Opine utilization by Agrobacterium spp.: octopine-type Ti plasmids encode two pathways for mannopinic acid degradation.
AUTOR(ES)
Dessaux, Y
RESUMO
Octopine-type strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens degrade the opine mannopinic acid through a specific pathway which involves cleavage of the molecule at the C--N bond between the amino acid and the sugar moieties. Mannose was identified as a product of the reaction. This pathway was inducible by mannopinic and agropinic acids, but not by mannopine or agropine, the two other mannityl opines. The transport system for this pathway appeared to be specific for mannopinic acid. A second, nonspecific pathway for mannopinic acid degradation was also identified. This involved some of the catabolic functions associated with the metabolism of mannopine and agropine. This second pathway was inducible by mannopine and agropine but not by mannopinic or agropinic acids. The transport system for this pathway appeared to have a broad specificity. Transposon Tn5 insertion mutants affected in the specific catabolic pathway were isolated and analyzed. These mutants continued to catabolize mannopine and agropine. Both mapped to a region of the Ti plasmid previously shown to be associated with the catabolism of mannopinic acid. Restriction enzyme analysis of the Ti plasmid from strain 89.10, an octopine strain that is naturally unable to utilize mannopinic acid, showed a deletion in this same region encoding the specific mannopinic acid degradation pathway. Analysis of recombinant clones showed that the second, nonspecific pathway was encoded in a region of the Ti plasmid associated with mannopine and agropine catabolism. This region shared no structural overlap with the segment of the plasmid encoding the specific mannopinic acid degradative pathway.
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