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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993 June; 59(6): 1756-1761
Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 Produces a Second Set of Plant-Inducible Pectate Lyase Isozymes

Segenet Kelemu{dagger} and Alan Collmer*

Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-5908

ABSTRACT

The enterobacterium Erwinia chrysanthemi causes soft-rot diseases involving extensive tissue maceration in a wide variety of plants and secretes multiple pectic enzymes that degrade plant cell walls and middle lamellae. An E. chrysanthemi mutant with directed deletions or insertions in genes pehX, pelX, pelA, pelB, pelC, and pelE, which encode exo-poly-{alpha}-D-galacturonosidase, exopolygalacturonate lyase, and four isozymes of pectate lyase, respectively, was constructed by the marker exchange of a cloned pehX::TnphoA fragment into E. chrysanthemi CUCPB5010, a {Delta}(pelA pelE) {Delta}(pelB pelC)::28bp {Delta}(pelX){Delta}4bp derivative of strain EC16. This mutant, E. chrysanthemi CUCPB5012, no longer caused pitting in a standard pectate semisolid agar medium used to detect pectolytic activity in bacteria. Nevertheless, the mutant still macerated leaves of chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium), although with reduced virulence. The mutant was found to produce significant pectate lyase activity in rotting chrysanthemum tissue and in minimal media containing chrysanthemum extracts or cell walls as the sole carbon source. Activity-stained, ultra-thin-layer isoelectric focusing gels revealed the presence in these preparations of several pectate lyase isozymes with pIs ranging from highly acidic to highly alkaline. Sterile culture fluids containing these isozymes were able to macerate chrysanthemum leaf tissue. Unlike the products of the pelA, pelB, pelC, and pelE genes in E. chrysanthemi EC16, these plant-inducible pectate lyase isozymes were not produced in minimal medium containing pectate. The results suggest that E. chrysanthemi produces two sets of independently regulated pectate lyase isozymes that are capable of macerating plant tissues.

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* Corresponding author.

{dagger} Present address: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Apartado Aereo No. 6713, Cali, Colombia.

Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993 June; 59(6): 1756-1761
Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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