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Regulation of coronafacoyl phytotoxin production by the PAS-LuxR family regulator CfaR in the common scab pathogen Streptomyces scabies.

Abstract
Potato common scab is an economically important crop disease that is characterized by the formation of superficial, raised or pitted lesions on the potato tuber surface. The most widely distributed causative agent of the disease is Streptomyces scabies, which produces the phytotoxic secondary metabolite thaxtomin A that serves as a key virulence factor for the organism. Recently, it was demonstrated that S. scabies can also produce the phytotoxic secondary metabolite coronafacoyl-L-isoleucine (CFA-L-Ile) as well as other related metabolites in minor amounts. The expression of the biosynthetic genes for CFA-L-Ile production is dependent on a PAS-LuxR family transcriptional regulator, CfaR, which is encoded within the phytotoxin biosynthetic gene cluster in S. scabies. In this study, we show that CfaR activates coronafacoyl phytotoxin production by binding to a single site located immediately upstream of the putative -35 hexanucleotide box within the promoter region for the biosynthetic genes. The binding activity of CfaR was shown to require both the LuxR and PAS domains, the latter of which is involved in protein homodimer formation. We also show that CFA-L-Ile production is greatly enhanced in S. scabies by overexpression of both cfaR and a downstream co-transcribed gene, orf1. Our results provide important insight into the regulation of coronafacoyl phytotoxin production, which is thought to contribute to the virulence phenotype of S. scabies. Furthermore, we provide evidence that CfaR is a novel member of the PAS-LuxR family of regulators, members of which are widely distributed among actinomycete bacteria.
AuthorsZhenlong Cheng, Luke Bown, Kapil Tahlan, Dawn R D Bignell
JournalPloS one (PLoS One) Vol. 10 Issue 3 Pg. e0122450 ( 2015) ISSN: 1932-6203 [Electronic] United States
PMID25826255 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Phytochemicals
  • Toxins, Biological
Topics
  • Bacterial Proteins (genetics, metabolism, physiology)
  • Base Sequence
  • Binding Sites
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Dimerization
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Open Reading Frames
  • Phylogeny
  • Phytochemicals (biosynthesis)
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Streptomyces (classification, metabolism, pathogenicity)
  • Toxins, Biological (biosynthesis)

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