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Poly(A) polymerase I participates in the indole regulatory pathway of YS19 Free

Abstract

YS19 is a preponderant endophytic bacterium isolated from rice. It is characterized by the formation of symplasmata, a type of multicellular aggregate structure, contributing to a strong stress resistance and specific adaptation of YS19 in endophyte–host associations. Indole is an important signal molecule in intra- or interspecies relationships, regulating a variety of bacterial behaviours such as cell aggregation and stress resistance; however, the regulatory mechanism remains an ongoing area of investigation. This study selected YS19 as a model strain to construct a mutant library, utilizing the mTn transposon mutagenesis method, thus obtaining a positive mutant with an indole-inhibited mutation gene. Via thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR, the mutational site was identified as the gene of , which encodes the poly(A) polymerase I to catalyse the polyadenylation of RNAs. The full length of the sequence was 1332 bp, and phylogenetic analysis revealed that is extremely conserved among strains of . The expression of the gene was significantly inhibited (by 36.6 % as detected via quantitative PCR) by indole (0.5 mM). Many physiological behaviours of YS19 were affected by this mutation: the cell decay rate in the post-stationary growth phase was promoted, symplasmata formation and motility were inhibited in the late stationary growth phase and the colonization ability and growth-promoting effect of YS19 on the host plant were also inhibited. This study discusses the indole regulatory pathways from the point of RNA post-transcriptional modification, thus enriching our knowledge of polyadenylation and expanding current research ideas of indole regulation.

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Keyword(s): indole , Pantoea agglomerans YS19 , poly(A) polymerase , symplasmata and Tn5 transposon
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Poly(A) polymerase I participates in the indole regulatory pathway of Pantoea agglomerans YS19
Microbiology 163, 197 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000415
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