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Banerjee S, Bedics A, Tóth E, Kriszt B, Soares AR, Bóka K, Táncsics A. Isolation of Pseudomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov from a hydrocarbon-contaminated groundwater capable of degrading benzene-, toluene-, m- and p-xylene under microaerobic conditions. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:929128. [PMID: 36204622 PMCID: PMC9530055 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.929128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Members of the genus Pseudomonas are known to be widespread in hydrocarbon contaminated environments because of their remarkable ability to degrade a variety of petroleum hydrocarbons, including BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene) compounds. During an enrichment investigation which aimed to study microaerobic xylene degradation in a legacy petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated groundwater, a novel Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, motile and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated as MAP12T was isolated. It was capable of degrading benzene, toluene, meta- and para- xylene effectively under both aerobic and microaerobic conditions. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain MAP12T belongs to the genus Pseudomonas, with the highest 16S rRNA gene similarity to Pseudomonas linyingensis LYBRD3-7T (98.42%), followed by Pseudomonas sagittaria JCM 18195T (98.29%) and Pseudomonas alcaliphila JCM 10630T (98.08%). Phylogenomic tree constructed using a concatenated alignment of 92 core genes indicated that strain MAP12T is distinct from any known Pseudomonas species. The draft genome sequence of strain MAP12T is 4.36 Mb long, and the G+C content of MAP12T genome is 65.8%. Orthologous average nucleotide identity (OrthoANI) and digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) analyses confirmed that strain MAP12T is distinctly separated from its closest neighbors (OrthoANI < 89 %; dDDH < 36%). Though several members of the genus Pseudomonas are well known for their aerobic BTEX degradation capability, this is the first report of a novel Pseudomonas species capable of degrading xylene under microaerobic conditions. By applying genome-resolved metagenomics, we were able to partially reconstruct the genome of strain MAP12T from metagenomics sequence data and showed that strain MAP12T was an abundant member of the xylene-degrading bacterial community under microaerobic conditions. Strain MAP12T contains ubiquinone 9 (Q9) as the major respiratory quinone and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine as major polar lipids. The major cellular fatty acids of strain MAP12T are summed feature 3 (C16:1ω6c and/or C16:1ω7c), C16:0 and summed feature 8 (C18:1ω6c and/or C18:1ω7c). The results of this polyphasic study support that strain MAP12T represents a novel species of the genus Pseudomonas, hence the name of Pseudomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov. is proposed for this strain considering its aromatic hydrocarbon degradation capability. The type strain is MAP12T (=LMG 32466, =NCAIM B.02668).
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- Sinchan Banerjee
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Environmental Safety, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Group for Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Institute for Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Anatomy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
- *Correspondence: András Táncsics,
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Sayqal A, Xu Y, Trivedi DK, AlMasoud N, Ellis DI, Muhamadali H, Rattray NJW, Webb C, Goodacre R. Metabolic analysis of the response of Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E strains to toluene using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Metabolomics 2016; 12:112. [PMID: 27398079 PMCID: PMC4916193 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-016-1054-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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INTRODUCTION An exceptionally interesting stress response of Pseudomonas putida strains to toxic substances is the induction of efflux pumps that remove toxic chemical substances from the bacterial cell out to the external environment. To exploit these microorganisms to their full potential a deeper understanding of the interactions between the bacteria and organic solvents is required. Thus, this study focuses on investigation of metabolic changes in P. putida upon exposure to toluene. OBJECTIVE Investigate observable metabolic alterations during interactions of three strains of P. putida (DOT-T1E, and its mutants DOT-T1E-PS28 and DOT-T1E-18) with the aromatic hydrocarbon toluene. METHODS The growth profiles were measured by taking optical density (OD) measurement at 660 nm (OD660) at various time points during incubation. For fingerprinting analysis, Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy was used to investigate any phenotypic changes resulting from exposure to toluene. Metabolic profiling analysis was performed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Principal component-discriminant function analysis (PC-DFA) was applied to the FT-IR data while multiblock principal component analysis (MB-PCA) and N-way analysis of variance (N-way ANOVA) were applied to the GC-MS data. RESULTS The growth profiles demonstrated the effect of toluene on bacterial cultures and the results suggest that the mutant P. putida DOT-T1E-18 was more sensitive (significantly affected) to toluene compared to the other two strains. PC-DFA on FT-IR data demonstrated the differentiation between different conditions of toluene on bacterial cells, which indicated phenotypic changes associated with the presence of the solvent within the cell. Fifteen metabolites associated with this phenotypic change, in P. putida due to exposure to solvent, were from central metabolic pathways. Investigation of MB-PCA loading plots and N-way ANOVA for condition | strain × time blocking (dosage of toluene) suggested ornithine as the most significant compound that increased upon solvent exposure. CONCLUSION The combination of metabolic fingerprinting and profiling with suitable multivariate analysis revealed some interesting leads for understanding the mechanism of Pseudomonas strains response to organic solvent exposure.
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- Ali Sayqal
- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
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Figueredo F, Abrevaya XC, Cortón E. A new P. putida instrumental toxicity bioassay. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2015; 187:294. [PMID: 25910719 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4499-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Here, we present a new toxicity bioassay (CO2-TOX), able to detect toxic or inhibitory compounds in water samples, based on the quantification of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 CO2 production. The metabolically produced CO2 was measured continuously and directly in the liquid assay media, with a potentiometric gas electrode. The optimization studies were performed using as a model toxicant 3,5-DCP (3,5-dichlorophenol); later, heavy metals (Pb(2+), Cu(2+), or Zn(2+)) and a metalloid (As(5+)) were assayed. The response to toxics was evident after 15 min of incubation and at relatively low concentrations (e.g., 1.1 mg/L of 3,5-DCP), showing that the CO2-TOX bioassay is fast and sensitive. The EC50 values obtained were 4.93, 0.12, 6.05, 32.17, and 37.81 mg/L for 3,5-DCP, Cu(2+), Zn(2+), As(5+), and Pb(2+), respectively, at neutral pH. Additionally, the effect of the pH of the sample and the use of lyophilized bacteria were also analyzed showing that the bioassay can be implemented in different conditions. Moreover, highly turbid samples and samples with very low oxygen levels were measured successfully with the new instrumental bioassay described here. Finally, simulated samples containing 3,5-DCP or a heavy metal mixture were tested using the proposed bioassay and a standard ISO bioassay, showing that our test is more sensible to the phenol but less sensible to the metal mixtures. Therefore, we propose CO2-TOX as a rapid, sensitive, low-cost, and robust instrumental bioassay that could perform as an industrial wastewater-process monitor among other applications.
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- Federico Figueredo
- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioanalysis (LABB), Departamento de Química Biológica e IQUIBICEN-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina
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Eom GT, Song JK. Enhanced production of ATP-binding cassette protein exporter-dependent lipase by modifying the growth medium components of Pseudomonas fluorescens. Biotechnol Lett 2014; 36:1687-92. [PMID: 24737082 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-014-1528-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The industrially-important thermostable lipase, TliA, was extracellularly produced in the recombinant Pseudomonas fluorescens by the homologous expression of TliA and its cognate ABC protein exporter, TliDEF. To increase the secretory production of TliA, we optimized the growth temperature and the culture medium of P. fluorescens. The total amount and the specific productivity of lipase was highest at 25 °C of cell growth temperature, although maximal cell growth was observed at 30 °C. Using the culture medium composed of 20 g dextrin l(-1), 40 g Tween 80 l(-1) and 30 g peptone l(-1), TliA was produced at a level of 2,200 U ml(-1) in a flask culture. The TliA production increased about 3.8-fold (8,450 U ml(-1)) in batch fermentation using a 2.5 l fermentor, which was about 7.7-fold higher than that of previously reported TliA production.
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- Gyeong Tae Eom
- Research Center for Bio-based Chemistry, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), 141 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-600, Republic of Korea
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Modeling the differences in biochemical capabilities of pseudomonas species by flux balance analysis: how good are genome-scale metabolic networks at predicting the differences? ScientificWorldJournal 2014; 2014:416289. [PMID: 24707203 PMCID: PMC3953581 DOI: 10.1155/2014/416289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2013] [Accepted: 12/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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To date, several genome-scale metabolic networks have been reconstructed. These models cover a wide range of organisms, from bacteria to human. Such models have provided us with a framework for systematic analysis of metabolism. However, little effort has been put towards comparing biochemical capabilities of closely related species using their metabolic models. The accuracy of a model is highly dependent on the reconstruction process, as some errors may be included in the model during reconstruction. In this study, we investigated the ability of three Pseudomonas metabolic models to predict the biochemical differences, namely, iMO1086, iJP962, and iSB1139, which are related to P. aeruginosa PAO1, P. putida KT2440, and P. fluorescens SBW25, respectively. We did a comprehensive literature search for previous works containing biochemically distinguishable traits over these species. Amongst more than 1700 articles, we chose a subset of them which included experimental results suitable for in silico simulation. By simulating the conditions provided in the actual biological experiment, we performed case-dependent tests to compare the in silico results to the biological ones. We found out that iMO1086 and iJP962 were able to predict the experimental data and were much more accurate than iSB1139.
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Koeppel AF, Wertheim JO, Barone L, Gentile N, Krizanc D, Cohan FM. Speedy speciation in a bacterial microcosm: new species can arise as frequently as adaptations within a species. ISME JOURNAL 2013; 7:1080-91. [PMID: 23364353 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Microbiologists are challenged to explain the origins of enormous numbers of bacterial species worldwide. Contributing to this extreme diversity may be a simpler process of speciation in bacteria than in animals and plants, requiring neither sexual nor geographical isolation between nascent species. Here, we propose and test a novel hypothesis for the extreme diversity of bacterial species-that splitting of one population into multiple ecologically distinct populations (cladogenesis) may be as frequent as adaptive improvements within a single population's lineage (anagenesis). We employed a set of experimental microcosms to address the relative rates of adaptive cladogenesis and anagenesis among the descendants of a Bacillus subtilis clone, in the absence of competing species. Analysis of the evolutionary trajectories of genetic markers indicated that in at least 7 of 10 replicate microcosm communities, the original population founded one or more new, ecologically distinct populations (ecotypes) before a single anagenetic event occurred within the original population. We were able to support this inference by identifying putative ecotypes formed in these communities through differences in genetic marker association, colony morphology and microhabitat association; we then confirmed the ecological distinctness of these putative ecotypes in competition experiments. Adaptive mutations leading to new ecotypes appeared to be about as common as those improving fitness within an existing ecotype. These results suggest near parity of anagenesis and cladogenesis rates in natural populations that are depauperate of bacterial diversity.
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The ecological forces shaping adaptive radiations are of great interest to evolutionary ecologists. Here, we experimentally test the hypothesis that the diversification of a lineage should be limited in the presence of competition from another taxon. We do this by studying a model microbial adaptive radiation (the generation of phenotypic diversity in asexual lineages of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens) in the presence or absence of a competitor (Pseudomonas putida). In a spatially heterogeneous environment, the competitor P. putida reduced P. fluorescens population size only slightly and had no effect on diversification. In a spatially homogeneous environment, the competitor reduced P. fuoresecens population size to a much greater extent. Again the final extent of diversification in P. fluorescens was not affected by the competitor, but early diversification was accelerated. In this environment, P. putida suppressed the growth of a common variant of P. fluorescens and directly or indirectly facilitated the growth of a rare morph. Our results suggest that competition experienced by diversifying lineages may have complex effects on adaptive radiations not fully captured by current theory.
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- Quan-Guo Zhang
- NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom.
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Choi NC, Choi JW, Kim SB, Kim DJ. Modeling of growth kinetics for Pseudomonas putida during toluene degradation. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2008; 81:135-41. [PMID: 18712521 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1650-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 07/30/2008] [Accepted: 08/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Glucose has been often used as a secondary substrate to enhance the degradation of primary substrate as well as the increase of biomass, especially for the inhibitory range of substrate concentration. In this study, we investigated the effect of glucose concentration on growth kinetics of Pseudomonas putida during toluene degradation for a wide concentration range (60-250 mg/l). Batch microcosm studies were conducted in order to monitor bacterial growth for three different initial concentrations (2, 5, 10 mg/ml) of glucose for a given toluene concentration. Modeling of growth kinetics was also performed for each growth curve of glucose dose using both Monod and Haldane kinetics. Batch studies revealed that bacterial growth showed a distinct inhibitory phase above some limit (approximately 170 mg/l) for the lowest (2 mg/ml) glucose dose, but the degree of inhibition decreased as the glucose dose increased, leading to three different growth patterns. The bacterial growth followed each of the modified Wayman and Tseng, Wayman and Tseng, and Luong model as the glucose dose increased from 2 to 10 mg/ml. This indicates that glucose has a prominent influence on bacterial growth during toluene degradation and that different kinetics should be adopted for each broth condition.
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- N-C Choi
- Environmental Biocolloid Engineering Laboratory, Program in Rural System Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, South Korea
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Liou JSC, DeRito CM, Madsen EL. Field-based and laboratory stable isotope probing surveys of the identities of both aerobic and anaerobic benzene-metabolizing microorganisms in freshwater sediment. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:1964-77. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01612.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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