Tumor Induction by Agrobacterium Involves Attachment of the Bacterium to a Site on the Host Plant Cell Wall 1
AUTOR(ES)
Lippincott, Barbara B.
RESUMO
Cell wall preparations from primary bean leaves were found to inhibit tumor initiation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain B6 when inoculated with the bacteria on bean leaves. Membrane fractions from these same leaves were noninhibitory. The cell walls were effective when applied prior to or with bacteria, but application of cell walls about 15 minutes after bacteria did not affect the number of tumors initiated. Much of the inhibitory activity of the plant cell walls was eliminated by pretreatment with dead site-attaching bacteria or with lipopolysaccharide from these bacteria. Cells and lipopolysaccharide from non-site-attaching agrobacteria had no effect on the activity of the plant cell walls. About 30% inhibition of tumor initiation was obtained with plant cell walls at 50 μg/ml dry weight, and at 10 mg/ml dry weight about 70% inhibition was typical. Both early and late appearing tumors were affected by the cell walls, indicating that they do not exclusively affect tumors arising from either small or large wounds. These data show that plant cell walls but not membranes contain surfaces to which A. tumefaciens adheres and these exhibit the specificity typical of the host site to which virulent agrobacteria must attach to induce tumors. It is concluded that some portion of wound-exposed plant cell wall constitutes the host adherence site in Agrobacterium infections.
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