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Orhan F, Akıncıoğlu A, Ceyran E. Ectoine production from a novel bacterial strain and high-purity purification with a cost-effective and single-step method. J Biotechnol 2024; 388:24-34. [PMID: 38599284 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2024.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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This study marks the exploration into the production of ectoine, a valuable compound with significant potential as an antioxidant, osmoprotectant, anti-inflammatory agent, and stabilizer of cell membranes, proteins, and DNA integrity. Our focus centred on investigating the presence of ectoine and optimizing its production by the novel ectoine producer bacterial strain, Piscibacillus halophilus. For the optimization of ectoine production the effects of carbon and nitrogen sources, salt, pH, agitation and incubation period were optimized by one-factor-at-a-time. We started with an initial ectoine content of 46.92 mg/L, and through a series of optimization processes, we achieved a remarkable increase, resulting in an ectoine content of 1498.2 mg/L. The bacterial species P. halophilus achieved its highest ectoine production after 48 h of incubation, with conditions set at 10 % (w/v) salinity, pH of 7.50, and an agitation speed of 160 rpm. These precise conditions were found to be the most favourable for maximizing ectoine production by this strain. Besides, we have achieved successful purification of ectoine from the crude extract through a streamlined single-step process. This purification method has delivered an exceptional level of purity, surpassing 99.15 %, and an impressive yield of over 99 %. Importantly, we accomplished this using readily available and cost-effective strong acids (HCl) and strong bases (NaOH) to arrange pH gradients. The use of acid and base in the purification process of ectoine reflects an innovative and sustainable methodology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Furkan Orhan
- Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Art and Science Faculty, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Agri 4100, Turkey; Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey.
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- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey; Vocational School, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey
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- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey
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Pepelnjak M, Velten B, Näpflin N, von Rosen T, Palmiero UC, Ko JH, Maynard HD, Arosio P, Weber-Ban E, de Souza N, Huber W, Picotti P. In situ analysis of osmolyte mechanisms of proteome thermal stabilization. Nat Chem Biol 2024:10.1038/s41589-024-01568-7. [PMID: 38424171 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01568-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Organisms use organic molecules called osmolytes to adapt to environmental conditions. In vitro studies indicate that osmolytes thermally stabilize proteins, but mechanisms are controversial, and systematic studies within the cellular milieu are lacking. We analyzed Escherichia coli and human protein thermal stabilization by osmolytes in situ and across the proteome. Using structural proteomics, we probed osmolyte effects on protein thermal stability, structure and aggregation, revealing common mechanisms but also osmolyte- and protein-specific effects. All tested osmolytes (trimethylamine N-oxide, betaine, glycerol, proline, trehalose and glucose) stabilized many proteins, predominantly via a preferential exclusion mechanism, and caused an upward shift in temperatures at which most proteins aggregated. Thermal profiling of the human proteome provided evidence for intrinsic disorder in situ but also identified potential structure in predicted disordered regions. Our analysis provides mechanistic insight into osmolyte function within a complex biological matrix and sheds light on the in situ prevalence of intrinsically disordered regions.
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- Monika Pepelnjak
- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Division of Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) & Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biological Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Chen H, Moraru C. Synergistic effects of sequential light treatment with 222-nm/405-nm and 280-nm/405-nm wavelengths on inactivation of foodborne pathogens. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0065023. [PMID: 37800967 PMCID: PMC10617431 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00650-23] [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: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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Light-based technologies of different wavelengths can inactivate pathogenic microorganisms, but each wavelength has its limitations. This work explores the potential of sequential treatments with different wavelengths for enhancing the disinfection performance of individual treatments by employing various bactericidal mechanisms. The effectiveness, inactivation kinetics, and bactericidal mechanisms of treatments with 222/405, 280/405, and 405 nm alone against Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella Typhimurium, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were evaluated. Inactivation experiments were performed in thin liquid bacterial suspensions that were treated either individually with 48 h of 405-nm light or sequentially with (i) 30 s of 222-nm far-UV-C light, followed by 48 h of 405-nm light, or (ii) 30 s of 280-nm far-UV-C light, followed by 48 h of 405-nm light. Survivors were recovered and enumerated by standard plate counting. All inactivation curves were non-linear and followed the Weibull model (0.99 ≥ R2 ≥ 0.70). Synergistic effects were found for E. coli, L. monocytogenes, and S. Typhimurium, with maximum inactivation level increases of 2.9, 3.3, and 1.1 log CFU after the sequential treatments, respectively. Marginal synergy was found for S. aureus, and an antagonistic effect was found for P. aeruginosa after sequential treatments. Significant differences in reactive oxygen species accumulation were found (P < 0.05) after various treatment combinations, and the performance of sequential treatments was correlated with cellular oxidative damage. The sequential wavelength treatments proposed demonstrate the potential for enhanced disinfection of multiple foodborne pathogens compared with individual wavelength treatments, which can have significant food safety benefits. IMPORTANCE Nonthermal light-based technologies offer a chemical-free method to mitigate microbial contamination in the food and healthcare industries. However, each individual wavelength has different limitations in terms of efficacy and operating conditions, which limits their practical applicability. In this study, bactericidal synergism of sequential treatments with different wavelengths was identified. Pre-treatments with 280 and 222 nm enhanced the disinfection performance of follow-up 405-nm treatments for multiple foodborne pathogens by inducing higher levels of cellular membrane damage and oxidative stress. These findings deliver useful information for light equipment manufacturers, food processors, and healthcare users, who can design and optimize effective light-based systems to realize the full potential of germicidal light technologies. The results from the sequential treatments offer practical solutions to improve the germicidal efficacy of visible light systems, as well as provide inspiration for future hurdle disinfection systems design, with a positive impact on food safety and public health.
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- Hanyu Chen
- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Orhan F, Ceyran E, Akincioğlu A. Optimization of ectoine production from Nesterenkonia xinjiangensis and one-step ectoine purification. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 371:128646. [PMID: 36681344 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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In the current study, the optimization of ectoine production byNesterenkonia xinjiangensisand purification of ectoine from the bacterial cell extract were performed for the first time. Various carbon sources (glucose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, mannitol, and xylose) and nitrogen sources (ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium chloride, ammonium oxalate, ammonium sulphate, and ammonium acetate), were used to optimize ectoine production. Subsequently, the effects of salt, pH and, concentrations of carbon and nitrogen source on ectoine production were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). Ultimately, high pure (over 99%) and yield (98%) of ectoine from bacterial cells extracted was obtained by a single-step process using cation exchange chromatography. This study provides information that higher ectoine production can be achieved from this bacterial isolate by optimizing the factors influencing ectoine production and thus can be used as a new and alternative ectoine producer.
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- Furkan Orhan
- Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Art and Science Faculty, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 4100 Agri, Turkey; Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey.
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- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey
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- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey; Vocational School, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, Turkey
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Wang T, Wang F, Zeng L, Guo P, Wu Y, Chen L, Zhang W. Propanol and 1, 3-propanediol enhance fatty acid accumulation synergistically in Schizochytrium ATCC 20888. Front Microbiol 2023; 13:1106265. [PMID: 36845976 PMCID: PMC9947470 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1106265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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The effects of propanol and 1, 3-propanediol on fatty acid and biomass accumulation in Schizochytrium ATCC 20888 were explored. Propanol increased the contents of saturated fatty acids and total fatty acids by 55.4 and15.3%, while 1, 3-propanediol elevated the polyunsaturated fatty acids, total fatty acids and biomass contents by 30.7, 17.0, and 6.89%. Although both of them quench ROS to increase fatty acids biosynthesis, the mechanisms are different. The effect of propanol did not reflect on metabolic level while 1, 3-propanediol elevated osmoregulators contents and activated triacylglycerol biosynthetic pathway. The triacylglycerol content and the ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids were significantly increased by 2.53-fold, which explained the higher PUFA accumulation in Schizochytrium after adding 1, 3- propanediol. At last, the combination of propanol and 1, 3-propanediol further elevated total fatty acids by approximately 1.2-fold without compromising cell growth. These findings are valuable for scale-up production of designed Schizochytrium oil for various application purposes.
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- Tiantian Wang
- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Center for Biosafety Research and Strategy, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,*Correspondence: Fangzhong Wang, ✉
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Lei Chen, ✉
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- Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,Center for Biosafety Research and Strategy, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Shrestha P, Karmacharya J, Han SR, Park H, Oh TJ. In silico analysis and a comparative genomics approach to predict pathogenic trehalase genes in the complete genome of Antarctica Shigella sp. PAMC28760. Virulence 2022; 13:1502-1514. [PMID: 36040103 PMCID: PMC9450901 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2022.2117679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Although four Shigella species (S. flexneri, S. sonnei, S. dysenteriae, and S. boydii) have been reported, S. sp. PAMC 28760, an Antarctica isolate, is the only one with a complete genome deposited in NCBI database as an uncharacterized isolate. Because it is the world’s driest, windiest, and coldest continent, Antarctica provides an unfavourable environment for microorganisms. Computational analysis of genomic sequences of four Shigella species and our uncategorized Antarctica isolates Shigella sp. PAMC28760 was performed using MP3 (offline version) program to predict trehalase encoding genes as a pathogenic or non-pathogenic form. Additionally, we employed RAST and Prokka (offline version) annotation programs to determine locations of periplasmic (treA) and cytoplasmic (treF) trehalase genes in studied genomes. Our results showed that only 56 out of 134 Shigella strains had two different trehalase genes (treF and treA). It was revealed that the treF gene tends to be prevalent in Shigella species. In addition, both treA and treF genes were present in our strain S. sp. PAMC28760. The main objective of this study was to predict the prevalence of two different trehalase genes (treF and treA) in the complete genome of Shigella sp. PAMC28760 and other complete genomes of Shigella species. Till date, it is the first study to show that two types of trehalase genes are involved in Shigella species, which could offer insight on how the bacteria use accessible carbohydrate like glucose produced from the trehalose degradation pathway, and importance of periplasmic trehalase involvement in bacterial virulence.
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- Prasansah Shrestha
- Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School, SunMoon University, Asan, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School, SunMoon University, Asan, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School, SunMoon University, Asan, Korea
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- Division of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School, SunMoon University, Asan, Korea.,Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering, SunMoon Univesity, Genome-based BioIT Convergence Institute, Asan, Korea.,Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Biotechnology, SunMoon University, Asan, Korea
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Orhan F, Ceyran E. Identification of novel halophilic/halotolerant bacterial species producing compatible solutes. Int Microbiol 2022; 26:219-229. [PMID: 36342583 DOI: 10.1007/s10123-022-00289-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 10/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ectoine and hydroxyectoine are compatible solutes with enormous potential for use in the medical and cosmetic industries. Considering the excellent osmoprotective properties of these compatible solutes, we investigate the presence of four compatible solutes (ectoine, hydroxyectoine, proline, and glutamic acid) quantitatively by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in forty-five halophilic/halotolerant bacterial isolates. We determined ectoine production by Marinibacillus sp., Nesterenkonia xinjiangensis, Halobacillus sp., Bacillus patagoniensis, Virgibacillus picturae, Halomonas neptunia, Bacillus patagoniensis, Gracilibacillus sp., Thalassobacillus devorans, Microbacterium sp., Nesterenkonia sp., and Bacillus agaradhaerens, and this production was NaCl dependent. Additionally, the production of hydroxyectoine was observed in six bacterial isolates (Nesterenkonia xinjiangensis, Halobacillus sp., Halomonas neptunia, Thalassobacillus devorans, Nesterenkonia sp., and Bacillus agaradhaerens) which was NaCl and temperature dependent. The study identified new bacterial isolates producing ectoine or hydroxyectoine. While the ectoine production in many different Bacillus members and a few Nesterenkonia have been documented before, ectoine production by Bacillus patagoniensis and Nesterenkonia xinjiangensis has not been shown so far. Further, ectoine production by a member of the genus Thalassobacillus (Thalassobacillus devorans) was demonstrated experimentally for the first time. The findings reported in the study may serve as a basis for the large-scale production of ectoine and hydroxyectoine in the future.
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- Furkan Orhan
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Agri İbrahim Cecen University, Agri, 04200, Turkey.
- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, 04200, Turkey.
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- Central Research and Application Laboratory, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Agri, 04200, Turkey
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Hobmeier K, Oppermann M, Stasinski N, Kremling A, Pflüger-Grau K, Kunte HJ, Marin-Sanguino A. Metabolic engineering of Halomonas elongata: Ectoine secretion is increased by demand and supply driven approaches. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:968983. [PMID: 36090101 PMCID: PMC9453808 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.968983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The application of naturally-derived biomolecules in everyday products, replacing conventional synthetic manufacturing, is an ever-increasing market. An example of this is the compatible solute ectoine, which is contained in a plethora of treatment formulations for medicinal products and cosmetics. As of today, ectoine is produced in a scale of tons each year by the natural producer Halomonas elongata. In this work, we explore two complementary approaches to obtain genetically improved producer strains for ectoine production. We explore the effect of increased precursor supply (oxaloacetate) on ectoine production, as well as an implementation of increased ectoine demand through the overexpression of a transporter. Both approaches were implemented on an already genetically modified ectoine-excreting strain H. elongata KB2.13 (ΔteaABC ΔdoeA) and both led to new strains with higher ectoine excretion. The supply driven approach led to a 45% increase in ectoine titers in two different strains. This increase was attributed to the removal of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), which allowed the conversion of 17.9% of the glucose substrate to ectoine. For the demand driven approach, we investigated the potential of the TeaBC transmembrane proteins from the ectoine-specific Tripartite ATP-Independent Periplasmic (TRAP) transporter as export channels to improve ectoine excretion. In the absence of the substrate-binding protein TeaA, an overexpression of both subunits TeaBC facilitated a three-fold increased excretion rate of ectoine. Individually, the large subunit TeaC showed an approximately five times higher extracellular ectoine concentration per dry weight compared to TeaBC shortly after its expression was induced. However, the detrimental effect on growth and ectoine titer at the end of the process hints toward a negative impact of TeaC overexpression on membrane integrity and possibly leads to cell lysis. By using either strategy, the ectoine synthesis and excretion in H. elongata could be boosted drastically. The inherent complementary nature of these approaches point at a coordinated implementation of both as a promising strategy for future projects in Metabolic Engineering. Moreover, a wide variation of intracelllular ectoine levels was observed between the strains, which points at a major disruption of mechanisms responsible for ectoine regulation in strain KB2.13.
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- Karina Hobmeier
- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Division Biodeterioration and Reference Organisms, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
- Departament de Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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The potential of mineral weathering of halophilic-endophytic bacteria isolated from Suaeda salsa and Spartina anglica. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:561. [PMID: 35978053 PMCID: PMC9385829 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-022-03129-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Bacteria have the abilities of salt tolerant, mineral weathering and plant growth promoting can promote the growth of plants in saline lands. However, few reports of the mineral weathering capacity of halophilic-endophytic bacteria, raising the question of whether the halophilic-endophytic weathering bacteria are fundamentally distinct from those in plants communities. In this study, we isolated and characterized halophilic bacterial strains from the roots and leaves of Suaeda salsa and Spartina anglica with respect to their mineral weathering pattern, role in the promoting plant growth, community structure, and their changes in these two plants. Using improved Gibbson medium, we obtained 156 halophilic bacterial strains, among which 92 and 64 strains were isolated from the S. salsa and S. anglica samples, respectively. The rock weathering patterns of the isolates were characterized using batch cultures that measure the quantity of Si, Al, K, and Fe released from crystal biotite under aerobic conditions. Significantly, the biomass and capacity of the mineral weathering of the halophilic-endophytic bacteria were different in the plants. The abundance of the halophilic-endophytic bacterials in the Suaeda salsa was significantly greater than Spartina anglica, whereas the mineral weathering bacterial in the Suaeda salsa was similar to the Spartina anglica. Furthermore, the proportion of plant growth-promoting bacteria in the Suaeda salsa was higher than Spartina anglica. Phylogenetic analyses show that the weathered minerals were inhabited by specific functional groups of bacteria (Halomonas, Acinetobacter, Burkholderia, Alcaligenes, Sphingobium, Arthrobacter, Chryseobacterium, Paenibacillus, Microbacterium, Ensifer, Ralstonia and Enterobacter) that contribute to the mineral weathering. The changes in halophilic endophytes weathering communities between the two plants were attributable not only to major bacterial groups but also to a change in the minor population structure.
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Thermal Death Kinetics of Three Representative Salmonella enterica Strains in Toasted Oats Cereal. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10081570. [PMID: 36013988 PMCID: PMC9416204 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10081570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Several reports have indicated that the thermal tolerance of Salmonella at low-water activity increases significantly, but information on the impact of diverse food matrices is still scarce. The goal of this research was to determine the kinetic parameters (decimal reduction time, D; time required for the first decimal reduction, δ) of thermal resistance of Salmonella in a previously cooked low water activity food. Commercial toasted oats cereal (TOC) was used as the food model, with or without sucrose (25%) addition. TOC samples were inoculated with 108 CFU/mL of a single strain of one of three Salmonella serovars (Agona, Tennessee, Typhimurium). TOC samples were ground and equilibrated to aw values of 0.11, 0.33 and 0.53, respectively. Ground TOC was heated at temperatures between 65 °C and 105 °C and viable counts were determined over time (depending on the temperature for up to 6 h). Death kinetic parameters were determined using linear and Weibull regression models. More than 70% of Weibull’s adjusted regression coefficients (Radj2) and only 38% of the linear model’s Radj2 had values greater than 0.8. For all serovars, both D and δ values increased consistently at a 0.11 aw compared to 0.33 and 0.53. At 0.33 aw, the δ values for Typhimurium, Tennessee and Agona were 0.55, 1.01 and 2.87, respectively, at 85 °C, but these values increased to 65, 105 and 64 min, respectively, at 0.11 aw. At 100 °C, δ values were 0.9, 5.5 and 2.3 min, respectively, at 0.11 aw. The addition of sucrose resulted in a consistent reduction of eight out of nine δ values determined at 0.11 aw at 85, 95 and 100 °C, but this trend was not consistent at 0.33 and 0.53 aw. The Z values (increase of temperature required to decrease δ-value one log) were determined with modified δ values for a fixed β (a fitting parameter that describes the shape of the curve), and ranged between 8.9 °C and 13.4 °C; they were not influenced by aw, strain or sugar content. These findings indicated that in TOC, high thermal tolerance was consistent among serovars and thermal tolerance was inversely dependent on aw.
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Lopes T, Cardoso P, Matos D, Rocha R, Pires A, Marques P, Figueira E. Graphene oxide influence in soil bacteria is dose dependent and changes at osmotic stress: growth variation, oxidative damage, antioxidant response, and plant growth promotion traits of a Rhizobium strain. Nanotoxicology 2022; 16:549-565. [PMID: 35997812 DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2022.2109528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Climate change events, such as drought, are increasing and soil bacteria can be severely affected. Moreover, the accumulation of emerging pollutants is expected to rapidly increase, and their impact on soil organisms, their interactions, and the services they provide is poorly known. The use of graphene oxide (GO) has been increasing due to its enormous potential for application in several areas and it is expected that concentration in soil will increase in the future, potentially causing disturbances in soil microorganisms not yet identified.Here we show the effects that GO nanosheets can cause on soil bacteria, in particular those that promote plant growth, in control and 10% polyethylene glycol (PEG) conditions. Low concentrations of GO nanosheets did not affect the growth of Rhizobium strain E20-8, but under osmotic stress (PEG) GO decreased bacterial growth even at lower concentrations. GO caused oxidative stress, with antioxidant mechanisms being induced to restrain damage, effectively at lower concentrations, but less effective at higher concentrations, and oxidative damage overcame. Under osmotic stress, alginate and glycine betaine osmoregulated the bacteria. Simultaneous exposure to PEG and GO induced oxidative damage. Plant growth promotion traits (indole acetic acid and siderophores production) were increased by osmotic stress and GO did not disturb these abilities. In the context of climate change, our findings might be relevant as they can form the premises for the implementation of crop production methodologies adapted to the new prevailing conditions, which include the presence of nanoparticles in the soil and more frequent and severe drought.
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- Tiago Lopes
- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanics & TEMA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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Hobmeier K, Cantone M, Nguyen QA, Pflüger-Grau K, Kremling A, Kunte HJ, Pfeiffer F, Marin-Sanguino A. Adaptation to Varying Salinity in Halomonas elongata: Much More Than Ectoine Accumulation. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:846677. [PMID: 35432243 PMCID: PMC9006882 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.846677] [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: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The halophilic γ-proteobacterium Halomonas elongata DSM 2581 T thrives at salt concentrations well above 10 % NaCl (1.7 M NaCl). A well-known osmoregulatory mechanism is the accumulation of the compatible solute ectoine within the cell in response to osmotic stress. While ectoine accumulation is central to osmoregulation and promotes resistance to high salinity in halophilic bacteria, ectoine has this effect only to a much lesser extent in non-halophiles. We carried out transcriptome analysis of H. elongata grown on two different carbon sources (acetate or glucose), and low (0.17 M NaCl), medium (1 M), and high salinity (2 M) to identify additional mechanisms for adaptation to high saline environments. To avoid a methodological bias, the transcripts were evaluated by applying two methods, DESeq2 and Transcripts Per Million (TPM). The differentially transcribed genes in response to the available carbon sources and salt stress were then compared to the transcriptome profile of Chromohalobacter salexigens, a closely related moderate halophilic bacterium. Transcriptome profiling supports the notion that glucose is degraded via the cytoplasmic Entner-Doudoroff pathway, whereas the Embden-Meyerhoff-Parnas pathway is employed for gluconeogenesis. The machinery of oxidative phosphorylation in H. elongata and C. salexigens differs greatly from that of non-halophilic organisms, and electron flow can occur from quinone to oxygen along four alternative routes. Two of these pathways via cytochrome bo' and cytochrome bd quinol oxidases seem to be upregulated in salt stressed cells. Among the most highly regulated genes in H. elongata and C. salexigens are those encoding chemotaxis and motility proteins, with genes for chemotaxis and flagellar assembly severely downregulated at low salt concentrations. We also compared transcripts at low and high-salt stress (low growth rate) with transcripts at optimal salt concentration and found that the majority of regulated genes were down-regulated in stressed cells, including many genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism, while ribosome synthesis was up-regulated, which is in contrast to what is known from non-halophiles at slow growth. Finally, comparing the acidity of the cytoplasmic proteomes of non-halophiles, extreme halophiles and moderate halophiles suggests adaptation to an increased cytoplasmic ion concentration of H. elongata. Taken together, these results lead us to propose a model for salt tolerance in H. elongata where ion accumulation plays a greater role in salt tolerance than previously assumed.
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- Karina Hobmeier
- Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Division Biodeterioration and Reference Organisms, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
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- Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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- Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.,Departament de Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Eronina TB, Mikhaylova VV, Chebotareva NA, Kleymenov SY, Pivovarova AV, Kurganov BI. Combined action of chemical chaperones on stability, aggregation and oligomeric state of muscle glycogen phosphorylase b. Int J Biol Macromol 2022; 203:406-416. [PMID: 35066023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.01.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Chemical chaperones are a class of small molecules, which enhance protein stability, folding, inhibit protein aggregation, and are used for long-term storage of therapeutic proteins. The combined action of chemical chaperones trehalose, betaine and lysine on stability, aggregation and oligomeric state of muscle glycogen phosphorylase b (Phb) has been studied. Dynamic light scattering data indicate that the affinity of trehalose to Phb increased in the presence of betaine or lysine at both stages (stage of nucleation and aggregate growth) of enzyme aggregation at 48 °C, in contrast, the affinity of betaine to the enzyme in the presence of lysine remained practically unchanged. According to differential scanning calorimetry and analytical ultracentrifugation data, the mixture of trehalose and betaine stabilized Phb stronger than either of them in total. Moreover, the destabilizing effect of lysine on the enzyme was almost completely compensated by trehalose and only partially by betaine. The main protective effect of the mixtures of osmolytes and lysine is associated with their influence on the dissociation/denaturation stage, which is the rate-limiting one of Phb aggregation. Thus, a pair of chaperones affects the stability, oligomeric state, and aggregation of Phb differently than individual chaperones.
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- Tatiana B Eronina
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia.
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia; Koltsov's Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova 26, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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Woodcock SD, Syson K, Little RH, Ward D, Sifouna D, Brown JKM, Bornemann S, Malone JG. Trehalose and α-glucan mediate distinct abiotic stress responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009524. [PMID: 33872310 PMCID: PMC8084333 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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An important prelude to bacterial infection is the ability of a pathogen to survive independently of the host and to withstand environmental stress. The compatible solute trehalose has previously been connected with diverse abiotic stress tolerances, particularly osmotic shock. In this study, we combine molecular biology and biochemistry to dissect the trehalose metabolic network in the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and define its role in abiotic stress protection. We show that trehalose metabolism in PAO1 is integrated with the biosynthesis of branched α-glucan (glycogen), with mutants in either biosynthetic pathway significantly compromised for survival on abiotic surfaces. While both trehalose and α-glucan are important for abiotic stress tolerance, we show they counter distinct stresses. Trehalose is important for the PAO1 osmotic stress response, with trehalose synthesis mutants displaying severely compromised growth in elevated salt conditions. However, trehalose does not contribute directly to the PAO1 desiccation response. Rather, desiccation tolerance is mediated directly by GlgE-derived α-glucan, with deletion of the glgE synthase gene compromising PAO1 survival in low humidity but having little effect on osmotic sensitivity. Desiccation tolerance is independent of trehalose concentration, marking a clear distinction between the roles of these two molecules in mediating responses to abiotic stress. Author summary To survive outside their host, pathogenic bacteria must withstand various environmental stresses. The sugar molecule trehalose is associated with a range of abiotic stress tolerances, particularly osmotic shock. In this study, we analyse the trehalose metabolic network in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and define its role in abiotic stress protection. We show that trehalose metabolism in PAO1 is intimately connected to the biosynthesis of branched α-glucan, or glycogen. Disruption of either trehalose or glycogen biosynthesis significantly reduces the ability of PAO1 to survive on steel work surfaces. While both trehalose and glycogen are important for stress tolerance, they counter very different stresses. Trehalose is important for the osmotic stress response, and survival in conditions of elevated salt. On the other hand, glycogen is responsible for desiccation tolerance and survival in low humidity environments. Trehalose does not apparently contribute to desiccation tolerance, marking a clear distinction between the roles of trehalose and glycogen in mediating abiotic stress responses in P. aeruginosa.
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- Stuart D. Woodcock
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Hobmeier K, Goëss MC, Sehr C, Schwaminger S, Berensmeier S, Kremling A, Kunte HJ, Pflüger-Grau K, Marin-Sanguino A. Anaplerotic Pathways in Halomonas elongata: The Role of the Sodium Gradient. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:561800. [PMID: 33101236 PMCID: PMC7545133 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.561800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Salt tolerance in the γ-proteobacterium Halomonas elongata is linked to its ability to produce the compatible solute ectoine. The metabolism of ectoine production is of great interest since it can shed light on the biochemical basis of halotolerance as well as pave the way for the improvement of the biotechnological production of such compatible solute. Ectoine belongs to the biosynthetic family of aspartate-derived amino-acids. Aspartate is formed from oxaloacetate, thereby connecting ectoine production to the anaplerotic reactions that refill carbon into the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle). This places a high demand on these reactions and creates the need to regulate them not only in response to growth but also in response to extracellular salt concentration. In this work, we combine modeling and experiments to analyze how these different needs shape the anaplerotic reactions in H. elongata. First, the stoichiometric and thermodynamic factors that condition the flux distributions are analyzed, then the optimal patterns of operation for oxaloacetate production are calculated. Finally, the phenotype of two deletion mutants lacking potentially relevant anaplerotic enzymes: phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (Ppc) and oxaloacetate decarboxylase (Oad) are experimentally characterized. The results show that the anaplerotic reactions in H. elongata are indeed subject to evolutionary pressures that differ from those faced by other gram-negative bacteria. Ectoine producing halophiles must meet a higher metabolic demand for oxaloacetate and the reliance of many marine bacteria on the Entner-Doudoroff pathway compromises the anaplerotic efficiency of Ppc, which is usually one of the main enzymes fulfilling this role. The anaplerotic flux in H. elongata is contributed not only by Ppc but also by Oad, an enzyme that has not yet been shown to play this role in vivo. Ppc is necessary for H. elongata to grow normally at low salt concentrations but it is not required to achieve near maximal growth rates as long as there is a steep sodium gradient. On the other hand, the lack of Oad presents serious difficulties to grow at high salt concentrations. This points to a shared role of these two enzymes in guaranteeing the supply of oxaloacetate for biosynthetic reactions.
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- Karina Hobmeier
- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Bioseparation Engineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Bioseparation Engineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Biodeterioration and Reference Organisms, Bundesanstalt Für Materialforschung und -Prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Professorship for Systems Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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König P, Averhoff B, Müller V. A first response to osmostress in Acinetobacter baumannii: transient accumulation of K + and its replacement by compatible solutes. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2020; 12:419-423. [PMID: 32419284 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The extraordinary desiccation resistance of the opportunistic human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii is a key to its survival and spread in medical care units. The accumulation of compatible solute such as glutamate, mannitol and trehalose contributes to the desiccation resistance. Here, we have used osmolarity as a tool to study the response of cells to low water activities and studied the role of a potential inorganic osmolyte, K+ , in osmostress response. Growth of A. baumannii was K+ -dependent and the K+ -dependence increased with the osmolarity of the medium. After an osmotic upshock, cells accumulated K+ and K+ accumulation increased with the salinity of the medium. K+ uptake was reduced in the presence of glycine betaine. The intracellular pools of compatible solutes were dependent on the K+ concentration: mannitol and glutamate concentrations increased with increasing K+ concentrations whereas trehalose was highest at low K+ . After osmotic upshock, cells first accumulated K+ followed by synthesis of glutamate; later, mannitol and trehalose synthesis started, accompanied with a decrease of intracellular K+ and glutamate. These experiments demonstrate K+ uptake as a first response to osmostress in A. baumannii and demonstrate a hierarchy in the time-dependent accumulation of K+ and different organic solutes.
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- Patricia König
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Bethlehem L, Moritz KD. Boosting Escherichia coli's heterologous production rate of ectoines by exploiting the non-halophilic gene cluster from Acidiphilium cryptum. Extremophiles 2020; 24:733-747. [PMID: 32699914 PMCID: PMC7445199 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-020-01188-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The compatible solutes ectoine and hydroxyectoine are synthesized by many microorganisms as potent osmostress and desiccation protectants. Besides their successful implementation into various skincare products, they are of increasing biotechnological interest due to new applications in the healthcare sector. To meet this growing demand, efficient heterologous overproduction solutions for ectoines need to be found. This study is the first report on the utilization of the non-halophilic biosynthesis enzymes from Acidiphilium cryptum DSM 2389T for efficient heterologous production of ectoines in Escherichia coli. When grown at low salt conditions (≤ 0.5% NaCl) and utilizing the cheap carbon source glycerol, the production was characterized by the highest specific production of ectoine [2.9 g/g dry cell weight (dcw)] and hydroxyectoine (2.2 g/g dcw) reported so far and occurred at rapid specific production rates of up to 345 mg/(g dcw × h). This efficiency in production was related to an unprecedented carbon source conversion rate of approx. 60% of the theoretical maximum. These findings confirm the unique potential of the here implemented non-halophilic enzymes for ectoine production processes in E. coli and demonstrate the first efficient heterologous solution for hydroxyectoine production, as well as an extraordinary efficient low-salt ectoine production.
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- Lukas Bethlehem
- Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, University Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115, Bonn, Germany.
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- Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, University Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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Okuno Y, Szabo A, Clore GM. Quantitative Interpretation of Solvent Paramagnetic Relaxation for Probing Protein-Cosolute Interactions. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:8281-8290. [PMID: 32286812 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Protein-small cosolute molecule interactions are ubiquitous and known to modulate the solubility, stability, and function of many proteins. Characterization of such transient weak interactions at atomic resolution remains challenging. In this work, we develop a simple and practical NMR method for extracting both energetic and dynamic information on protein-cosolute interactions from solvent paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (sPRE) measurements. Our procedure is based on an approximate (non-Lorentzian) spectral density that behaves exactly at both high and low frequencies. This spectral density contains two parameters, one global related to the translational diffusion coefficient of the paramagnetic cosolute, and the other residue specific. These parameters can be readily determined from sPRE data, and then used to calculate analytically a concentration normalized equilibrium average of the interspin distance, ⟨r-6⟩norm, and an effective correlation time, τC, that provide measures of the energetics and dynamics of the interaction at atomic resolution. We compare our approach with existing ones, and demonstrate the utility of our method using experimental 1H longitudinal and transverse sPRE data recorded on the protein ubiquitin in the presence of two different nitroxide radical cosolutes, at multiple static magnetic fields. The approach for analyzing sPRE data outlined here provides a powerful tool for deepening our understanding of extremely weak protein-cosolute interactions.
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- Yusuke Okuno
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States
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Genomic and physiological insights into the lifestyle of Bifidobacterium species from water kefir. Arch Microbiol 2020; 202:1627-1637. [PMID: 32266422 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-020-01870-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Water kefir is a fermented beverage employing a natural microbial consortium, which harbours bifidobacteria, namely Bifidobacterium aquikefiri and Bifidobacterium tibiigranuli. However, little information is available on their metabolic properties or role in the consortium. In this study, we combined genomic and physiologic investigations to predict and characterize the properties of these organisms and their possible role in the consortium. When comparing the genomes of these psychrotrophic organisms with that of the three selected mesophilic probiotic Bifidobacterium strains, we could find 143 genes shared by the 3 known isolates of bifidobacteria from water kefir that do not occur in the probiotic strains. These include genes involved in acid and oxygen tolerance. In addition, their genomically predicted carbohydrate usage and transport suggest adaptation to sucrose and other plant-related sugars. Furthermore, they proved prototrophic for all amino acids in vitro, which enables them to cope with the strong amino acid limitation in water kefir.
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Contribution of mechanosensitive channels to osmoadaptation and ectoine excretion in Halomonas elongata. Extremophiles 2020; 24:421-432. [PMID: 32266565 PMCID: PMC7174268 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-020-01168-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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For osmoadaptation the halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata synthesizes as its main compatible solute the aspartate derivative ectoine. H. elongata does not rely entirely on synthesis but can accumulate ectoine by uptake from the surrounding environment with the help of the osmoregulated transporter TeaABC. Disruption of the TeaABC-mediated ectoine uptake creates a strain that is constantly losing ectoine to the medium. However, the efflux mechanism of ectoine in H. elongata is not yet understood. H. elongata possesses four genes encoding mechanosensitive channels all of which belong to the small conductance type (MscS). Analysis by qRT-PCR revealed a reduction in transcription of the mscS genes with increasing salinity. The response of H. elongata to hypo- and hyperosmotic shock never resulted in up-regulation but rather in down-regulation of mscS transcription. Deletion of all four mscS genes created a mutant that was unable to cope with hypoosmotic shock. However, the knockout mutant grew significantly faster than the wildtype at high salinity of 2 M NaCl, and most importantly, still exported 80% of the ectoine compared to the wildtype. We thus conclude that a yet unknown system, which is independent of mechanosensitive channels, is the major export route for ectoine in H. elongata.
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Cheng F, Zhou Y, Wang M, Guo C, Cao Z, Zhang R, Peng C. A review of pharmacological and pharmacokinetic properties of stachydrine. Pharmacol Res 2020; 155:104755. [PMID: 32173585 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2020.104755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Stachydrine is extracted from the leaves of Leonurus japonicus Houtt (or Motherwort, "Yi Mu Cao" in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and is the major bioactive ingredient. So far, stachydrine has demonstrated various bioactivities for the treatment of fibrosis, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, uterine diseases, brain injuries, and inflammation. The pharmacological and pharmacokinetic properties of stachydrine up to 2019 have been comprehensively searched and summarized. This review provides an updated summary of recent studies on the pharmacological activities of stachydrine. Many studies have demonstrated that stachydrine has strong anti-fibrotic properties (on various types of fibrosis) by inhibiting ECM deposition and decreasing inflammatory and oxidative stress through multiple molecular mechanisms (including TGF-β, ERS-mediated apoptosis, MMPs/TIMPs, NF-κB, and JAK/STAT). The cardioprotective and vasoprotective activities of stachydrine are related to its inhibition of β-MHC, excessive autophagy, SIRT1, eNOS uncoupling and TF, promotion of SERCA, and angiogenesis. In addition to its anticancer action, regulation of the uterus, neuroprotective effects, etc. the pharmacokinetic properties of stachydrine are also discussed.
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- Fang Cheng
- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China; School of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China; Library, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China; School of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources in Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Standardization for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China; School of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
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Sá C, Cardoso P, Figueira E. Alginate as a feature of osmotolerance differentiation among soil bacteria isolated from wild legumes growing in Portugal. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 681:312-319. [PMID: 31103668 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Revised: 04/13/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Plants are naturally colonized by bacteria that can exert beneficial effects on growth and stress tolerance. These bacteria can be used as inoculants to boost crop productivity and plants resilience, and can be especially interesting if they are able to survive to abiotic stresses, such as drought. Herein we report the mechanisms that soil bacteria resort to tolerate drought and we also explore the influence of each mechanism to the level of drought tolerance exhibited, in order to test the hypothesis that different levels of tolerance displayed by bacteria are linked to differential efficiency of osmotolerance mechanisms. For this, the biochemical and physiological responses of bacterial strains of different genera and displaying different levels of tolerance to osmotic stress (sensitive, moderately tolerant and tolerant) induced by polyethylene glycol-6000 (PEG) were studied. Betaine, trehalose and alginate content increased in the majority of the strains exposed to PEG. Betaine was the osmolyte with higher increases, evidencing the important role of this compound in the tolerance of bacteria to drought. However, betaine and trehalose levels were not significantly different among bacteria with different osmotolerance levels. Several biochemical endpoints (protein content, superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione-S-transferases) related to oxidative stress were assessed, since oxidative damage has been reported in drought conditions, but little information is available. The oxidative stress parameters were not sufficient to explain differences in the osmotolerance observed for the tested strains. In contrast, alginate showed significant differences among the three levels of osmotolerance, linking the level of osmotolerance with the ability of soil bacteria to synthesize and accumulate alginate intracellularly for the first time. Moreover, our results show that this ability is present in different bacteria genera. Thus, evaluating the ability to synthesize alginate might be an important cue when considering bacterial inoculants for osmotically stressful conditions.
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- Carina Sá
- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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Heterologous Ectoine Production in Escherichia coli: Optimization Using Response Surface Methodology. Int J Microbiol 2019; 2019:5475361. [PMID: 31354830 PMCID: PMC6636453 DOI: 10.1155/2019/5475361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Introduction A halophilic bacterium of the Halomonas elongata BK-AG25 has successfully produced ectoine with high productivity. To overcome the drawbacks of high levels of salt in the production process, a nonhalophilic bacteria of Escherichia coli (E. coli) was used to express the ectoine gene cluster of the halophilic bacteria, and the production of ectoine by the recombinant cell was optimized. Methods The ectoine gene cluster from the halophilic bacterium was isolated and inserted into an expression plasmid of pET30(a) and subsequently transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3). Production of ectoine from the recombinant E. coli was investigated and then maximized by optimizing the level of nutrients in the medium, as well as the bioprocess conditions using response surface methodology. The experimental designs were performed using a central composite design. Results The recombinant E. coli successfully expressed the ectoine gene cluster of Halomonas elongata BK-AG25 under the control of the T7 promoter. The recombinant cell was able to produce ectoine, of which most were excreted into the medium. The optimization of ectoine production with the response surface methodology showed that the level of salt in the medium, the incubation temperature, the optical density of the bacteria before induction, and the final concentration of the inducer gave a significant effect on ectoine production by the recombinant E. coli. Interestingly, the level of salt in the medium and the incubation temperature showed an inverse effect on the production of intracellular and extracellular ectoine by the recombinant cell. At the optimum conditions, the production yield was about 418 mg ectoine/g cdw (cell dry weight) after 12 hours of incubation. Conclusion This study is the first report on the expression of an ectoine gene cluster of Halomonas elongata BK-AG25 in E. coli BL21, under the control of the T7 promoter. Optimization of the level of nutrients in the medium, as well as the bioprocess condition using response surface methodology, has successfully increased the production of ectoine by the recombinant bacteria.
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Di N, Zhang K, Zhang F, Wang S, Liu TX. Polyculture and Monoculture Affect the Fitness, Behavior and Detoxification Metabolism of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). Front Physiol 2018; 9:1392. [PMID: 30337884 PMCID: PMC6180230 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Herbivores respond differently to the level of plant diversity encountered. Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) are highly polyphagous herbivores which cause considerable damage to various crops. Herein, we reared this species both in polyculture and monoculture, including preferred and less preferred host plants such as Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.). Trends in survival and oviposition were recorded, and impact of plants on growth and development of B. tabaci were studied, particularly in terms of detoxification and digestive enzymatic activity in the insects. We found that the survival rate was the highest in Chinese cabbage monoculture treatment. Further, the egg numbers on individual species in the polyculture generally reflected numbers on the same plant species in monoculture. However, more eggs were observed in each of the four plant species tested in the context of polyculture. The activity of superoxide dismutases (SOD) and alkaline phosphatase (AKP) in B. tabaci fed in a choice situation were significantly lower than those fed with tomato monoculture, indicating a dilution of toxicity with a multi-plant diet compared with less preferred host plant diet. Also, the survival rate of B. tabaci in monoculture was negatively correlated with SOD amount of whitefly. In the plants attacked by whiteflies, the activity of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and catalase (CAT) in Chinese cabbage was lower in polyculture than in the monoculture. These results implied that multi-plant treatments contained fewer secondary metabolite substances and might be less toxic to polyphagous herbivores. As such, the work herein contributes knowledge relevant for more effective control and management of B. tabaci.
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- Ning Di
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, and Key Laboratory of Northwest Loess Plateau Crop Pest Management of Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
- Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Development Center for Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, and Key Laboratory of Northwest Loess Plateau Crop Pest Management of Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
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In Vivo Titration of Folate Pathway Enzymes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.01139-18. [PMID: 30030232 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01139-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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How enzymes behave in cells is likely different from how they behave in the test tube. Previous in vitro studies find that osmolytes interact weakly with folate. Removal of the osmolyte from the solvation shell of folate is more difficult than removal of water, which weakens binding of folate to its enzyme partners. To examine if this phenomenon occurs in vivo, osmotic stress titrations were performed with Escherichia coli Two strategies were employed: resistance to an antibacterial drug and complementation of a knockout strain by the appropriate gene cloned into a plasmid that allows tight control of expression levels as well as labeling by a degradation tag. The abilities of the knockout and complemented strains to grow under osmotic stress were compared. Typically, the knockout strain could grow to high osmolalities on supplemented medium, while the complemented strain stopped growing at lower osmolalities on minimal medium. This pattern was observed for an R67 dihydrofolate reductase clone rescuing a ΔfolA strain, for a methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase clone rescuing a ΔmetF strain, and for a serine hydroxymethyltransferase clone rescuing a ΔglyA strain. Additionally, an R67 dihydrofolate reductase clone allowed E. coli DH5α to grow in the presence of trimethoprim until an osmolality of ∼0.81 is reached, while cells in a control titration lacking antibiotic could grow to 1.90 osmol.IMPORTANCEE. coli can survive in drought and flooding conditions and can tolerate large changes in osmolality. However, the cell processes that limit bacterial growth under high osmotic stress conditions are not known. In this study, the dose of four different enzymes in E. coli was decreased by using deletion strains complemented by the gene carried in a tunable plasmid. Under conditions of limiting enzyme concentration (lower than that achieved by chromosomal gene expression), cell growth can be blocked by osmotic stress conditions that are normally tolerated. These observations indicate that E. coli has evolved to deal with variations in its osmotic environment and that normal protein levels are sufficient to buffer the cell from environmental changes. Additional factors involved in the osmotic pressure response may include altered protein concentration/activity levels, weak solute interactions with ligands which can make it more difficult for proteins to bind their substrates/inhibitors/cofactors in vivo, and/or viscosity effects.
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Temesvari LA, Klein G, Cotter DA. Environmental influence on trehalogenesis in amoebae of the cellular slime molds. Mycologia 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1996.12026721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Lesly A. Temesvari
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
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- Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires, 85X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
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Scott RA, Thilmony R, Harden LA, Zhou Y, Brandl MT. Escherichia coli O157:H7 Converts Plant-Derived Choline to Glycine Betaine for Osmoprotection during Pre- and Post-harvest Colonization of Injured Lettuce Leaves. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2436. [PMID: 29276506 PMCID: PMC5727454 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Plant injury is inherent to the production and processing of fruit and vegetables. The opportunistic colonization of damaged plant tissue by human enteric pathogens may contribute to the occurrence of outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to produce. Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EcO157) responds to physicochemical stresses in cut lettuce and lettuce lysates by upregulation of several stress response pathways. We investigated the tolerance of EcO157 to osmotic stress imposed by the leakage of osmolytes from injured lettuce leaf tissue. LC-MS analysis of bacterial osmoprotectants in lettuce leaf lysates and wound washes indicated an abundant natural pool of choline, but sparse quantities of glycine betaine and proline. Glycine betaine was a more effective osmoprotectant than choline in EcO157 under osmotic stress conditions in vitro. An EcO157 mutant with a deletion of the betTIBA genes, which are required for biosynthesis of glycine betaine from imported choline, achieved population sizes twofold lower than those of the parental strain (P < 0.05) over the first hour of colonization of cut lettuce in modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The cell concentrations of the betTIBA mutant also were 12-fold lower than those of the parental strain (P < 0.01) when grown in hypertonic lettuce lysate, indicating that lettuce leaf cellular contents provide choline for osmoprotection of EcO157. To demonstrate the utilization of available choline by EcO157 for osmoadaptation in injured leaf tissue, deuterated (D-9) choline was introduced to wound sites in MAP lettuce; LC-MS analysis revealed the conversion of D9-choline to D-9 glycine betaine in the parental strain, but no significant amounts were observed in the betTIBA mutant. The EcO157 ΔbetTIBA-ΔotsBA double mutant, which is additionally deficient in de novo synthesis of the compatible solute trehalose, was significantly less fit than the parental strain after their co-inoculation onto injured lettuce leaves and MAP cut lettuce. However, its competitive fitness followed a different time-dependent trend in MAP lettuce, likely due to differences in O2 content, which modulates betTIBA expression. Our study demonstrates that damaged lettuce leaf tissue does not merely supply EcO157 with substrates for proliferation, but also provides the pathogen with choline for its survival to osmotic stress experienced at the site of injury.
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- Russell A. Scott
- Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States
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- Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States
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- Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States
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- Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States
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- Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States
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Findik BT, Randall LL. Determination of the intracellular concentration of the export chaperone SecB in Escherichia coli. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0183231. [PMID: 28850586 PMCID: PMC5574556 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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SecB, a small tetrameric chaperone in Escherichia coli, plays a crucial role during protein export via the general secretory pathway by binding precursor polypeptides in a nonnative conformation and passing them to SecA, the ATPase of the translocon. The dissociation constants for the interactions are known; however to relate studies in vitro to export in a living cell requires knowledge of the concentrations of the proteins in the cell. Presently in the literature there is no report of a rigorous determination of the intracellular concentration of SecB. The values available vary over 60 fold and the details of the techniques used are not given. Here we use quantitative immunoblotting to determine the level of SecB expressed from the chromosome in E.coli grown in two commonly used media. In rich medium SecB was present at 1.6 ± 0.2 μM and in minimal medium at 2.5 ± 0.6 μM. These values allow studies of SecB carried out in vitro to be applied to the situation in the cell as SecB interacts with its binding partners to move precursor polypeptides through the export pathway.
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- Bahar T. Findik
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Basis of Protein Stabilization by K Glutamate: Unfavorable Interactions with Carbon, Oxygen Groups. Biophys J 2017; 111:1854-1865. [PMID: 27806267 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.08.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 07/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Potassium glutamate (KGlu) is the primary Escherichia coli cytoplasmic salt. After sudden osmotic upshift, cytoplasmic KGlu concentration increases, initially because of water efflux and subsequently by K+ transport and Glu- synthesis, allowing water uptake and resumption of growth at high osmolality. In vitro, KGlu ranks with Hofmeister salts KF and K2SO4 in driving protein folding and assembly. Replacement of KCl by KGlu stabilizes protein-nucleic acid complexes. To interpret and predict KGlu effects on protein processes, preferential interactions of KGlu with 15 model compounds displaying six protein functional groups-sp3 (aliphatic) C; sp2 (aromatic, amide, carboxylate) C; amide and anionic (carboxylate) O; and amide and cationic N-were determined by osmometry or solubility assays. Analysis of these data yields interaction potentials (α-values) quantifying non-Coulombic chemical interactions of KGlu with unit area of these six groups. Interactions of KGlu with the 15 model compounds predicted from these six α-values agree well with experimental data. KGlu interactions with all carbon groups and with anionic (carboxylate) and amide oxygen are unfavorable, while KGlu interactions with cationic and amide nitrogen are favorable. These α-values, together with surface area information, provide quantitative predictions of why KGlu is an effective E. coli cytoplasmic osmolyte (because of the dominant effect of unfavorable interactions of KGlu with anionic and amide oxygens and hydrocarbon groups on the water-accessible surface of cytoplasmic biopolymers) and why KGlu is a strong stabilizer of folded proteins (because of the dominant effect of unfavorable interactions of KGlu with hydrocarbon groups and amide oxygens exposed in unfolding).
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Guo Y, Winkler J, Kao KC. Insights on Osmotic Tolerance Mechanisms in Escherichia coli Gained from an rpoC Mutation. Bioengineering (Basel) 2017; 4:bioengineering4030061. [PMID: 28952540 PMCID: PMC5615307 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering4030061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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An 84 bp in-frame duplication (K370_A396dup) within the rpoC subunit of RNA polymerase was found in two independent mutants selected during an adaptive laboratory evolution experiment under osmotic stress in Escherichia coli, suggesting that this mutation confers improved osmotic tolerance. To determine the role this mutation in rpoC plays in osmotic tolerance, we reconstructed the mutation in BW25113, and found it to confer improved tolerance to hyperosmotic stress. Metabolite analysis, exogenous supplementation assays, and cell membrane damage analysis suggest that the mechanism of improved osmotic tolerance by this rpoC mutation may be related to the higher production of acetic acid and amino acids such as proline, and increased membrane integrity in the presence of NaCl stress in exponential phase cells. Transcriptional analysis led to the findings that the overexpression of methionine related genes metK and mmuP improves osmotic tolerance in BW25113. Furthermore, deletion of a stress related gene bolA was found to confer enhanced osmotic tolerance in BW25113 and MG1655. These findings expand our current understanding of osmotic tolerance in E. coli, and have the potential to expand the utilization of high saline feedstocks and water sources in microbial fermentation.
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- Yuqi Guo
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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Stadmiller SS, Gorensek-Benitez AH, Guseman AJ, Pielak GJ. Osmotic Shock Induced Protein Destabilization in Living Cells and Its Reversal by Glycine Betaine. J Mol Biol 2017; 429:1155-1161. [PMID: 28263768 PMCID: PMC5985519 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Many organisms can adapt to changes in the solute content of their surroundings (i.e., the osmolarity). Hyperosmotic shock causes water efflux and a concomitant reduction in cell volume, which is countered by the accumulation of osmolytes. This volume reduction increases the crowded nature of the cytoplasm, which is expected to affect protein stability. In contrast to traditional theory, which predicts that more crowded conditions can only increase protein stability, recent work shows that crowding can destabilize proteins through transient attractive interactions. Here, we quantify protein stability in living Escherichia coli cells before and after hyperosmotic shock in the presence and absence of the osmolyte, glycine betaine. The 7-kDa N-terminal src-homology 3 domain of Drosophila signal transduction protein drk is used as the test protein. We find that hyperosmotic shock decreases SH3 stability in cells, consistent with the idea that transient attractive interactions are important under physiologically relevant crowded conditions. The subsequent uptake of glycine betaine returns SH3 to the stability observed without osmotic shock. These results highlight the effect of transient attractive interactions on protein stability in cells and provide a new explanation for why stressed cells accumulate osmolytes.
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- Samantha S Stadmiller
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 120 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
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Osmoregulation in the Halophilic Bacterium Halomonas elongata: A Case Study for Integrative Systems Biology. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0168818. [PMID: 28081159 PMCID: PMC5231179 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Halophilic bacteria use a variety of osmoregulatory methods, such as the accumulation of one or more compatible solutes. The wide diversity of compounds that can act as compatible solute complicates the task of understanding the different strategies that halophilic bacteria use to cope with salt. This is specially challenging when attempting to go beyond the pathway that produces a certain compatible solute towards an understanding of how the metabolic network as a whole addresses the problem. Metabolic reconstruction based on genomic data together with Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) is a promising tool to gain insight into this problem. However, as more of these reconstructions become available, it becomes clear that processes predicted by genome annotation may not reflect the processes that are active in vivo. As a case in point, E. coli is unable to grow aerobically on citrate in spite of having all the necessary genes to do it. It has also been shown that the realization of this genetic potential into an actual capability to metabolize citrate is an extremely unlikely event under normal evolutionary conditions. Moreover, many marine bacteria seem to have the same pathways to metabolize glucose but each species uses a different one. In this work, a metabolic network inferred from genomic annotation of the halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata and proteomic profiling experiments are used as a starting point to motivate targeted experiments in order to find out some of the defining features of the osmoregulatory strategies of this bacterium. This new information is then used to refine the network in order to describe the actual capabilities of H. elongata, rather than its genetic potential.
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Wu C, Schwibbert K, Achazi K, Landsberger P, Gorbushina A, Haag R. Active Antibacterial and Antifouling Surface Coating via a Facile One-Step Enzymatic Cross-Linking. Biomacromolecules 2016; 18:210-216. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Changzhu Wu
- Institut
für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße
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of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 20b, 01217 Dresden, Germany
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- Federal Institute
for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), 12200 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut
für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße
3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute
for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), 12200 Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute
for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), 12200 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut
für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße
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Flow Chamber System for the Statistical Evaluation of Bacterial Colonization on Materials. MATERIALS 2016; 9:ma9090770. [PMID: 28773891 PMCID: PMC5457037 DOI: 10.3390/ma9090770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Biofilm formation on materials leads to high costs in industrial processes, as well as in medical applications. This fact has stimulated interest in the development of new materials with improved surfaces to reduce bacterial colonization. Standardized tests relying on statistical evidence are indispensable to evaluate the quality and safety of these new materials. We describe here a flow chamber system for biofilm cultivation under controlled conditions with a total capacity for testing up to 32 samples in parallel. In order to quantify the surface colonization, bacterial cells were DAPI (4`,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole)-stained and examined with epifluorescence microscopy. More than 100 images of each sample were automatically taken and the surface coverage was estimated using the free open source software g’mic, followed by a precise statistical evaluation. Overview images of all gathered pictures were generated to dissect the colonization characteristics of the selected model organism Escherichia coli W3310 on different materials (glass and implant steel). With our approach, differences in bacterial colonization on different materials can be quantified in a statistically validated manner. This reliable test procedure will support the design of improved materials for medical, industrial, and environmental (subaquatic or subaerial) applications.
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Moghaddam JA, Boehringer N, Burdziak A, Kunte HJ, Galinski EA, Schäberle TF. Different strategies of osmoadaptation in the closely related marine myxobacteria Enhygromyxa salina SWB007 and Plesiocystis pacifica SIR-1. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2016; 162:651-661. [PMID: 26842314 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Only a few myxobacteria are known to date that are classified as marine, owing to their salt dependency. In this study, the salt tolerance mechanism of these bacteria was investigated. To this end, a growth medium was designed in which the mutated Escherichia coli strain BKA13 served as sole food source for the predatory, heterotrophic myxobacteria. This enabled measurement of the osmolytes without any background and revealed that the closely related strains Enhygromyxa salina SWB007 and Plesiocystis pacifica SIR-1 developed different strategies to handle salt stress. Ple. pacifica SIR-1, which was grown between 1 and 4 % NaCl, relies solely on the accumulation of amino acids, while Enh. salina SWB007, which was grown between 0.5 and 3 % NaCl, employs, besides betaine, hydroxyectoine as the major compatible solute. In accordance with this analysis, only in the latter strain was a locus identified that codes for genes corresponding to the biosynthesis of betaine, ectoine and hydroxyectoine.
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Pilizota T, Shaevitz JW. Origins of Escherichia coli growth rate and cell shape changes at high external osmolality. Biophys J 2015; 107:1962-1969. [PMID: 25418177 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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In Escherichia coli, a sudden increase in external concentration causes a pressure drop across the cell envelope, followed by an active recovery. After recovery, and if the external osmolality remains high, cells have been shown to grow more slowly, smaller, and at reduced turgor pressure. Despite the fact that the active recovery is a key stress response, the nature of these changes and how they relate to each other is not understood. Here, we use fluorescence imaging of single cells during hyperosmotic shocks, combined with custom made microfluidic devices, to show that cells fully recover their volume to the initial, preshock value and continue to grow at a slower rate immediately after the recovery. We show that the cell envelope material properties do not change after hyperosmotic shock, and that cell shape recovers along with cell volume. Taken together, these observations indicate that the turgor pressure recovers to its initial value so that reduced turgor is not responsible for the reduced growth rate observed immediately after recovery. To determine the point at which the reduction in cell size and turgor pressure occurs after shock, we measured the volume of E. coli cells at different stages of growth in bulk cultures. We show that cell volume reaches the same maximal level irrespective of the osmolality of the media. Based on these measurements, we propose that turgor pressure is used as a feedback variable for osmoregulatory pumps instead of being directly responsible for the reduction in growth rates. Reestablishment of turgor to its initial value might ensure correct attachment of the inner membrane and cell wall needed for cell wall biosynthesis.
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- Teuta Pilizota
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; School of Biology and Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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Moritz KD, Amendt B, Witt EMHJ, Galinski EA. The hydroxyectoine gene cluster of the non-halophilic acidophile Acidiphilium cryptum. Extremophiles 2014; 19:87-99. [PMID: 25142158 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0687-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2014] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Acidiphilium cryptum is an acidophilic, heterotrophic α-Proteobacterium which thrives in acidic, metal-rich environments (e.g. acid mine drainage). Recently, an ectABCDask gene cluster for biosynthesis of the compatible solutes ectoine and hydroxyectoine was detected in the genome sequence of A. cryptum JF-5. We were able to demonstrate that the type strain A. cryptum DSM 2389(T) is capable of synthesizing the compatible solute hydroxyectoine in response to moderate osmotic stress caused by sodium chloride and aluminium sulphate, respectively. Furthermore, we used the A. cryptum JF-5 sequence to amplify the ectABCDask gene cluster from strain DSM 2389(T) and achieved heterologous expression of the gene cluster in Escherichia coli. Hence, we could for the first time prove metabolic functionality of the genes responsible for hydroxyectoine biosynthesis in the acidophile A. cryptum. In addition, we present information on specific enzyme activity of A. cryptum DSM 2389(T) ectoine synthase (EctC) in vitro. In contrast to EctCs from halophilic microorganisms, the A. cryptum enzyme exhibits a higher isoelectric point, thus a lower acidity, and has maximum specific activity in the absence of sodium chloride.
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- Katharina D Moritz
- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 53115, Bonn, Germany,
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Sarkar M, Pielak GJ. An osmolyte mitigates the destabilizing effect of protein crowding. Protein Sci 2014; 23:1161-4. [PMID: 24963990 DOI: 10.1002/pro.2510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Revised: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Most theories predict that macromolecular crowding stabilizes globular proteins, but recent studies show that weak attractive interactions can result in crowding-induced destabilization. Osmolytes are ubiquitous in biology and help protect cells against stress. Given that dehydration stress adds to the crowded nature of the cytoplasm, we speculated that cells might use osmolytes to overcome the destabilization caused by the increased weak interactions that accompany desiccation. We used NMR-detected amide proton exchange experiments to measure the stability of the test protein chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 under physiologically relevant crowded conditions in the presence and absence of the osmolyte glycine betaine. The osmolyte overcame the destabilizing effect of the cytosol. This result provides a physiologically relevant explanation for the accumulation of osmolytes by dehydration-stressed cells.
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- Mohona Sarkar
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599
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Tanne C, Golovina EA, Hoekstra FA, Meffert A, Galinski EA. Glass-forming property of hydroxyectoine is the cause of its superior function as a desiccation protectant. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:150. [PMID: 24772110 PMCID: PMC3983491 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We were able to demonstrate that hydroxyectoine, in contrast to ectoine, is a good glass-forming compound. Fourier transform infrared and spin label electron spin resonance studies of dry ectoine and hydroxyectoine have shown that the superior glass-forming properties of hydroxyectoine result from stronger intermolecular H-bonds with the OH group of hydroxyectoine. Spin probe experiments have also shown that better molecular immobilization in dry hydroxyectoine provides better redox stability of the molecules embedded in this dry matrix. With a glass transition temperature of 87°C (vs. 47°C for ectoine) hydroxyectoine displays remarkable desiccation protection properties, on a par with sucrose and trehalose. This explains its accumulation in response to increased salinity and elevated temperature by halophiles such as Halomonas elongata and its successful application in ``anhydrobiotic engineering'' of both enzymes and whole cells.
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- Christoph Tanne
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Bonn, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Bonn, Germany
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Zhao S, Kumar R, Sakai A, Vetting MW, Wood BM, Brown S, Bonanno JB, Hillerich BS, Seidel RD, Babbitt PC, Almo SC, Sweedler JV, Gerlt JA, Cronan JE, Jacobson MP. Discovery of new enzymes and metabolic pathways by using structure and genome context. Nature 2013; 502:698-702. [PMID: 24056934 PMCID: PMC3966649 DOI: 10.1038/nature12576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Assigning valid functions to proteins identified in genome projects is challenging: overprediction and database annotation errors are the principal concerns. We and others are developing computation-guided strategies for functional discovery with 'metabolite docking' to experimentally derived or homology-based three-dimensional structures. Bacterial metabolic pathways often are encoded by 'genome neighbourhoods' (gene clusters and/or operons), which can provide important clues for functional assignment. We recently demonstrated the synergy of docking and pathway context by 'predicting' the intermediates in the glycolytic pathway in Escherichia coli. Metabolite docking to multiple binding proteins and enzymes in the same pathway increases the reliability of in silico predictions of substrate specificities because the pathway intermediates are structurally similar. Here we report that structure-guided approaches for predicting the substrate specificities of several enzymes encoded by a bacterial gene cluster allowed the correct prediction of the in vitro activity of a structurally characterized enzyme of unknown function (PDB 2PMQ), 2-epimerization of trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline betaine (tHyp-B) and cis-4-hydroxy-D-proline betaine (cHyp-B), and also the correct identification of the catabolic pathway in which Hyp-B 2-epimerase participates. The substrate-liganded pose predicted by virtual library screening (docking) was confirmed experimentally. The enzymatic activities in the predicted pathway were confirmed by in vitro assays and genetic analyses; the intermediates were identified by metabolomics; and repression of the genes encoding the pathway by high salt concentrations was established by transcriptomics, confirming the osmolyte role of tHyp-B. This study establishes the utility of structure-guided functional predictions to enable the discovery of new metabolic pathways.
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- Suwen Zhao
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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Woodruff LB, Boyle NR, Gill RT. Engineering improved ethanol production in Escherichia coli with a genome-wide approach. Metab Eng 2013; 17:1-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2013.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2012] [Revised: 12/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pleitner A, Zhai Y, Winter R, Ruan L, McMullen LM, Gänzle MG. Compatible solutes contribute to heat resistance and ribosome stability in Escherichia coli AW1.7. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2012; 1824:1351-7. [PMID: 22841996 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2012] [Revised: 07/19/2012] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study investigated the mechanisms of heat resistance in Escherichia coli AW1.7 by quantification of cytoplasmic solutes, determination of ribosome denaturation, and by determination of protein denaturation. To assess the contribution of heat shock proteins and compatible solutes, experiments were conducted after exposure to sublethal heat shock, and with cultures grown at NaCl concentrations ranging from 0 to 6%. Heat resistance of E. coli AW1.7 was compared to the heat sensitive E. coli GGG10 and a plasmid-cured, heat sensitive derivative of E. coli AW1.7 named E. coli AW1.7ΔpHR1. Sublethal heat shock improved survival at 60°C of E. coli GGG10 and AW1.7ΔpHR1 but not of E. coli AW1.7. Addition of NaCl increased the heat resistance of all three strains, but only E. coli AW1.7 exhibited high heat resistance when grown in NaCl concentrations ranging from 2 to 6%. E. coli AW1.7 and GGG10 accumulated 16.1 ± 0.8 and 8.8 ± 0.8mmolL⁻¹ amino acids when grown at 0% NaCl, and 1.47 ± 0.07 and 0.78 ± 0.06mmolL⁻¹ carbohydrates when grown at 6% NaCl, respectively. Ribosome denaturation was determined by differential scanning calorimetry. After growth in the presence of 0% NaCl, the 30S subunit denatured at 63.7 ± 0.8°C and 60.7 ± 0.3°C in E. coli AW1.7 and GGG10, respectively. Fourier-transformed-infrared-spectroscopy did not indicate differences in protein denaturation between the strains during heating. In conclusion, heat resistance in E. coli AW1.7 correlates to ribosome stability at 60°C and is dependent on accumulation of cytoplasmic solutes.
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- Aaron Pleitner
- University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2P5
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Chen PT, Chiang CJ, Chen YT, Lin HC, Liu CH, Chao YP, Shaw JF. Strategy for stable and high-level expression of recombinant trehalose synthase in Escherichia coli. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2012; 60:6063-6068. [PMID: 22612301 DOI: 10.1021/jf301593e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Trehalose is a nonreducing disaccharide and has a wide range of applications in food and biorelated industry. This sugar can be synthesized from maltose in one step by trehalose synthase. In this study, we attempted to overproduce trehalose synthase from Picrophilus torridus (PTTS), a thermoacidophilic archaea, in Escherichia coli . However, overproduction of PTTS was hampered when the T7 promoter-driven PTTS gene (PT7-PTTS) on a multicopy plasmid was employed in E. coli . The factors limiting PTTS production were identified in a systematic way, including the codon bias, plasmid instability, a redundant gene copy, a high basal level of PTTS, and metabolic burden resulting from the mutlicopy plasmid DNA and antibiotics. To overcome these difficulties, an E. coli strain was developed with insertion of PT7-PTTS into the chromosome and enhanced expression of genomic argU tRNA and ileX tRNA genes. Without the selective pressure, the constructed producer strain was able to produce a stable and high-level production of recombinant PTTS. Overall, we proposed a simple and effective method to address the issue that is most commonly raised in overproduction of heterologous proteins by E. coli .
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- Po Ting Chen
- Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University , No. 1, Nan-Tai Street, Tainan 710, Taiwan
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Molecular characterization of a novel trehalose-6-phosphate hydrolase, TreA, from Bacillus licheniformis. Int J Biol Macromol 2012; 50:459-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2012.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2011] [Revised: 01/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Reina-Bueno M, Argandoña M, Salvador M, Rodríguez-Moya J, Iglesias-Guerra F, Csonka LN, Nieto JJ, Vargas C. Role of trehalose in salinity and temperature tolerance in the model halophilic bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens. PLoS One 2012; 7:e33587. [PMID: 22448254 PMCID: PMC3308980 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2011] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The disaccharide trehalose is considered as a universal stress molecule, protecting cells and biomolecules from injuries imposed by high osmolarity, heat, oxidation, desiccation and freezing. Chromohalobacter salexigens is a halophilic and extremely halotolerant γ-proteobacterium of the family Halomonadaceae. In this work, we have investigated the role of trehalose as a protectant against salinity, temperature and desiccation in C. salexigens. A mutant deficient in the trehalose-6-phosphate synthase gene (otsA::Ω) was not affected in its salt or heat tolerance, but double mutants ectoine- and trehalose-deficient, or hydroxyectoine-reduced and trehalose-deficient, displayed an osmo- and thermosensitive phenotype, respectively. This suggests a role of trehalose as a secondary solute involved in osmo- (at least at low salinity) and thermoprotection of C. salexigens. Interestingly, trehalose synthesis was osmoregulated at the transcriptional level, and thermoregulated at the post-transcriptional level, suggesting that C. salexigens cells need to be pre-conditioned by osmotic stress, in order to be able to quickly synthesize trehalose in response to heat stress. C. salexigens was more sensitive to desiccation than E. coli and desiccation tolerance was slightly improved when cells were grown at high temperature. Under these conditions, single mutants affected in the synthesis of trehalose or hydroxyectoine were more sensitive to desiccation than the wild-type strain. However, given the low survival rates of the wild type, the involvement of trehalose and hydroxyectoine in C. salexigens response to desiccation could not be firmly established.
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- Mercedes Reina-Bueno
- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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Pilonieta MC, Nagy TA, Jorgensen DR, Detweiler CS. A glycine betaine importer limits Salmonella stress resistance and tissue colonization by reducing trehalose production. Mol Microbiol 2012; 84:296-309. [PMID: 22375627 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08022.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Mechanisms by which Salmonella establish chronic infections are not well understood. Microbes respond to stress by importing or producing compatible solutes, small molecules that stabilize proteins and lipids. The Salmonella locus opuABCD (also called OpuC) encodes a predicted importer of the compatible solute glycine betaine. Under stress conditions, if glycine betaine cannot be imported, Salmonella enterica produce the disaccharide trehalose, a highly effective compatible solute. We demonstrate that strains lacking opuABCD accumulate more trehalose under stress conditions than wild-type strains. ΔopuABCD mutant strains are more resistant to high-salt, low-pH and -hydrogen peroxide, conditions that mimic aspects of innate immunity, in a trehalose-dependent manner. In addition, ΔopuABCD mutant strains require the trehalose production genes to out-compete wild-type strains in mice and macrophages. These data suggest that in the absence of opuABCD, trehalose accumulation increases bacterial resistance to stress in broth and mice. Thus, opuABCD reduces bacterial colonization via a mechanism that limits trehalose production. Mechanisms by which microbes limit disease may reveal novel pathways as therapeutic targets.
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- M Carolina Pilonieta
- Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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Liu WY, Jiang LL, Guo CJ, Yang SS. Jeotgalicoccus halophilus sp. nov., isolated from salt lakes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1720-1724. [DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.022251-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Two slightly halophilic bacterial strains, C1-52T and YD-9, were isolated from Daban and Aiding salt lakes in Xinjiang, China, respectively. The isolates were Gram-positive, non-endospore-forming, non-motile, facultatively anaerobic cocci. Colonies were pale yellow, and a light pink, diffusible pigment was produced after a few additional days of incubation. The isolates grew optimally with 2–3 % (w/v) NaCl, at pH 7.5 and at 30–35 °C. The peptidoglycan type was l-Lys–Gly3–4–l-Ala(Gly). The menaquinones were MK-7 (83.2 %) and MK-6 (16.8 %). The major fatty acids (>10 %) were anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C15 : 0. The DNA G+C content of strains C1-52T and YD-9 was 41.2 and 41.0 mol%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strains C1-52T and YD-9 were closely related to Jeotgalicoccus psychrophilus YKJ-115T (98.0 and 97.1 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, respectively), followed by Jeotgalicoccus halotolerans YKJ-101T (97.1 and 96.8 %). Strains C1-52T and YD-9 shared, respectively, 20 and 11 % DNA–DNA relatedness with J. halotolerans JCM 11198T and 8 and 13 % with J. psychrophilus JCM 11199T. DNA–DNA relatedness between the isolates was 91 %. On the basis of phenotypic and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strains C1-52T and YD-9 belonged to the same species, which should be placed in the genus Jeotgalicoccus as a novel species. The name Jeotgalicoccus halophilus sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain C1-52T ( = CGMCC 1.8911T = NBRC 105788T).
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- Wen-Yan Liu
- National Engineering Lab. of Biohydrometallurgy, General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing 100088, PR China
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Key Laboratory for Agro-Microbial Resource and Application, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100193, PR China
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- Northeast Agricultural University, Haerbin 150030, PR China
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- Northeast Agricultural University, Haerbin 150030, PR China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Key Laboratory for Agro-Microbial Resource and Application, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100193, PR China
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Goh F, Jeon YJ, Barrow K, Neilan BA, Burns BP. Osmoadaptive strategies of the archaeon Halococcus hamelinensis isolated from a hypersaline stromatolite environment. ASTROBIOLOGY 2011; 11:529-536. [PMID: 21810017 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2010.0591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Biogenic stromatolites are sources of significant information on the evolution of microbial life. Despite their evolutionary significance, little is known about the mechanisms of osmoadaptation by microorganisms that comprise living stromatolites thriving in hypersaline environments. Osmoadaptive strategies for Halococcus hamelinensis, a novel halophilic archaeon recently isolated from living stromatolites in the hypersaline reaches of Shark Bay, were thus a particular interest in this study. To investigate the possibility of "salt-in-cytoplasm"-associated osmoadaptation for this archaeon, flame photometry studies were performed. From the results, it was evident that this halophilic archaeon did not accumulate intracellular K(+) ions when cells were exposed to either osmotic shock or conditions with gradual increments in salinity. These results were further supported by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analyses where there was no evidence for the existence of homologous genes to an ATP-driven, high-affinity potassium uptake system in Halococcus hamelinensis. To identify an alternative salt adaptation mechanism associated with accumulation of compatible solutes for this archaeon, (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy experiments were carried out. Results indicate that glycine betaine, trehalose, and glutamate are solutes likely to be involved in osmoregulation in this archeaon. Subsequent (1)H NMR analysis of cell extracts from this microorganism grown under various NaCl concentrations revealed that intracellular levels of glycine betaine increased with increasing concentrations of NaCl. This behavior of increasing glycine betaine concentration with increasing external NaCl is consistent with its identity as an osmolyte. In contrast, intracellular levels of trehalose were decreased in high concentrations of NaCl. This provides evidence that compatible solute accumulation appears to be the preferential salt regulation mechanism for this haloarchaeon, in contrast to the salt-in-cytoplasm strategy employed by many other halophilic archaea.
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- Falicia Goh
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Effect of culture operating conditions on succinate production in a multiphase fed-batch bioreactor using an engineered Escherichia coli strain. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 92:499-508. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3314-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2011] [Revised: 04/11/2011] [Accepted: 04/13/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ohtake S, Wang YJ. Trehalose: Current Use and Future Applications. J Pharm Sci 2011; 100:2020-53. [DOI: 10.1002/jps.22458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2010] [Revised: 12/05/2010] [Accepted: 12/06/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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