Rhizobia catabolize nod gene-inducing flavonoids via C-ring fission mechanisms.
AUTOR(ES)
Rao, J R
RESUMO
Gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric analyses of derivatized culture medium extracts were used to identify the products of flavonoid metabolism by rhizobia. A number of Rhizobium species and biovars degraded their nod gene-inducing flavonoids by mechanisms which originated in a cleavage of the C-ring of the molecule and which yielded conserved A- and B-ring products among the metabolites. In contrast, Pseudomonas putida degraded quercetin via an initial fission in its A-ring, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens displayed a nonspecific mode of flavonoid degradation which yielded no conserved A- or B-ring products. When incubated with rhizobia, flavonoids with OH substitutions at the 5 and 7 positions yielded phloroglucinol as the conserved A-ring product, and those with a single OH substitution at the 7 position yielded resorcinol. A wider range of structures was found among the B-ring derivatives, including p-coumaric, p-hydroxybenzoic, protocatechuic, phenylacetic, and caffeic acids. The isoflavonoids genistein and daidzein were also degraded via C-ring fission by Rhizobium fredii and Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234, respectively. Partially characterized aromatic metabolites with potential nod gene-inducing activity were detected among the products of naringenin degradation by Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae. The initial structural modification of nod gene-inducing flavonoids by rhizobia can generate chalcones, whose open C-ring system may have implications for the binding of inducers to the nodD gene product.
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