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The Type VI Secretion System of Xanthomonas Phaseoli Pv Providence St. Joseph Health Providence St. Joseph Health Digital Commons Articles, Abstracts, and Reports 1-6-2021 The type VI secretion system of Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis is involved in virulence and in vitro motility. Nathaly Andrea Montenegro Benavides Alejandro Alvarez B Mario L Arrieta-Ortiz Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA. Luis Miguel Rodriguez-R David Botero See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.psjhealth.org/publications Part of the Genetics and Genomics Commons Recommended Citation Montenegro Benavides, Nathaly Andrea; Alvarez B, Alejandro; Arrieta-Ortiz, Mario L; Rodriguez-R, Luis Miguel; Botero, David; Tabima, Javier Felipe; Castiblanco, Luisa; Trujillo, Cesar; Restrepo, Silvia; and Bernal, Adriana, "The type VI secretion system of Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis is involved in virulence and in vitro motility." (2021). 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BMC Microbiology (2021) 21:14 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-02066-1 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The type VI secretion system of Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis is involved in virulence and in vitro motility Nathaly Andrea Montenegro Benavides1, Alejandro Alvarez B.1, Mario L. Arrieta-Ortiz2, Luis Miguel Rodriguez-R3, David Botero1, Javier Felipe Tabima4, Luisa Castiblanco1, Cesar Trujillo1, Silvia Restrepo1 and Adriana Bernal1* Abstract Background: The type VI protein secretion system (T6SS) is important in diverse cellular processes in Gram- negative bacteria, including interactions with other bacteria and with eukaryotic hosts. In this study we analyze the evolution of the T6SS in the genus Xanthomonas and evaluate its importance of the T6SS for virulence and in vitro motility in Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis (Xpm), the causal agent of bacterial blight in cassava (Manihot esculenta). We delineate the organization of the T6SS gene clusters in Xanthomonas and then characterize proteins of this secretion system in Xpm strain CIO151. Results: We describe the presence of three different clusters in the genus Xanthomonas that vary in their organization and degree of synteny between species. Using a gene knockout strategy, we also found that vgrG and hcp are required for maximal aggressiveness of Xpm on cassava plants while clpV is important for both motility and maximal aggressiveness. Conclusion: We characterized the T6SS in 15 different strains in Xanthomonas and our phylogenetic analyses suggest that the T6SS might have been acquired by a very ancient event of horizontal gene transfer and maintained through evolution, hinting at their importance for the adaptation of Xanthomonas to their hosts. Finally, we demonstrated that the T6SS of Xpm is functional, and significantly contributes to virulence and motility. This is the first experimental study that demonstrates the role of the T6SS in the Xpm-cassava interaction and the T6SS organization in the genus Xanthomonas. Keywords: Type VI secretion, Hcp, Vgr, IcmF, ClpV, Xanthomonas, bacterial pathogenesis Background Thus, the T6SS may confer a competitive advantage in A large number of Gram-negative bacteria use the type multi-species environments. The T6SS is responsible for VI secretion system (T6SS) to transport proteins across antagonism towards potentially competing bacteria by the bacterial cell envelope. This versatile protein secre- direct injection of protein effectors in species such as tion system seems to be involved in a variety of cellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa [1, 2], Salmonella typhimurium processes in bacteria, including antibacterial activity, bio- [3] and Agrobacterium tumefaciens [4]. In Acidovorax film formation and interactions with eukaryotic hosts. citrulli [5] and Burkholderia cenocepacia [6] the T6SS has been implicated in biofilm formation as well. In addition, the T6SS also participates in the interac- * Correspondence: [email protected] tions of pathogenic and commensal bacteria with their 1Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia eukaryotic hosts. For example, in P. aeruginosa, two out Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Montenegro Benavides et al. BMC Microbiology (2021) 21:14 Page 2 of 12 of the three T6SS clusters are important in virulence pathogen induces a wide combination of symptoms such against eukaryotic cells [7, 8]. This system is also as angular leaf spots, blight, wilting, dieback, gum exud- involved in cell to cell signaling and communication. ation and vascular necrosis [25]. Here, we report a bio- Vibrio cholerae uses the T6SS to induce changes in the informatic study of the organization of the T6SS cluster host cellular behavior that reduce the population of in the genus Xanthomonas. We also report on the im- other, potentially competing, bacteria [9]. In plant patho- portance of this system for bacterial virulence and gens, such as Pantoea ananatis, the T6SS plays a key in vitro motility. role in pathogenesis and bacterial competition [10]. Des- pite its importance, information about the functions of this system in plant pathogens remains scarce. Methods The T6SS injects diverse effector proteins into cells by Determining the core components of the T6SS in contracting a spike-containing inner tube that perforates Xanthomonads the membrane of target cells [11]. The system is typically A bioinformatic search for genes involved in the T6SS encoded by a set of fifteen to twenty genes. However, machinery was performed by selecting a group of genes bacterial genomes encoding for T6SSs share a group of of P. aeruginosa [15], and performing a TBLASTN thirteen fundamental core genes [12]. One of the most search with the BLOSUM62 matrix [26] against the ge- important proteins in this machinery is ClpV, an ATPase nomes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri strain 306 that forms a hexameric complex that provides the en- (Xcc3), Xeu and Xpm (Additional file: Table S1). Add- ergy required for secreting T6SS substrates [13, 14]. itionally, genes identified in Xpm were confirmed as Aditionally, the intracellular multiplication protein F orthologs using reciprocal best hit. In order to identify (IcmF or TssM), is essential for the secretion of the all components of T6SS components in other xantho- haemolysis-corregulated protein (Hcp) [15–17]. Hcp and monads, we used the same genes from P. aeruginosa and VgrG (Valine-Glycine repeats G), are both effector pro- performed a BLASTP search with the BLOSUM62 teins and important parts of the structural machinery of matrix [26] against the genomes of Xanthomonas oryzae the T6SS in A. tumefaciens [18]. Hcp and VgrG show pv. oryzae (Xoo), Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris structural homology to proteins found in the tail struc- (Xcac) and Xanthomonas albilineans (Xalb) (Additional tures of bacteriophages, suggesting an evolutionary rela- file: Table S1). In both cases, a homolog was considered − tionship between the T6SSs and the cell-puncturing as significant if the BLAST e-value was < 10 20 and the machinery of family bacteriophages belonging to the amino acid identity was at least 30%. A subsequent Myoviridae [19, 20]. search for orthologs with ORTHOMCL [27] confirmed The T6SS components are encoded in gene clusters the results [28, 29]. To detect signatures of Horizontal that vary in organization and frequency. For example Gene Transfer, a search for genomic islands and inser- P. aeruginosa has three T6SS clusters [8] while Bur- tion sequences was performed using Alien Hunter [30] kholderia thailandesis has five different clusters [21]. and IS finder [31], respectively. These results allowed Boyer and collaborators [12]foundthatXanthomonas the reconstruction
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