Detection, Structural Elucidation, and Biological Effects of Diverse N-Acyl-homoserine Lactone Signaling Molecules in the Plant-Promoting Endophytic Bacterium Rhizobium oryzihabitans M15.

Quorum sensing (QS), usually performed by N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) in Gram-staining-negative bacteria, plays an important role in plant-bacteria interactions. Rhizobium oryzihabitans M15 is a plant-growth-promoting rhizobacterium (PGPR) isolated from rice roots. In this study, we found a QS system in the endogenous plasmid of R. oryzihabitans M15 and detected the activity of AHLs by a bioassay method. We identified five AHL analogues in R. oryzihabitans M15 using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The most dominant AHL analogue was N-(3R-hydroxy-7-cis-tetradecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone according to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Mosher's reactions. Furthermore, the rosI mutant abolished AHL production and significantly decreased growth, exopolysaccharide (EPS) production, biofilm formation, and motility compared to the wild-type strain. These results lay the foundation for further investigating the QS regulation mechanism and signal pathway of R. oryzihabitans M15 and its interactions with the host plant.

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