title: Differential regulation of toxoflavin production and its role in the enhanced virulence of Burkholderia gladioli.
abstract: Burkholderia gladioli is a causal agent of bacterial panicle blight and sheath/grain browning in rice in many countries. Many strains produce the yellow pigment toxoflavin, which is highly toxic to plants, fungi, animals and microorganisms. Although there have been several studies on the toxoflavin biosynthesis system of B. glumae, it is still unclear how B. gladioli activates toxoflavin biosynthesis. In this study, we explored the genomic organization of the toxoflavin system of B. gladioli and its biological functions using comparative genomic analysis between toxoflavin-producing strains (B. glumae BGR1 and B. gladioli BSR3) and a strain not producing toxoflavin (B. gladioli KACC11889). The latter exhibits normal physiological characteristics similar to other B. gladioli strains. Burkholderia gladioli KACC11889 possesses all the genes involved in toxoflavin biosynthesis, but lacks the quorum-sensing (QS) system that functions as an on/off switch for toxoflavin biosynthesis. These data suggest that B. gladioli has evolved to use the QS signalling cascade of toxoflavin production (TofI/TofR of QS → ToxJ or ToxR → tox operons) similar to that in B. glumae. However, some strains may have evolved to eliminate toxoflavin production through deletion of the QS genes. In addition, we demonstrate that the toxoflavin biosynthetic system enhances the virulence of B. gladioli. These findings provide another line of evidence supporting the differential regulation of the toxoflavin system in Burkholderia strains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jongyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jungwook
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sunyoung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea.
authors.forename: Inmyoung
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, South Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Su
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D053898:Biosynthetic Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D042725:Burkholderia gladioli / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D009068:Movement; D019697:Onions / Q000382:microbiology; D009876:Operon / Q000235:genetics; D011744:Pyrimidinones / Q000378:metabolism*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014227:Triazines / Q000378:metabolism*; D014774:Virulence / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D011744:Pyrimidinones; D014227:Triazines; C009570:toxoflavin
keywords: Burkholderia gladioli; Burkholderia glumae; genome organization; quorum sensing; toxoflavin; virulence
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