Variation in transport explains polymorphism of histidine and urocanate utilization in a natural Pseudomonas population.
Variation in transport explains polymorphism of histidine and urocanate utilization in a natural Pseudomonas population.
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运输的变化解释了自然假单胞菌群体中组氨酸和尿刊酸利用的多态性。
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
5.1
通讯作者:
P. Rainey
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作者:
Xue‐Xian Zhang;Hao Chang;Sieu L. Tran;J. Gauntlett;G. Cook;P. Rainey
Phenotypic variation is a fundamental requirement for evolution by natural selection. While evidence of phenotypic variation in natural populations abounds, its genetic basis is rarely understood. Here we report variation in the ability of plant-colonizing Pseudomonas to utilize histidine, and its derivative, urocanate, as sole sources of carbon and nitrogen. From a population of 164 phyllosphere-colonizing Pseudomonas strains, 77% were able to utilize both histidine and urocanate (His(+) , Uro(+) ) as growth substrates, whereas the remainder could utilize histidine, but not urocanate (His(+) , Uro(-) ), or vice versa (His(-) , Uro(+) ). An in silico analysis of the hut locus, which determines capacity to utilize both histidine and urocanate, from genome-sequenced Pseudomonas strains, showed significant variation in the number of putative transporters. To identify transporter genes specific for histidine and urocanate, we focused on a single genotype of Pseudomonas fluorescens, strain SBW25, which is capable of utilizing both substrates. Site-directed mutagenesis, combined with [(3) H]histidine transport assays, shows that hutT(u) encodes a urocanate-specific transporter; hutT(h) encodes the major high-affinity histidine transporter; and hutXWV encodes an ABC-type transporter that plays a minor role in histidine uptake. Introduction of cloned copies of hutT(h) and hutT(u) from SBW25 into strains incapable of utilizing either histidine, or urocanate, complemented the defect, demonstrating a lack of functional transporters in these strains. Taken together our data show that variation in transport systems, and not in metabolic genes, explains a naturally occurring phenotypic polymorphism.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.95.7.3495
发表时间:
1998-03-31
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Liu, PQ;Ames, GFL
通讯作者:
Ames, GFL
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
HORTON, RM;HUNT, HD;PEASE, LR
通讯作者:
PEASE, LR
影响因子:
10.5
作者:
C. A. Doige;G. Ames
通讯作者:
C. A. Doige;G. Ames
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Dean,AM
通讯作者:
Dean,AM