ChIP-seq Analysis of the Global Regulator Vfr Reveals Novel Insights Into the Biocontrol Agent Pseudomonas protegens FD6

Frontiers in Microbiology

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Xiangwei Kong¹  Cheng Wang¹  Xijun Chen¹  Chenglin Xing¹  Qingxia Zhang² 

[1] College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China;

[2] Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China;

关键词: Pseudomonas protegens;    2;    4-DAPG;    biological control;    Vfr;    antibiotic;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmicb.2021.667637

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Many Pseudomonas protegens strains produce the antibiotics pyoluteorin (PLT) and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG), both of which have antimicrobial properties. The biosynthesis of these metabolites is typically controlled by multiple regulatory factors. Virulence factor regulator (Vfr) is a multifunctional DNA-binding regulator that modulates 2,4-DAPG biosynthesis in P. protegens FD6. However, the mechanism by which Vfr regulates this process remains unclear. In the present study, chromatin immunoprecipitation of FLAG-tagged Vfr and nucleotide sequencing analysis were used to identify 847 putative Vfr binding sites in P. protegens FD6. The consensus P. protegens Vfr binding site predicted from nucleotide sequence alignment is TCACA. The qPCR data showed that Vfr positively regulates the expression of phlF and phlG, and the expression of these genes was characterized in detail. The purified recombinant Vfr bound to an approximately 240-bp fragment within the phlF and phlG upstream regions that harbor putative Vfr consensus sequences. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays, we localized Vfr binding to a 25-bp fragment that contains part of the Vfr binding region. Vfr binding was eliminated by mutating the TACG and CACA sequences in phlF and phlG, respectively. Taken together, our results show that Vfr directly regulates the expression of the 2,4-DAPG operon by binding to the upstream regions of both the phlF and phlG genes. However, unlike other Vfr-targeted genes, Vfr binding to P. protegens FD6 does not require an intact binding consensus motif. Furthermore, we demonstrated that vfr expression is autoregulated in this bacterium. These results provide novel insights into the regulatory role of Vfr in the biocontrol agent P. protegens.

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