PMID: 9537364Apr 16, 1998Paper

Characterization of Rhizobium leguminosarum exopolysaccharide glycanases that are secreted via a type I exporter and have a novel heptapeptide repeat motif

Journal of Bacteriology
C FinnieJ A Downie

Abstract

The prsDE genes encode a type I protein secretion system required for the secretion of the nodulation protein NodO and at least three other proteins from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae. At least one of these proteins was predicted to be a glycanase involved in processing of bacterial exopolysaccharide (EPS). Two strongly homologous genes (plyA and plyB) were identified as encoding secreted proteins with polysaccharide degradation activity. Both PlyA and PlyB degrade EPS and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), and these extracellular activities are absent in a prsD (protein secretion) mutant. The plyA gene is upstream of prsD but appears to be expressed at a very low level (if at all) in cultured bacteria. A plyB::Tn5 mutant has a very large reduction in degradation of EPS and CMC. Cultures of plyB mutants contained an increased ratio of EPS repeat units to reducing ends, indicating that the EPS was present in a longer-chain form, and this correlated with a significant increase in culture viscosity. Thus, PlyB may play a role in processing of EPS. Analysis of the symbiotic properties of a plyA plyB double mutant revealed that these genes are not required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and that nodulation was not significantly af...Continue Reading

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