Exopolysaccharide synthesis in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii is related to various metabolic pathways.

Abstract:

:Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii synthesizes extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) that is postulated to be a biologically active signalling molecule in clover symbiosis. A group of seven exopolysaccharide-deficient (Exo), non-nitrogen-fixing mutants of R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain 24.1 isolated by transposon mutagenesis were complemented to mucoid phenotype by a low-copy plasmid carrying the pssA gene encoding the first glucosyl-IP-transferase. Some of these mutants were not corrected in their symbiotic defect by the pssA gene. Precise localization of Tn5 insertion sites by subcloning and sequencing the adjacent genomic DNA in the Exo mutants identified the disrupted genes and their possible functions. Only one mutant (Rt74) was mutated in pssA gene; others were mutated in diverse genes that were not directly involved in EPS biosynthesis. The suppression of EPS deficiency in these mutants by additional copies of pssA indicated a possible connection between exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and various metabolic pathways.

journal_name

Res Microbiol

journal_title

Research in microbiology

authors

Janczarek M,Skorupska A

doi

10.1016/S0923-2508(03)00113-X

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-07-01 00:00:00

pages

433-42

issue

6

eissn

0923-2508

issn

1769-7123

pii

S0923-2508(03)00113-X

journal_volume

154

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