Claim · model-written summary
Frankia cells exposed to Alnus roots most strongly upregulated the potassium transporter operon kdp and an ABC transporter operon of uncharacterized function.
- Treatment
- in the presence of Alnus rootse1
- Gene
- potassium transporter operon kdpe2
- Outcome
- gene clusterse2
- Direction
- upregulatede2
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Verbatim
e1“Frankia cells were placed in the presence of Alnus roots but separated by a dialysis membrane for 64 h”
e2“The most upregulated gene clusters were found to be the potassium transporter operon kdp and an ABC transporter operon of uncharacterized function”
Title
Petar Pujic; Nicole Alloisio; Pascale Fournier; et al. Environmental Microbiology 2019. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14606
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Frankia cells exposed to Alnus roots most strongly upregulated acyl dehydrogenases and the potassium transporter Kdp at protein level.
- Observation A cluster of two cellulases and a cellulose synthase among the 60 most upregulated was conserved in Frankia and other actinobacteria such as Streptomyces.
- Observation Cellulase activity was detected on CMC all along the length of the root but not away from it.
- Observation Frankia alni ACN14a was unable to respire or grow on glucose as sole carbon source.
- Intervention effect Cellulose synthase was active at the hyphal tip in response to Alnus root exudates, giving a calcofluor stained tip.
- Mechanism The authors suggest the upregulated genes and proteins indicate preadaptation of Frankia to stresses linked to penetration into isotonic host tissues.