Artikel ; Online: The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids.
Microbiology spectrum
2014 Band 2, Heft 6
Abstract: Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen with the capacity to deliver a segment of oncogenic DNA carried on a large plasmid called the tumor-inducing or Ti plasmid to susceptible plant cells. A. tumefaciens belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria, ... ...
Abstract | Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen with the capacity to deliver a segment of oncogenic DNA carried on a large plasmid called the tumor-inducing or Ti plasmid to susceptible plant cells. A. tumefaciens belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria, whose members include other plant pathogens (Agrobacterium rhizogenes), plant and insect symbionts (Rhizobium spp. and Wolbachia spp., respectively), human pathogens (Brucella spp., Bartonella spp., Rickettsia spp.), and nonpathogens (Caulobacter crescentus, Rhodobacter sphaeroides). Many species of Alphaproteobacteria carry large plasmids ranging in size from ∼100 kb to nearly 2 Mb. These large replicons typically code for functions essential for cell physiology, pathogenesis, or symbiosis. Most of these elements rely on a conserved gene cassette termed repABC for replication and partitioning, and maintenance at only one or a few copies per cell. The subject of this review is the ∼200-kb Ti plasmids carried by infectious strains of A. tumefaciens. We will summarize the features of this plasmid as a representative of the repABC family of megaplasmids. We will also describe novel features of this plasmid that enable A. tumefaciens cells to incite tumor formation in plants, sense and respond to an array of plant host and bacterial signal molecules, and maintain and disseminate the plasmid among populations of agrobacteria. At the end of this review, we will describe how this natural genetic engineer has been adapted to spawn an entire industry of plant biotechnology and review its potential for use in future therapeutic applications of plant and nonplant species. |
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Mesh-Begriff(e) | Agrobacterium tumefaciens/genetics ; DNA Replication ; DNA, Bacterial/genetics ; DNA, Bacterial/metabolism ; Plant Diseases/microbiology ; Plant Tumor-Inducing Plasmids ; Plants/microbiology |
Chemische Substanzen | DNA, Bacterial |
Sprache | Englisch |
Erscheinungsdatum | 2014-12 |
Erscheinungsland | United States |
Dokumenttyp | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review |
ISSN | 2165-0497 |
ISSN (online) | 2165-0497 |
DOI | 10.1128/microbiolspec.PLAS-0010-2013 |
Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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