期刊
PLANT JOURNAL
卷 75, 期 6, 页码 891-902出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12262
关键词
Choline; Pseudomonas syringae; osmoprotectant; plant host; Phaseolus vulgaris; Glycine max; colonization; survival; whole-cell bioreporter; quaternary ammonium compound (QAC)
资金
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0920156]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0920156] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) choline is a major component of membrane lipids in eukaryotes and, if available to microbial colonists of plants, could provide benefits for growth and protection from stress. Free choline is found in homogenized plant tissues, but its subcellular location and availability to plant microbes are not known. Whole-cell bacterial bioreporters of the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae were constructed that couple a QAC-responsive transcriptional fusion with well-characterized bacterial QAC transporters. These bioreporters demonstrated the presence of abundant free choline compounds released from germinating seeds and seedlings of the bean Phaseolus vulgaris, and a smaller but consistently detectable amount of QACs, probably choline, from leaves. The localization of P.syringae bioreporter cells to the surface and intercellular sites of plant tissues demonstrated the extracellular location of these QAC pools. Moreover, P.syringae mutants that were deficient in the uptake of choline compounds exhibited reduced fitness on leaves, highlighting the importance of extracellular choline to P.syringae on leaves. Our data support a model in which this choline pool is derived from the phospholipid phosphatidylcholine through plant-encoded phospholipases that release choline into the intercellular spaces of plant tissues, such as for membrane lipid recycling. The consequent extracellular release of choline compounds enables their interception and exploitation by plant-associated microbes, and thus provides a selective advantage for microbes such as P.syringae that are adapted to maximally exploit choline.
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