Gac two-component system in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci is required for virulence but not for hypersensitive reaction |
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Authors: | Mizuri Marutani Fumiko Taguchi Yujiro Ogawa Md. Mijan Hossain Yoshishige Inagaki Kazuhiro Toyoda Tomonori Shiraishi Yuki Ichinose |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratory of Plant Pathology and Genetic Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka 1-1-1, Okayama 700-8530, Japan;(2) Present address: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, PO Box 110680, Gainesville, FL 32611-0680, USA |
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Abstract: | Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 6605 causes wildfire disease on host tobacco plants. To investigate the regulatory mechanism of the expression of virulence, Gac two-component system-defective mutants, ΔgacA and ΔgacS, and a double mutant, ΔgacAΔgacS, were generated. These mutants produced smaller amounts of N-acyl homoserine lactones required for quorum sensing, had lost swarming motility, and had reduced expression of virulence-related hrp genes and the algT gene required for exopolysaccharide production. The ability of the mutants to cause disease symptoms in their host tobacco plant was remarkably reduced, while they retained the ability to induce hypersensitive reaction (HR) in the nonhost plants. These results indicated that the Gac two-component system of P. syringae pv. tabaci 6605 is indispensable for virulence on the host plant, but not for HR induction in the nonhost plants. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL databank with the accession numbers AB266103, AB266104, AB266105, AB266106, AB266107, AB266108. |
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Keywords: | GacA GacS Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci Quorum sensing Two-component system |
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