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Grifagni D, Silva JM, Querci L, Lepoivre M, Vallières C, Louro RO, Banci L, Piccioli M, Golinelli-Cohen MP, Cantini F. Biochemical and cellular characterization of the CISD3 protein: Molecular bases of cluster release and destabilizing effects of nitric oxide. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:105745. [PMID: 38354784 PMCID: PMC10937110 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.105745] [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: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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The NEET proteins, an important family of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins, have generated a strong interest due to their involvement in diverse diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders. Among the human NEET proteins, CISD3 has been the least studied, and its functional role is still largely unknown. We have investigated the biochemical features of CISD3 at the atomic and in cellulo levels upon challenge with different stress conditions i.e., iron deficiency, exposure to hydrogen peroxide, and nitric oxide. The redox and cellular stability properties of the protein agree on a predominance of reduced form of CISD3 in the cells. Upon the addition of iron chelators, CISD3 loses its Fe-S clusters and becomes unstructured, and its cellular level drastically decreases. Chemical shift perturbation measurements suggest that, upon cluster oxidation, the protein undergoes a conformational change at the C-terminal CDGSH domain, which determines the instability of the oxidized state. This redox-associated conformational change may be the source of cooperative electron transfer via the two [Fe2S2] clusters in CISD3, which displays a single sharp voltammetric signal at -31 mV versus SHE. Oxidized CISD3 is particularly sensitive to the presence of hydrogen peroxide in vitro, whereas only the reduced form is able to bind nitric oxide. Paramagnetic NMR provides clear evidence that, upon NO binding, the cluster is disassembled but iron ions are still bound to the protein. Accordingly, in cellulo CISD3 is unaffected by oxidative stress induced by hydrogen peroxide but it becomes highly unstable in response to nitric oxide treatment.
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- Deborah Grifagni
- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CNRS, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, UPR 2301, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, UPR 2301, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB-NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Yu Z, Zhang W, Yang H, Chou SH, Galperin MY, He J. Gas and light: triggers of c-di-GMP-mediated regulation. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2023; 47:fuad034. [PMID: 37339911 PMCID: PMC10505747 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuad034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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The widespread bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP is responsible for regulating many important physiological functions such as biofilm formation, motility, cell differentiation, and virulence. The synthesis and degradation of c-di-GMP in bacterial cells depend, respectively, on diguanylate cyclases and c-di-GMP-specific phosphodiesterases. Since c-di-GMP metabolic enzymes (CMEs) are often fused to sensory domains, their activities are likely controlled by environmental signals, thereby altering cellular c-di-GMP levels and regulating bacterial adaptive behaviors. Previous studies on c-di-GMP-mediated regulation mainly focused on downstream signaling pathways, including the identification of CMEs, cellular c-di-GMP receptors, and c-di-GMP-regulated processes. The mechanisms of CME regulation by upstream signaling modules received less attention, resulting in a limited understanding of the c-di-GMP regulatory networks. We review here the diversity of sensory domains related to bacterial CME regulation. We specifically discuss those domains that are capable of sensing gaseous or light signals and the mechanisms they use for regulating cellular c-di-GMP levels. It is hoped that this review would help refine the complete c-di-GMP regulatory networks and improve our understanding of bacterial behaviors in changing environments. In practical terms, this may eventually provide a way to control c-di-GMP-mediated bacterial biofilm formation and pathogenesis in general.
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- Zhaoqing Yu
- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Shizishan Street, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
- Institute of Agro-Product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 50 Zhongling Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210014, PR China
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Shizishan Street, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Shizishan Street, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Shizishan Street, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Shizishan Street, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, PR China
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Krzyżanowska DM, Jabłońska M, Kaczyński Z, Czerwicka-Pach M, Macur K, Jafra S. Host-adaptive traits in the plant-colonizing Pseudomonas donghuensis P482 revealed by transcriptomic responses to exudates of tomato and maize. Sci Rep 2023; 13:9445. [PMID: 37296159 PMCID: PMC10256816 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36494-6] [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: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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Pseudomonads are metabolically flexible and can thrive on different plant hosts. However, the metabolic adaptations required for host promiscuity are unknown. Here, we addressed this knowledge gap by employing RNAseq and comparing transcriptomic responses of Pseudomonas donghuensis P482 to root exudates of two plant hosts: tomato and maize. Our main goal was to identify the differences and the common points between these two responses. Pathways upregulated only by tomato exudates included nitric oxide detoxification, repair of iron-sulfur clusters, respiration through the cyanide-insensitive cytochrome bd, and catabolism of amino and/or fatty acids. The first two indicate the presence of NO donors in the exudates of the test plants. Maize specifically induced the activity of MexE RND-type efflux pump and copper tolerance. Genes associated with motility were induced by maize but repressed by tomato. The shared response to exudates seemed to be affected both by compounds originating from the plants and those from their growth environment: arsenic resistance and bacterioferritin synthesis were upregulated, while sulfur assimilation, sensing of ferric citrate and/or other iron carriers, heme acquisition, and transport of polar amino acids were downregulated. Our results provide directions to explore mechanisms of host adaptation in plant-associated microorganisms.
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- Dorota M Krzyżanowska
- Laboratory of Plant Microbiology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, University of Gdańsk, ul. A. Abrahama 58, 80-307, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Plant Microbiology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, University of Gdańsk, ul. A. Abrahama 58, 80-307, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, University of Gdańsk, ul. A. Abrahama 58, 80-307, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Laboratory of Plant Microbiology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, University of Gdańsk, ul. A. Abrahama 58, 80-307, Gdańsk, Poland.
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Lemaire ON, Belhamri M, Wagner T. Structural and biochemical elucidation of class I hybrid cluster protein natively extracted from a marine methanogenic archaeon. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1179204. [PMID: 37250035 PMCID: PMC10210160 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1179204] [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: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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Whilst widespread in the microbial world, the hybrid cluster protein (HCP) has been paradoxically a long-time riddle for microbiologists. During three decades, numerous studies on a few model organisms unravelled its structure and dissected its metal-containing catalyst, but the physiological function of the enzyme remained elusive. Recent studies on bacteria point towards a nitric oxide reductase activity involved in resistance during nitrate and nitrite reduction as well as host infection. In this study, we isolated and characterised a naturally highly produced HCP class I from a marine methanogenic archaeon grown on ammonia. The crystal structures of the enzyme in a reduced and partially oxidised state, obtained at a resolution of 1.45 and 1.36-Å, respectively, offered a precise picture of the archaeal enzyme intimacy. There are striking similarities with the well-studied enzymes from Desulfovibrio species regarding sequence, kinetic parameters, structure, catalyst conformations, and internal channelling systems. The close phylogenetic relationship between the enzymes from Methanococcales and many Bacteria corroborates this similarity. Indeed, Methanococcales HCPs are closer to these bacterial homologues than to any other archaeal enzymes. The relatively high constitutive production of HCP in M. thermolithotrophicus, in the absence of a notable nitric oxide source, questions the physiological function of the enzyme in these ancient anaerobes.
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Strategies of Pathogens to Escape from NO-Based Host Defense. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:antiox11112176. [DOI: 10.3390/antiox11112176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an essential signaling molecule present in most living organisms including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals. NO participates in a wide range of biological processes including vasomotor tone, neurotransmission, and immune response. However, NO is highly reactive and can give rise to reactive nitrogen and oxygen species that, in turn, can modify a broad range of biomolecules. Much evidence supports the critical role of NO in the virulence and replication of viruses, bacteria, protozoan, metazoan, and fungi, thus representing a general mechanism of host defense. However, pathogens have developed different mechanisms to elude the host NO and to protect themselves against oxidative and nitrosative stress. Here, the strategies evolved by viruses, bacteria, protozoan, metazoan, and fungi to escape from the NO-based host defense are overviewed.
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Preparation for Denitrification and Phenotypic Diversification at the Cusp of Anoxia: a Purpose for N 2O Reductase Vis-à-Vis Multiple Roles of O 2. Appl Environ Microbiol 2022; 88:e0105322. [PMID: 36250705 PMCID: PMC9642011 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01053-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Adaptation to anoxia by synthesizing a denitrification proteome costs metabolic energy, and the anaerobic respiration conserves less energy per electron than aerobic respiration. This implies a selective advantage of the stringent O2 repression of denitrification gene transcription, which is found in most denitrifying bacteria. In some bacteria, the metabolic burden of adaptation can be minimized further by phenotypic diversification, colloquially termed "bet-hedging," where all cells synthesize the N2O reductase (NosZ) but only a minority synthesize nitrite reductase (NirS), as demonstrated for the model strain Paracoccus denitrificans. We hypothesized that the cells lacking NirS would be entrapped in anoxia but with the possibility of escape if supplied with O2 or N2O. To test this, cells were exposed to gradual O2 depletion or sudden anoxia and subsequent spikes of O2 and N2O. The synthesis of NirS in single cells was monitored by using an mCherry-nirS fusion replacing the native nirS, and their growth was detected as dilution of green, fluorescent fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) stain. We demonstrate anoxic entrapment due to e--acceptor deprivation and show that O2 spiking leads to bet-hedging, while N2O spiking promotes NirS synthesis and growth in all cells carrying NosZ. The cells rescued by the N2O spike had much lower respiration rates than those rescued by the O2 spike, however, which could indicate that the well-known autocatalytic synthesis of NirS via NO production requires O2. Our results bring into relief a fitness advantage of pairing restrictive nirS expression with universal NosZ synthesis in energy-limited systems. IMPORTANCE Denitrifying bacteria have evolved elaborate regulatory networks securing their respiratory metabolism in environments with fluctuating oxygen concentrations. Here, we provide new insight regarding their bet-hedging in response to hypoxia, which minimizes their N2O emissions because all cells express NosZ, reducing N2O to N2, while a minority express NirS + Nor, reducing NO2- to N2O. We hypothesized that the cells without Nir were entrapped in anoxia, without energy to synthesize Nir, and that they could be rescued by short spikes of O2 or N2O. We confirm such entrapment and the rescue of all cells by an N2O spike but only a fraction by an O2 spike. The results shed light on the role of O2 repression in bet-hedging and generated a novel hypothesis regarding the autocatalytic nirS expression via NO production. Insight into the regulation of denitrification, including bet-hedging, holds a clue to understanding, and ultimately curbing, the escalating emissions of N2O, which contribute to anthropogenic climate forcing.
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Defenses of multidrug resistant pathogens against reactive nitrogen species produced in infected hosts. Adv Microb Physiol 2022; 80:85-155. [PMID: 35489794 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2022.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Bacterial pathogens have sophisticated systems that allow them to survive in hosts in which innate immunity is the frontline of defense. One of the substances produced by infected hosts is nitric oxide (NO) that together with its derived species leads to the so-called nitrosative stress, which has antimicrobial properties. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on targets and protective systems that bacteria have to survive host-generated nitrosative stress. We focus on bacterial pathogens that pose serious health concerns due to the growing increase in resistance to currently available antimicrobials. We describe the role of nitrosative stress as a weapon for pathogen eradication, the detoxification enzymes, protein/DNA repair systems and metabolic strategies that contribute to limiting NO damage and ultimately allow survival of the pathogen in the host. Additionally, this systematization highlights the lack of available data for some of the most important human pathogens, a gap that urgently needs to be addressed.
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Goel D, Kumar S, Joshi GK, Rai P, Bhatnagar R. Crp/fnr family protein binds to promoters of atxA and sodmn genes that regulate the expression of exotoxins in Bacillus anthracis. Protein Expr Purif 2022; 193:106059. [PMID: 35114377 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2022.106059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bacillus anthracis produces a tripartite exotoxin, which is regulated by AtxA. Sodmn is constitutively expressed during invasion. Crp/Fnr family transcriptional regulators are known to bind promoters of toxin regulators as well as constitutively expressed genes during pathogenesis. B. anthracis fnr gene was cloned, over-expressed in E. coli and recombinant protein was purified. Oligomeric nature of recombinant rFnr protein was studied by diamide treatment and DTT reduction. DNA binding of rFnr protein was studied by EMSA. We observed that rFnr exists in both monomeric and oligomeric forms. It was found that rFnr was able to oligomerize after diamide treatment which was reversible through DTT reduction. Promoter regions of atxA and sodmn show binding to monomeric form of rFnr, however, dimeric form was unable to bind. Fnr might be playing a role in regulation of toxin gene expression via regulation of atxA gene. It can also be involved in regulation of pathogenesis by regulating the sodmn expression. Oligomerization can act as an ON/OFF switch for the Fnr mediated regulation.
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- Divya Goel
- Department of Biotechnology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand, 246174, India; School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110085, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand, 246174, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand, 246174, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110085, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110085, India
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Wang J, Childers WS. The Future Potential of Biosensors to Investigate the Gut-Brain Axis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 9:826479. [PMID: 35096802 PMCID: PMC8795891 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.826479] [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] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of depression presents challenges in pinpointing treatments. Among these contributions are the interconnections between the gut microbiome and neurological function termed the gut-brain axis. A diverse range of microbiome-produced metabolites interact with host signaling and metabolic pathways through this gut-brain axis relationship. Therefore, biosensor detection of gut metabolites offers the potential to quantify the microbiome's contributions to depression. Herein we review synthetic biology strategies to detect signals that indicate gut-brain axis dysregulation that may contribute to depression. We also highlight future challenges in developing living diagnostics of microbiome conditions influencing depression.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Exploring the Meta-regulon of the CRP/FNR Family of Global Transcriptional Regulators in a Partial-Nitritation Anammox Microbiome. mSystems 2021; 6:e0090621. [PMID: 34636676 PMCID: PMC8510549 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00906-21] [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] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Microorganisms must respond to environmental changes to survive, often by controlling transcription initiation. Intermittent aeration during wastewater treatment presents a cyclically changing environment to which microorganisms must react. We used an intermittently aerated bioreactor performing partial nitritation and anammox (PNA) to investigate how the microbiome responds to recurring change. Meta-transcriptomic analysis revealed a dramatic disconnect between the relative DNA abundance and gene expression within the metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of community members, suggesting the importance of transcriptional regulation in this microbiome. To explore how community members responded to cyclic aeration via transcriptional regulation, we searched for homologs of the catabolite repressor protein/fumarate and nitrate reductase regulatory protein (CRP/FNR) family of transcription factors (TFs) within the MAGs. Using phylogenetic analyses, evaluation of sequence conservation in important amino acid residues, and prediction of genes regulated by TFs in the MAGs, we identified homologs of the oxygen-sensing FNR in Nitrosomonas and Rhodocyclaceae, nitrogen-sensing dissimilative nitrate respiration regulator that responds to nitrogen species (DNR) in Rhodocyclaceae, and nitrogen-sensing nitrite and nitric oxide reductase regulator that responds to nitrogen species (NnrR) in Nitrospira MAGs. Our data also predict that CRP/FNR homologs in Ignavibacteria, Flavobacteriales, and Saprospiraceae MAGs sense carbon availability. In addition, a CRP/FNR homolog in a Brocadia MAG was most closely related to CRP TFs known to sense carbon sources in well-studied organisms. However, we predict that in autotrophic Brocadia, this TF most likely regulates a diverse set of functions, including a response to stress during the cyclic aerobic/anoxic conditions. Overall, this analysis allowed us to define a meta-regulon of the PNA microbiome that explains functions and interactions of the most active community members. IMPORTANCE Microbiomes are important contributors to many ecosystems, including ones where nutrient cycling is stimulated by aeration control. Optimizing cyclic aeration helps reduce energy needs and maximize microbiome performance during wastewater treatment; however, little is known about how most microbial community members respond to these alternating conditions. We defined the meta-regulon of a PNA microbiome by combining existing knowledge of how the CRP/FNR family of bacterial TFs respond to stimuli, with metatranscriptomic analyses to characterize gene expression changes during aeration cycles. Our results indicated that, for some members of the community, prior knowledge is sufficient for high-confidence assignments of TF function, whereas other community members have CRP/FNR TFs for which inferences of function are limited by lack of prior knowledge. This study provides a framework to begin elucidating meta-regulons in microbiomes, where pure cultures are not available for traditional transcriptional regulation studies. Defining the meta-regulon can help in optimizing microbiome performance.
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Novel gene similar to nitrite reductase (NO forming) plays potentially important role in the latency of tuberculosis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19813. [PMID: 34615967 PMCID: PMC8494734 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99346-1] [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: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The development of the latent phenotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in the human lungs is the major hurdle to eradicate Tuberculosis. We recently reported that exposure to nitrite (10 mM) for six days under in vitro aerobic conditions completely transforms the bacilli into a viable but non-cultivable phenotype. Herein, we show that nitrite (beyond 5 mM) treated Mtb produces nitric oxide (NO) within the cell in a dose-dependent manner. Our search for the conserved sequence of NO synthesizing enzyme in the bacterial system identified MRA2164 and MRA0854 genes, of which the former was found to be significantly up regulated after nitrite exposure. In addition, the purified recombinant MRA2164 protein shows significant nitrite dependent NO synthesizing activity. The knockdown of the MRA2164 gene at mRNA level expression resulted in a significantly reduced NO level compared to the wild type bacilli with a simultaneous return of its replicative capability. Therefore, this study first time reports that nitrite induces dormancy in Mtb cells through induced expression of the MRA2164 gene and productions of NO as a mechanism for maintaining non-replicative stage in Mtb. This observation could help to control the Tuberculosis disease, especially the latent phenotype of the bacilli.
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Patterson DC, Ruiz MP, Yoon H, Walker JA, Armache JP, Yennawar NH, Weinert EE. Differential ligand-selective control of opposing enzymatic activities within a bifunctional c-di-GMP enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2100657118. [PMID: 34475207 PMCID: PMC8433548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100657118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) serves as a second messenger that modulates bacterial cellular processes, including biofilm formation. While proteins containing both c-di-GMP synthesizing (GGDEF) and c-di-GMP hydrolyzing (EAL) domains are widely predicted in bacterial genomes, it is poorly understood how domains with opposing enzymatic activity are regulated within a single polypeptide. Herein, we report the characterization of a globin-coupled sensor protein (GCS) from Paenibacillus dendritiformis (DcpG) with bifunctional c-di-GMP enzymatic activity. DcpG contains a regulatory sensor globin domain linked to diguanylate cyclase (GGDEF) and phosphodiesterase (EAL) domains that are differentially regulated by gas binding to the heme; GGDEF domain activity is activated by the Fe(II)-NO state of the globin domain, while EAL domain activity is activated by the Fe(II)-O2 state. The in vitro activity of DcpG is mimicked in vivo by the biofilm formation of P. dendritiformis in response to gaseous environment, with nitric oxide conditions leading to the greatest amount of biofilm formation. The ability of DcpG to differentially control GGDEF and EAL domain activity in response to ligand binding is likely due to the unusual properties of the globin domain, including rapid ligand dissociation rates and high midpoint potentials. Using structural information from small-angle X-ray scattering and negative stain electron microscopy studies, we developed a structural model of DcpG, providing information about the regulatory mechanism. These studies provide information about full-length GCS protein architecture and insight into the mechanism by which a single regulatory domain can selectively control output domains with opposing enzymatic activities.
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- Dayna C Patterson
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Choi G, Kim D, Im H, Choi SH. A Nitric Oxide-Responsive Transcriptional Regulator NsrR Cooperates With Lrp and CRP to Tightly Control the hmpA Gene in Vibrio vulnificus. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:681196. [PMID: 34093504 PMCID: PMC8175989 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.681196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an important antimicrobial effector produced by the host innate immune system to counteract invading pathogens. To survive and establish a successful infection, a fulminating human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus expresses the hmpA gene encoding an NO dioxygenase in an NO-responsive manner. In this study, we identified an Rrf2-family transcriptional regulator NsrR that is predicted to contain the Fe-S cluster coordinated by three cysteine residues. Transcriptome analysis showed that NsrR controls the expression of multiple genes potentially involved in nitrosative stress responses. Particularly, NsrR acts as a strong repressor of hmpA transcription and relieves the repression of hmpA upon exposure to NO. Notably, nsrR and hmpA are transcribed divergently, and their promoter regions overlap with each other. Molecular biological analyses revealed that NsrR directly binds to this overlapping promoter region, which is alleviated by loss of the Fe-S cluster, leading to the subsequent derepression of hmpA under nitrosative stress. We further found that a leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) negatively regulates hmpA in an NsrR-dependent manner by directly binding to the promoter region, presumably resulting in a DNA conformation change to support the repression by NsrR. Meanwhile, a cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) positively regulates hmpA probably through repression of nsrR and lrp by directly binding to each promoter region in a sequential cascade. Altogether, this collaborative regulation of NsrR along with Lrp and CRP enables an elaborate control of hmpA transcription, contributing to survival under host-derived nitrosative stress and thereby the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus.
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- Garam Choi
- National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- National Research Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Porrini C, Ramarao N, Tran SL. Dr. NO and Mr. Toxic - the versatile role of nitric oxide. Biol Chem 2021; 401:547-572. [PMID: 31811798 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2019-0368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Nitric oxide (NO) is present in various organisms from humans, to plants, fungus and bacteria. NO is a fundamental signaling molecule implicated in major cellular functions. The role of NO ranges from an essential molecule to a potent mediator of cellular damages. The ability of NO to react with a broad range of biomolecules allows on one hand its regulation and a gradient concentration and on the other hand to exert physiological as well as pathological functions. In humans, NO is implicated in cardiovascular homeostasis, neurotransmission and immunity. However, NO can also contribute to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) or septic shock. For certain denitrifying bacteria, NO is part of their metabolism as a required intermediate of the nitrogen cycle. However, for other bacteria, NO is toxic and harmful. To survive, those bacteria have developed processes to resist this toxic effect and persist inside their host. NO also contributes to maintain the host/microbiota homeostasis. But little is known about the impact of NO produced during prolonged inflammation on microbiota integrity, and some pathogenic bacteria take advantage of the NO response to colonize the gut over the microbiota. Taken together, depending on the environmental context (prolonged production, gradient concentration, presence of partners for interaction, presence of oxygen, etc.), NO will exert its beneficial or detrimental function. In this review, we highlight the dual role of NO for humans, pathogenic bacteria and microbiota, and the mechanisms used by each organism to produce, use or resist NO.
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- Constance Porrini
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Durand S, Guillier M. Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Control of the Nitrate Respiration in Bacteria. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:667758. [PMID: 34026838 PMCID: PMC8139620 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.667758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In oxygen (O2) limiting environments, numerous aerobic bacteria have the ability to shift from aerobic to anaerobic respiration to release energy. This process requires alternative electron acceptor to replace O2 such as nitrate (NO3 -), which has the next best reduction potential after O2. Depending on the organism, nitrate respiration involves different enzymes to convert NO3 - to ammonium (NH4 +) or dinitrogen (N2). The expression of these enzymes is tightly controlled by transcription factors (TFs). More recently, bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs), which are important regulators of the rapid adaptation of microorganisms to extremely diverse environments, have also been shown to control the expression of genes encoding enzymes or TFs related to nitrate respiration. In turn, these TFs control the synthesis of multiple sRNAs. These results suggest that sRNAs play a central role in the control of these metabolic pathways. Here we review the complex interplay between the transcriptional and the post-transcriptional regulators to efficiently control the respiration on nitrate.
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- Sylvain Durand
- CNRS, UMR 8261, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- CNRS, UMR 8261, Université de Paris, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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Cole JA. Anaerobic bacterial response to nitric oxide stress: Widespread misconceptions and physiologically relevant responses. Mol Microbiol 2021; 116:29-40. [PMID: 33706420 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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How anaerobic bacteria protect themselves against nitric oxide-induced stress is controversial, not least because far higher levels of stress were used in the experiments on which most of the literature is based than bacteria experience in their natural environments. This results in chemical damage to enzymes that inactivates their physiological function. This review illustrates how transcription control mechanisms reveal physiological roles of the encoded gene products. Evidence that the hybrid cluster protein, Hcp, is a major high affinity NO reductase in anaerobic bacteria is reviewed: if so, its trans-nitrosation activity is a nonspecific secondary consequence of chemical inactivation. Whether the flavorubredoxin, NorV, is equally effective at such low [NO] is unknown. YtfE is proposed to be an enzyme rather than a source of iron for the repair of iron-sulfur proteins damaged by nitrosative stress. Any reaction catalyzed by YtfE needs to be revealed. The concentration of NO that accumulates in the cytoplasm of anaerobic bacteria is unknown, but indirect evidence indicates that it is in the pM to low nM range. Also unknown are the functions of the NO-inducible cytoplasmic proteins YgbA, YeaR, or YoaG. Experiments to resolve some of these questions are proposed.
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- J A Cole
- School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Naïli I, Gardette M, Garrivier A, Daniel J, Desvaux M, Pizza M, Gobert A, Marchal T, Loukiadis E, Jubelin G. Interplay between enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli and nitric oxide during the infectious process. Emerg Microbes Infect 2021; 9:1065-1076. [PMID: 32459575 PMCID: PMC7336997 DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1768804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are bacterial pathogens responsible for life-threatening diseases in humans such as bloody diarrhoea and the hemolytic and uremic syndrome. To date, no specific therapy is available and treatments remain essentially symptomatic. In recent years, we demonstrated in vitro that nitric oxide (NO), a major mediator of the intestinal immune response, strongly represses the synthesis of the two cardinal virulence factors in EHEC, namely Shiga toxins (Stx) and the type III secretion system, suggesting NO has a great potential to protect against EHEC infection. In this study, we investigated the interplay between NO and EHEC in vivo using mouse models of infection. Using a NO-sensing reporter strain, we determined that EHEC sense NO in the gut of infected mice. Treatment of infected mice with a specific NOS inhibitor increased EHEC adhesion to the colonic mucosa but unexpectedly decreased Stx activity in the gastrointestinal tract, protecting mice from renal failure. Taken together, our data indicate that NO can have both beneficial and detrimental consequences on the outcome of an EHEC infection, and underline the importance of in vivo studies to increase our knowledge in host–pathogen interactions.
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- Ilham Naïli
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,GSK, Siena, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Université de Lyon, CNRS, INRAE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, F-63280 Marcy l'Etoile, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire vétérinaire d'histopathologie, F-63280 Marcy-l'Etoile, France
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, INRAE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, F-63280 Marcy l'Etoile, France.,VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire national de référence des E. coli, F-63280 Marcy-l'Etoile, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, MEDiS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Barrasso K, Watve S, Simpson CA, Geyman LJ, van Kessel JC, Ng WL. Dual-function quorum-sensing systems in bacterial pathogens and symbionts. PLoS Pathog 2020; 16:e1008934. [PMID: 33119710 PMCID: PMC7595309 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- Kelsey Barrasso
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JCVK); (WLN)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JCVK); (WLN)
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Shimizu T, Matsumoto A, Noda M. Cooperative Roles of Nitric Oxide-Metabolizing Enzymes To Counteract Nitrosative Stress in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Infect Immun 2019; 87:e00334-19. [PMID: 31209149 PMCID: PMC6704613 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00334-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) has at least three enzymes, NorV, Hmp, and Hcp, that act independently to lower the toxicity of nitric oxide (NO), a potent antimicrobial molecule. This study aimed to reveal the cooperative roles of these defensive enzymes in EHEC against nitrosative stress. Under anaerobic conditions, combined deletion of all three enzymes significantly increased the NO sensitivity of EHEC determined by the growth at late stationary phase; however, the expression of norV restored the NO resistance of EHEC. On the other hand, the growth of Δhmp mutant EHEC was inhibited after early stationary phase, indicating that NorV and Hmp play a cooperative role in anaerobic growth. Under microaerobic conditions, the growth of Δhmp mutant EHEC was inhibited by NO, indicating that Hmp is the enzyme that protects cells from NO stress under microaerobic conditions. When EHEC cells were exposed to a lower concentration of NO, the NO level in bacterial cells of Δhcp mutant EHEC was higher than those of the other EHEC mutants, suggesting that Hcp is effective at regulating NO levels only at a low concentration. These findings of a low level of NO in bacterial cells with hcp indicate that the NO consumption activity of Hcp was suppressed by Hmp at a low range of NO concentrations. Taken together, these results show that the cooperative effects of NO-metabolizing enzymes are regulated by the range of NO concentrations to which the EHEC cells are exposed.
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- Takeshi Shimizu
- Department of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Aging Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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Bennett BD, Gralnick JA. Mechanisms of toxicity by and resistance to ferrous iron in anaerobic systems. Free Radic Biol Med 2019; 140:167-171. [PMID: 31251977 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 06/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Iron is an essential element for nearly all life on Earth, primarily for its value as a redox active cofactor. Iron exists predominantly in two biologically relevant redox states: ferric iron, the oxidized state (Fe3+), and ferrous iron, the reduced state (Fe2+). Fe2+ is well known to facilitate electron transfer reactions that can lead to the generation of reactive oxygen species. Less is known about why iron is toxic to cells in the absence of oxygen, yet this phenomenon is critically important for our understanding of life on early Earth and in iron-rich ecosystems today. In this brief review, we will highlight our current understanding of anaerobic Fe2+ toxicity, focusing on molecular mechanistic studies in several model systems.
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- B D Bennett
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
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- BioTechnology Institute and Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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Grimbs A, Klosik DF, Bornholdt S, Hütt MT. A system-wide network reconstruction of gene regulation and metabolism in Escherichia coli. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1006962. [PMID: 31050661 PMCID: PMC6519848 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Genome-scale metabolic models have become a fundamental tool for examining metabolic principles. However, metabolism is not solely characterized by the underlying biochemical reactions and catalyzing enzymes, but also affected by regulatory events. Since the pioneering work of Covert and co-workers as well as Shlomi and co-workers it is debated, how regulation and metabolism synergistically characterize a coherent cellular state. The first approaches started from metabolic models, which were extended by the regulation of the encoding genes of the catalyzing enzymes. By now, bioinformatics databases in principle allow addressing the challenge of integrating regulation and metabolism on a system-wide level. Collecting information from several databases we provide a network representation of the integrated gene regulatory and metabolic system for Escherichia coli, including major cellular processes, from metabolic processes via protein modification to a variety of regulatory events. Besides transcriptional regulation, we also take into account regulation of translation, enzyme activities and reactions. Our network model provides novel topological characterizations of system components based on their positions in the network. We show that network characteristics suggest a representation of the integrated system as three network domains (regulatory, metabolic and interface networks) instead of two. This new three-domain representation reveals the structural centrality of components with known high functional relevance. This integrated network can serve as a platform for understanding coherent cellular states as active subnetworks and to elucidate crossover effects between metabolism and gene regulation.
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- Anne Grimbs
- Computational Systems Biology, Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Computational Systems Biology, Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
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Thompson CM, Tischler AH, Tarnowski DA, Mandel MJ, Visick KL. Nitric oxide inhibits biofilm formation by Vibrio fischeri via the nitric oxide sensor HnoX. Mol Microbiol 2019; 111:187-203. [PMID: 30299554 PMCID: PMC6392066 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important defense molecule secreted by the squid Euprymna scolopes and sensed by the bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri, via the NO sensor HnoX. HnoX inhibits colonization through an unknown mechanism. The genomic location of hnoX adjacent to hahK, a recently identified positive regulator of biofilm formation, suggested that HnoX may inhibit colonization by controlling biofilm formation, a key early step in colonization. Indeed, the deletion of hnoX resulted in early biofilm formation in vitro, an effect that was dependent on HahK and its putative phosphotransfer residues. An allele of hnoX that encodes a protein with increased activity severely delayed wrinkled colony formation. Control occurred at the level of transcription of the syp genes, which produce the polysaccharide matrix component. The addition of NO abrogated biofilm formation and diminished syp transcription, effects that required HnoX. Finally, an hnoX mutant formed larger symbiotic biofilms. This work has thus uncovered a host-relevant signal controlling biofilm and a mechanism for the inhibition of biofilm formation by V. fischeri. The study of V. fischeri HnoX permits us to understand not only host-associated biofilm mechanisms, but also the function of HnoX domain proteins as regulators of important bacterial processes.
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- Cecilia M. Thompson
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA,Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA,Address correspondence to Karen L. Visick,
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SIGNIFICANCE Iron-sulfur cluster proteins carry out multiple functions, including as regulators of gene transcription/translation in response to environmental stimuli. In all known cases, the cluster acts as the sensory module, where the inherent reactivity/fragility of iron-sulfur clusters with small/redox-active molecules is exploited to effect conformational changes that modulate binding to DNA regulatory sequences. This promotes an often substantial reprogramming of the cellular proteome that enables the organism or cell to adapt to, or counteract, its changing circumstances. Recent Advances: Significant progress has been made recently in the structural and mechanistic characterization of iron-sulfur cluster regulators and, in particular, the O2 and NO sensor FNR, the NO sensor NsrR, and WhiB-like proteins of Actinobacteria. These are the main focus of this review. CRITICAL ISSUES Striking examples of how the local environment controls the cluster sensitivity and reactivity are now emerging, but the basis for this is not yet fully understood for any regulatory family. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Characterization of iron-sulfur cluster regulators has long been hampered by a lack of high-resolution structural data. Although this still presents a major future challenge, recent advances now provide a firm foundation for detailed understanding of how a signal is transduced to effect gene regulation. This requires the identification of often unstable intermediate species, which are difficult to detect and may be hard to distinguish using traditional techniques. Novel approaches will be required to solve these problems.
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- Jason C Crack
- Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Williams DE, Boon EM. Towards Understanding the Molecular Basis of Nitric Oxide-Regulated Group Behaviors in Pathogenic Bacteria. J Innate Immun 2018; 11:205-215. [PMID: 30557874 DOI: 10.1159/000494740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Pathogenic bacteria have many strategies for causing disease in humans. One such strategy is the ability to live both as single-celled motile organisms or as part of a community of bacteria called a biofilm. Biofilms are frequently adhered to biotic or abiotic surfaces and are extremely antibiotic resistant. Upon biofilm dispersal, bacteria become more antibiotic susceptible but are also able to readily infect another host. Various studies have shown that low, nontoxic levels of nitric oxide (NO) may induce biofilm dispersal in many bacterial species. While the molecular details of this phenotype remain largely unknown, in several species, NO has been implicated in biofilm-to-planktonic cell transitions via ligation to 1 of 2 characterized NO sensors, NosP or H-NOX. Based on the data available to date, it appears that NO binding to H-NOX or NosP triggers a downstream response based on changes in cellular cyclic di-GMP concentrations and/or the modulation of quorum sensing. In order to develop applications for control of biofilm infections, the identification and characterization of biofilm dispersal mechanisms is vital. This review focuses on the efforts made to understand NO-mediated control of H-NOX and NosP pathways in the 3 pathogenic bacteria Legionella pneumophila, Vibrio cholerae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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- Dominique E Williams
- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Design, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Design, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA,
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Calderoli PA, Espínola FJ, Dionisi HM, Gil MN, Jansson JK, Lozada M. Predominance and high diversity of genes associated to denitrification in metagenomes of subantarctic coastal sediments exposed to urban pollution. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0207606. [PMID: 30496195 PMCID: PMC6264515 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The aim of this work was to characterize the microbial nitrogen cycling potential in sediments from Ushuaia Bay, a subantarctic environment that has suffered a recent explosive demographic growth. Subtidal sediment samples were retrieved in triplicate from two urban points in the Bay, and analyzed through metagenomic shotgun sequencing. Sequences assigned to genes related to nitrification, nitrate reduction and denitrification were predominant in this environment with respect to metagenomes from other environments, including other marine sediments. The nosZ gene, responsible for nitrous oxide transformation into di-nitrogen, presented a high diversity. The majority of NosZ sequences were classified as Clade II (atypical) variants affiliated to different bacterial lineages such as Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, as well as to Archaea. The analysis of a fosmid metagenomic library from the same site showed that the genomic context of atypical variants was variable, and was accompanied by distinct regulatory elements, suggesting the evolution of differential ecophysiological roles. This work increases our understanding of the microbial ecology of nitrogen transformations in cold coastal environments and provides evidence of an enhanced denitrification potential in impacted sediment microbial communities. In addition, it highlights the role of yet overlooked populations in the mitigation of environmentally harmful forms of nitrogen.
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- Priscila A Calderoli
- Laboratorio de Microbiología Ambiental, Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología Ambiental, Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología Ambiental, Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Oceanografía Química y Contaminación de Aguas, Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina.,Laboratorio de Química General y Análisis de Elementos, CCT CONICET CENPAT, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina
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- Biological Sciences Division, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología Ambiental, Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos, CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina
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Modulation of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli Survival and Virulence in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract. Microorganisms 2018; 6:microorganisms6040115. [PMID: 30463258 PMCID: PMC6313751 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms6040115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a major foodborne pathogen responsible for human diseases ranging from diarrhoea to life-threatening complications. Survival of the pathogen and modulation of virulence gene expression along the human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are key features in bacterial pathogenesis, but remain poorly described, due to a paucity of relevant model systems. This review will provide an overview of the in vitro and in vivo studies investigating the effect of abiotic (e.g., gastric acid, bile, low oxygen concentration or fluid shear) and biotic (e.g., gut microbiota, short chain fatty acids or host hormones) parameters of the human gut on EHEC survival and/or virulence (especially in relation with motility, adhesion and toxin production). Despite their relevance, these studies display important limitations considering the complexity of the human digestive environment. These include the evaluation of only one single digestive parameter at a time, lack of dynamic flux and compartmentalization, and the absence of a complex human gut microbiota. In a last part of the review, we will discuss how dynamic multi-compartmental in vitro models of the human gut represent a novel platform for elucidating spatial and temporal modulation of EHEC survival and virulence along the GIT, and provide new insights into EHEC pathogenesis.
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Host Nitric Oxide Disrupts Microbial Cell-to-Cell Communication to Inhibit Staphylococcal Virulence. Cell Host Microbe 2018; 23:594-606.e7. [PMID: 29706505 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal bacterium that can asymptomatically colonize its host but also causes invasive infections. Quorum sensing regulates S. aureus virulence and the transition from a commensal to a pathogenic organism. However, little is known about how host innate immunity affects interbacterial communication. We show that nitric oxide suppresses staphylococcal virulence by targeting the Agr quorum sensing system. Nitric oxide-mediated inhibition occurs through direct modification of cysteine residues C55, C123, and C199 of the AgrA transcription factor. Cysteine modification decreases AgrA promoter occupancy as well as transcription of the agr operon and quorum sensing-activated toxin genes. In a staphylococcal pneumonia model, mice lacking inducible nitric oxide synthase develop more severe disease with heightened mortality and proinflammatory cytokine responses. In addition, staphylococcal α-toxin production increases in the absence of nitric oxide or nitric oxide-sensitive AgrA cysteine residues. Our findings demonstrate an anti-virulence mechanism for nitric oxide in innate immunity.
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Do nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide really qualify as 'gasotransmitters' in bacteria? Biochem Soc Trans 2018; 46:1107-1118. [PMID: 30190328 PMCID: PMC6195638 DOI: 10.1042/bst20170311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A gasotransmitter is defined as a small, generally reactive, gaseous molecule that, in solution, is generated endogenously in an organism and exerts important signalling roles. It is noteworthy that these molecules are also toxic and antimicrobial. We ask: is this definition of a gasotransmitter appropriate in the cases of nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in microbes? Recent advances show that, not only do bacteria synthesise each of these gases, but the molecules also have important signalling or messenger roles in addition to their toxic effects. However, strict application of the criteria proposed for a gasotransmitter leads us to conclude that the term ‘small molecule signalling agent’, as proposed by Fukuto and others, is preferable terminology.
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Majou D, Christieans S. Mechanisms of the bactericidal effects of nitrate and nitrite in cured meats. Meat Sci 2018; 145:273-284. [PMID: 30005374 DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2018.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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For cured meat products, nitrite is recognized for its antimicrobial effects against pathogenic bacteria, even though the specific inhibitory mechanisms are not well known. Nitrite contributes to oxidative stress by being the precursor of peroxynitrite (ONOO-), which is the major strong oxidant. Thus, bacterial stress (highly pH-very low partial pressure of oxygen-dependent) is enhanced by the nitrate-nitrite-peroxynitrite system which is also highly pH- and low partial pressure of oxygen-dependent. Nitrite is a hurdle technology which effectiveness depends on several other hurdle technologies including sodium chloride (accelerating the autoxidation of oxymyoglobin and promote peroxynitrite formation), ascorbate (increasing ONOO- synthesis), and Aw. In this environment, certain species are more resistant than others to acidic, oxidative, and nitrative stresses. The most resistant are gram-negative aerobic/facultative anaerobic bacteria (Escherichia coli, Salmonella), and the most fragile are gram-positive anaerobic bacteria (Clostridium botulinum). This position review highlights the major chemical mechanisms involved, the active molecules and their actions on bacterial metabolisms in the meat ecosystem.
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- Didier Majou
- Association pour la Coordination Technique pour l'Industrie Agro-Alimentaire (ACTIA), 16, rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris 05, France
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- Association pour le Développement de l'Industrie de la Viande (ADIV), 10, rue Jacqueline Auriol, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France..
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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in humans, and the majority are caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). The rising antibiotic resistance among UPEC and the frequent failure of antibiotics to effectively treat recurrent UTI and catheter-associated UTI motivate research on alternative ways of managing UTI. Abundant evidence indicates that the toxic radical nitric oxide (NO), formed by activation of the inducible nitric oxide synthase, plays an important role in host defence to bacterial infections, including UTI. The major source of NO production during UTI is from inflammatory cells, especially neutrophils, and from the uroepithelial cells that are known to orchestrate the innate immune response during UTI. NO and reactive nitrogen species have a wide range of antibacterial targets, including DNA, heme proteins, iron-sulfur clusters, and protein thiol groups. However, UPEC have acquired a variety of defence mechanisms for protection against NO, such as the NO-detoxifying enzyme flavohemoglobin and the NO-tolerant cytochrome bd-I respiratory oxidase. The cytotoxicity of NO-derived intermediates is nonspecific and may be detrimental to host cells, and a balanced NO production is crucial to maintain the tissue integrity of the urinary tract. In this review, we will give an overview of how NO production from host cells in the urinary tract is activated and regulated, the effect of NO on UPEC growth and colonization, and the ability of UPEC to protect themselves against NO. We also discuss the attempts that have been made to develop NO-based therapeutics for UTI treatment.
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Balasiny B, Rolfe MD, Vine C, Bradley C, Green J, Cole J. Release of nitric oxide by the Escherichia coli YtfE (RIC) protein and its reduction by the hybrid cluster protein in an integrated pathway to minimize cytoplasmic nitrosative stress. Microbiology (Reading) 2018; 164:563-575. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Basema Balasiny
- Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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This chapter provides an overview of current knowledge of how anaerobic bacteria protect themselves against nitrosative stress. Nitric oxide (NO) is the primary source of this stress. Aerobically its removal is an oxidative process, whereas reduction is required anaerobically. Mechanisms required to protect aerobic and anaerobic bacteria are therefore different. Several themes recur in the review. First, how gene expression is regulated often provides clues to the physiological function of the gene products. Second, the physiological significance of reports based upon experiments under extreme conditions that bacteria do not encounter in their natural environment requires reassessment. Third, responses to the primary source of stress need to be distinguished from secondary consequences of chemical damage due to failure of repair mechanisms to cope with extreme conditions. NO is generated by many mechanisms, some of which remain undefined. An example is the recent demonstration that the hybrid cluster protein combines with YtfE (or RIC protein, for repair of iron centres damaged by nitrosative stress) in a new pathway to repair key iron-sulphur proteins damaged by nitrosative stress. The functions of many genes expressed in response to nitrosative stress remain either controversial or are completely unknown. The concentration of NO that accumulates in the bacterial cytoplasm is essentially unknown, so dogmatic statements cannot be made that damage to transcription factors (Fur, FNR, SoxRS, MelR, OxyR) occurs naturally as part of a physiologically relevant signalling mechanism. Such doubts can be resolved by simple experiments to meet six proposed criteria.
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Nitric Oxide-Mediated Induction of Dispersal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms Is Inhibited by Flavohemoglobin Production and Is Enhanced by Imidazole. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018; 62:AAC.01832-17. [PMID: 29263060 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01832-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The biological signal molecule nitric oxide (NO) was found to induce biofilm dispersal across a range of bacterial species, which led to its consideration for therapeutic strategies to treat biofilms and biofilm-related infections. However, biofilms are often not completely dispersed after exposure to NO. To better understand this phenomenon, we investigated the response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm cells to successive NO treatments. When biofilms were first pretreated with a low, noneffective dose of NO, a second dose of the signal molecule at a concentration usually capable of inducing dispersal did not have any effect. Amperometric analysis revealed that pretreated P. aeruginosa cells had enhanced NO-scavenging activity, and this effect was associated with the production of the flavohemoglobin Fhp. Further, quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that fhp expression increased by over 100-fold in NO-pretreated biofilms compared to untreated biofilms. Biofilms of mutant strains harboring mutations in fhp or fhpR, encoding a NO-responsive regulator of fhp, were not affected in their dispersal response after the initial pretreatment with NO. Overall, these results suggest that FhpR can sense NO to trigger production of the flavohemoglobin Fhp and inhibit subsequent dispersal responses to NO. Finally, the addition of imidazole, which can inhibit the NO dioxygenase activity of flavohemoglobin, attenuated the prevention of dispersal after NO pretreatment and improved the dispersal response in older, starved biofilms. This study clarifies the underlying mechanisms of impaired dispersal induced by repeated NO treatments and offers a new perspective for improving the use of NO in biofilm control strategies.
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SIGNIFICANCE Iron-sulfur cluster proteins carry out a wide range of functions, including as regulators of gene transcription/translation in response to environmental stimuli. In all known cases, the cluster acts as the sensory module, where the inherent reactivity/fragility of iron-sulfur clusters towards small/redox active molecules is exploited to effect conformational changes that modulate binding to DNA regulatory sequences. This promotes an often substantial re-programming of the cellular proteome that enables the organism or cell to adapt to, or counteract, its changing circumstances. Recent Advances. Significant progress has been made recently in the structural and mechanistic characterization of iron-sulfur cluster regulators and, in particular, the O2 and NO sensor FNR, the NO sensor NsrR, and WhiB-like proteins of Actinobacteria. These are the main focus of this review. CRITICAL ISSUES Striking examples of how the local environment controls the cluster sensitivity and reactivity are now emerging, but the basis for this is not yet fully understood for any regulatory family. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Characterization of iron-sulfur cluster regulators has long been hampered by a lack of high resolution structural data. Though this still presents a major future challenge, recent advances now provide a firm foundation for detailed understanding of how a signal is transduced to effect gene regulation. This requires the identification of often unstable intermediate species, which are difficult to detect and may be hard to distinguish using traditional techniques. Novel approaches will be required to solve these problems.
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- Jason C Crack
- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , NR4 7TJ ;
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- University of East Anglia, School of Chemistry , University plain , Norwich, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , NR4 7TJ ;
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Giannopoulos G, Sullivan MJ, Hartop KR, Rowley G, Gates AJ, Watmough NJ, Richardson DJ. Tuning the modular Paracoccus denitrificans respirome to adapt from aerobic respiration to anaerobic denitrification. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:4953-4964. [PMID: 29076595 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2017] [Revised: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Bacterial denitrification is a respiratory process that is a major source and sink of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Many denitrifying bacteria can adjust to life in both oxic and anoxic environments through differential expression of their respiromes in response to environmental signals such as oxygen, nitrate and nitric oxide. We used steady-state oxic and anoxic chemostat cultures to demonstrate that the switch from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism is brought about by changes in the levels of expression of relatively few genes, but this is sufficient to adjust the configuration of the respirome to allow the organism to efficiently respire nitrate without the significant release of intermediates, such as nitrous oxide. The regulation of the denitrification respirome in strains deficient in the transcription factors FnrP, Nnr and NarR was explored and revealed that these have both inducer and repressor activities, possibly due to competitive binding at similar DNA binding sites. This may contribute to the fine tuning of expression of the denitrification respirome and so adds to the understanding of the regulation of nitrous oxide emission by denitrifying bacteria in response to different environmental signals.
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- Georgios Giannopoulos
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- School of Medical Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus, Southport, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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McKay R, Hauk P, Wu HC, Pottash AE, Shang W, Terrell J, Payne GF, Bentley WE. Controlling localization of Escherichia coli populations using a two-part synthetic motility circuit: An accelerator and brake. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 114:2883-2895. [PMID: 28755474 DOI: 10.1002/bit.26391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Probiotics, whether taken as capsules or consumed in foods, have been regarded as safe for human use by regulatory agencies. Being living cells, they serve as "tunable" factories for the synthesis of a vast array of beneficial molecules. The idea of reprogramming probiotics to act as controllable factories, producing potential therapeutic molecules under user-specified conditions, represents a new and powerful concept in drug synthesis and delivery. Probiotics that serve as drug delivery vehicles pose several challenges, one being targeting (as seen with nanoparticle approaches). Here, we employ synthetic biology to control swimming directionality in a process referred to as "pseudotaxis." Escherichia coli, absent the motility regulator cheZ, swim sporadically, missing the traditional "run" in the run:tumble swimming paradigm. Upon introduction of cheZ in trans and its signal-generated upregulation, engineered bacteria can be "programmed" to swim toward the source of the chemical cue. Here, engineered cells that encounter sufficient levels of the small signal molecule pyocyanin, produce an engineered CheZ and swim with programmed directionality. By incorporating a degradation tag at the C-terminus of CheZ, the cells stop running when they exit spaces containing pyocyanin. That is, the engineered CheZ modified with a C-terminal extension derived from the putative DNA-binding transcriptional regulator YbaQ (RREERAAKKVA) is consumed by the ClpXP protease machine at a rate sufficient to "brake" the cells when pyocyanin levels are too low. Through this process, we demonstrate that over time, these engineered E. coli accumulate in pyocyanin-rich locales. We suggest that such approaches may find utility in engineering probiotics so that their beneficial functions can be focused in areas of principal benefit.
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- Ryan McKay
- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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- Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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Bueno E, Robles EF, Torres MJ, Krell T, Bedmar EJ, Delgado MJ, Mesa S. Disparate response to microoxia and nitrogen oxides of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum napEDABC, nirK and norCBQD denitrification genes. Nitric Oxide 2017; 68:137-149. [DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2017.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2016] [Revised: 01/27/2017] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Hartop KR, Sullivan MJ, Giannopoulos G, Gates AJ, Bond PL, Yuan Z, Clarke TA, Rowley G, Richardson DJ. The metabolic impact of extracellular nitrite on aerobic metabolism of Paracoccus denitrificans. WATER RESEARCH 2017; 113:207-214. [PMID: 28214776 PMCID: PMC5339346 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Revised: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Nitrite, in equilibrium with free nitrous acid (FNA), can inhibit both aerobic and anaerobic growth of microbial communities through bactericidal activities that have considerable potential for control of microbial growth in a range of water systems. There has been much focus on the effect of nitrite/FNA on anaerobic metabolism and so, to enhance understanding of the metabolic impact of nitrite/FNA on aerobic metabolism, a study was undertaken with a model denitrifying bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans PD1222. Extracellular nitrite inhibits aerobic growth of P. denitrificans in a pH-dependent manner that is likely to be a result of both nitrite and free nitrous acid (pKa = 3.25) and subsequent reactive nitrogen oxides generated from the intracellular passage of FNA into P. denitrificans. Increased expression of a gene encoding a flavohemoglobin protein (Fhp) (Pden_1689) was observed in response to extracellular nitrite. Construction and analysis of a deletion mutant established Fhp to be involved in endowing nitrite/FNA resistance at high extracellular nitrite concentrations. Global transcriptional analysis confirmed nitrite-dependent expression of fhp and indicated that P. denitrificans expressed a number of stress response systems associated with protein, DNA and lipid repair. It is therefore suggested that nitrite causes a pH-dependent stress response that is due to the production of associated reactive nitrogen species, such as nitric oxide from the internalisation of FNA.
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- K R Hartop
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
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Ichimura K, Shimizu T, Matsumoto A, Hirai S, Yokoyama E, Takeuchi H, Yahiro K, Noda M. Nitric oxide-enhanced Shiga toxin production was regulated by Fur and RecA in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157. Microbiologyopen 2017; 6. [PMID: 28294553 PMCID: PMC5552940 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Revised: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) produces Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1) and Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2). Nitric oxide (NO), which acts as an antimicrobial defense molecule, was found to enhance the production of Stx1 and Stx2 in EHEC under anaerobic conditions. Although EHEC O157 has two types of anaerobic NO reductase genes, an intact norV and a deleted norV, in the deleted norV‐type EHEC, a high concentration of NO (12–29 μmol/L, maximum steady‐state concentration) is required for enhanced Stx1 production and a low concentration of NO (~12 μmol/L, maximum steady‐state concentration) is sufficient for enhanced Stx2 production under anaerobic conditions. These results suggested that different concentration thresholds of NO elicit a discrete set of Stx1 and Stx2 production pathways. Moreover, the enhancement of Shiga toxin production in the intact norV‐type EHEC required treatment with a higher concentration of NO than was required for enhancement of Shiga toxin production in the deleted norV‐type EHEC, suggesting that the specific NorV type plays an important role in the level of enhancement of Shiga toxin production in response to NO. Finally, Fur derepression and RecA activation in EHEC were shown to participate in the NO‐enhanced Stx1 and Stx2 production, respectively.
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- Kimitoshi Ichimura
- Departments of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Departments of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan
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- Division of Bacteriology, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba, Japan
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- Departments of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Departments of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Departments of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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Nakai R, Fujisawa T, Nakamura Y, Baba T, Nishijima M, Karray F, Sayadi S, Isoda H, Naganuma T, Niki H. Genome sequence and overview of Oligoflexus tunisiensis Shr3 T in the eighth class Oligoflexia of the phylum Proteobacteria. Stand Genomic Sci 2016; 11:90. [PMID: 27999625 PMCID: PMC5154148 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-016-0210-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2016] [Accepted: 11/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Oligoflexus tunisiensis Shr3T is the first strain described in the newest (eighth) class Oligoflexia of the phylum Proteobacteria. This strain was isolated from the 0.2-μm filtrate of a suspension of sand gravels collected in the Sahara Desert in the Republic of Tunisia. The genome of O. tunisiensis Shr3T is 7,569,109 bp long and consists of one scaffold with a 54.3% G + C content. A total of 6,463 genes were predicted, comprising 6,406 protein-coding and 57 RNA genes. Genome sequence analysis suggested that strain Shr3T had multiple terminal oxidases for aerobic respiration and various transporters, including the resistance-nodulation-cell division-type efflux pumps. Additionally, gene sequences related to the incomplete denitrification pathway lacking the final step to reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) to nitrogen gas (N2) were found in the O. tunisiensis Shr3T genome. The results presented herein provide insight into the metabolic versatility and N2O-producing activity of Oligoflexus species.
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- Ryosuke Nakai
- Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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- Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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- Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan ; Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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- Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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- Technical Department, TechnoSuruga Laboratory Co., Ltd., 330 Nagasaki, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, 424-0065 Japan
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- Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Route Sidi Mansour, km 6, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Route Sidi Mansour, km 6, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Alliance for Research on North Africa (ARENA), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, 305-8572 Japan
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- Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, 739-8528 Japan
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- Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan ; Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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Kaushik MS, Srivastava M, Srivastava A, Singh A, Mishra AK. Nitric oxide ameliorates the damaging effects of oxidative stress induced by iron deficiency in cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:21805-21821. [PMID: 27523042 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-7421-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120, iron deficiency leads to oxidative stress with unavoidable consequences. Nitric oxide reduces pigment damage and supported the growth of Anabaena 7120 in iron-deficient conditions. Elevation in nitric oxide accumulation and reduced superoxide radical production justified the role of nitric oxide in alleviating oxidative stress in iron deficiency. Increased activities of antioxidative enzymes and higher levels of ROS scavengers (ascorbate, glutathione and thiol) in iron deficiency were also observed in the presence of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide also supported the membrane integrity of Anabaena cells and reduces protein and DNA damage caused by oxidative stress induced by iron deficiency. Results suggested that nitric oxide alleviates the damaging effects of oxidative stress induced by iron deficiency in cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120.
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- Manish Singh Kaushik
- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.
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Korostelev YD, Zharov IA, Mironov AA, Rakhmaininova AB, Gelfand MS. Identification of Position-Specific Correlations between DNA-Binding Domains and Their Binding Sites. Application to the MerR Family of Transcription Factors. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0162681. [PMID: 27690309 PMCID: PMC5045206 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The large and increasing volume of genomic data analyzed by comparative methods provides information about transcription factors and their binding sites that, in turn, enables statistical analysis of correlations between factors and sites, uncovering mechanisms and evolution of specific protein-DNA recognition. Here we present an online tool, Prot-DNA-Korr, designed to identify and analyze crucial protein-DNA pairs of positions in a family of transcription factors. Correlations are identified by analysis of mutual information between columns of protein and DNA alignments. The algorithm reduces the effects of common phylogenetic history and of abundance of closely related proteins and binding sites. We apply it to five closely related subfamilies of the MerR family of bacterial transcription factors that regulate heavy metal resistance systems. We validate the approach using known 3D structures of MerR-family proteins in complexes with their cognate DNA binding sites and demonstrate that a significant fraction of correlated positions indeed form specific side-chain-to-base contacts. The joint distribution of amino acids and nucleotides hence may be used to predict changes of specificity for point mutations in transcription factors.
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- Yuriy D. Korostelev
- A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19-1 Bolshoy Karetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 127994
- Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, 1-73 Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19-1 Bolshoy Karetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 127994
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- A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19-1 Bolshoy Karetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 127994
- Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, 1-73 Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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- A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19-1 Bolshoy Karetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 127994
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- A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19-1 Bolshoy Karetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 127994
- Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, 1-73 Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a freely diffusible, radical gas that has now been established as an integral signaling molecule in eukaryotes and bacteria. It has been demonstrated that NO signaling is initiated upon ligation to the heme iron of an H-NOX domain in mammals and in some bacteria. Bacterial H-NOX proteins have been found to interact with enzymes that participate in signaling pathways and regulate bacterial processes such as quorum sensing, biofilm formation, and symbiosis. Here, we review the biochemical characterization of these signaling pathways and, where available, describe how ligation of NO to H-NOX specifically regulates the activity of these pathways and their associated bacterial phenotypes.
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- Lisa-Marie Nisbett
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3400
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3400
- Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3400
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3400
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Chen Z, Hu Y, Cumming BM, Lu P, Feng L, Deng J, Steyn AJC, Chen S. Mycobacterial WhiB6 Differentially Regulates ESX-1 and the Dos Regulon to Modulate Granuloma Formation and Virulence in Zebrafish. Cell Rep 2016; 16:2512-24. [PMID: 27545883 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.07.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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During the course of infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is exposed to diverse redox stresses that trigger metabolic and physiological changes. How these stressors are sensed and relayed to the Mtb transcriptional apparatus remains unclear. Here, we provide evidence that WhiB6 differentially regulates the ESX-1 and DosR regulons through its Fe-S cluster. When challenged with NO, WhiB6 continually activates expression of the DosR regulons but regulates ESX-1 expression through initial activation followed by gradual inhibition. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the holo- and reduced apo-WhiB6 complemented strains confirms these results and also reveals that WhiB6 controls aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, cell division, and virulence. Using the Mycobacterium marinum zebrafish infection model, we find that holo- and apo-WhiB6 modulate levels of mycobacterial infection, granuloma formation, and dissemination. These findings provide fresh insight into the role of WhiB6 in mycobacterial infection, dissemination, and disease development.
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- Zhenkang Chen
- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10086, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban 4001, South Africa; Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
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Zhang Y, Chen S, Hao X, Su JQ, Xue X, Yan Y, Zhu YG, Ye J. Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Adaptive Responses of an Enterobacteriaceae Strain LSJC7 to Arsenic Exposure. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:636. [PMID: 27199962 PMCID: PMC4852401 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Arsenic (As) resistance determinant ars operon is present in many bacteria and has been demonstrated to enhance As(V) resistance of bacteria. However, whole molecular mechanism adaptations of bacteria in response to As(V) stress remain largely unknown. In this study, transcriptional profiles of Enterobacteriaceae strain LSJC7 responding to As(V) stress were analyzed using RNA-seq and qRT-PCR. As expected, genes involved in As(V) uptake were down-regulated, those involved in As(V) reduction and As(III) efflux were up-regulated, which avoided cellular As accumulation. Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide (NO) were induced, which caused cellular damages including DNA, protein, and Fe–S cluster damage in LSJC7. The expression of specific genes encoding transcriptional regulators, such as nsrR and soxRS were also induced. NsrR and SoxRS modulated many critical metabolic activities in As(V) stressed LSJC7 cells, including reactive species scavenging and repairing damaged DNA, proteins, and Fe–S clusters. Therefore, besides As uptake, reduction, and efflux; oxidative stress defense and damage repair were the main cellular adaptive responses of LSJC7 to As(V) stress.
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- Yingjiao Zhang
- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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- State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of SciencesXiamen, China; State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen, China
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Runkel S, Wells HC, Rowley G. Living with Stress: A Lesson from the Enteric Pathogen Salmonella enterica. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2016; 83:87-144. [PMID: 23651595 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-407678-5.00003-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The ability to sense and respond to the environment is essential for the survival of all living organisms. Bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella enterica are of particular interest due to their ability to sense and adapt to the diverse range of conditions they encounter, both in vivo and in environmental reservoirs. During this cycling from host to non-host environments, Salmonella encounter a variety of environmental insults ranging from temperature fluctuations, nutrient availability and changes in osmolarity, to the presence of antimicrobial peptides and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species. Such fluctuating conditions impact on various areas of bacterial physiology including virulence, growth and antimicrobial resistance. A key component of the success of any bacterial pathogen is the ability to recognize and mount a suitable response to the discrete chemical and physical stresses elicited by the host. Such responses occur through a coordinated and complex programme of gene expression and protein activity, involving a range of transcriptional regulators, sigma factors and two component regulatory systems. This review briefly outlines the various stresses encountered throughout the Salmonella life cycle and the repertoire of regulatory responses with which Salmonella counters. In particular, how these Gram-negative bacteria are able to alleviate disruption in periplasmic envelope homeostasis through a group of stress responses, known collectively as the Envelope Stress Responses, alongside the mechanisms used to overcome nitrosative stress, will be examined in more detail.
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- Sebastian Runkel
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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The formation of the organized bacterial community called biofilm is a crucial event in bacterial physiology. Given that biofilms are often refractory to antibiotics and disinfectants to which planktonic bacteria are susceptible, their formation is also an industrially and medically relevant issue. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a well-known human pathogen causing acute and chronic infections, is considered a model organism to study biofilms. A large number of environmental cues control biofilm dynamics in bacterial cells. In particular, the dispersal of individual cells from the biofilm requires metabolic and morphological reprogramming in which the second messenger bis-(3′-5′)-cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) plays a central role. The diatomic gas nitric oxide (NO), a well-known signaling molecule in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, is able to induce the dispersal of P. aeruginosa and other bacterial biofilms by lowering c-di-GMP levels. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on the molecular mechanisms connecting NO sensing to the activation of c-di-GMP-specific phosphodiesterases in P. aeruginosa, ultimately leading to c-di-GMP decrease and biofilm dispersal.
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Kondakova T, Catovic C, Barreau M, Nusser M, Brenner-Weiss G, Chevalier S, Dionnet F, Orange N, Poc CD. Response to Gaseous NO2 Air Pollutant of P. fluorescens Airborne Strain MFAF76a and Clinical Strain MFN1032. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:379. [PMID: 27065229 PMCID: PMC4814523 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Human exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an air pollutant of increasing interest in biology, results in several toxic effects to human health and also to the air microbiota. The aim of this study was to investigate the bacterial response to gaseous NO2. Two Pseudomonas fluorescens strains, namely the airborne strain MFAF76a and the clinical strain MFN1032 were exposed to 0.1, 5, or 45 ppm concentrations of NO2, and their effects on bacteria were evaluated in terms of motility, biofilm formation, antibiotic resistance, as well as expression of several chosen target genes. While 0.1 and 5 ppm of NO2did not lead to any detectable modification in the studied phenotypes of the two bacteria, several alterations were observed when the bacteria were exposed to 45 ppm of gaseous NO2. We thus chose to focus on this high concentration. NO2-exposed P. fluorescens strains showed reduced swimming motility, and decreased swarming in case of the strain MFN1032. Biofilm formed by NO2-treated airborne strain MFAF76a showed increased maximum thickness compared to non-treated cells, while NO2 had no apparent effect on the clinical MFN1032 biofilm structure. It is well known that biofilm and motility are inversely regulated by intracellular c-di-GMP level. The c-di-GMP level was however not affected in response to NO2 treatment. Finally, NO2-exposed P. fluorescens strains were found to be more resistant to ciprofloxacin and chloramphenicol. Accordingly, the resistance nodulation cell division (RND) MexEF-OprN efflux pump encoding genes were highly upregulated in the two P. fluorescens strains. Noticeably, similar phenotypes had been previously observed following a NO treatment. Interestingly, an hmp-homolog gene in P. fluorescens strains MFAF76a and MFN1032 encodes a NO dioxygenase that is involved in NO detoxification into nitrites. Its expression was upregulated in response to NO2, suggesting a possible common pathway between NO and NO2 detoxification. Taken together, our study provides evidences for the bacterial response to NO2 toxicity.
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- Tatiana Kondakova
- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIBEvreux, France; Aerothermic and Internal Combustion Engine Technological Research CentreSaint Etienne du Rouvray, France
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIB Evreux, France
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIB Evreux, France
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIB Evreux, France
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- Aerothermic and Internal Combustion Engine Technological Research Centre Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIB Evreux, France
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- Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA 4312, Normandy University, University of Rouen, SéSa, IRIB Evreux, France
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Crack JC, Svistunenko DA, Munnoch J, Thomson AJ, Hutchings MI, Le Brun NE. Differentiated, Promoter-specific Response of [4Fe-4S] NsrR DNA Binding to Reaction with Nitric Oxide. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:8663-72. [PMID: 26887943 PMCID: PMC4861436 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.693192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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NsrR is an iron-sulfur cluster protein that regulates the nitric oxide (NO) stress response of many bacteria. NsrR from Streptomyces coelicolor regulates its own expression and that of only two other genes, hmpA1 and hmpA2, which encode HmpA enzymes predicted to detoxify NO. NsrR binds promoter DNA with high affinity only when coordinating a [4Fe-4S] cluster. Here we show that reaction of [4Fe-4S] NsrR with NO affects DNA binding differently depending on the gene promoter. Binding to the hmpA2 promoter was abolished at ∼2 NO per cluster, although for the hmpA1 and nsrR promoters, ∼4 and ∼8 NO molecules, respectively, were required to abolish DNA binding. Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of the NO reaction revealed a rapid, multi-phase, non-concerted process involving up to 8–10 NO molecules per cluster, leading to the formation of several iron-nitrosyl species. A distinct intermediate was observed at ∼2 NO per cluster, along with two further intermediates at ∼4 and ∼6 NO. The NsrR nitrosylation reaction was not significantly affected by DNA binding. These results show that NsrR regulates different promoters in response to different concentrations of NO. Spectroscopic evidence indicates that this is achieved by different NO-FeS complexes.
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- Jason C Crack
- From the Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, and
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- the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
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- the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ and
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- From the Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, and
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- the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ and
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- From the Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, and
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