Two Host-Induced Ralstonia solanacearum Genes, acrA and dinF , Encode Multidrug Efflux Pumps and Contribute to Bacterial Wilt Virulence
| Autor: | Jill K. Swanson, Caitilyn Allen, Darby G. Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Virulence medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology Type three secretion system Plant Microbiology Bacterial Proteins Solanum lycopersicum Phytoalexins Escherichia coli medicine Cloning Molecular Pathogen DNA Primers Glucuronidase Ralstonia solanacearum Ecology biology Terpenes food and beverages Membrane Transport Proteins Drug Resistance Microbial biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Complementation Mutagenesis Efflux Sesquiterpenes rpoS Food Science Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73:2777-2786 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5336 0099-2240 |
| Popis: | Multidrug efflux pumps (MDRs) are hypothesized to protect pathogenic bacteria from toxic host defense compounds. We created mutations in the Ralstonia solanacearum acrA and dinF genes, which encode putative MDRs in the broad-host-range plant pathogen. Both mutations reduced the ability of R. solanacearum to grow in the presence of various toxic compounds, including antibiotics, phytoalexins, and detergents. Both acrAB and dinF mutants were significantly less virulent on the tomato plant than the wild-type strain. Complementation restored near-wild-type levels of virulence to both mutants. Addition of either dinF or acrAB to Escherichia coli MDR mutants KAM3 and KAM32 restored the resistance of these strains to several toxins, demonstrating that the R. solanacearum genes can function heterologously to complement known MDR mutations. Toxic and DNA-damaging compounds induced expression of acrA and dinF , as did growth in both susceptible and resistant tomato plants. Carbon limitation also increased expression of acrA and dinF , while the stress-related sigma factor RpoS was required at a high cell density (>10 7 CFU/ml) to obtain wild-type levels of acrA expression both in minimal medium and in planta. The type III secretion system regulator HrpB negatively regulated dinF expression in culture at high cell densities. Together, these results show that acrAB and dinF encode MDRs in R. solanacearum and that they contribute to the overall aggressiveness of this phytopathogen, probably by protecting the bacterium from the toxic effects of host antimicrobial compounds. |
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