IBBM   21076
INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA Y BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Sequencing aproach and characterization of the broad host range Rhizobium sp. LPU83 plasmids.
Autor/es:
TORRES TEJERIZO G, M F DEL PAPA, W DRAGHI, M LOZANO, M Á GIUSTI, C MARTINI, E SALAS, I SALTO, D WIBERG, R SZCZEPANOWSKI, S WEIDNER , A SCHLÜTER , A PÜHLER , A LAGARES, Y M PISTORIO
Lugar:
San Carlos de Bariloche
Reunión:
Conferencia; International Plasmid Biology Conference 2010; 2010
Resumen:
In several rhizobia, bacteria that inhabit the soil in free-living conditions
and associate in symbiosis with the root of legumes as nitrogen-fixing
organisms, plasmid DNA can constitute a high percentage of the genome. We have
characterized acid-tolerant isolates of rhizobia, here represented by the
strain Rhizobium sp. LPU83, that have an extended nodulation-host range
including alfalfa, the common bean, and Leucena leucocephala (1, 2). In this
study we analyzed the plasmids of R. sp. LPU83 in order to characterize their
role in the evolution of Medicago symbionts and their involvement in symbiotic
behavior. The pLPU83a plasmid was found to be transmissible with no associated
phenotypic traits. The symbiotic plasmid pLPU83b could be transferred at very
low frequencies under laboratory conditions only when pLPU83a was present;
could restore nodulation to a strain cured of its symbiotic plasmid, S.
meliloti A818; but could not restore the full nitrogen fixation associated with
alfalfa. The draft nucleotide sequence of this strain was established by a de
novo sequencing approach carried out on a GS FLX system (454 Life Sciences,
Roche). Different strategies have been used for completing the chromosome of
LPU83. Afterwards, we have determinate all the contigs that belongs to the
plasmids of LPU83 and analyzed them. The predicted coding sequences were
annotated and categorized by functional class by the use of COG. With this
classification, genes for Amino Acid metabolism and transport, Transcription,
Carbohydrate metabolism and transport, and DNA replication, recombination and
repair were well represented. As expected of the previously results of the
plasmid mobilization experiments, we have found three gene cluster with
homology with previously report Mpf/Dtr systems. Recently, we have closed the
sequence of the small plasmid, pLPU83a. The complete nucleotide sequence of
LPU83 plasmids will be helpful to extend the knowledge of the peculiar phenotypic
and taxonomic characteristics of strain LPU83.