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analysis of the chemotactic system of Open Access

Abstract

is an efficient tool for creating transgenic host plants. The first step in the genetic transformation process involves chemotaxis, which is crucial to the survival of in changeable, harsh and even contaminated soil environments. However, a systematic study of its chemotactic signalling pathway is still lacking. In this study, the distribution and classification of chemotactic genes in the model C58 and 21 other strains were annotated. Local was used for comparative genomics, and was used for predicting protein domains. Chemotactic phenotypes for knockout mutants of ternary signalling complexes in C58 were evaluated using a swim agar plate. A major cluster, in which chemotaxis genes were consistently organized as MCP (methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein), CheS, CheY1, CheA, CheR, CheB, CheY2 and CheD, was found in , but two coupling CheW proteins were located outside the ‘’ cluster. In the ternary signalling complexes, the absence of MCP atu0514 significantly impaired chemotaxis, and the absence of CheA (atu0517) or the deletion of both CheWs abolished chemotaxis. A total of 465 MCPs were found in the 22 strains, and the cytoplasmic domains of these MCPs were composed of 38 heptad repeats. A high homology was observed between the chemotactic systems of the 22 strains with individual differences in the gene and receptor protein distributions, possibly related to their ecological niches. This preliminary study demonstrates the chemotactic system of , and provides some reference for sensing and chemotaxis to exogenous signals.

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Keyword(s): Agrobacterium tumefaciens , Che cluster , chemotaxis and methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Award 18KJB180030)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Nan Xu
  • Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (Award 2018M632389)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Nan Xu
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 21808196, 31870118)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Nan Xu
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In silico analysis of the chemotactic system of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
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