Surfactin variants mediate species-specific biofilm formation and root colonization inBacillus
| Autor: | Markus Bacher, Branislav Nikolic, Stéphane Compant, Angela Sessitsch, Rainer Schuhmacher, Gajender Aleti, Günter Brader, Sylvia Lehner, Maja Plesko |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Bacilli biology fungi 030106 microbiology Biofilm food and beverages Lipopeptide Bacillus Swarming motility biology.organism_classification Microbiology Rhizoctonia solani 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 030104 developmental biology Bacillus atrophaeus chemistry lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) Surfactin Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Microbiology. 18:2634-2645 |
| ISSN: | 1462-2912 |
| Popis: | Cyclic lipopeptides (cLP) and especially surfactins produced by Bacillus spp. trigger biofilm formation and root colonization and are crucial for biocontrol activity and systemic resistance in plants. Bacillus atrophaeus 176s isolated from the moss Tortella tortuosa produces the cLP fengycins, iturins and surfactins, possesses antifungal activities and can protect tomato, lettuce and sugar beet against Rhizoctonia solani infection. In B. atrophaeus we identified for the first time the variant surfactin C, which differs from surfactin A produced by B. subtilis and B. amyloliquefaciens by an isoleucine instead of a leucine at position 7 of the lipopeptide backbone. The analysis of the complete surfactin gene clusters revealed that the dissimilarity is encoded in the adenylation domain of srfC and show that surfactin variations are distributed in a species-specific manner in bacilli. We demonstrate that the surfactin A and C with subtle structural differences have varying signal strengths on biofilm formation and root colonization and act specifically on the respective producing strain. This became evident as biofilm formation and root colonization but not swarming motility in surfactin biosynthesis mutants was restored differentially in the presence of exogenously supplemented cognate and non-cognate surfactin variants. |
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