Identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato genes induced during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana

被引：152

作者：

Boch, J ^{[1
]}

Joardar, V ^{[1
]}

Gao, L ^{[1
]}

Robertson, TL ^{[1
]}

Lim, M ^{[1
]}

Kunkel, BN ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Washington Univ, Dept Biol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

来源：

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY | 2002年 / 44卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02877.x

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

Phytopathogenic bacteria possess a large number of genes that allow them to grow and cause disease on plants. Many of these genes should be induced when the bacteria come in contact with plant tissue. We used a modified in vivo expression technology (IVET) approach to identify genes from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that are induced upon infection of Arabidopsis thaliana and isolated over 500 in planta -expressed (ipx ) promoter fusions. Sequence analysis of 79 fusions revealed several known and potential virulence genes, including hrp/hrc , avr and coronatine biosynthetic genes. In addition, we identified metabolic genes presumably important for adaptation to growth in plant tissue, as well as several genes with unknown function that may encode novel virulence factors. Many ipx fusions, including several corresponding to novel genes, are dependent on HrpL, an alternative RNA polymerase sigma factor that regulates the expression of virulence genes. Expression analysis indicated that several ipx fusions are strongly induced upon inoculation into plant tissue. Disruption of one ipx gene, conserved effector locus (CEL) orf 1, encoding a putative lytic murein transglycosylase, resulted in decreased virulence of P. syringae . Our results demonstrate that this screen can be used successfully to isolate genes that are induced in planta , including many novel genes potentially involved in pathogenesis.

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页数：16

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