A rhizobacterium with high antifungal activity was isolated from a potato field at Inneruulalik, South Greenland. Phylogenetic analysis based on multi locus sequence typing showed that the bacterium was affiliated with strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens. The bacterium, denoted as Pseudomonas fluorescens In5, inhibited in vitro a broad range of phytopathogenic fungi, and the antifungal activity increased with decreasing temperature. Microcosm experiments demonstrated that P. fluorescens In5 protected tomato seedlings from Rhizoctonia solani. Transposon mutagenesis showed that the major cause for the antifungal activity of P. fluorescens In5 was a novel non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) gene. In addition, transposon mutagenesis showed that P. fluorescens In5 also contained a putative quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase gene, which was involved in growth inhibition of phytopathogenic fungi. Although P. fluorescens In5 contained the capacity to synthesize hydrogen cyanide, β-1,3-glucanase, protease, and chitinase, these did not seem to play a role in the in vitro and microcosm antifungal assays.
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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
February 2023
Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
The bacterial strain In5 was previously isolated from a suppressive potato field in southern Greenland and has been characterized and described as . However, the results of new polyphasic analyses coupled with those of phenotypic, phylogenetic and genomic analyses reported here demonstrate that the affiliation to the species was incorrect. The strain is Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and displays growth at 4-28 °C (optimum temperature 20-25 °C) and at pH 5-9 (optimum pH 6-7).
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October 2020
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
In5 synthesizes the antifungal cyclic lipopeptides (CLPs) nunamycin and nunapeptin, which are similar in structure and genetic organization to the pseudomonas-derived phytotoxins syringomycin and syringopeptin. Regulation of syringomycin and syringopeptin is dependent on the two-component global regulatory system GacS-GacA and the SalA, SyrF, and SyrG transcription factors, which activate syringomycin synthesis in response to plant signal molecules. Previously, we demonstrated that a specific transcription factor, NunF, positively regulates the synthesis of nunamycin and nunapeptin in In5 and that the gene is upregulated by fungal-associated molecules.
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June 2019
State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.
Genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics are powerful technologies for studying microbial interactions. The main drawback of these methods is the requirement for destructive sampling. We have established an alternative but complementary technique based on a microplate system combined with promoter fusions for visualizing gene expression in space and time.
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August 2017
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
Background: Few studies to date report the transcriptional response of biocontrol bacteria toward phytopathogens. In order to gain insights into the potential mechanism underlying the antagonism of the antimicrobial producing strain P. fluorescens In5 against the phytopathogens Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium aphanidermatum, global RNA sequencing was performed.
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December 2017
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nunamycin and nunapeptin are two antimicrobial cyclic lipopeptides (CLPs) produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens In5 and synthesized by nonribosomal synthetases (NRPS) located on two gene clusters designated the nun-nup regulon. Organization of the regulon is similar to clusters found in other CLP-producing pseudomonads except for the border regions where putative LuxR-type regulators are located. This study focuses on understanding the regulatory role of the LuxR-type-encoding gene nunF in CLP production of P.
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