Claim · model-written summary
PacH and PacI recognized benzoate derivatives, including salicylate, vanillin and p-hydroxybenzoate.
- Taxon
- Pectobacterium atrosepticum
Pectobacterium atrosepticume0 - Gene
- PacH and PacIe1
- Compound
- salicylate, vanillin and p-hydroxybenzoatee1
- Outcome
- recognized benzoate derivativese1
Verbatim
e0“We identified the signals recognized by three chemoreceptors, PacH, PacI and PacG, in the global phytopathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum”
e1“Whereas PacH and PacI recognized benzoate derivatives, including salicylate, vanillin and p-hydroxybenzoate”
Title
Chemotaxis to plant defense compounds in phytopathogens
Roberta Genova; Ashleigh Holmes; Mario Cano-Muñoz; et al. PLoS Pathogens 2026. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1014240
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation PacG bound agmatine, feruloylagmatine and p-coumaroylagmatine.
- Observation All compounds except agmatine induced chemoattraction, which was abolished by mutations in the corresponding genes.
- Observation Agmatine competed with feruloylagmatine and p-coumaroylagmatine for PacG-LBD binding in vitro.
- Observation Agmatine antagonized chemotaxis in vivo.
- Intervention effect A pacG mutant, but not mutants in other chemoreceptor genes, showed reduced virulence in planta.
- Observation PacH, PacI and PacG homologs were identified in other important phytopathogens of the Burkholderia, Erwinia, Ralstonia, Pectobacterium and Dickeya genera.
- Observation First report of chemotaxis to feruloylagmatine, p-coumaroylagmatine and p-methoxybenzoate.
- Observation High-resolution structures of PacG-LBD were determined and used for ligand-docking experiments to identify its binding pocket.
