title: Characterization of Rhizobium tropici CIAT899 nodulation factors: the role of nodH and nodPQ genes in their sulfation.
abstract: We have purified and characterized the nodulation factors produced by Rhizobium tropici CIAT899. This strain produces a large variety of nodulation factors, these being a mixture of sulfated or nonsulfated penta- or tetra-chito-oligosaccharides to which any of six different fatty acyl moieties may be attached to nitrogen of the nonreducing terminal residue. In this mixture we have also found methylated or nonmethylated lipo-chitin oligosaccharides. Here we describe a novel lipo-chitin-oligosaccharide consisting of a linear backbone of 4 N-acetylglucosamine residues and one mannose that is the reducing-terminal residue and bearing a C18:1 fatty acyl moiety on the nonreducing terminal residue. In addition, we have identified, cloned, and sequenced R. tropici nodH and nodPQ genes, generated mutations in the nodH and nodQ genes, and tested the mutant strains for nodulation in Phaseolus and Leucaena plants. Our results indicate that the sulfate group present in wild-type Nod factors plays a major role in nodulation of Leucaena plants by strain CIAT899 of R. tropici.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Folch-Mallol
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marroqui
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Manyani
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: López-Lara
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: van der Drift
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haverkamp
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quinto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gil-Serrano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomas-Oates
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Spaink
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Megías
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000382:microbiology; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D009154:Mutation; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation / Q000235:genetics; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010641:Phenotype; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013430:Sulfate Adenylyltransferase; D013431:Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry; D015238:Sulfotransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D013431:Sulfates; C075085:nodP protein, Rhizobium; C075082:nodulation protein Q, Rhizobium; D013430:Sulfate Adenylyltransferase; C092976:NodH protein, Sinorhizobium meliloti; D015238:Sulfotransferases