ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015
FleQ coordinates flagellum-dependent and -independent motilities in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000.
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- Movement of bacteria in the soil and the rhizosphere.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Review
- Regulatory Plasticity and Metabolic Trade-offs Drive Adaptive Evolution of Alternative Flagellar Configurations inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Functional study of FleQ reveals the co-regulation ofiScience · 2025Article
- Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Genome-wide identification of novel flagellar motility genes inFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Multiple pathways impact the swarming motility ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2024Article
- Flip the switch: the role of FleQ in modulating the transition between the free-living and sessile mode of growth inJournal of bacteriology · 2024Review
- Applied microbiology of the phyllosphere.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Multiple Pathways Impact Swarming Motility ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Adaption ofMicroorganisms · 2023Review
- Prevention of Stomatal Entry as a Strategy for Plant Disease Control against Foliar PathogenicPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- FleQ, FleN and c-di-GMP coordinately regulate cellulose production inFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023Article
- Exopolysaccharides amylovoran and levan contribute to sliding motility in the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Identification of Indole-3-Acetic Acid-Regulated Genes inJournal of bacteriology · 2022Article
- In planta transcriptomics reveals conflicts between pattern-triggered immunity and the AlgU sigma factor regulon.PloS one · 2022Article
- Virulence-related regulatory network ofComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022Review
- Transcriptomic analysis ofMicrobial genomics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Motility plays an essential role in bacterial fitness and colonization in the plant environment, since it favors nutrient acquisition and avoidance of toxic substances, successful competition with other microorganisms, the ability to locate the preferred hosts, access to optimal sites within them, and dispersal in the environment during the course of transmission. In this work, we have observed that the mutation of the flagellar master regulatory gene, fleQ, alters bacterial surface motility and biosurfactant production, uncovering a new type of motility for Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 on semisolid surfaces. We present evidence that P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 moves over semisolid surfaces by using at least two different types of motility, namely, swarming, which depends on the presence of flagella and syringafactin, a biosurfactant produced by this strain, and a flagellum-independent surface spreading or sliding, which also requires syringafactin. We also show that FleQ activates flagellum synthesis and negatively regulates syringafactin production in P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Finally, it was surprising to observe that mutants lacking flagella or syringafactin were as virulent as the wild type, and only the simultaneous loss of both flagella and syringafactin impairs the ability of P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 to colonize tomato host plants and cause disease.
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