rRNA operons and genome size of 'Candidatus Liberibacter americanus', a bacterium associated with citrus huanglongbing in Brazil

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1984-1991

  Wulff, N A ^a   Eveillard, Sandrine ^b   Foissac, X ^b   Ayres, A J ^a   Bove J M ^b  

^a Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; RNA 5S; RRF PROTEIN; RRL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BRAZIL; CANDIDATUS AMERICANUS; CITRUS FRUIT; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER; CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER AFRICANUS; CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER AMERICANUS; CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS; CITRUS;

BRAZIL; CITRUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70349316717     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.008508-0     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Altschul, S. F., Madden, T. L., Schäffer, A. A., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Miller, W. & Lipman, D. J. (1997). Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res 25, 3389-3402.
2. Bastianel, C., Garnier-Semancik, M., Renaudin, J., Bové, J. M. & Eveillard, S. (2005). Diversity of "Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus,° based on the omp gene sequence. Appl Environ Microbiol 71, 6473-6478.
3. Bové, J. M. (2006). Huanglongbing: a destructive, newly-emerging, century-old disease of citrus. J Plant Pathol 88, 7-37.
4. Charles, H. & Ishikawa, H. (1999). Physical and genetic map of the genome of Buchnera, the primary endosymbiont of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. J Mol Evol 48, 142-150.
5. Coletta-Filho, H. D., Targon, M. L. P. N., Takita, M. A., De Negri, J. D., Pompeu, J., Jr, Machado, M. A., Amaral, A. M. & Muller, G. W. (2004). First report of the causal agent of Huanglongbing (" Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus") in Brazil. Plant Dis 88, 1382.
6. Garnier, M. & Bové, J. M. (1983). Transmission of the organism associated with citrus greening disease from sweet orange Citrus sinensis cultivar Madame-vinous to periwinkle vinca rosa by dodder (Cuscuta campestris). Phytopathology 73, 1358-1363.
7. Garnier, M., Jagoueix-Eveillard, S., Cronje, P. R., Le Roux, H. F. & Bové, J. M. (2000). Genomic characterization of a liberibacter present in an ornamental rutaceous tree, Calodendrum capense, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Proposal of 'Candidatus Liberibacter africanus subsp. capensis' Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50, 2119-2125.
8. Hocquellet, A., Toorawa, P., Bové, J. M. & Garnier, M. (1999). Detection and identification of the two Candidatus Liberobacter species associated with citrus huanglongbing by PCR amplification of ribosomal protein genes of the β operon. Mol Cell Probes 13, 373-379.
9. Jagoueix, S., Bové, J.-M. & Garnier, M. (1994). The phloem-limited bacterium of greening disease of citrus is a member of the α subdivision of the Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 44, 379-386.
10. Jagoueix, S., Bové, J. M. & Garnier, M. (1997). Comparison of the 16S/23S ribosomal intergenic regions of "Candidatus Liberobacter asiaticum" and "Candidatus Liberobacter africanum", the two species associated with citrus huanglongbing (greening) disease. Int J Syst Bacteriol 47, 224-227.
11. Kiss, A., Sain, B. & Venetianer, P. (1977). The number of rRNA genes in Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett 79, 77-79.
12. Klappenbach, J. A., Dunbar, J. M. & Schmidt, T. S. (2000). rRNA operon copy number reflects ecological strategies of bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 66, 1328-1333.
13. Lin, H., Doddapanemi, H., Bai, X., Yao, J., Zhao, X. & Civerolo, E. L. (2008). Acquisition of uncharacterized sequences from Candidatus Liberibacter, an unculturable bacterium, using an improved genomic walking method. Mol Cell Probes 22, 30-37.
14. Liu, S.-L., Hessel, A. & Sanderson, K. E. (1993). Genomic mapping with I-CeuI, an intron-encoded endonuclease specific for genes for ribosomal RNA, in Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, and other bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90, 6874-6878.
15. Llauger, R., Luis, M., Collazo, C., Teixeira, D. C., Martins, E. C., Pena, I., López, D., Batista, L., Prieto, D. & other authors (2008). PCR detection of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus associated with citrus huanglongbing in Cuba. Trop Plant Pathol 33, S93.
16. Lopes, S. A., Martins, E. C. & Frare, G. F. (2005). Detecção de Candidatus Liberibacter americanus em Murraya paniculata. Summa Phytopathol 31, 48-49 (in Portuguese).
17. Lowe, T. M. & Eddy, S. R. (1997). tRNAscan-RE: a program for improved detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 25, 955-964.
18. Marcone, C., Neimark, H., Ragozzino, A., Lauer, U. & Seemuller, E. (1999). Chromosome sizes of phytoplasmas composing major phylogenetic groups and subgroups. Phytopathology 89, 805-810.
19. Murray, M. G. & Thompson, W. F. (1980). Rapid isolation of high molecular weight plant DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 8, 4321-4325.
20. Neimark, H. & Kirkpatrick, B. C. (1993). Isolation and characterization of full length choromosomes from non-culturable plantpathogenic mycoplasma-like organisms. Mol Microbiol 7, 21-28.
21. Padovan, A. C., Firrao, G., Schneider, B. & Gibb, K. S. (2000). Chromosome mapping of the sweet potato little leaf phytoplasma reveals genome heterogeneity within the phytoplasmas. Microbiology 146, 893-902.
22. Planet, P., Jagoueix, S., Bové, J. M. & Garnier, M. (1995). Detection and characterization of the African citrus greening Liberobacter by amplification, cloning and sequencing of the rplKAJL-rpoBC operon. Curr Microbiol 30, 137-141.
23. Teixeira, D. C., Ayres, A. J., Kitajima, E. W., Tanaka, F. A. O., Danet, J. L., Jagoueix-Eveillard, S., Saillard, C. & Bové, J. M. (2005a). First report of a huanglongbing-like disease of citrus in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, and association of a new liberibacter species, Candidatus Liberibacter americanus, with the disease. Plant Dis 89, 107.
24. Teixeira, D. C., Danet, J. L., Eveillard, S., Martins, E. C., Jesus Junior, W. C., Yamamoto, P. T., Lopes, S. A., Bassanezi, R. B., Ayres, A. J. & other authors (2005b). Citrus huanglongbing in São Paulo state, Brazil: PCR detection of the 'Candidatus' Liberibacter species associated with the disease. Mol Cell Probes 19, 173-179.
25. Teixeira, D. C., Saillard, C., Eveillard, S., Danet, J. L., da Costa, P. I., Ayres, A. J. & Bové, J. (2005c). 'Candidatus Liberibacter americanus', associated with citrus huanglongbing (greening disease) in São Paulo State, Brazil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55, 1857-1862.
26. Teixeira, D. C., Eveillard, S., Sirand-Pugnet, P.,Wulff, N. A., Saillard, C., Ayres, A. J. & Bové, J. M. (2008a). The tufB-secE-nusG-rplKAJL-rpoB gene cluster of the liberibacters: sequence comparisons, phylogeny and speciation. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58, 1414-1421.
27. Teixeira, D. C., Saillard, C., Couture, C., Martins, E., Wulff, N. A., Yamamoto, P. T., Eveillard-Jagoueix, S., Ayres, A. J. & Bové, J. M. (2008b). Candidatus Liberibacter americanus, agent of huanglongbing disease of citrus in Sao Paulo State, Brazil: distribution and quantification of the liberibacter in leaves of an affected sweet orange tree as determined by PCR methods. Mol Cell Probes 22, 139-150.
28. Thompson, J. D., Higgins, D. G. & Gibson, T. J. (1994). CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22, 4673-4680.
29. Villechanoux, S., Garnier, M., Laigret, F., Renaudin, J. & Bove, J. M. (1993). The genome of the non-cultured, bacterial-like organism associated with citrus greening disease contains the nusG-rplKAJL-rpoBC gene cluster and the gene for a bacteriophage type DNA polymerase. Curr Microbiol 26, 161-166.
30. Weisburg, W. G., Barns, S. M., Pelletier, D. A. & Lane, D. J. (1991). 16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study. J Bacteriol 173, 697-703.
31. Yamamoto, P. T., Felippe, M. R., Garbim, L. F., Coelho, J. H. C., Ximenes, N. L., Martins, E. C., Leite, A. P. R., Sousa, M. C., Abrahäo, D. P. & Braz, J. D. (2006). Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae): vector of the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter americanus. In Proceedings of the Huanglongbing-Greening: International Workshop, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, 16-20 July 2006, p. 18.