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  • Title: Characterization of Rhizobium tropici CIAT899 nodulation factors: the role of nodH and nodPQ genes in their sulfation.
    Author: Folch-Mallol JL, Marroqui S, Sousa C, Manyani H, López-Lara IM, van der Drift KM, Haverkamp J, Quinto C, Gil-Serrano A, Thomas-Oates J, Spaink HP, Megías M.
    Journal: Mol Plant Microbe Interact; 1996 Apr; 9(3):151-63. PubMed ID: 8850086.
    Abstract:
    We have purified and characterized the nodulation factors produced by Rhizobium tropici CIAT899. This strain produces a large variety of nodulation factors, these being a mixture of sulfated or nonsulfated penta- or tetra-chito-oligosaccharides to which any of six different fatty acyl moieties may be attached to nitrogen of the nonreducing terminal residue. In this mixture we have also found methylated or nonmethylated lipo-chitin oligosaccharides. Here we describe a novel lipo-chitin-oligosaccharide consisting of a linear backbone of 4 N-acetylglucosamine residues and one mannose that is the reducing-terminal residue and bearing a C18:1 fatty acyl moiety on the nonreducing terminal residue. In addition, we have identified, cloned, and sequenced R. tropici nodH and nodPQ genes, generated mutations in the nodH and nodQ genes, and tested the mutant strains for nodulation in Phaseolus and Leucaena plants. Our results indicate that the sulfate group present in wild-type Nod factors plays a major role in nodulation of Leucaena plants by strain CIAT899 of R. tropici.
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