Functional identification of phenazine biosynthesis genes in plant pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

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• 作者：Wen LI^a ; ^{liwen547249317@126.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; You-ping XU^b ; Munyampundu Jean-Pierre^a ; Xin XU^a ; Xian-fei QI^a ; Yuan GU^a ; Xin-zhong CAI^a ; ^c ; ^{xzhcai@zju.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：pathogenicity ; phenazine biosynthesis genes ; phenazine-1-carboxylic acid ; plant pathogenic bacteria ; Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato ; Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
• 刊名：Journal of Integrative Agriculture
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：15
• 期：4
• 页码：812-821
• 全文大小：2316 K

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Phenazines are secondary metabolites with broad spectrum antibiotic activity and thus show high potential in biological control of pathogens. In this study, we identified phenazine biosynthesis (phz) genes in two genome-completed plant pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000 and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) PXO99^A. Unlike the phz genes in typical phenazine-producing pseudomonads, phz homologs in Pst DC3000 and Xoo PXO99^A consisted of phzC/D/E/F/G and phzC/E1/E2/F/G, respectively, and the both were not organized into an operon. Detection experiments demonstrated that phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) of Pst DC3000 accumulated to 13.4 μg L⁻¹, while that of Xoo PXO99^A was almost undetectable. Moreover, Pst DC3000 was resistant to 1 mg mL⁻¹ PCA, while Xoo PXO99^A was sensitive to 50 μg mL⁻¹ PCA. Furthermore, mutation of phzF blocked the PCA production and significantly reduced the pathogenicity of Pst DC3000 in tomato, while the complementary strains restored these phenotypes. These results revealed that Pst DC3000 produces low level of and is resistant to phenazines and thus is unable to be biologically controlled by phenazines. Additionally, phz-mediated PCA production is required for full pathogenicity of Pst DC3000. To our knowledge, this is the first report of PCA production and its function in pathogenicity of a plant pathogenic P. syringae strain.