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Marutani, Mizuri
Taguchi, Fumiko
Ogawa, Yujiro
Hossain, Mijan Md.
Yoshishige, Inagaki
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Abstract | Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 6605 causes wildfire disease on host tobacco plants. To investigate the regulatory mechanism of the expression of virulence, Gac two-Component system-defective mutants, Delta gacA and Delta gacS, and a double mutant, Delta gacA Delta gacS, were generated. These mutants produced smaller amounts of N-acyl homoserine lactones required for quorum sensing, had lost swarming motility, and had reduced expression of virulence-related hrp genes and the algT gene required for exopolysaccharide production. The ability of the mutants to cause disease symptoms in their host tobacco plant was remarkably reduced, while they retained the ability to induce hypersensitive reaction (HR) in the nonhost plants. These results indicated that the Gac two-component system of P. syringae pv. tabaci 6605 is indispensable for virulence on the host plant, but not for HR induction in the nonhost plants. |
Keywords | GacA
GacS
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci
quorum sensing
two-component system
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This is published in Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2008 Vol.279 Issue.4 pp.313-322 Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00438-007-0309-y Direct access to Thomson Web of Science record (C)2007 Springer-Verlag |
Published Date | 2008-04
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Publication Title |
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
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Volume | volume279
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Issue | issue4
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Publisher | Springer
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Start Page | 313
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End Page | 322
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Journal Article
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English
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Copyright Holders | Springer-Verlag
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True
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Submission Path | biochemistry/17
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