FEMS Microbiology Letters (2019) 366 (12 - fnz149)

Giuliano Degrassi, Valentina Mortato, Giulia Devescovi, Rodrigo Hoshino, Tiyakhon Chatnaparat, Milan Kojic, Valeria Carpentieri-Pipolo, Youfu Zhao and Vittorio Venturi (2019)
Many plant pathogenic Pseudomonas savastanoi pv glycinea isolates possess an inactive quorum sensing ahlR gene via a point mutation
FEMS Microbiology Letters 366 (12 - fnz149)
Abstract: Many plant bacterial pathogens monitor their group behaviour and their population density via production of N-acyl homoserine lactone signals which regulate the expression of several genes via the LuxI/R homologs. This regulatory network, termed quorum sensing (QS), is present in the soybean bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas savastanoi pv glycinea (Psg). The sequenced genomes of two strains of Psg, race 4 and B076, contain an N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) based LuxI/R QS system named AhlI/R. While studying the QS system of Psg strains race 4 and B076 isolated in USA, LMG5066 in New Zealand and IBSBF355 in Brazil, we found that B076, LMG5066 and IBSBF355 possess a point mutation in the ahlR gene that causes a frameshift resulting in a truncated AhlR protein. Psg race 4 does not possess the mutation in ahlR and the QS system is functional. The same mutation in the ahlR gene was found to be also present in 9 of 19 Psg strains isolated from diseased soybean in Illinois. Phenotypic analysis of strains showed that swarming motility is repressed whereas phosphate solubilisation was activated by QS in Psg. Analysing the secretome, we also found that four proteins were under QS regulation.
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Database assignments for author(s): Youfu Zhao, Vittorio Venturi

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Pseudomonas savastanoi	Soybean (Glycine max)	New Zealand