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Liu L, Xu F, Lei J, Wang P, Zhang L, Wang J, Zhao J, Mao D, Ye X, Huang Y, Hu G, Cui Z, Li Z. Genome analysis of a plasmid-bearing myxobacterim Myxococcus sp. strain MxC21 with salt-tolerant property. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1250602. [PMID: 37789850 PMCID: PMC10544341 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1250602] [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: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Myxobacteria are widely distributed in various habitats of soil and oceanic sediment. However, it is unclear whether soil-dwelling myxobacteria tolerate a saline environment. In this study, a salt-tolerant myxobacterium Myxococcus sp. strain MxC21 was isolated from forest soil with NaCl tolerance >2% concentration. Under 1% salt-contained condition, strain MxC21 could kill and consume bacteria prey and exhibited complex social behaviors such as S-motility, biofilm, and fruiting body formation but adopted an asocial living pattern with the presence of 1.5% NaCl. To investigate the genomic basis of stress tolerance, the complete genome of MxC21 was sequenced and analyzed. Strain MxC21 consists of a circular chromosome with a total length of 9.13 Mbp and a circular plasmid of 64.3 kb. Comparative genomic analysis revealed that the genomes of strain MxC21 and M. xanthus DK1622 share high genome synteny, while no endogenous plasmid was found in DK1622. Further analysis showed that approximately 21% of its coding genes from the genome of strain MxC21 are predominantly associated with signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, and protein folding involved in diverse niche adaptation such as salt tolerance, which enables social behavior such as gliding motility, sporulation, and predation. Meantime, a high number of genes are also found to be involved in defense against oxidative stress and production of antimicrobial compounds. All of these functional genes may be responsible for the potential salt-toleration. Otherwise, strain MxC21 is the second reported myxobacteria containing indigenous plasmid, while only a small proportion of genes was specific to the circular plasmid of strain MxC21, and most of them were annotated as hypothetical proteins, which may have a direct relationship with the habitat adaptation of strain MxC21 under saline environment. This study provides an inspiration of the adaptive evolution of salt-tolerant myxobacterium and facilitates a potential application in the improvement of saline soil in future.
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- Lin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Pedrosa-Silva F, Matteoli FP, Passarelli-Araujo H, Olivares FL, Venancio TM. Genome sequencing of the vermicompost strain Stenotrophomonas maltophilia UENF-4GII and population structure analysis of the S. maltophilia Sm3 genogroup. Microbiol Res 2021; 255:126923. [PMID: 34856482 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2021.126923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
The Stenotrophomonas maltophilia complex (Smc) is a cosmopolitan bacterial group that has been proposed an emergent multidrug-resistant pathogen. Taxonomic studies support the genomic heterogeneity of Smc, which comprises genogroups exhibiting a range of phenotypically distinct strains from different sources. Here, we report the genome sequencing and in-depth analysis of S. maltophilia UENF-4GII, isolated from vermicompost. This genome harbors a unique region encoding a penicillin-binding protein (pbpX) that was carried by a transposon, as well as horizontally-transferred genomic islands involved in anti-phage defense via DNA modification, and pili glycosylation. We also analyzed all available Smc genomes to investigate genes associated with resistance and virulence, niche occupation, and population structure. S. maltophilia UENF-4GII belongs to genogroup 3 (Sm3), which comprises three phylogenetic clusters (PC). Pan-GWAS analysis uncovered 471 environment-associated and 791 PC-associated genes, including antimicrobial resistance (e.g. blaL1 and blaR1) and virulence determinants (e.g. treS and katG) that provide insights on the resistance and virulence potential of Sm3 strains. Together, the results presented here provide the grounds for more detailed clinical and ecological investigations of S. maltophilia.
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- Francisnei Pedrosa-Silva
- Laboratório de Química e Função de Proteínas e Peptídeos, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química e Função de Proteínas e Peptídeos, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química e Função de Proteínas e Peptídeos, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Brazil; Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Desenvolvimento de Insumos Biológicos Para a Agricultura (NUDIBA), UENF, Brazil; Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Tecidual, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, UENF, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química e Função de Proteínas e Peptídeos, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Brazil.
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Huang M, Zhao Y, Feng L, Zhu L, Zhan L, Chen X. Role of ClpB From Corynebacterium crenatum in Thermal Stress and Arginine Fermentation. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1660. [PMID: 32765470 PMCID: PMC7380099 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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ClpB, an ATP-dependent molecular chaperone, is involved in metabolic pathways and plays important roles in microorganisms under stress conditions. Metabolic pathways and stress resistance are important characteristics of industrially -relevant bacteria during fermentation. Nevertheless, ClpB-related observations have been rarely reported in industrially -relevant microorganisms. Herein, we found a homolog of ClpB from Corynebacterium crenatum. The amino acid sequence of ClpB was analyzed, and the recombinant ClpB protein was purified and characterized. The full function of ClpB requires DnaK as chaperone protein. For this reason, dnaK/clpB deletion mutants and the complemented strains were constructed to investigate the role of ClpB. The results showed that DnaK/ClpB is not essential for the survival of C. crenatum MT under pH and alcohol stresses. The ClpB-deficient or DnaK-deficient C. crenatum mutants showed weakened growth during thermal stress. In addition, the results demonstrated that deletion of the clpB gene affected glucose consumption and L-arginine, L-glutamate, and lactate production during fermentation.
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- Mingzhu Huang
- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecule of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecule of Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
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Shafiei R, Leprince P, Sombolestani AS, Thonart P, Delvigne F. Effect of Sequential Acclimation to Various Carbon Sources on the Proteome of Acetobacter senegalensis LMG 23690 T and Its Tolerance to Downstream Process Stresses. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:608. [PMID: 30984138 PMCID: PMC6448019 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Acetic acid bacteria are very vulnerable to environmental changes; hence, they should get acclimated to different kinds of stresses when they undergo downstream processing. In the present study, Acetobacter senegalensis LMG 23690T, a thermo-tolerant strain, was acclimated sequentially to different carbon sources including glucose (condition Glc), a mixture of glucose and ethanol (condition EtOH) and a mixture of glucose and acetic acid (condition GlcAA). Then, the effects of acclimation on the cell proteome profiles and some phenotypic characteristics such as growth in culture medium containing ethanol, and tolerance to freeze-drying process were evaluated. Based on the obtained results, despite the cells acclimated to Glc or EtOH conditions, 86% of acclimated cells to GlcAA condition were culturable and resumed growth with a short lag phase in a culture medium containing ethanol and acetic acid. Interestingly, if A. senegalensis LMG 23690T had been acclimated to condition GlcAA, 92% of cells exhibited active cellular dehydrogenases, and 59% of cells were culturable after freeze-drying process. Proteome profiles comparison by 2D-DiGE and MS analysis, revealed distinct physiological status between cells exposed to different acclimation treatments, possibly explaining the resulting diversity in phenotypic characteristics. Results of proteome analysis by 2D-DiGE also showed similarities between the differentially expressed proteins of acclimated cells to EtOH condition and the proteome of acclimated cells to GlcAA condition. Most of the differentially regulated proteins are involved in metabolism, folding, sorting, and degradation processes. In conclusion, acclimation under appropriate sub-lethal conditions can be used as a method to improve cell phenotypic characteristics such as viability, growth under certain conditions, and tolerance to downstream processes.
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- Rasoul Shafiei
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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- Walloon Center for Industrial Biology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Microbial Processes and Interactions, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
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By assisting in the proteolysis, disaggregation and refolding of the aggregated proteins, Caseinolytic proteases (Clps) enhance the cellular survival under stress conditions. In the current study, comparative roles of two such Clps, ClpA (involved in proteolysis) and ClpB (involved in protein disaggregation and refolding) in the survival of Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) under different stresses and in virulence have been investigated. clpA and clpB gene deletion mutant strains (∆clpA and ∆clpB) of S. Typhimurium have been hypersensitive to 42 °C, HOCl and paraquat. However, the ∆clpB strain was comparatively much more susceptible (p < 0.001) to the above stresses than ∆clpA strain. ∆clpB strain also showed reduced survival (p < 0.001) in poultry macrophages. The hypersusceptibilities of ∆clpB strain to oxidants and macrophages were restored in plasmid based complemented (∆clpB + pclpB) strain. Further, the ∆clpB strain was defective for colonization in the poultry caecum and showed decreased dissemination to the spleen and liver. Our findings suggest that the role of ClpB is more important than the role of ClpA for the survival of S. Typhimurium under stress and colonization in chickens.
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Cheng J, Wang H, Xu X, Wang L, Tian B, Hua Y. Characteristics of dr1790 disruptant and its functional analysis in Deinococcus radiodurans. Braz J Microbiol 2015; 46:601-11. [PMID: 26273280 PMCID: PMC4507557 DOI: 10.1590/s1517-838246220131018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Deinococcus radiodurans (DR) is an extremophile that is well
known for its resistance to radiation, oxidants and desiccation. The gene
dr1790 of D. radiodurans
was predicted to encode a yellow-related protein. The primary objective of the
present study was to characterize the biological function of the DR1790 protein,
which is a member of the ancient yellow/major royal jelly (MRJ) protein family,
in prokaryotes. Fluorescence labeling demonstrated that the yellow-related
protein encoded by dr1790 is a membrane protein. The deletion
of the dr1790 gene decreased the cell growth rate and
sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide and radiation and increased the membrane
permeability of D. radiodurans. Transcript
profiling by microarray and RT-PCR analyses of the dr1790
deletion mutant suggested that some genes that are involved in protein secretion
and transport were strongly suppressed, while other genes that are involved in
protein quality control, such as chaperones and proteases, were induced. In
addition, the expression of genes with predicted functions that are involved in
antioxidant systems, electron transport, and energy metabolism was significantly
altered through the disruption of dr1790. Moreover, the results
of proteomic analyses using 2-DE and MS also demonstrated that DR1790
contributed to D. radiodurans survival. Taken
together, these results indicate that the DR1790 protein from the ancient yellow
protein family plays a pleiotropic role in the survival of prokaryotic cells and
contributes to the extraordinary resistance of D. radiodurans
against oxidative and radiation stresses.
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- Jianhui Cheng
- Institute of Horticulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Horticulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Ageing Research, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Ageing Research, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang University, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang University, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang University, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang University, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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