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The lolB gene in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris is required for bacterial attachment, stress tolerance, and virulence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is a Gram-negative bacterium that can cause black rot disease in crucifers. The lipoprotein outer membrane localization (Lol) system is involved in the lipoprotein sorting to the outer membrane. Although Xcc has a set of annotated lol genes, there is still little known about the physiological role in this phytopathogen. In this study, we aimed to characterize the role of LolB of Xcc in bacterial attachment, stress tolerance, and virulence.

Results

To characterize the role of LolB, lolB mutant was constructed and phenotypic evaluation was performed. The lolB mutant revealed reductions in bacterial attachment, extracellular enzyme production, and virulence. Mutation of lolB also resulted in reduced tolerance to a myriad of stresses, including heat and a range of membrane-perturbing agents. Trans-complementation of lolB mutant with intact lolB gene reverted these altered phenotypes to the wild-type levels. From subsequent reporter assay and reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) analysis, the expression of genes that encode the major extracellular enzymes and the stress-related proteins was reduced after lolB mutation.

Conclusions

The results in this work contribute to the functional understanding of lolB in Xanthomonas for the first time, and provide new insights into the function of lolB in bacteria.

SUBMITTER: Liao CT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8739992 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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