Journal article

Publication year: 2010

Pages: 48-54

Journal: FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volume number: 308

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0378-1097

eISSN: 1574-6968

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01994.x

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract: 
A 530-kb megaplasmid pPag3 contributing 10.8% of the total genome of Pantoea vagans biocontrol strain C9-1 was sequenced. A rare nonpigmented variant C9-1W was obtained and shown to have lost pPag3, but retained all other plasmids (pPag1, pPag2). Phenotypic characterization of the variant confirmed the function of several annotated genes that may influence ecological fitness and efficacy. Metabolic profiling revealed important plasmid-based carbon utilization phenotypes. Plasmid loss resulted in thiamine auxotrophy, absence of carotenoid pigmentation, desferrioxamine diffusible siderophore biosynthesis, inherent ampicillin resistance and expression of AI-1 quorum-sensing signaling. This confirmed the functional expression of the corresponding genes located on pPag3 in P. vagans.

Harvard Citation style: Smits, T., Rezzonico, F., Pelludat, C., Goesmann, A., Frey, J. and Duffy, B. (2010) Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a nonpigmented variant of Pantoea vagans biocontrol strain C9-1 lacking the 530-kb megaplasmid pPag3, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 308(1), pp. 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01994.x

APA Citation style: Smits, T., Rezzonico, F., Pelludat, C., Goesmann, A., Frey, J., & Duffy, B. (2010). Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a nonpigmented variant of Pantoea vagans biocontrol strain C9-1 lacking the 530-kb megaplasmid pPag3. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 308(1), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01994.x