Identification of a rhizosphere protein encoded by the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium leguminosarum.
AUTOR(ES)
Dibb, N J
RESUMO
A protein was identified which was made by wild-type strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum but not by nodulation-deficient derivatives which had deletions of their symbiotic plasmids. The protein, which had a subunit molecular weight of ca. 24,000 ( 24K ), was found to be present in large amounts within bacteria that had been reisolated from the surface of inoculated pea roots but was not detected in bacteroids isolated from nodules. The protein could also be induced during growth of R. leguminosarum on nutrient medium and was purified from the cytoplasmic fraction of broken cells. Antiserum raised against the purified protein was used to screen transposon-induced mutants of R. leguminosarum, and four independent mutants were isolated which lacked the protein. The sites of the Tn5 insertions were found to map between the nitrogenase and nodulation genes on symbiotic plasmid pRL1JI , ca. 5 kilobases from the nitrogenase genes and 13 kilobases from the nodulation genes. Genetic determinants for the 24K protein were found to be closely linked to plasmid-borne nodulation genes for all strains of R. leguminosarum tested. However, the mutants which lacked the 24K protein still formed normal nitrogen-fixing nodules on peas, and the function of the protein is unknown.
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