TY - JOUR
T1 - Motility-mediated regulation of virulence in Pseudomonas syringae
AU - Ichinose, Yuki
AU - Sawada, Takahiro
AU - Matsui, Hidenori
AU - Yamamoto, Mikihiro
AU - Toyoda, Kazuhiro
AU - Noutoshi, Yoshiteru
AU - Taguchi, Fumiko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Nos. 24380028 and 15H04458 ) from the Ministry of Education , Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - We have investigated Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci–plant interactions using a large variety of virulence-related mutants. A flagellin-defective mutant, ΔfliC, lost flagellar motility and the ability to produce N-acyl homoserine lactones; it had reduced ability to cause disease symptoms, but the expression of genes encoding a multidrug efflux pump transporter, mexEFoprN, was activated. A type IV pili (T4P)-defective mutant, ΔpilA, lost swarming motility, had reduced expression of hrp-related genes and virulence toward the host tobacco plant, but expression of the genes encoding another multidrug efflux pump transporter, mexABoprM, was activated. These results suggest that the genes regulating flagella- and T4P-mediated motilities also regulate expression of other virulence-related genes.
AB - We have investigated Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci–plant interactions using a large variety of virulence-related mutants. A flagellin-defective mutant, ΔfliC, lost flagellar motility and the ability to produce N-acyl homoserine lactones; it had reduced ability to cause disease symptoms, but the expression of genes encoding a multidrug efflux pump transporter, mexEFoprN, was activated. A type IV pili (T4P)-defective mutant, ΔpilA, lost swarming motility, had reduced expression of hrp-related genes and virulence toward the host tobacco plant, but expression of the genes encoding another multidrug efflux pump transporter, mexABoprM, was activated. These results suggest that the genes regulating flagella- and T4P-mediated motilities also regulate expression of other virulence-related genes.
KW - Flagellar motility
KW - Multidrug efflux pump transporter
KW - Quorum sensing
KW - Type III secretion system
KW - Type IV pili-mediated motility
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2016.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2016.02.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961219154
VL - 95
SP - 50
EP - 54
JO - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
JF - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
SN - 0885-5765
ER -