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Unipolar polysaccharide-mediated attachment of the N2O-reducing bacterium Bradyrhizobium ottawaense SG09 to plant roots.

Takeguchi, Y.; Shibuya, R.; Kondo, M.; Betsuyaku, E.; Itakura, M.; Minamisawa, K.; Sugawara, M.; Betsuyaku, S.

2025-06-06 microbiology
10.1101/2025.06.05.658015 bioRxiv
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Agricultural soils are an important source of nitrous oxide (N2O), which has greenhouse and ozone-depleting effects. Bradyrhizobium ottawaense SG09 is a nitrogen-fixing rhizobium with high N2O-reducing activity. Rhizobia form symbiotic nodules in leguminous plants. The initial physical attachment of bacteria to plant roots is a critical step in the establishment of symbiotic interactions. In this study, we performed microscopic analysis using DsRed-expressing B. ottawaense SG09. We revealed that B. ottawaense SG09 attached to both the root surface and root hairs via single cellular poles. This polar attachment was observed not only to the symbiotic host soybean, but also to non-leguminous plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice, corn, and wheat. We identified and analyzed the unipolar polysaccharide (upp) gene cluster, which is proposed to be involved in polar attachment of rhizobia, in the genome of B. ottawaense SG09. We established an Arabidopsis-based interaction assay and demonstrated that uppC and uppE play a critical role in attachment to both the root surface and root hairs.

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