Inability to catabolize galactose leads to increased ability to compete for nodule occupancy in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 5044-5053

  Geddes, Barney A ^a   Oresnik, Ivan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 KETO 3 DEOXYGALACTONOKINASE; ARABINOSE; GALACTOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COSMID; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

GALACTOSE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEDICAGO SATIVA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ARA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 84866382918     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00982-12     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Adhya SL, Shapiro JA. 1969. The galactose operon of E. coli K-12. I. Structural and pleiotropic mutations of the operon. Genetics 62:231-247.
2. Alexeyev M. 1999. The pKNOCK series of broad-host-range mobilizable suicide vectors for gene knockout and targeted DNA insertion into the chromosome of Gram-negative bacteria. Biotechniques 26:824-828.
3. Altschul SF, et al. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. NucleicAcids Res. 25:3389-3402.
4. Alvarez-Martinez M, et al. 2001. The Brucella suis homologue of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens chromosomal virulenceoperon chvE is essential for sugar utilization but not for survival in macrophages. J. Bacteriol. 183:5343-5351.
5. Arias A, Cerveñansky C. 1986. Galactose metabolism in Rhizobium meliloti L5-30. J. Bacteriol. 167:1092-1094.
6. Beringer JE, Beynon JL, Buchanan-Wollason AV, Johnston AWB. 1978. Transfer of the drug resistance transposon Tn5 toRhizobium. Nature 276: 633-634.
7. Bringhurst RM, Cardon ZG, Gage DJ. 2001. Galactosides in the rhizosphere: utilization by Sinorhizobium meliloti anddevelopment as a biosensor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 98:4540-4545.
8. Charles TC, Doty SL, Nester EW. 1994. Construction of Agrobacterium strains by electroporation of genomic DNA and its utility in analysis of chromosomal virulence mutants. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:4192-4194.
9. Charles TC, Finan TM. 1991. Analysis of a 1600-kilobase Rhizobium meliloti megaplasmid using defined deletions generated in vivo. Genetics 127:5-20.
10. Charles TC, Nester EW. 1993. A chromosomally encoded twocomponent sensory transduction system is required for virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriol. 175:6614-6625.
11. Clark SRD, Oresnik IJ, Hynes MF. 2001. RpoN of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae strain VF39SM plays a central role in FnrN-dependent microaerobic regulation of genes involved in nitrogen fixation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 264:623-633.
12. De Ley J, Doudoroff M. 1957. The metabolism of D-galactose in Pseudomonas saccharophila. J. Biol. Chem. 227:745-757.
13. Ding H, Yip CB, Geddes BA, Oresnik IJ, Hynes MF. 2012. Glycerol utilization by Rhizobium leguminosarum requires an ABCtransporter and affects competition for nodulation. Microbiology 158:1369-1378.
14. Doty SL, Chang M, Nester EW. 1993. The chromosomal virulence gene, chvE, of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is regulated by a LysR family member. J. Bacteriol. 175:7880-7886.
15. Duncan MJ, Fraenkel DG. 1979. Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase mutant of Rhizobium meliloti. J. Bacteriol. 137:415-419.
16. Finan TM, et al. 1984. General transduction in Rhizobium meliloti. J. Bacteriol. 159:120-124.
17. Finan TM, et al. 1985. Symbiotic mutants of Rhizobium meliloti that uncouple plant from bacterial differentiation. Cell 40:869-877.
18. Finan TM, Kunkel B, de Vos GF, Signer ER. 1986. Second symbiotic megaplasmid in Rhizobium meliloti carrying exopolysaccharide and thiamine synthesis genes. J. Bacteriol. 167:66-72.
19. Finan TM, Oresnik I, Bottacin A. 1988. Mutants of Rhizobium meliloti defective in succinate metabolism. J. Bacteriol. 170:3396-3403.
20. Friedman AM, Long SR, Brown SE, Buikema WJ, Ausubel FM. 1982. Construction of a broad host range cosmid cloning vectorand its use in the genetic analysis of Rhizobium mutants. Gene 18:289-296.
21. Fry J, Wood M, Poole PS. 2001. Investigation of myo-inositol catabolism in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae and its effect on nodulation competitiveness. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14:1016-1025.
22. Gage DJ, Long SR. 1998. Alpha-galactoside uptake in Rhizobium meliloti: isolation and characterization of agpA, a geneencoding a periplasmic binding protein required for melibiose and raffinoseutilization. J. Bacteriol. 180:5739-5748.
23. Geddes BA, Oresnik IJ. 2012. Genetic characterization of a complex locus necessary for the transport and catabolismoferythritol, adonitol, and L-arabitol in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Microbiology158:2180-2191.
24. Geddes BA, et al. 2010. A locus necessary for the transport and catabolism of erythritol in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Microbiology 156:2970-2981.
25. Glazebrook J, Walker GC. 1991. Genetic techniques in Rhizobium meliloti. Methods Enzymol. 204:398-418.
26. Hanahan D. 1983. Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids. J. Mol. Biol. 166:557-570.
27. He F, et al. 2009. Molecular basis of ChvE function in sugar binding, sugar utilization, and virulence in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriol. 191: 5802-5813.
28. House BL, Mortimer MW, Kahn ML. 2004. New recombination methods for Sinorhizobium meliloti genetics. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2806-2815.
29. Hunter S, et al. 2009. InterPro: the integrative protein signature database. Nucleic Acids Res. 37:D11-D215. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn785.
30. Hynes MF, McGregor NF. 1990. Two plasmids other than the nodulation plasmid are necessary for formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules by Rhizobium leguminosarum. Mol. Microbiol. 4:567-574.
31. Jacob AI, et al. 2008. Mutational analysis of the Sinorhizobium meliloti short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase familyreveals substantial contribution to symbiosis and catabolic diversity. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 21:979-989.
32. Jiménez-Zurdo JI, et al. 1995. Characterization of a Rhizobium meliloti proline dehydrogenase mutant altered in nodulation efficiency and competitiveness on alfalfa roots. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 8:492-498.
33. Jones JDG, Gutterson N. 1987. An efficient mobilizable cosmid vector and its use in rapid marker exchange in Pseudomonas fluorescens strain HV37a. Gene 61:299-306.
34. Knee EM, et al. 2001. Root mucilage from pea and its utilization by rhizosphere bacteria as a sole carbon source. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14:775-784.
35. Kohler PRA, Zheng JY, Schoffers E, Rossbach S. 2010. Inositol catabolism, a key pathway in Sinorhizobium meliloti for competitive host nodulation. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:7972-7980.
36. Krol E, Becker A. 2004. Global transcriptional analysis of the phosphate starvation response in Sinorhizobium melilot strains 1021 and 2011. Mol. Gen. Genet. 272:1-17.
37. Latner AL, Skillen AW. 1968. Isozymes in biology and medicine. Academic Press, New York, NY.
38. Luo Z, Clemente TE, Farrand SK. 2001. Construction of a derivative of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 that does not mutate to tetracycline resistance. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14:98-103.
39. Markowitz VM, et al. 2010. The integrated microbial genomes system: an expanding comparative analysis resource. Nucleic Acids Res. 38(Suppl 1):D382-D290. doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1044.
40. Mauchline TH, et al. 2006. Mapping the Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 solute-binding protein-dependent transportome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 103:17933-17938.
41. McNeil M, Darvill AG, Fry SC, Albersheim P. 1984. Structure and function of the primary cell walls of plants. Annu.Rev. Biochem. 53:625-663.
42. Meade HM, Long SR, Ruvkin GB, Brown SE, Ausubel FMR. 1982. Physical and genetic characterization of symbiotic and auxotrophic mutants of Rhizobium meliloti induced by transposon Tn5 mutagenesis. J. Bacteriol. 149:114-122.
43. Miller-Williams M, Loewen PC, Oresnik IJ. 2006. Isolation of saltsensitive mutants of Sinorhizobium meliloti strainRm1021. Microbiology 152:2049-2052.
44. Mulligan JT, Long SR. 1985. Induction of Rhizobium meliloti nodC expression by plant exudate requires nodD. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 82:6609-6613.
45. Muñoz JA, et al. 1998. MsPG3, a Medicago sativa polygalacturonase gene expressed during the alfalfa-Rhizobium melilotiinteraction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95:9687-9692.
46. Oldroyd GED, Marray JD, Poole PS, Downie JA. 2011. The rules of engagement in the legume-rhizobial symbiosis. Annu.Rev. Genet. 45: 119-144.
47. Oresnik IJ, Pacarynuk LA, O'Brien SAP, Yost CK, Hynes MF. 1998. Plasmid encoded catabolic genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii: evidence for a plant-inducible rhamnose locus involved in competition for nodulation. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 11:1175-1185.
48. Pickering BS, Oresnik IJ. 2008. Formate-dependent autotrophic growth in S. meliloti. J. Bacteriol. 190:6409-6418.
49. Platt R, Drescher SK, Park SK, Phillips GJ.2000. Genetic system for reversible integration of DNA constructs and lacZ gene fusions into the Escherichia coli chromosome. Plasmid 43:12-23.
50. Pobigaylo N, et al. 2006. Construction of a large signature-tagged mini-Tn5 transposon library and its application to mutagenesis of Sinorhizobium meliloti. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:4329-4337.
51. Power J. 1967. The L-rhamnose genetic system of E. coli K-12. Genetics 55:557-568.
52. Poysti NJ, Loewen ED, Wang Z, Oresnik IJ. 2007. Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymB carries genes necessary for arabinose transport and catabolism. Microbiology 153:727-736.
53. Poysti NJ, Oresnik IJ. 2007. Characterization of Sinorhizobium meliloti triose phosphate isomerase genes. J. Bacteriol. 189:3445-3451.
54. Raineri DM, Boulton MI, Davies JW, Nester EW. 1993. VirA, the plantsignal receptor, is responsible for the Ti plasmid-specific transfer of DNA to maize by Agrobacterium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 90:3549-3553.
55. Richardson JS, Hynes MF, Oresnik IJ. 2004. A genetic locus necessary for rhamnose uptake and catabolism in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii. J. Bacteriol. 186:8433-8442.
56. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
57. Simon R, Priefer U, Pühler A. 1983. A broad host range mobilization system for in vivo engineering: transposon mutagenesis in gram-negative bacteria. Biotechniques 1:784-791.
58. Triplett EW, Sadowsky M. 1992. Genetics of competition for nodulation of legumes. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 46:399-428.
59. Vincent JM. 1970. A manual for the practical study of root-nodule bacteria. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, England.
60. Wielbo J, Marek-Kozaczuk M, Kubik-Komar A, Skorupska A. 2007. Increased metabolic potential of Rhizobium spp. is associated with bacterial competitiveness. Can. J. Microbiol. 53:957-967.
61. Yost CK, Rath AM, Noel TC, Hynes MF. 2006. Characterization of genes involved in erythritol catabolism in Rhizobiumleguminosarum bv. viciae. Microbiology 152:2061-2074.
62. Young C, Nester EW. 1988. Association of the VirD2 protein with the 5' end of T strands in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriol. 170:3367-3374.
63. Zhao J, Binns AN. 2011. Characterization of the mmsAB-araD1 (ggu-ABC) genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. J. Bacteriol. 193:6586-6596.