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Abstract

SEMIA587 is a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium of the group commonly called rhizobia, which induce nodule formation in legumes, and is widely used in Brazilian commercial inoculants of soybean. In response to flavonoid compounds released by plant roots, besides Nod factors, other molecular signals are secreted by rhizobia, such as proteins secreted by type III secretion systems (T3SSs). Rhizobial T3SSs are activated by the transcription regulator TtsI, which binds to sequences present in the promoter regions of T3SS genes via a conserved sequence called the box. To study the role of the T3SS of SEMIA587, was mutated. Protein secretion and flavonoid induction analysis, as well as nodulation tests, were performed with the wild-type and mutant strains. The results obtained showed that SEMIA587 secretes at least two proteins (NopA and NopL, known rhizobial T3SS substrates) after genistein induction, whilst supernatants of the mutant did not contain these Nops. Unusually for rhizobia, the promoter region of the SEMIA587 gene contains a box, which is responsive to flavonoid induction and to which TtsI can bind. Nodulation tests performed with three different leguminous plants showed that the SEMIA587 mutant displays host-dependent characteristics; in particular, nodulation of two soybean cultivars, Peking and EMBRAPA 48, was more efficient when TtsI of was functional.

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