Genes responsible for the supervirulence phenotype of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281.
AUTOR(ES)
Jin, S G
RESUMO
Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 induces large, rapidly appearing tumors on a variety of plants and has a wider host range than other strains of A. tumefaciens. By using Tn3HoHo1 transposon mutagenesis and complementation analysis, a 2.5-kilobase DNA fragment which is responsible for the supervirulence phenotype was identified in the virulence (vir) region of the Ti plasmid. This fragment contains the virG locus, as well as the 3' end of the virB operon. A clone of this fragment conferred the supervirulence phenotype on A348, a nonsupervirulent strain. The increased virulence was correlated with an increased expression of vir genes, which could be achieved by introducing an extra copy of the transcriptional activator virG or the supervirulence region for maximum virulence. The virulence of the supervirulent strain A281 could be increased even further if the entire virB operon was added in addition to the virG operon. A plasmid, pToK47, containing virB and virG increased the virulence of all A. tumefaciens strains into which the plasmid was introduced. These data suggest that a highly virulent binary vector system can be constructed which might prove especially useful in the transformation of certain higher plants.
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