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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2023

Diversity and Evolutionary History of Ti Plasmids of "tumorigenes" Clade of Rhizobium spp. and Their Differentiation from Other Ti and Ri Plasmids.

Nemanja Kuzmanović, Jacqueline Wolf, Sabine Eva Will, Kornelia Smalla, George C diCenzo, Meina Neumann-Schaal

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nemanja KuzmanovićJulius Kühn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Urban Green, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3635-6813
Jacqueline WolfLeibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
Sabine Eva WillLeibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
Kornelia SmallaJulius Kühn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7653-5560
George C diCenzoDepartment of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3889-6570
Meina Neumann-SchaalLeibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures · DEJulius Kühn-Institut · DEQueen's University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agrobacteria are important plant pathogens responsible for crown/cane gall and hairy root diseases. Crown/cane gall disease is associated with strains carrying tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmids, while hairy root disease is caused by strains harboring root-inducing (Ri) plasmids. In this study, we analyzed the sequences of Ti plasmids of the novel "tumorigenes" clade of the family Rhizobiaceae ("tumorigenes" Ti plasmids), which includes two species, Rhizobium tumorigenes and Rhizobium rhododendri. The sequences of reference Ti/Ri plasmids were also included, which was followed by a comparative analysis of their backbone and accessory regions. The "tumorigenes" Ti plasmids have novel opine signatures compared with other Ti/Ri plasmids characterized so far. The first group exemplified by pTi1078 is associated with production of agrocinopine, nopaline, and ridéopine in plant tumors, while the second group comprising pTi6.2 is responsible for synthesis of leucinopine. Bioinformatic and chemical analyses, including opine utilization assays, indicated that leucinopine associated with pTi6.2 most likely has D,L stereochemistry, unlike the L,L-leucinopine produced in tumors induced by reference strains Chry5 and Bo542. Most of the "tumorigenes" Ti plasmids have conjugative transfer system genes that are unusual for Ti plasmids, composed of avhD4/avhB and traA/mobC/parA regions. Next, our results suggested that "tumorigenes" Ti plasmids have a common origin, but they diverged through large-scale recombination events, through recombination with single or multiple distinct Ti/Ri plasmids. Lastly, we showed that Ti/Ri plasmids could be differentiated based on pairwise Mash or average amino-acid identity distance clustering, and we supply a script to facilitate application of the former approach by other researchers.

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NeoplasmsRhizobiumDNA, BacterialHumansPlant Tumor-Inducing PlasmidsPlant TumorsPlasmidsTitaniumDNA, BacterialTitaniumclassificationleucinopineopineRhizobium rhododendriRhizobium tumorigenesridéopine

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