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Mapping the Sinorhizobium Meliloti 1021 solute-binding protein-dependent transportome

  • Arthur Hosie
    ,
  • T.H. Mauchline
    ,
  • J.E. Fowler
    ,
  • A.K. East
    ,
  • A.L. Sartor
    ,
  • R. Zaheer
  • McMaster University
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Abstract

The number of solute-binding protein-dependent transporters in rhizobia is dramatically increased compared with the majority of other bacteria so far sequenced. This increase may be due to the high affinity of solute-binding proteins for solutes, permitting the acquisition of a broad range of growth-limiting nutrients from soil and the rhizosphere. The transcriptional induction of these transporters was studied by creating a suite of plasmid and integrated fusions to nearly all ATP-binding cassette (ABC) and tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters of Sinorhizobium meliloti. In total, specific inducers were identified for 76 transport systems, amounting to ≈47% of the ABC uptake systems and 53% of the TRAP transporters in S. meliloti. Of these transport systems, 64 are previously uncharacterized in Rhizobia and 24 were induced by solutes not known to be transported by ABC- or TRAP-uptake systems in any organism. This study provides a global expression map of one of the largest transporter families (transportome) and an invaluable tool to both understand their solute specificity and the relationships between members of large paralogous families

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Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 17933-17938

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Volume 103, Issue 47)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2006

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2006

ISSN

0027-8424

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/293937
  • Scopus: 33845208934

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