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Biosynthesis of the Phytotoxin coronatine (COR) in Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea PG4180 is regulated by température at the transcriptional level. A 3.4-kb DNA fragment from the coronatine biosynthetic gene cluster restored temperature-regulated Phytotoxin production to Tn5 mutants defective in COR production. Nucleotide sequence analysis of this fragment revealed three genes, corS, corP, and corR, which encode a modified two-component regulatory system consisting of one sensor protein, CorS, and two response regulator proteins, CorP and CorR, Although only one response regulator, CorR, had a DNA-binding domain, the phosphate-receiving domains of both response regulator proteins were highly conserved. Transcriptional fusions of the corP and corR promoters to a promoteríess glucuronidase (uidA) gene indicated that these two genes are expressed constitutiveiy at 18 and 28°C. In contrast, a corSv::uidA fusion exhibited the temperature-dependence previously observed for COR biosynthetic promoters and exhibited maximal transcriptional activity at 18°C and low activity at 28°C. Furthermore, glucuronidase activity for corSv::uidA was decreased in corP, corR, and corS mutants relative to the levels observed for PG4180(corS::uidA). This difference was not observed for corPv.uidA and corRv.uidA transcriptional fusions since expression of these fusions remained low and constitutive regardless of the genetic background. The three regulatory genes functioned in a COR background to achieve temperature-dependent activation of a COR biosynthetic promoter indicating that this triad of genes is the primary control for coronatine biosynthesis and responsible for thermoregulation. Our data suggest that the modified two-component regulatory system described in this study might transduce and amplify a temperature signal which results in transcriptional activation of COR biosynthetic genes.
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Ullrich, M., Peñaloza-Vazquez, A., Bailey, A.M., Bender, C.L. (1997). Thermoregulation of Coronatine Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas syringae . In: Rudolph, K., Burr, T.J., Mansfield, J.W., Stead, D., Vivian, A., von Kietzell, J. (eds) Pseudomonas Syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5472-7_42
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