The sigma factor sigma s affects antibiotic production and biological control activity of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5. Sarniguet, A., Kraus, J., Henkels, M. D., Muehlchen, A. M., & Loper, J. E. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 92(26):12255–12259, 12, 1995. [PubMed Central:\hrefhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC40335PMC40335] [DOI:\hrefhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.92.26.1225510.1073/pnas.92.26.12255] [PubMed:\hrefhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/120492120492]
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Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, a rhizosphere-inhabiting bacterium that suppresses several soilborne pathogens of plants, produces the antibiotics pyrrolnitrin, pyoluteorin, and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol. A gene necessary for pyrrolnitrin production by Pf-5 was identified as rpoS, which encodes the stationary-phase sigma factor sigma s. Several pleiotropic effects of an rpoS mutation in Escherichia coli also were observed in an RpoS- mutant of Pf-5. These included sensitivities of stationary-phase cells to stresses imposed by hydrogen peroxide or high salt concentration. A plasmid containing the cloned wild-type rpoS gene restored pyrrolnitrin production and stress tolerance to the RpoS- mutant of Pf-5. The RpoS- mutant overproduced pyoluteorin and 2,4-diacetyl-phloroglucinol, two antibiotics that inhibit growth of the phytopathogenic fungus Pythium ultimum, and was superior to the wild type in suppression of seedling damping-off of cucumber caused by Pythium ultimum. When inoculated onto cucumber seed at high cell densities, the RpoS- mutant did not survive as well as the wild-type strain on surfaces of developing seedlings. Other stationary-phase-specific phenotypes of Pf-5, such as the production of cyanide and extracellular protease(s) were expressed by the RpoS- mutant, suggesting that sigma s is only one of the sigma factors required for the transcription of genes in stationary-phase cells of P. fluorescens. These results indicate that a sigma factor encoded by rpoS influences antibiotic production, biological control activity, and survival of P. fluorescens on plant surfaces.
@Article{sarniguet1995,
   Author="Sarniguet, A.  and Kraus, J.  and Henkels, M. D.  and Muehlchen, A. M.  and Loper, J. E. ",
   Title="{{T}he sigma factor sigma s affects antibiotic production and biological control activity of {P}seudomonas fluorescens {P}f-5}",
   Journal="Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A",
   Year="1995",
   Volume="92",
   Number="26",
   Pages="12255--12259",
   Month="12",
   Abstract={Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, a rhizosphere-inhabiting bacterium that suppresses several soilborne pathogens of plants, produces the antibiotics pyrrolnitrin, pyoluteorin, and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol. A gene necessary for pyrrolnitrin production by Pf-5 was identified as rpoS, which encodes the stationary-phase sigma factor sigma s. Several pleiotropic effects of an rpoS mutation in Escherichia coli also were observed in an RpoS- mutant of Pf-5. These included sensitivities of stationary-phase cells to stresses imposed by hydrogen peroxide or high salt concentration. A plasmid containing the cloned wild-type rpoS gene restored pyrrolnitrin production and stress tolerance to the RpoS- mutant of Pf-5. The RpoS- mutant overproduced pyoluteorin and 2,4-diacetyl-phloroglucinol, two antibiotics that inhibit growth of the phytopathogenic fungus Pythium ultimum, and was superior to the wild type in suppression of seedling damping-off of cucumber caused by Pythium ultimum. When inoculated onto cucumber seed at high cell densities, the RpoS- mutant did not survive as well as the wild-type strain on surfaces of developing seedlings. Other stationary-phase-specific phenotypes of Pf-5, such as the production of cyanide and extracellular protease(s) were expressed by the RpoS- mutant, suggesting that sigma s is only one of the sigma factors required for the transcription of genes in stationary-phase cells of P. fluorescens. These results indicate that a sigma factor encoded by rpoS influences antibiotic production, biological control activity, and survival of P. fluorescens on plant surfaces.},
   Note={[PubMed Central:\href{https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC40335}{PMC40335}] [DOI:\href{https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.92.26.12255}{10.1073/pnas.92.26.12255}] [PubMed:\href{https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/120492}{120492}] }
}

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