Regulation of the expression of Fit insect toxin locus genes in the root-associated biocontrol pseudomonad CHA0

Details

Serval ID
serval:BIB_76608A6B9CCE
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Regulation of the expression of Fit insect toxin locus genes in the root-associated biocontrol pseudomonad CHA0
Journal
IOBC/WPRS Bulletin
Author(s)
Péchy-Tarr M., Binggeli O., Maurhofer M., Keel C.
ISSN
978-92-9067-219-7
ISSN-L
1027-3115
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2009
Volume
45
Pages
243-247
Language
english
Notes
Working Group "Insect Pathogens and Insect Parasitic Nematodes" and COST Action 862 "Bacterial Toxins for Insect Control".12th Meeting "Future Research and Development in the Use of Microbial Agents and Nematodes for Biological Insect Control". Proceedings of the meeting at Pamplona (Spain), 22-25 June, 2009. Edited by: Ralf-Udo Ehlers, Neil Crickmore, Jürg Enkerli, Itamar Glazer, Miguel Lopez-Ferber & Cezary Tkaczuk
Abstract
The root-colonizing Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CHA0 is a biocontrol agent of soil-borne plant diseases caused by fungal and oomycete pathogens. Remarkably, this plant-beneficial pseudomonad is also endowed with potent insecticidal activity that depends on the production of a large protein toxin termed Fit (for P. fluorescens insecticidal toxin). In our present work, the genomic locus encoding the P. fluorescens insect toxin is subjected to a detailed molecular analysis. The Fit toxin gene fitD is flanked upstream by the fitABC genes and downstream by the fitE gene that encode the ABC transporter, membrane fusion, and outer membrane efflux components of a type I protein secretion system predicted to function in toxin export. The fitF, fitG, and fitH genes located downstream of fitE code for regulatory proteins having domain structures typical of signal transduction histidine kinases, LysR-type transcriptional regulators, and response regulators, respectively. The role of these insect toxin locus-associated control elements is being investigated with mutants defective for the regulatory genes and with GFP-based reporter fusions to putative promoter regions upstream of the transporter genes fitA and fitE, the toxin gene fitD, and the regulatory genes fitF and fitH. Our preliminary findings suggest that the three regulators interact with known global regulators of biocontrol factor expression to control Fit toxin expression and secretion.
Create date
04/03/2009 15:48
Last modification date
20/08/2019 14:33
Usage data