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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-19
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
AvrXa7 is a member of the avrBs3 avirulence gene family, which encodes proteins targeted to plant cells by a type III secretion apparatus. AvrXa7, the product of avrXa7, is also a virulence factor in strain PXO86 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. Avirulence and virulence specificities are associated with the central repeat domain, which, in avrXa7, consists of 25.5 direct repeat units. Mutations in three C-terminal nuclear localization signal motifs eliminated avirulence and virulence activities in rice and severely reduced nuclear localization in a yeast assay system. Both pathogenicity functions and nuclear localization were restored on the addition of the sequence for the nuclear localization signal motif from SV40 T-antigen. The loss of avirulence activity because of mutations in the acidic transcriptional activation domain was restored by addition of the activation domain from the herpes simplex viral protein VP16. The activation domain was also required for virulence activity. However, the VP16 domain could not substitute for the endogenous domain in virulence assays. In gel shift assays, AvrXa7 bound double-stranded DNA with a preference for dA/dT rich sequences. The results indicate that products of the avrBs3-related genes are virulence factors targeted to host cell nuclei and have the potential to interact with the host DNA and transcriptional machinery as part of their mode of action. The results also suggest that the host defensive recognition mechanisms are targeted to the virulence factor site of action.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9807-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Biological Transport, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-DNA, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Nuclear Localization Signals, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Oryza sativa, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Trans-Activators, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Virulence, pubmed-meshheading:10931960-Xanthomonas
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The virulence factor AvrXa7 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is a type III secretion pathway-dependent nuclear-localized double-stranded DNA-binding protein.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't