Vir-gene-inducing activities of hydroxycinnamic acid amides in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

被引:9
作者
Berthelot, K
Buret, D
Guérin, B
Delay, D
Negrel, J
Delmotte, FM
机构
[1] Univ Orleans, CNRS, UPR 4301, Ctr Biophys Mol, F-45071 Orleans 2, France
[2] INRA, CNRS, Lab Phytoparasitol, F-21034 Dijon, France
关键词
Agrobacterium tumefaciens; vir-genes; phenolic amide; syringic acid; sinapic acid; ferulic acid; ethylamine; tyramine;
D O I
10.1016/S0031-9422(98)00209-X
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Expression of Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence genes and transformation of dicots by this organism are dependent upon host plant phenolic compounds. Several alkylsyringamides have recently been shown to be powerful inducers of these vir-genes. These synthetic amides, and especially ethylsyringamide, are much stronger inducers than syringic acid. In this work, four alkylamides derived from ferulic or sinapic acids were synthesized by a dicyclohexylcarbodiimide method and tested for their potential to induce vir-gene expression on A. tumefaciens strains harbouring virB::lacZ or virE::lacZ fusion plasmids. Their effectiveness was compared to that of ethylsyringamide and tyraminylferulamide, a naturally occurring amide in plants. Whatever the amine moiety of the amide (ethylamine, propylamine, tyramine or beta-alanine ethyl ester) conjugation of the acid functional group clearly diminished the toxicity to the bacteria of the respective acid at high concentration and thereby increased the vir-inducing potential. However, none of the inducers tested exhibited higher activity than acetosyringone, the reference compound for vir-gene induction, with the exception of ethylsyringamide at concentrations above 1 mM. When tested on Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A348(pSM243cd), ethylferulamide and ethylsinapamide were more efficient than the corresponding phenolic acids but only above 100 mu M. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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