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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 6-7, Pages 883-889Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-004-6358-z
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biosynthesis; phenazine-1-carboxylic acid; Pseudomonas sp; M18; pyoluteorin; regulation; rsmA
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Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strain Pseudomonas sp. M18 can produce two different types of antibiotics, pyoluteorin (Plt) and phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA). The global regulator RsmA is a translational repressor of secondary metabolism in many prokaryotes. A chromosomally rsmA inactivated mutant strain M18R was constructed to study the regulatory mechanism of Plt and PCA biosynthesis and enhancement of Plt or PCA production in Pseudomonas sp. M18. The accumulation of Plt increased six-fold over that of the wild-type strain whereas PCA production was not significantly affected in cultures of M18R. Plt production was inhibited completely but PCA biosynthesis was not altered after complementation with rsmA gene in trans in the strain of M18R. The differential activity of rsmA gene on these two operons was further confirmed by the analysis of beta-galactosidase activities from translational phzA'-'lacZ and pltA'-'lacZ fusion, in which phzA is the first enzyme gene of the phenazine biosynthesis pathway and pltA is the first gene of the pyoluteorin biosynthesis pathway. The results indicate that RsmA can control Plt production negatively but not PCA production in M18, and show that the global regulator RsmA does not repress the biosynthesis of all secondary metabolites.
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