title: Production of proteasome inhibitor syringolin A by the endophyte Rhizobium sp. strain AP16.
abstract: Syringolin A, the product of a mixed nonribosomal peptide synthetase/polyketide synthase encoded by the syl gene cluster, is a virulence factor secreted by certain Pseudomonas syringae strains. Together with the glidobactins produced by a number of beta- and gammaproteobacterial human and animal pathogens, it belongs to the syrbactins, a structurally novel class of proteasome inhibitors. In plants, proteasome inhibition by syringolin A-producing P. syringae strains leads to the suppression of host defense pathways requiring proteasome activity, such as the ones mediated by salicylic acid and jasmonic acid. Here we report the discovery of a syl-like gene cluster with some unusual features in the alphaproteobacterial endophyte Rhizobium sp. strain AP16 that encodes a putative syringolin A-like synthetase whose components share 55% to 65% sequence identity (72% to 79% similarity) at the amino acid level. As revealed by average nucleotide identity (ANI) calculations, this strain likely belongs to the same species as biocontrol strain R. rhizogenes K84 (formely known as Agrobacterium radiobacter K84), which, however, carries a nonfunctional deletion remnant of the syl-like gene cluster. Here we present a functional analysis of the syl-like gene cluster of Rhizobium sp. strain AP16 and demonstrate that this endophyte synthesizes syringolin A and some related minor variants, suggesting that proteasome inhibition by syrbactin production can be important not only for pathogens but also for endophytic bacteria in the interaction with their hosts.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland alexey.dudnik@botinst.uzh.ch.
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dudnik
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bigler
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dudler
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D060026:Endophytes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005810:Multigene Family; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; D061988:Proteasome Inhibitors; C407267:syringolin A
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