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Qi T, He F, Zhang X, Wang J, Zhang Z, Jiang H, Zhao B, Du C, Che Y, Feng X, Wang Y, Li F. Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profiling of Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) Universal Stress Proteins Reveal Essential Roles in Mechanical Damage and Deoxynivalenol Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1341. [PMID: 38279341 PMCID: PMC10816615 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25021341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 01/28/2024] Open
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Universal stress proteins (USPs) play an important regulatory role in responses to abiotic stress. Most of the research related to USPs so far has been conducted on plant models such as Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), rice (Oryza sativa L.), and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the four major food crops in the world. The potato is susceptible to mechanical damage and infection by pathogenic fungi during transport and storage. Deoxynivalenol (DON) released by Fusarium can seriously degrade the quality of potatoes. As a result, it is of great significance to study the expression pattern of the potato StUSP gene family under abiotic stress conditions. In this study, a total of 108 USP genes were identified from the genome of the Atlantic potato, divided into four subgroups. Based on their genetic structure, the physical and chemical properties of their proteins and other aspects of their biological characteristics are comprehensively analyzed. Collinear analysis showed that the homologous genes of StUSPs and four other representative species (Solanum lycopersicum, Arabidopsis, Oryza sativa L., and Nicotiana attenuata) were highly conserved. The cis-regulatory elements of the StUSPs promoter are involved in plant hormones, environmental stress, mechanical damage, and light response. RNA-seq analysis showed that there are differences in the expression patterns of members of each subgroup under different abiotic stresses. A Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis (WGCNA) of the central gene showed that the differential coexpression gene is mainly involved in the plant-pathogen response process, plant hormone signal transduction, and the biosynthesis process of secondary metabolites. Through qRT-PCR analysis, it was confirmed that StUSP13, StUSP14, StUSP15, and StUSP41 may be important candidate genes involved in the response to adversity stress in potatoes. The results of this study provide a basis for further research on the functional analysis of StUSPs in the response of potatoes to adversity stress.
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- Tianshuai Qi
- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China;
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (T.Q.); (F.H.); (X.Z.); (J.W.); (Z.Z.); (B.Z.); (C.D.); (Y.C.); (X.F.)
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Kalpana S, Lin WY, Wang YC, Fu Y, Lakshmi A, Wang HY. Antibiotic Resistance Diagnosis in ESKAPE Pathogens-A Review on Proteomic Perspective. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:1014. [PMID: 36980322 PMCID: PMC10047325 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13061014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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Antibiotic resistance has emerged as an imminent pandemic. Rapid diagnostic assays distinguish bacterial infections from other diseases and aid antimicrobial stewardship, therapy optimization, and epidemiological surveillance. Traditional methods typically have longer turn-around times for definitive results. On the other hand, proteomic studies have progressed constantly and improved both in qualitative and quantitative analysis. With a wide range of data sets made available in the public domain, the ability to interpret the data has considerably reduced the error rates. This review gives an insight on state-of-the-art proteomic techniques in diagnosing antibiotic resistance in ESKAPE pathogens with a future outlook for evading the "imminent pandemic".
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- Sriram Kalpana
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333423, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai 600025, India
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333423, Taiwan
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Luo D, Wu Z, Bai Q, Zhang Y, Huang M, Huang Y, Li X. Universal Stress Proteins: From Gene to Function. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054725. [PMID: 36902153 PMCID: PMC10003552 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Universal stress proteins (USPs) exist across a wide range of species and are vital for survival under stressful conditions. Due to the increasingly harsh global environmental conditions, it is increasingly important to study the role of USPs in achieving stress tolerance. This review discusses the role of USPs in organisms from three aspects: (1) organisms generally have multiple USP genes that play specific roles at different developmental periods of the organism, and, due to their ubiquity, USPs can be used as an important indicator to study species evolution; (2) a comparison of the structures of USPs reveals that they generally bind ATP or its analogs at similar sequence positions, which may underlie the regulatory role of USPs; and (3) the functions of USPs in species are diverse, and are generally directly related to the stress tolerance. In microorganisms, USPs are associated with cell membrane formation, whereas in plants they may act as protein chaperones or RNA chaperones to help plants withstand stress at the molecular level and may also interact with other proteins to regulate normal plant activities. This review will provide directions for future research, focusing on USPs to provide clues for the development of stress-tolerant crop varieties and for the generation of novel green pesticide formulations in agriculture, and to better understand the evolution of drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms in medicine.
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M S, N RP, Rajendrasozhan S. Bacterial redox response factors in the management of environmental oxidative stress. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 39:11. [PMID: 36369499 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-022-03456-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Bacteria evolved to survive in the available environmental chemosphere via several cellular mechanisms. A rich pool of antioxidants and stress regulators plays a significant role in the survival of bacteria in unfavorable environmental conditions. Most of the microbes exhibit resistant phenomena in toxic environment niches. Naturally, bacteria possess efficient thioredoxin reductase, glutaredoxin, and peroxiredoxin redox systems to handle environmental oxidative stress. Further, an array of transcriptional regulators senses the oxidative stress conditions. Transcription regulators, such as OxyR, SoxRS, PerR, UspA, SsrB, MarA, OhrR, SarZ, etc., sense and transduce bacterial oxidative stress responses. The redox-sensitive transcription regulators continuously recycle the utilized antioxidant enzymes during oxidative stress. These regulators promote the expression of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, catalase, and peroxides that overcome oxidative insults. Therefore, the transcriptional regulations maintain steady-state activities of antioxidant enzymes representing the resistance against host cell/environmental oxidative insults. Further, the redox system provides reducing equivalents to synthesize biomolecules, thereby contributing to cellular repair mechanisms. The inactive transcriptional regulators in the undisturbed cells are activated by oxidative stress. The oxidized transcriptional regulators modulate the expression of antioxidant and cellular repair enzymes to survive in extreme environmental conditions. Therefore, targeting these antioxidant systems and response regulators could alter cellular redox homeostasis. This review presents the mechanisms of different redox systems that favor bacterial survival in extreme environmental oxidative stress conditions.
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- Sudharsan M
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, 608 002, India
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, 608 002, India.
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Sharma VK, Akavaram S, Bayles DO. Genomewide transcriptional response of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to norepinephrine. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:107. [PMID: 35135480 PMCID: PMC8822769 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08167-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Background Chemical signaling between a mammalian host and intestinal microbes is health and maintenance of ‘healthy’ intestinal microbiota. Escherichia coli O157:H7 can hijack host- and microbiota-produced chemical signals for survival in a harsh and nutritionally competitive gastrointestinal environment and for intestinal colonization. Norepinephrine (NE) produced by sympathetic neurons of the enteric nervous system has been shown in vitro to induce expression of genes controlling E. coli O157:H7 swimming motility, acid resistance, and adherence to epithelial cells. A previous study used a microarray approach to identify differentially expressed genes in E. coli O157:H7 strain EDL933 in response to NE. To elucidate a comprehensive transcriptional response to NE, we performed RNA-Seq on rRNA-depleted RNA of E. coli O157:H7 strain NADC 6564, an isolate of a foodborne E. coli O157:H7 strain 86–24. The reads generated by RNA-Seq were mapped to NADC 6564 genome using HiSat2. The mapped reads were quantified by htseq-count against the genome of strain NADC 6564. The differentially expressed genes were identified by analyzing quantified reads by DESeq2. Results Of the 585 differentially expressed genes (≥ 2.0-fold; p < 0.05), many encoded pathways promoting ability of E. coli O157:H7 strain NADC 6564 to colonize intestines of carrier animals and to produce disease in an incidental human host through increased adherence to epithelial cells and production of Shiga toxins. In addition, NE exposure also induced the expression of genes encoding pathways conferring prolonged survival at extreme acidity, controlling influx/efflux of specific nutrients/metabolites, and modulating tolerance to various stressors. A correlation was also observed between the EvgS/EvgA signal transduction system and the ability of bacterial cells to survive exposure to high acidity for several hours. Many genes involved in nitrogen, sulfur, and amino acid uptake were upregulated while genes linked to iron (Fe3+) acquisition and transport were downregulated. Conclusion The availability of physiological levels of NE in gastrointestinal tract could serve as an important cue for E. coli O157:H7 to engineer its virulence, stress, and metabolic pathways for colonization in reservoir animals, such as cattle, causing illness in humans, and surviving outside of a host. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-021-08167-z.
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- Vijay K Sharma
- Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, ARS-USDA, Ames, IA, 50010, USA.
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- Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, ARS-USDA, Ames, IA, 50010, USA.,Current address: 4302 TX-332, Freeport, TX, 77541, USA
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- Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, ARS-USDA, Ames, IA, 50010, USA
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Ethanol as additive enhances expression of Ranibizumab in Escherichia coli: Impact on cellular physiology and transcriptome. Process Biochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2021.11.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Enany S, Zakeer S, Sayed AA, Magdeldin S. Shotgun proteomic analysis of ESBL-producing and non-ESBL-producing Klebsiella Pneumoniae clinical isolates. Microbiol Res 2020; 234:126423. [PMID: 32078895 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2020.126423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Klebsiella pneumoniae is a pathogenic bacterium that is responsible for a wide range of infections in humans. An increased rate of infections caused by multi-drug-resistant K. pneumoniae has been noted in the last two decades. The association between antimicrobial resistance and virulence is an important topic of study. Genomic tools have been used widely for the detection of virulence. In our study, we used proteomic analysis with mass spectrometry and bioinformatics tools to explore the virulence factors of both ESBL-producing and non-ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae and to determine the association between virulence and antimicrobial resistance in these clinical isolates. We have revealed different proteomic profiles and different pathways between the ESBL- and non-ESBL-producing groups. Many proteins involved in stress responses have been reported in the shared proteome between ESBL-and non-ESBL producers, such as ElaB protein, Lon protease, and universal stress proteins G and A. The virulence and pathogenicity of ESBL-producing bacteria were stronger than those of the non-ESBL-producing bacteria. Several unique virulence determinants were identified in ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae, such as proteins with lyase, catalase, isochorismatase, and oxidoreductase activity.
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- Shymaa Enany
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Egypt.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Egypt
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- Genomic Research Program, Basic Research Department, Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, 11441 Cairo, Egypt; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Proteomics and Metabolomics Unit, Department of Basic Research, Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, 11441 Cairo, Egypt; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt
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Giannakopoulou N, Mendis N, Zhu L, Gruenheid S, Faucher SP, Le Moual H. The Virulence Effect of CpxRA in Citrobacter rodentium Is Independent of the Auxiliary Proteins NlpE and CpxP. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2018; 8:320. [PMID: 30280092 PMCID: PMC6153362 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Citrobacter rodentium is a murine pathogen used to model the intestinal infection caused by Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC), two diarrheal pathogens responsible for morbidity and mortality in developing and developed countries, respectively. During infection, these bacteria must sense and adapt to the gut environment of the host. In order to adapt to changing environmental cues and modulate expression of specific genes, bacteria can use two-component signal transduction systems (TCS). We have shown that the deletion of the Cpx TCS in C. rodentium leads to a marked attenuation in virulence in C3H/HeJ mice. In E. coli, the Cpx TCS is reportedly activated in response to signals from the outer-membrane lipoprotein NlpE. We therefore investigated the role of NlpE in C. rodentium virulence. We also assessed the role of the reported negative regulator of CpxRA, CpxP. We found that as opposed to the ΔcpxRA strain, neither the ΔnlpE, ΔcpxP nor the ΔnlpEΔcpxP strains were significantly attenuated, and had similar in vivo localization to wild-type C. rodentium. The in vitro adherence of the Cpx auxiliary protein mutants, ΔnlpE, ΔcpxP, ΔnlpEΔcpxP, was comparable to wild-type C. rodentium, whereas the ΔcpxRA strain showed significantly decreased adherence. To further elucidate the mechanisms behind the contrasting virulence phenotypes, we performed microarrays in order to define the regulon of the Cpx TCS. We detected 393 genes differentially regulated in the ΔcpxRA strain. The gene expression profile of the ΔnlpE strain is strikingly different than the profile of ΔcpxRA with regards to the genes activated by CpxRA. Further, there is no clear inverse correlation in the expression pattern of the ΔcpxP strain in comparison to ΔcpxRA. Taken together, these data suggest that in these conditions, CpxRA activates gene expression in a largely NlpE- and CpxP-independent manner. Compared to wildtype, 161 genes were downregulated in the ΔcpxRA strain, while being upregulated or unchanged in the Cpx auxiliary protein deletion strains. This group of genes, which we hypothesize may contribute to the loss of virulence of ΔcpxRA, includes T6SS components, ompF, the regulator for colanic acid synthesis, and several genes involved in maltose metabolism.
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Park SB, Steadman CS, Chaudhari AA, Pillai SR, Singh SR, Ryan PL, Willard ST, Feugang JM. Proteomic analysis of antimicrobial effects of pegylated silver coated carbon nanotubes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J Nanobiotechnology 2018; 16:31. [PMID: 29587743 PMCID: PMC5870919 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-018-0355-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Synthesis of silver nano-compounds with enhanced antimicrobial effects is of great interest for the development of new antibacterial agents. Previous studies have reported the antibacterial properties of pegylated silver-coated carbon nanotubes (pSWCNT-Ag) showing less toxicity in human cell lines. However, the mechanism underlining the pSWCNT-Ag as a bactericidal agent remained unfolded. Here we assessed the pSWCNT-Ag effects against foodborne pathogenic bacteria growth and proteome profile changes. RESULTS Measurements of bioluminescent imaging, optical density, and bacteria colony forming units revealed dose-dependent and stronger bactericidal activity of pSWCNT-Ag than their non-pegylated counterparts (SWCNT-Ag). In ovo administration of pSWCNT-Ag or phosphate-buffered saline resulted in comparable chicken embryo development and growth. The proteomic analysis, using two-dimensional electrophoresis combined with matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight/time of flight mass spectrometry, was performed on control and surviving Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to pSWCNT-Ag. A total of 15 proteins (ten up-regulated and five down-regulated) differentially expressed proteins were identified. Functional analyses showed significant reduction of proteins associated with biofilm formation, nutrient and energy metabolism, quorum sensing and maintenance of cell structure and cell motility in surviving S. Typhimurium. In contrast, proteins associated with oxygen stress, DNA protection, starvation, membrane rebuilding, and alternative nutrient formation were induced as the compensatory reaction. CONCLUSIONS This study provides further evidence of the antibacterial effects of pSWCNT-Ag nanocomposites and knowledge of their mechanism of action through various protein changes. The findings may lead to the development of more effective and safe antimicrobial agents.
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- Seong B. Park
- Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
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- Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
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- Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL USA
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- Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL USA
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- Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL USA
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- Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
- Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
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- Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
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- Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
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Vollmer AC, Bark SJ. Twenty-Five Years of Investigating the Universal Stress Protein: Function, Structure, and Applications. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2017; 102:1-36. [PMID: 29680123 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aambs.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Since the initial discovery of universal stress protein A (UspA) 25 years ago, remarkable advances in molecular and biochemical technologies have revolutionized our understanding of biology. Many studies using these technologies have focused on characterization of the uspA gene and Usp-type proteins. These studies have identified the conservation of Usp-like proteins across bacteria, archaea, plants, and even some invertebrate animals. Regulation of these proteins under diverse stresses has been associated with different stress-response genes including spoT and relA in the stringent response and the dosR two-component signaling pathways. These and other foundational studies suggest Usps serve regulatory and protective roles to enable adaptation and survival under external stresses. Despite these foundational studies, many bacterial species have multiple paralogs of genes encoding these proteins and ablation of the genes does not provide a distinct phenotype. This outcome has limited our understanding of the biochemical functions of these proteins. Here, we summarize the current knowledge of Usps in general and UspA in particular across different genera as well as conclusions about their functions from seminal studies in diverse organisms. Our objective has been to organize the foundational studies in this field to identify the significant impediments to further understanding of Usp functions at the molecular level. We propose ideas and experimental approaches that may overcome these impediments and drive future development of molecular approaches to understand and target Usps as central regulators of stress adaptation and survival. Despite the fact that the full functions of Usps are still not known, creative many applications have already been proposed, tested, and used. The complementary approaches of basic research and applications, along with new technology and analytic tools, may yield the elusive yet critical functions of universal stress proteins in diverse systems.
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