Location of the right boundary of the virulence region on Agrobacterium tumefaciens plasmid pTiC58 and a host-specifying gene next to the boundary.

AUTOR(ES)

Hirooka, T

RESUMO

The right boundary of the virulence (Vir) region of the nopaline plasmid pTiC58 of Agrobacterium tumefaciens was determined by transposon insertion, cartridge emplacement, and deletion mutagenesis. Genetic complementation with mutant and wild-type alleles led to the identification of the virE locus at the right boundary, which was located about 6 kilobases from the left border of the segment of DNA that is transferred into the plant genome. virE is 2.0 kilobases long and encodes at least one protein of 69 kilodaltons. Various mutations in virE resulted in different truncated lengths of the 69-kilodalton protein. As this protein was increasingly truncated from the carboxy terminus, the host range of A. tumefaciens and the frequency of tumor formation diminished concomitantly. Thus, as one of its functions, the 69-kilodalton protein of virE is probably involved in some aspect of the host range specificity of A. tumefaciens and in infection efficiency.

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