title: Metabolite profiling reveals abiotic stress tolerance in Tn5 mutant of Pseudomonas putida.
abstract: Pseudomonas is an efficient plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR); however, intolerance to drought and high temperature limit its application in agriculture as a bioinoculant. Transposon 5 (Tn5) mutagenesis was used to generate a stress tolerant mutant from a PGPR Pseudomonas putida NBRI1108 isolated from chickpea rhizosphere. A mutant NBRI1108T, selected after screening of nearly 10,000 transconjugants, exhibited significant tolerance towards high temperature and drought. Southern hybridization analysis of EcoRI and XhoI restricted genomic DNA of NBRI1108T confirmed that it had a single Tn5 insertion. The metabolic changes in the polar and non-polar extracts of NBRI1108 and NBRI1108T were examined using 1H, 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Thirty six chemically diverse metabolites consisting of amino acids, fatty acids and phospholipids were identified and quantified. Insertion of Tn5 influenced amino acid and phospholipid metabolism and resulted in significantly higher concentration of aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycinebetaine, glycerophosphatidylcholine (GPC) and putrescine in NBRI1108T as compared to that in NBRI1108. The concentration of glutamic acid, glycinebetaine and GPC increased by 34%, 95% and 100%, respectively in the NBRI1108T as compared to that in NBRI1108. High concentration of glycerophosphatidylethanolamine (GPE) and undetected GPC in NBRI1108 indicates that biosynthesis of GPE may have taken place via the methylation pathway of phospholipid biosynthesis. However, high GPC and low GPE concentration in NBRI1108T suggest that methylation pathway and phosphatidylcholine synthase (PCS) pathway of phospholipid biosynthesis are being followed in the NBRI1108T. Application of multivariate principal component analysis (PCA) on the quantified metabolites revealed clear variations in NBRI1108 and NBRI1108T in polar and non-polar metabolites. Identification of abiotic stress tolerant metabolites from the NBRI1108T suggest that Tn5 mutagenesis enhanced tolerance towards high temperature and drought. Tolerance to drought was further confirmed in greenhouse experiments with maize as host plant, where NBRI1108T showed relatively high biomass under drought conditions.
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Vasvi
authors: V
authors: Chaudhry
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Anil
authors: A
authors: Bhatia
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Santosh Kumar
authors: SK
authors: Bharti
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Shashank Kumar
authors: SK
authors: Mishra
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Puneet Singh
authors: PS
authors: Chauhan
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Aradhana
authors: A
authors: Mishra
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Om Prakash
authors: OP
authors: Sidhu
authors: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors: Chandra Shekhar
authors: CS
authors: Nautiyal
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000235:genetics*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D055442:Metabolome; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000379:methods; D050296:Microbial Viability; D009154:Mutation; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D016958:Pseudomonas putida / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D013696:Temperature; D019895:Transposases / Q000235:genetics*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: C473503:Tn5 transposase; D019895:Transposases
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