Project description:Precise classification of bacteria facilitates prediction of their ecological niche. The genus Enterobacter includes pathogens of plants and animals but also beneficial bacteria that may require reclassification. Here, we propose reclassification of Enterobacter FY-07 (FY-07), a strain that has many plant-growth-promoting traits and produces bacterial cellulose (BC), to the Kosakonia genera. To re-examine the taxonomic position of FY-07, a polyphasic approach including 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, ATP synthase β subunit (atpD) gene sequence analysis, DNA gyrase (gyrB) gene sequence analysis, initiation translation factor 2 (infB) gene sequence analysis, RNA polymerase β subunit (rpoB) gene sequence analysis, determination of DNA G + C content, average nucleotide identity based on BLAST, in silico DNA-DNA hybridization and analysis of phenotypic features was applied. This polyphasic analysis suggested that Enterobacter sp. FY-07 should be reclassified as Kosakonia oryzendophytica FY-07. In addition, the potential of FY-07 to promote plant growth was also investigated by detecting related traits and the colonization of FY-07 in rice roots.
Project description:Pyoverdines are siderophores employed by a variety of pseudomonas species to capture essential iron by which their growth is supported in many environments in which they can be harmful or helpful to coinhabiting species or the organisms that they inhabit. Of the Pseudomonas fluorescens group, the pyoverdine of each pseudomonad species is constituted of a central chromophore and a unique peptide component that is produced by nonribosomal peptide synthetases. Pyoverdine Pf5 (PYO-Pf5) is the product of pseudomonas protegens, a species that supports plant growth, particularly in soils with limiting iron. To explore the dynamics of P. protegens activity in soil, we have selected 2’ FY modified RNA aptamers that selectively recognize PYO-Pf5 with high affinities. Two 2’FY-RNA aptamers, with different base sequences, were selected that specifically bind pyoverdine-Pf5 (PYO-Pf5) over pseudobactin (PSB), a related pyoverdine, and two other siderophores, enterobactin and ornibactin. The 2’FY-RNA aptamers were shown to be G-quadruplexes by computational prediction, N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX (NMM) binding and CD spectroscopy. They were compared with their counterparts (same base sequence) in RNA and DNA for function and structure. Whereas the 2’FY-RNA and RNA forms bound PYO-Pf5 and had circular dichroism (CD) spectra typical of a G-quadruplex, the DNA forms neither bound PYO-Pf5 nor showed diagnostic NMM binding or CD spectra for G-quadruplexes. The impact of 2’ moiety in aptamers on their structure and function have been explored and results revealed that the nature of the chemical group at the 2’ position influences binding activity and structure.The aptamers will be applied to a nanoporous aluminum oxide biosensor to detect PYO-Pf5. This sensor provides a future opportunity to track the locations around plant roots of P. protegens and to monitor PYO-Pf5 production and movement through the soil.
Project description:The objective of this work was to expand the knowledge about the possible mechanisms involved in the early stages of the interaction between the diazotrophic endophytic strain Kosakonia radicincitans UYSO10 and sugarcane plants. For that, a proteomic approach was conducted in the strain UYSO10 exposed or not to sugarcane exudates. Results showed that in the presence of root exudates the UYSO10 strain senses the environment and adapts its proteome to transport and metabolize different nutrients, and to interact with the host plant. These results deepen the knowledge of the potential mechanisms involved in the early stage of plant-bacteria endophyte interaction.