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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2016

Plant nodulation inducers enhance horizontal gene transfer of Azorhizobium caulinodans symbiosis island

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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of genomic islands is a driving force of bacterial evolution. Many pathogens and symbionts use this mechanism to spread mobile genetic elements that carry genes important for interaction with their eukaryotic hosts. However, the role of the host in this process remains unclear. Here, we show that plant compounds inducing the nodulation process in the rhizobium-legume mutualistic symbiosis also enhance the transfer of symbiosis islands. We demonstrate that the symbiosis island of the Sesbania rostrata symbiont, Azorhizobium caulinodans, is an 87.6-kb integrative and conjugative element (ICEAc) that is able to excise, form a circular DNA, and conjugatively transfer to a specific site of gly-tRNA gene of other rhizobial genera, expanding their host range. The HGT frequency was significantly increased in the rhizosphere. An ICEAc-located LysR-family transcriptional regulatory protein AhaR triggered the HGT process in response to plant flavonoids that induce the expression of nodulation genes through another LysR-type protein, NodD. Our study suggests that rhizobia may sense rhizosphere environments and transfer their symbiosis gene contents to other genera of rhizobia, thereby broadening rhizobial host-range specificity.
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Jun Ling, Hui Wang, Ping Wu, Tao Li, Yu Tang, et al.. Plant nodulation inducers enhance horizontal gene transfer of Azorhizobium caulinodans symbiosis island. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113 (48), pp.13875-13880. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1615121113⟩. ⟨hal-01606549⟩
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