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Pseudomonas syringae (P. syringae) is a highly prevalent Gram-negative pathogen with over 60 pathogenic vari-ants that cause yield losses of up to 80% in various crops. Traditional control methods mainly involve the application of antibiotics to inactivate pathogenic bacteria, but large-scale application of antibiotics has led to the development of bacterial resistance. Gram-negative pathogens including P. syringae commonly use the type III secretion system (T3SS) as a transport channel to deliver effector proteins into host cells, disrupting host defences and facilitating virulence, providing a novel target for antibacterial drug development. In this study, we constructed a high-throughput screening reporter system based on our previous work to screen for imidazole, oxazole and thiazole compounds. The screening indicated that the three compounds (II-14, II-15 and II-24) significantly inhibited hrpW and hrpL gene promoter activity without influencing the growth of P. syringae, and the inhibitory activity was better than that of the positive control sulforaphane (4-methylsulfinylbutyl isothio-cyanate, SFN) at 50 mu M. Three compounds suppressed the transcript levels of representative T3SS genes to different degrees, suggesting that the compounds may suppress the expression of T3SS by modulating the HrpR/ S-HrpL regulatory pathway. Inoculation experiments indicated that all three compounds suppressed the patho-genicity of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A in bean to varying degrees. One representative compound, II-15, significantly inhibited the secretion of the Pst DC3000 AvrPto effector protein. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the development of novel P. syringae T3SS inhibitors for application in disease prevention and control.
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Institution华南农业大学
