Transcriptional Profiling and Transposon Mutagenesis Study of the Endophyte Pantoea eucalypti FBS135 Adapting to Nitrogen Starvation
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Published:2023-09-19
Issue:18
Volume:24
Page:14282
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ISSN:1422-0067
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Container-title:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:IJMS
Author:
Huang Shengquan1ORCID, Zhang Xiuyu2, Song Zongwen1, Rahman Mati Ur1, Fan Ben1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China 2. Department of Biology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Abstract
The research on plant endophytes has been drawing a lot of attention in recent years. Pantoea belongs to a group of endophytes with plant growth-promoting activity and has been widely used in agricultural fields. In our earlier studies, Pantoea eucalypti FBS135 was isolated from healthy-growing Pinus massoniana and was able to promote pine growth. P. eucalypti FBS135 can grow under extremely low nitrogen conditions. To understand the mechanism of the low-nitrogen tolerance of this bacterium, the transcriptome of FBS135 in the absence of nitrogen was examined in this study. We found that FBS135 actively regulates its gene expression in response to nitrogen deficiency. Nearly half of the number (4475) of genes in FBS135 were differentially expressed under this condition, mostly downregulated, while it significantly upregulated many transportation-associated genes and some nitrogen metabolism-related genes. In the downregulated genes, the ribosome pathway-related ones were significantly enriched. Meanwhile, we constructed a Tn5 transposon library of FBS135, from which four genes involved in low-nitrogen tolerance were screened out, including the gene for the host-specific protein J, RNA polymerase σ factor RpoS, phosphoribosamine-glycine ligase, and serine acetyltransferase. Functional analysis of the genes revealed their potential roles in the adaptation to nitrogen limitation. The results obtained in this work shed light on the mechanism of endophytes represented by P. eucalypti FBS135, at the overall transcriptional level, to an environmentally limited nitrogen supply and provided a basis for further investigation on this topic.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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