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Mutants of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens virA gene exhibiting acetosyringone-independent expression of the vir regulon. 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
R G Ankenbauer E A Best C A Palanca E W Nester 《Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI》1991,4(4):400-406
Hydroxylamine-induced mutations in the virA gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens that do not require the plant phenolic-inducing compound acetosyringone for vir regulon induction were isolated. The isolation was based on the activation of both virB::lacZ and virE::cat fusions by mutant virA loci in the absence of acetosyringone. Three of these virA(Ais) (acetosyringone-independent signaling) mutants were characterized. All three mutants expressed a virB::lacZ fusion at high levels in the absence of acetosyringone. One virA (Ais) mutant, virA112, exhibited vir gene expression in the absence of inducing monosaccharides and acidic growth conditions, both of which are normally required for vir gene induction. The phenotype of the virA112 mutant resulted from a glycine to glutamic acid change near His-474, the site of VirA autophosphorylation. 相似文献
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Reconstitution of acetosyringone-mediated Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence gene expression in the heterologous host Escherichia coli
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The ability to utilize Escherichia coli as a heterologous system in which to study the regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence genes and the mechanism of transfer DNA (T-DNA) transfer would provide an important tool to our understanding and manipulation of these processes. We have previously reported that the rpoA gene encoding the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase is required for the expression of lacZ gene under the control of virB promoter (virBp::lacZ) in E. coli containing a constitutively active virG gene [virG(Con)]. Here we show that an RpoA hybrid containing the N-terminal 247 residues from E. coli and the C-terminal 89 residues from A. tumefaciens was able to significantly express virBp::lacZ in E. coli in a VirG(Con)-dependent manner. Utilization of lac promoter-driven virA and virG in combination with the A. tumefaciens rpoA construct resulted in significant inducer-mediated expression of the virBp::lacZ fusion, and the level of virBp::lacZ expression was positively correlated to the copy number of the rpoA construct. This expression was dependent on VirA, VirG, temperature, and, to a lesser extent, pH, which is similar to what is observed in A. tumefaciens. Furthermore, the effect of sugars on vir gene expression was observed only in the presence of the chvE gene, suggesting that the glucose-binding protein of E. coli, a homologue of ChvE, does not interact with the VirA molecule. We also evaluated other phenolic compounds in induction assays and observed significant expression with syringealdehyde, a low level of expression with acetovanillone, and no expression with hydroxyacetophenone, similar to what occurs in A. tumefaciens strain A348 from which the virA clone was derived. These data support the notion that VirA directly senses the phenolic inducer. However, the overall level of expression of the vir genes in E. coli is less than what is observed in A. tumefaciens, suggesting that additional gene(s) from A. tumefaciens may be required for the full expression of virulence genes in E. coli. 相似文献
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Regulation of the vir genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens plasmid pTiC58. 总被引:44,自引:25,他引:19
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P M Rogowsky T J Close J A Chimera J J Shaw C I Kado 《Journal of bacteriology》1987,169(11):5101-5112
The virulence (vir) region of pTiC58 was screened for promoter activities by using gene fusions to a promoterless lux operon in the broad-host-range vector pUCD615. Active vir fragments contained the strongly acetosyringone-inducible promoters of virB, virC, virD, and virE and the weakly inducible promoters of virA and virG. Identical induction patterns were obtained with freshly sliced carrot disks, suggesting that an inducer is released after plant tissue is wounded. Optimal conditions for vir gene induction were pH 5.7 for 50 microM acetosyringone or sinapic acid. The induction of virB and virE by acetosyringone was strictly dependent on intact virA and virG loci. An increase in the copy number of virG resulted in a proportional, acetosyringone-independent increase in vir gene expression, and a further increase occurred only if an inducing compound and virA were present. 相似文献
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The VirA/VirG two-component regulatory system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens regulates expression of the virulence (vir) genes that control the infection process leading to crown gall tumor disease on susceptible plants. VirA, a membrane-bound homodimer, initiates vir gene induction by communicating the presence of molecular signals found at the site of a plant wound through phosphorylation of VirG. Inducing signals include phenols, monosaccharides, and acidic pH. While sugars are not essential for gene induction, their presence greatly increases vir gene expression when levels of the essential phenolic signal are low. Reception of the sugar signal depends on a direct interaction between ChvE, a sugar-binding protein, and VirA. Here we show that the sugar signal received in the periplasmic region of one subunit within a VirA heterodimer can enhance the kinase function of the second subunit. However, sugar enhancement of vir gene expression was vector dependent. virA alleles expressed from pSa-derived vectors inhibited signal transduction by endogenous VirA. Inhibition was conditional, depending on the induction medium and the virA allele tested. Moreover, constitutive expression of virG overcame the inhibitory effect of some but not all virA alleles, suggesting that there may be more than one inhibitory mechanism. 相似文献
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The regulatory VirA protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens does not function at elevated temperatures. 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
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Previous studies have shown that Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes tumors on plants only at temperatures below 32 degrees C, and virulence gene expression is specifically inhibited at temperatures above 32 degrees C. We show here that this effect persists even when the virA and virG loci are expressed under the control of a lac promoter whose activity is temperature independent. This finding suggests that one or more steps in the signal transduction process mediated by the VirA and VirG proteins are temperature sensitive. Both the autophosphorylation of VirA and the subsequent transfer of phosphate to VirG are shown to be sensitive to high temperatures (> 32 degrees C), and this correlates with the reduced vir gene expression observed at these temperatures. At temperatures of 32 degrees C and higher, the VirA molecule undergoes a reversible inactivation while the VirG molecule is not affected. vir gene induction is temperature sensitive in an acetosyringone-independent virA mutant background but not in a virG constitutive mutant which is virA and acetosyringone independent. These observations all support the notion that the VirA protein is responsible for the thermosensitivity of vir gene expression. However, an Agrobacterium strain containing a constitutive virG locus still cannot cause tumors on Kalanchoe plants at 32 degrees C. This strain induces normal-size tumors at temperatures up to 30 degrees C, whereas the wild-type Agrobacterium strain produces almost no tumors at 30 degrees C. These results suggest that at temperatures above 32 degrees C, the plant becomes more resistant to infection by A. tumefaciens and/or functions of some other vir gene products are lost in spite of their normal levels of expression. 相似文献
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The VirA protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is autophosphorylated and is essential for vir gene regulation. 总被引:36,自引:24,他引:12
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The virA and virG gene products are required for the regulation of the vir regulon on the tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. VirA is a membrane-associated protein which is homologous to the sensor molecules of other two-component regulatory systems. We overproduced truncated VirA proteins in Escherichia coli by deleting different lengths of the 5'-coding region of the virA gene and placing these genes under lacZ control. These proteins were purified from polyacrylamide gels and renatured. The renatured proteins became radiolabeled when they were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP but not with [gamma-32P]GTP or [alpha-32P]ATP, which suggests an ATP gamma-phosphate-specific autophosphorylation. The smallest VirA protein, which retained only the C-terminal half of the protein, gave the strongest autophosphorylation signal, which demonstrates that the C-terminal domain has the autophosphorylation site. The phosphorylated amino acid was identified as phosphohistidine, and a highly conserved histidine was found in all of the VirA homologs. When this histidine was changed to glutamine, which cannot be phosphorylated, the resulting VirA protein lost both its ability to autophosphorylate and its biological function as a vir gene regulator. Results of this study indicate that VirA autophosphorylation is required for the induction of the vir regulon and subsequent tumor induction on plants by A. tumefaciens. 相似文献
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Octopine and nopaline strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens differ in virulence; molecular characterization of the virF locus 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
Leo S. Melchers Michael J Maroney Amke den Dulk-Ras David V. Thompson Hanneke A. J. van Vuuren Rob A. Schilperoort Paul J. J. Hooykaas 《Plant molecular biology》1990,14(2):249-259
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Mutational analysis of the input domain of the VirA protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. 总被引:4,自引:3,他引:1
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The transmembrane sensor protein VirA activates VirG in response to high levels of acetosyringone (AS). In order to respond to low levels of AS, VirA requires the periplasmic sugar-binding protein ChvE and monosaccharides released from plant wound sites. To better understand how VirA senses these inducers, the C58 virA gene was randomly mutagenized, and 14 mutants defective in vir gene induction and containing mutations which mapped to the input domain of VirA were isolated. Six mutants had single missense mutatiions in three widely separated areas of the periplasmic domain. Eight mutants had mutations in or near an amphipathic helix, TM1, or TM2. Four of the mutations in the periplasmic domain, when introduced into the corresponding A6 virA sequence, caused a specific defect in the vir gene response to glucose. This suggests that most of the periplasmic domain is required for the interaction with, or response to, ChvE. Three of the mutations from outside the periplasmic domain, one from each transmembrane domain and one from the amphiphathic helix, were made in A6 virA. These mutants were defective in the vir gene response to AS. These mutations did not affect the stability or topology of VirA or prevent dimerization; therefore, they may interfere with detection of AS or transmission of the signals to the kinase domain. Characterization of C58 chvE mutants revealed that, unlike A6 VirA, C58 VirA requires ChvE for activation of the vir genes. 相似文献
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VirA, a coregulator of Ti-specified virulence genes, is phosphorylated in vitro. 总被引:25,自引:15,他引:10
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High-level expression of a chimeric virA gene was obtained by replacing the first 524 codons of virA with the first half of trpE. The encoded fusion protein was isolated and found to exhibit autokinase activity. Therefore, a kinase domain is in the C-terminal portion of VirA, and protein phosphorylation may be an important feature of VirA function. 相似文献
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T J Close P M Rogowsky C I Kado S C Winans M F Yanofsky E W Nester 《Journal of bacteriology》1987,169(11):5113-5118
The virulence genes of nopaline (pTiC58) and octopine (pTiA6NC) Ti plasmids are similarly affected by the Agrobacterium tumefaciens ros mutation. Of six vir region complementation groups (virA, virB, virG, virC, virD, and virE) examined by using fusions to reporter genes, the promoters of only two (virC and virD) responded to the ros mutation. For each promoter that was affected by ros, the level of expression of its associated genes was substantially elevated in the mutant. This increase was not influenced by Ti plasmid-encoded factors, and the mutation did not interfere with the induction of pTiC58 vir genes by phenolic compounds via the VirA/VirG regulatory control mechanism. The effects of the ros mutation and acetosyringone were cumulative for all vir promoters examined. The pleiotropic characteristics of the ros mutant include the complete absence of the major acidic capsular polysaccharide. 相似文献
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Induction of a virulence response in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by exudates of Pinus pinea cotyledons
Jaime M. Humara Marián López Ricardo J. Ordás 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》1998,55(3):175-181
As a preliminary step in efforts to develop a successful protocol for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cotyledonary
explants of Pinus pinea L. embryos, we tested the ability of embrionary exudates of this species to induce the expression
of the virulence genes virA, virB, virC, virD, virE and virG in Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing vir: lacZ fusion constructs.
The results obtained in the vir induction assay indicated the absence of bactericidal or bacteriostatic plant compounds affecting
A. tumefaciens growth, and showed that cotyledonary and embrionary exudates of P. pinea are able to induce all virulence genes
studied, except virG. The data suggest that A. tumefaciens can be used for gene transfer into this important forest and fruit
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This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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virA and virG are the Ti-plasmid functions required for chemotaxis of Agrobacterium tumefaciens towards acetosyringone 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
C. H. Shaw A. M. Ashby A. Brown C. Royal G. J. Loake C. M. Shaw 《Molecular microbiology》1988,2(3):413-417
Octopine and nopaline Ti-plasmids confer upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58C1 the ability to respond chemotactically to the vir-inducing phenolic wound exudate, acetosyringone. A. tumefaciens C58C1 containing Ti-plasmids with Tn5 insertions in virB, C, D or E exhibited marked chemotaxis towards acetosyringone. However, Ti-plasmids with mutations in virA or virG were unable to confer the responsive phenotype. Of the cosmid clones pVK219 (virAB) pVK221 (virBGC) pVK225 (virGCDE) and pVK257 (virABGC) mobilized to cured A. tumefaciens C58C1, only pVK257 bestowed acetosyringone chemotaxis. virA and virG are thus required for chemotaxis of A. tumefaciens towards acetosyringone. This suggests a multifunctional role for virA and virG: at low concentrations of acetosyringone they mediate chemotaxis and at higher concentrations they effect vir-induction. 相似文献
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Characterization of the virA virulence gene of the nopaline plasmid, pTiC58, of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 总被引:13,自引:3,他引:10
We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of a 4.8 kilobase fragment encompassing the virA locus of the nopaline-type plasmid, pTiC58, of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. virA is composed of a single open reading frame of 2499 nucleotides, capable of encoding a protein of 91.3 kiloDaltons. A trpE::virA gene fusion was used to confirm the reading frame of virA. High nucleotide and amino acid sequence homologies were observed between pTiC58 virA and the virA sequences of three octopine-type plasmids. Strong homologies in amino acid sequence were observed between pTiC58 VirA and seven bacterial proteins which control various regulons. Two hydrophobic domains within VirA are also consistent with a model in which VirA acts as a membrane-bound sensor of plant signal molecules. 相似文献