GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0
In the root-colonizing biocontrol strain CHA0 of Pseudomonas fluorescens, cell density-dependent synthesis of extra-cellular, plant-beneficial secondary metabolites and enzymes is positively regulated by the GacS/GacA two-component system. Mutational analysis of the GacS sensor kinase using improved...
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| author | Sophie Zuber Fiona Carruthers Christoph Keel Alexandre Mattart Caroline Blumer Gabriella Pessi Cécile Gigot-Bonnefoy Ursula Schnider-Keel Stephan Heeb Cornelia Reimmann Dieter Haas |
| author_facet | Sophie Zuber Fiona Carruthers Christoph Keel Alexandre Mattart Caroline Blumer Gabriella Pessi Cécile Gigot-Bonnefoy Ursula Schnider-Keel Stephan Heeb Cornelia Reimmann Dieter Haas |
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| description | In the root-colonizing biocontrol strain CHA0 of Pseudomonas fluorescens, cell density-dependent synthesis of extra-cellular, plant-beneficial secondary metabolites and enzymes is positively regulated by the GacS/GacA two-component system. Mutational analysis of the GacS sensor kinase using improved single-copy vectors showed that inactivation of each of the three conserved phosphate acceptor sites caused an exoproduct null phenotype (GacS¯), whereas deletion of the periplasmic loop domain had no significant effect on the expression of exoproduct genes. Strain CHA0 is known to synthesize a solvent-extractable extracellular signal that advances and enhances the expression of exoproduct genes during the transition from exponential to stationary growth phase when maximal exoproduct formation occurs. Mutational inactivation of either GacS or its cognate response regulator GacA abolished the strain's response to added signal. Deletion of the linker domain of the GacS sensor kinase caused signal-independent, strongly elevated expression of exoproduct genes at low cell densities. In contrast to the wild-type strain CHA0, the gacS linker mutant and a gacS null mutant were unable to protect tomato plants from crown and root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici in a soil-less microcosm, indicating that, at least in this plant-pathogen system, there is no advantage in using a signal-independent biocontrol strain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a918163664c4eed9d8d81737dfaedc92022-12-22T03:02:28ZengThe American Phytopathological SocietyMolecular Plant-Microbe Interactions0894-02821943-77062003-07-0116763464410.1094/MPMI.2003.16.7.634GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0Sophie ZuberFiona CarruthersChristoph KeelAlexandre MattartCaroline BlumerGabriella PessiCécile Gigot-BonnefoyUrsula Schnider-KeelStephan HeebCornelia ReimmannDieter HaasIn the root-colonizing biocontrol strain CHA0 of Pseudomonas fluorescens, cell density-dependent synthesis of extra-cellular, plant-beneficial secondary metabolites and enzymes is positively regulated by the GacS/GacA two-component system. Mutational analysis of the GacS sensor kinase using improved single-copy vectors showed that inactivation of each of the three conserved phosphate acceptor sites caused an exoproduct null phenotype (GacS¯), whereas deletion of the periplasmic loop domain had no significant effect on the expression of exoproduct genes. Strain CHA0 is known to synthesize a solvent-extractable extracellular signal that advances and enhances the expression of exoproduct genes during the transition from exponential to stationary growth phase when maximal exoproduct formation occurs. Mutational inactivation of either GacS or its cognate response regulator GacA abolished the strain's response to added signal. Deletion of the linker domain of the GacS sensor kinase caused signal-independent, strongly elevated expression of exoproduct genes at low cell densities. In contrast to the wild-type strain CHA0, the gacS linker mutant and a gacS null mutant were unable to protect tomato plants from crown and root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici in a soil-less microcosm, indicating that, at least in this plant-pathogen system, there is no advantage in using a signal-independent biocontrol strain.https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.7.634 |
| spellingShingle | Sophie Zuber Fiona Carruthers Christoph Keel Alexandre Mattart Caroline Blumer Gabriella Pessi Cécile Gigot-Bonnefoy Ursula Schnider-Keel Stephan Heeb Cornelia Reimmann Dieter Haas GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions |
| title | GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 |
| title_full | GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 |
| title_fullStr | GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 |
| title_full_unstemmed | GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 |
| title_short | GacS Sensor Domains Pertinent to the Regulation of Exoproduct Formation and to the Biocontrol Potential of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 |
| title_sort | gacs sensor domains pertinent to the regulation of exoproduct formation and to the biocontrol potential of pseudomonas fluorescens cha0 |
| url | https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.7.634 |
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