Abstract:
:Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 produces a large family of lipochitooligosaccharide Nod factors carrying specific substituents. Among them are 3-O- (or 4-O-) and 6-O-carbamoyl groups, an N-methyl group, and a 2-O-methylfucose residue which may bear either 3-O-sulfate or 4-O-acetyl substitutions. Investigations on the genetic control of host specificity revealed a number of loci which directly affect Nod factor structure. Here we show that insertion and frameshift mutations in the nodZ gene abolish fucosylation of Nod factors. In vitro assays using GDP-L-fucose as the fucose donor show that fucosyltransferase activity is associated with the nodZ gene product (NodZ). NodZ is located in the soluble protein fraction of NGR234 cells. Together with extra copies of the nodD1 gene, the nodZ gene and its associated nod box were introduced into ANU265, which is NGR234 cured of the symbiotic plasmid. Crude extracts of this transconjugant possess fucosyltransferase activity. Fusion of a His6 tag to the NodZ protein expressed in Escherichia coli yielded a protein able to fucosylate both nonfucosylated NodNGR factors and oligomers of chitin. NodZ is inactive on monomeric N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and on desulfated Rhizobium meliloti Nod factors. Kinetic analyses showed that the NodZ protein is more active on oligomers of chitin than on nonfucosylated NodNGR factors. Pentameric chitin is the preferred substrate. These data suggest that fucosylation occurs before acylation of the Nod factors.
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J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Quesada-Vincens D,Fellay R,Nasim T,Viprey V,Burger U,Prome JC,Broughton WJ,Jabbouri Sdoi
10.1128/jb.179.16.5087-5093.1997subject
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1997-08-01 00:00:00pages
5087-93issue
16eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
179pub_type
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