期刊
RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 163, 期 9-10, 页码 674-684出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2012.10.013
关键词
Biofilm; Phosphate limitation; PhoR-PhoB; Adhesin
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资金
- National Institutes of Health [GM080546]
- Indiana University METACyt program
- Lilly Foundation
Bacterial responses to phosphorus limitation, commonly inorganic phosphate (P-i), are important survival mechanisms in a variety of environments. The two-component sensor kinase PhoR and its cognate response regulator PhoB are central to the 131 limitation response of many bacteria and control the large Pho regulon. Limitation for P-i significantly increased attachment and biofilm formation by the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and this was driven by PhoB. Surprisingly, it was also found that both phoR and phoB were essential in A. tumefaciens. Expression of a plasmid-borne copy of the low affinity P-i transporter (pit) from Sinorhizobium meliloti in A. tumefaciens abolished the phoB and phoR essentiality in A. tumefaciens and allowed direct demonstration of the requirement for this regulatory system in the biofilm response. Increased attachment under P-i limitation required a unipolar polysaccharide (UPP) adhesin. Mutation of a polyisoprenylphosphate hexose-l-phosphate transferase (PHPT) called uppE abolished UPP production and prevented surface attachment under P-i-replete conditions, but this was rescued under P-i limitation, and this rescue required phoB. In low P-i conditions, either uppE or a paralogous gene Atu0102 is functionally redundant, but only uppE functions in UPP synthesis and attachment when P-i is replete. This conditional functional redundancy illustrates the influence of phosphorus availability on A. tumefaciens surface colonization. (C) 2012 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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