Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27862834›Full record

ArticleMolecular plant pathology2018

Transcriptional response of Erwinia amylovora to copper shock: in vivo role of the copA gene.

Begoña Águila-Clares, Luisa F Castiblanco, José Miguel Quesada, Ramón Penyalver, Juan Carbonell, María M López, Ester Marco-Noales, George W Sundin

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Molecular plant pathology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transcriptome-Based WGCNA Reveals Hub Genes Involved in Copper Resistance ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Article
  2. Copper-induced stress mechanisms inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
    Article
  3. Antibiotic and Copper Sensitivity inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  4. Biosynthesis and function of 7-deazaguanine derivatives in bacteria and phages.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2024
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Metal retention and replacement in QueD2 protect queuosine-tRNA biosynthesis in metal-starvedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Au Nanoclusters AmeliorateInternational journal of nanomedicine · 2021
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Begoña Águila-ClaresInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias Moncada, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Valencia, 46113, Spain.
Luisa F CastiblancoDepartment of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
José Miguel QuesadaDepartment of Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, 18008, Spain.
Ramón PenyalverInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias Moncada, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Valencia, 46113, Spain.
Juan CarbonellInstituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
María M LópezInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias Moncada, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Valencia, 46113, Spain.
Ester Marco-NoalesInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias Moncada, Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Valencia, 46113, Spain.
George W SundinDepartment of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias · ESMichigan State University · USEstación Experimental del Zaidín · ESUniversitat de València · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fire blight is a devastating plant disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, and its control is frequently based on the use of copper-based compounds whose mechanisms of action are not well known. Consequently, in this article, we investigate the response of E. amylovora to copper shock by a whole-genome microarray approach. Transcriptional analyses showed that, in the presence of copper, 23 genes were increased in expression; these genes were classified mainly into the transport and stress functional categories. Among them, the copA gene was strongly induced and regulated in a finely tuned manner by copper. Mutation of copA, soxS, arcB, yjcE, ygcF, yhhQ, galF and EAM_3469 genes revealed that tolerance to copper in E. amylovora can be achieved by complex physiological mechanisms, including: (i) the control of copper homeostasis through, at least, the extrusion of Cu(I) by a P-type ATPase efflux pump CopA; and (ii) the overcoming of copper toxicity caused by oxidative stress by the expression of several reactive oxygen species (ROS)-related genes, including the two major transcriptional factors SoxS and ArcB. Furthermore, complementation analyses demonstrated the important role of copA for copper tolerance in E. amylovora, not only in vitro, but also in inoculated pear shoots.

Indexed as

Genes, BacterialAdaptation, PhysiologicalCopperErwinia amylovoraGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic Association StudiesMicrobial Sensitivity TestsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerTranscription, GeneticTranscriptomeCopperRNA, MessengercopAcopper homeostasisfire blight

Identifiers

PMID27862834
PMCPMC6638137
OpenAlexW2550069053

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.