A dual role of amino acids from Sesbania rostrata seed exudates in the chemotaxis response of Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571
A dual role of amino acids from Sesbania rostrata seed exudates in the chemotaxis response of Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571
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田菁种子分泌物氨基酸在固氮根瘤菌 ORS571 趋化反应中的双重作用
DOI:
10.1094/mpmi-03-19-0059-r
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Haishuan Sun
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作者:
Xiaolin Liu;Zhihong Xie;Yixuan Wang;Yu Sun;Xiaoxiao Dang;Haishuan Sun
Azorhizobium caulinodansORS571 can induce nodule formation on the roots and the stems of its host legume,Sesbania rostrata. Plant exudates are essential in the dialogue between microbes and their host plant and, in particular, amino acids can play an important role in the chemotactic response of bacteria. Histidine, arginine, and aspartate, which are the three most abundant amino acids present inS. rostrataseed exudates, behave as chemoattractants towardA. caulinodans. A position-specific-iterated BLAST analysis of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) (chemoreceptors) in the genome ofA. caulinodanswas performed. Among the 43 MCP homologs, two MCPs harboring a dCache domain were selected as possible cognate amino acid MCPs. After analysis of relative gene expression levels and construction of a gene-deleted mutant strain, one of them, AZC_0821 designed as TlpH, was confirmed to be responsible for the chemotactic response to the three amino acids. In addition, it was found that these three amino acids can also influence chemotaxis ofA. caulinodansindependently of the chemosensory receptors, by being involved in the increase of the expression level of severalcheandflagenes involved in the chemotaxis pathway and flagella synthesis. Thus, the contribution of amino acids present in seed exudates is directly related to the role as chemoattractants and indirectly related to the role in the regulation of expression of key genes involved in chemotaxis and motility. This “dual role” is likely to influence the formation of biofilms byA. caulinodansand the host root colonization properties of this bacterium.