Discrete regions of the sensor protein virA determine the strain-specific ability of Agrobacterium to agroinfect maize.
Discrete regions of the sensor protein virA determine the strain-specific ability of Agrobacterium to agroinfect maize.
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传感器蛋白 virA 的离散区域决定了农杆菌农杆菌感染玉米的菌株特异性能力。
DOI:
10.1094/mpmi.1997.10.2.221
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1997
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Nester,EW
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作者:
Heath,JD;Boulton,MI;Raineri,DM;Doty,SL;Mushegian,AR;Charles,TC;Davies,JW;Nester,EW
The ability ofAgrobacteriumstrains to infect transformation-recalcitrant maize plants has been shown to be determined mainly by thevirAlocus, implicatingvirgene induction as the major factor influencing maize infection. In this report, we further explore the roles ofvirinduction-associated bacterial factors in maize infection using the technique of agroinfection. The Ti plasmid andvirAsource are shown to be important in determining the ability of a strain to infect maize, and the monosaccharide binding protein ChvE is absolutely required for maize agroinfection. The linker domain of VirAC58from an agroinfection-competent strain, C58, is sufficient to convert VirAA6of a nonagroinfecting strain, A348, to agroinfection competence. The periplasmic domain of VirAC58is also able to confer a moderate level of agroinfection competence to VirAA6. In addition, the VirAA6protein from A348 is agroinfection competent when removed from its cognate Ti plasmid background and placed in a pTiC58 background. The presence of a pTiA6-encoded, VirAA6-specific inhibitor is hypothesized and examined.