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Purification and characterisation of a quorum quenching AHL-lactonase from the endophytic bacterium Enterobacter sp. CS66.


ABSTRACT: The quorum quenching (QQ) activity of endophytic bacteria associated with medicinal plants was explored. Extracts of the Gram-negative Enterobacter sp. CS66 possessed potent N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) hydrolytic activity in vitro. Using degenerate primers, we PCR-amplified an open reading frame (denoted aiiE) from CS66 that was 96% identical to the well-characterised AHL-lactonase AiiA from Bacillus thuringiensis, but only 30% was identical to AHL-lactonases from other Gram-negative species. This confirms that close AiiA homologs can be found in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Purified AiiE exhibited potent AHL-lactonase activity against a broad range of AHLs. Furthermore, aiiE was able to reduce the production of secreted plant cell wall-degrading hydrolytic enzymes when expressed in trans in the economically important plant pathogen, Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Our results indicate the presence of a novel AHL-lactonase in Enterobacter sp. CS66 with significant potential as a biocontrol agent.

SUBMITTER: Shastry RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5905603 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Purification and characterisation of a quorum quenching AHL-lactonase from the endophytic bacterium Enterobacter sp. CS66.

Shastry Rajesh Padumane RP   Dolan Stephen K SK   Abdelhamid Yassmin Y   Vittal Ravishankar Rai RR   Welch Martin M  

FEMS microbiology letters 20180501 9


The quorum quenching (QQ) activity of endophytic bacteria associated with medicinal plants was explored. Extracts of the Gram-negative Enterobacter sp. CS66 possessed potent N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) hydrolytic activity in vitro. Using degenerate primers, we PCR-amplified an open reading frame (denoted aiiE) from CS66 that was 96% identical to the well-characterised AHL-lactonase AiiA from Bacillus thuringiensis, but only 30% was identical to AHL-lactonases from other Gram-negative species.  ...[more]

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