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J Bacteriol. 1994 September; 176(17): 5409-5413

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Rhizobia catabolize nod gene-inducing flavonoids via C-ring fission mechanisms.

Department of Applied Plant Science, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT

Gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric analyses of derivatized culture medium extracts were used to identify the products of flavonoid metabolism by rhizobia. A number of Rhizobium species and biovars degraded their nod gene-inducing flavonoids by mechanisms which originated in a cleavage of the C-ring of the molecule and which yielded conserved A- and B-ring products among the metabolites. In contrast, Pseudomonas putida degraded quercetin via an initial fission in its A-ring, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens displayed a nonspecific mode of flavonoid degradation which yielded no conserved A- or B-ring products. When incubated with rhizobia, flavonoids with OH substitutions at the 5 and 7 positions yielded phloroglucinol as the conserved A-ring product, and those with a single OH substitution at the 7 position yielded resorcinol. A wider range of structures was found among the B-ring derivatives, including p-coumaric, p-hydroxybenzoic, protocatechuic, phenylacetic, and caffeic acids. The isoflavonoids genistein and daidzein were also degraded via C-ring fission by Rhizobium fredii and Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234, respectively. Partially characterized aromatic metabolites with potential nod gene-inducing activity were detected among the products of naringenin degradation by Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae. The initial structural modification of nod gene-inducing flavonoids by rhizobia can generate chalcones, whose open C-ring system may have implications for the binding of inducers to the nodD gene product.

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