发布: 2017年05月20日第7卷第10期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2289 浏览次数: 7979
评审: Arsalan DaudiHiroyuki HiraiKanika Gera
Abstract
Soluble exopolysaccharide is a major virulence factor produced by the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. Its massive production during plant infection is associated with the arrest of water flow in xylem vessels leading eventually to plant death. The composition of this heavy macromolecule includes mainly N-acetylgalactosamine. Here we describe a colorimetric method for quantitative determination of the soluble exopolysaccharide present in culture supernatant of R. solanacearum.
Keywords: Ralstonia solanacearum (青枯雷尔氏菌)Background
The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum produces exopolysaccharide under the control of quorum sensing system, i.e., at high cell density, above 5 x 107 cell ml-1 (Flavier et al., 1997). The sugar content of the exopolysaccharide includes galactosamine, glucose, and rhamnose in the ratio of 10:2.5:1 (Drigues et al., 1985). A protocol for a reliable extraction and quantification of the exopolysaccharide from culture supernatant was initially developed by Brumbley and Denny (1990) and was updated recently by Peyraud et al. (2016). The quantification is based on the determination of hexoseamine content of the macromolecule using an adapted Elson and Morgan assay (Elson and Morgan, 1933; Gatt and Berman, 1966). Exopolysaccharides containing N-acetyl-D-galactosamine are produced by diverse Gram-negative or Gram-positive bacteria (Vaningelgem et al., 2004; Balzaretti et al., 2017) and also some fungi (Lee et al., 2015), so this protocol may also be applicable to such organisms.
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Peyraud, R., Denny, T. P. and Genin, S. (2017). Exopolysaccharide Quantification for the Plant Pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. Bio-protocol 7(10): e2289. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2289.
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植物科学 > 植物免疫 > 病害生物测定
植物科学 > 植物免疫 > 宿主-细菌相互作用
细胞生物学 > 细胞分离和培养 > 细胞分化
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