates were yeast nitrogen base plates with 1 mg/ml 5-FOA (Toronto Research Chemicals, Inc.) (http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~forsburg/drugs.html) and with the appropriate supplements. All recombinant DNA procedures were carried out in NEB 5-alpha (New England BioLabs) and TOP10 (Life Technologies) competent cells.
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Streptococcus mutans Growth and Escherichia coli Propagation

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Streptococcus mutans UA159 was routinely cultured in Todd–Hewitt broth (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA) supplemented with 0.3% yeast extract (BD Biosciences) (THY). For RNA isolation, S. mutans were grown in chemically defined medium (CDM) (Terleckyj et al., 1975 (link); Ajdic & Pham, 2007 (link)) supplemented with glucose or sucrose at 0.5% concentration. Ultrapure sugars from Sigma-Aldrich (St Louis, MO) were used in this study. Escherichia coli strains Top10 (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY), DH5α (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and BL21 (DE3) (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) were propagated in LB Broth (BD Biosciences). The strains used in this study are listed in Table 1. For S. mutans antibiotic selection, kanamycin (Kan) at a concentration of 800 μg ml−1 or erythromycin (Erm) at 5 μg ml−1 was used. Streptomycin (Str) (Sigma-Aldrich) was used at a concentration of 50 μg ml−1 for E. coli DH5α and BL21. Kanamycin was used at a concentration of 30 μg ml−1 for E. coli Top10 selection when needed.
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CRISPR Vector Construction for SPATA31 Targeting

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10 μg of pX260 or pX330 were digested with BbsI (NEB) for 3 h at 37 °C. Digested pX260 or pX330 vectors were purified by QIAEXII Extraction Kit (Qiagen) according to manufacturers recommendation. Targeting guide RNA sequence specific to exon1 of SPATA31 genes was designed by using the CRISPR design tool (crispr.mit.edu). Among 32 possible targeting guide RNAs, “Fm_ex1_(GATATCCACACCCATGGTG)” was selected as a guide RNA to avoid off-target possibilities. Among 98 possible target sides of Fm_ex_1, based on the CRISPR Design tool, there were only three off-targets within the exonic region outside of SPATA31 genes with very low targeting score (less than 0.2). Complementary oligo-nucleotides representing the target sequence were annealed and phosphorylated according to [27 (link)]. The ligation reaction was treated for 30 min with PlasmidSafe exonuclease (Epicenter) to prevent unwanted recombination products after the ligation reaction (Quick ligation kit (NEB)) of purified vector and phosphorylated and annealed oligos. 5 μL of the ligation reaction was transformed to Top10 or Stbl3 competent cells (Life Technologies; GIBCO). Positive clones were verified by sequencing and DNA was isolated using the Maxiprep plasmid DNA preparation kit (Qiagen).
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Culturing Mammalian and Bacterial Cell Lines

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HeLa, COS-7, HEp-2, HEK293 and HEK293T were cultured at 37°C with 5% CO2 in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM, Life Technologies) containing 10% fetal calf serum (Gemini Bio-Products, West Sacramento, CA), 100 U/ml penicillin, and 1 µg/ml streptomycin. CHO-K1 was cultured in F-12K Medium (Invitrogen) containing 2 mM L-glutamine and 1500 mg/L sodium bicarbonate. The E. coli strains DH5α, TOP10 (Life Technologies), BL21(λDE3) and XL-10 Gold (Agilent technologies) were grown at 37°C in Luria-Bertani (LB) liquid or agar medium containing either 100 µg/ml ampicillin or 50 µg/ml kanamycin.
Restriction enzymes and custom oligonucleotides used for cloning were purchased from New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA) and Integrated DNA Technologies (Coralville, IA), respectively. All novel plasmid inserts were confirmed by DNA sequencing carried out at the Northwestern University Genomics Core Facility. Primers and plasmids used are documented in Tables S1 and S2, respectively.
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Culturing Streptococcus pyogenes and Escherichia coli

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S. pyogenes strains were selected from the stock culture collection of the Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry (Osaka, Japan) and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University of Rostock (Rostock, Germany) (Köller et al., 2010; Murakami et al., 2002). A serotype M49 strain 591 was isolated from a subject with skin infection. S. pyogenes clinical isolates and mutant strains were cultured in Todd‐Hewitt broth (Becton Dickinson) supplemented with 0.2% yeast extract (Becton Dickinson) (THY medium) at ≤37°C in an ambient atmosphere. The E. coli strains XL10‐gold (Stratagene) and TOP10 (Life Technologies) served as hosts for derivatives of plasmids pSET4s, pAT18 and pMSP3545 (Trieu‐Cuot et al., 1991; Bryan et al., 2000; Takamatsu et al., 2001). E. coli strains were cultured in Luria‐Bertani (LB) medium at 37°C. L. lactis strain NZ9000 was cultured in M17 medium (Gibco) supplemented with 0.5% glucose (WAKO) (MG medium). For the selection and maintenance of mutant strains, antibiotics were used to supplement bacterial cultures at the following concentrations: ampicillin (Sigma‐Aldrich), 100 µg/ml for E. coli; spectinomycin (Wako), 100 µg/ml for both E. coli and S. pyogenes; and erythromycin (Sigma‐Aldrich), 300 µg/ml for E. coli and 1 µg/ml for L. lactis and S. pyogenes.
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Murine Melanoma Cell Lines: Metastatic Potential

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Two subtypes of murine melanoma cell line; B16F1 with low- and B16F10 with high metastatic potential (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA) were cultured in advanced minimum essential medium (AMEM, Gibco, Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY, USA) supplemented with 5 % Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS, Life Technologies), 10 mM/l L-glutamine (Life Technologies), 100 U/ml penicillin (Grünenthal, Aachen, Germany) and 50 mg/ml gentamicin (Krka, Novo mesto, Slovenia) in a 5 % CO2 humidified incubator at 37°C.
Plasmid EGFP-N1 (pEGFP, BD Biosciences Clontech, Palo Alto, CA), encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein under the control of the CMV promoter, was used in the study. It was amplified in a competent Escherichia coli (TOP10; Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and then isolated and purified with JetStar Endotoxin-free Plasmid Purification Kit (Genomed, FL, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Quantity and quality of purified pEGFP were determined using spectrophotometer (Epoch Microplate spectrophotometer, Take3™ microvolume plate, Biotek, Bad Friedrichshall, Germany) and by agarose gel electrophoresis, respectively. Plasmid was diluted in endotoxin free water to concentration of 1 mg/ml.
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Bacterial Cultivation and Transformation Protocols

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If not stated otherwise, Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) (Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, USA) and TOP10 (Life Technologies GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany) were cultivated at 37°C in LB (lysogeny broth) medium [35 (link)], A. tumefaciens GV3101 [36 (link)] and derivatives were grown at 30°C in YEB (yeast extract broth) and Xcv strain 85–10 [37 (link)] and derivatives in NYG (nutrient yeast glycerol) [38 (link)] supplemented with appropriate antibiotics. Plasmids were introduced into E. coli and A. tumefaciens by electroporation, and into Xcv by conjugation using pRK2013 as helper plasmid in triparental matings [39 (link)].
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Bacterial Cultivation and Genetic Manipulation

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Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) (Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, USA) and TOP10 (Life Technologies GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany) were cultivated at 37 °C in LB (lysogeny broth) medium41 (link), A. tumefaciens GV310142 (link) and derivatives at 30 °C in YEB (yeast extract broth) and Xcv strain 85-103 and derivatives on NYG (nutrient yeast glycerol) agar plates43 (link) supplemented with appropriate antibiotics. Plasmids were introduced into E. coli and A. tumefaciens by electroporation, and into Xcv by conjugation using pRK2013 as helper plasmid in triparental matings44 (link).
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