Agrobacterium tumefaciens ferritins play an important role in full virulence through regulating iron homeostasis and oxidative stress survival.

Molecular Plant Pathology
Jing YangMinliang Guo

Abstract

Ferritins are a large family of iron storage proteins, which are used by bacteria and other organisms to avoid iron toxicity and as a safe iron source in the cytosol. Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a phytopathogen, has two ferritin-encoding genes: atu2771 and atu2477. Atu2771 is annotated as a Bfr-encoding gene (Bacterioferritin, Bfr) and atu2477 as a Dps-encoding gene (DNA binding protein from starved cells, Dps). Three deletion mutants (Δbfr, Δdps, and bfr-dps double-deletion mutant ΔbdF) of these two ferritin-encoding genes were constructed to investigate the effects of ferritin deficiency on the iron homeostasis, oxidative stress resistance, and pathogenicity of A. tumefaciens. Deficiency of two ferritins affects the growth of A. tumefaciens under iron starvation and excess. When supplied with moderate iron, the growth of A. tumefaciens is not affected by the deficiency of ferritin. Deficiency of ferritin significantly reduces iron accumulation in the cells of A. tumefaciens, but the effect of Bfr deficiency on iron accumulation is severer than Dps deficiency and the double mutant ΔbdF has the least intracellular iron content. All three ferritin-deficient mutants showed a decreased tolerance to 3 mM H2 O2 in comparison with the...Continue Reading

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