scholarly journals The Very Long Chain Fatty Acid (C26:25OH) Linked to the Lipid A Is Important for the Fitness of the Photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium Strain ORS278 and the Establishment of a Successful Symbiosis with Aeschynomene Legumes

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Busset ◽  
Flaviana Di Lorenzo ◽  
Angelo Palmigiano ◽  
Luisa Sturiale ◽  
Frederic Gressent ◽  
...  
2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (14) ◽  
pp. 4800-4812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanghui Zhang ◽  
Margreet A. Wolfert ◽  
Geert-Jan Boons

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna V. Bourassa ◽  
Elmar L. Kannenberg ◽  
D. Janine Sherrier ◽  
R. Jeffrey Buhr ◽  
Russell W. Carlson

Rhizobium bacteria live in soil and plant environments, are capable of inducing symbiotic nodules on legumes, invade these nodules, and develop into bacteroids that fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. Rhizobial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is anchored in the bacterial outer membrane through a specialized lipid A containing a very long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA). VLCFA function for rhizobial growth in soil and plant environments is not well understood. Two genes, acpXL and lpxXL, encoding acyl carrier protein and acyltransferase, are among the six genes required for biosynthesis and transfer of VLCFA to lipid A. Rhizobium leguminosarum mutant strains acpXL, acpXL−/lpxXL−, and lpxXL− were examined for LPS structure, viability, and symbiosis. Mutations in acpXL and lpxXL abolished VLCFA attachment to lipid A. The acpXL mutant transferred a shorter acyl chain instead of VLCFA. Strains without lpxXL neither added VLCFA nor a shorter acyl chain. In all strains isolated from nodule bacteria, lipid A had longer acyl chains compared with laboratory-cultured bacteria, whereas mutant strains displayed altered membrane properties, modified cationic peptide sensitivity, and diminished levels of cyclic β-glucans. In pea nodules, mutant bacteroids were atypically formed and nitrogen fixation and senescence were affected. The role of VLCFA for rhizobial environmental fitness is discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 286 (20) ◽  
pp. 17455-17466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas F. Haag ◽  
Silvia Wehmeier ◽  
Artur Muszyński ◽  
Bernhard Kerscher ◽  
Vivien Fletcher ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin A. J.M. van der Lee ◽  
Michaël M. Vork ◽  
Johan E. De Vries ◽  
Peter H.M. Willemsen ◽  
Jan F.C. Glatz ◽  
...  

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