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Yan J, Yang Z, Xie J. Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Shewanella putrefaciens WS13 Biofilms Under Cold Stress. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:851521. [PMID: 35811677 PMCID: PMC9257041 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.851521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Shewanella putrefaciens is a Gram-negative bacterium that can cause seafood spoilage under low-temperature conditions. The bacterium easily forms biofilms to enhance its survival in challenging environments. Our previous research revealed that the biofilm formed by S. putrefaciens WS13 under the low temperature (4 °C) has larger biomass and tighter structure than at an optimum growth temperature (30 °C). In this study, comparative transcriptome analysis was further performed to get insights into the global-level of gene expression in the biofilm formed by S. putrefaciens WS13 under the refrigerating and optimal temperatures using Illumina RNA-Sequencing technique. The results revealed that a total of 761 genes were differentially expressed, of which 497 were significantly up-regulated and 264 were significantly down-regulated (p<0.05). The qRT-PCR results of randomly selected differentially expressed genes (DEGs) confirmed the RNA sequencing results. Comparison of transcriptome data revealed 28 significantly changed metabolic pathways under the cold stress, including the down-regulated chemotaxis, and motility, and up-regulated tryptophan metabolism, histidine biosynthesis, and quorum sensing, which benefited the biofilm formation of S. putrefaciens WS13 under the adverse circumstance. This study provided useful data for better understanding of the biofilm formation of S. putrefaciens, and also laid a theoretical foundation for novel vaccine and drug targets against the severe spoilage bacterium under the cold stress.
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- Jun Yan
- College of Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- Laboratory for Quality and Safety Risk Assessment of Aquatic Products in Storage and Preservation of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- College of Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- College of Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- Laboratory for Quality and Safety Risk Assessment of Aquatic Products in Storage and Preservation of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Professional Technology Service Platform on Cold Chain Equipment Performance and Energy Saving Evaluation, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Food Science and Engineering, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Jing Xie,
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Li X, Li D, Ma S, Yang Y. Integration of transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of cold shock response in Kosmotoga olearia, a typical thermophile with an incredible minimum growth temperature at 20 °C. Braz J Microbiol 2022; 53:71-88. [PMID: 34997565 PMCID: PMC8882551 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-021-00662-5] [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: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Kosmotoga olearia TBF 19.5.1 is a typical thermophile with optimal growth at 65 °C and also exhibits visible growth at an incredible minimum temperature (20 °C). It is considered an ideal model for investigating the evolutionary transition from thermophiles to mesophiles within Thermotogae. However, knowledge relevant to molecular mechanisms of K. olearia responding to cold shock is still limited. In this study, transcriptomics and proteomics were integrated to investigate the global variations at the transcript and protein level during cold shock in K. olearia. As a result, total 734 differentially expressed genes and 262 differentially expressed proteins were identified. The cold-responsive genes and proteins were associated with signaling transduction, transcription, translation and repair, cell wall/membrane reconstruction, amino acid biosynthesis, and stress response. However, most genes and proteins, involved in carbon metabolism, fatty acid biosynthesis, and energy production, were repressed. This work provides the first integrative transcriptomics and proteomics analyses of the cold shock response in K. olearia, and it offered new insights into the mechanisms of cold adaptation and post-transcriptional regulation of the distinctive thermophile within Thermotogae.
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- Xia Li
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065 China ,Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chengdu, 610041 China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065 China ,School of Liquor-Making Engineering, Sichuan University Jinjiang College, Meishan, 620680 China
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- Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chengdu, 610041 China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065 China
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Patakova P, Branska B, Vasylkivska M, Jureckova K, Musilova J, Provaznik I, Sedlar K. Transcriptomic studies of solventogenic clostridia, Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium beijerinckii. Biotechnol Adv 2021; 58:107889. [PMID: 34929313 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Solventogenic clostridia are not a strictly defined group within the genus Clostridium but its representatives share some common features, i.e. they are anaerobic, non-pathogenic, non-toxinogenic and endospore forming bacteria. Their main metabolite is typically 1-butanol but depending on species and culture conditions, they can form other metabolites such as acetone, isopropanol, ethanol, butyric, lactic and acetic acids, and hydrogen. Although these organisms were previously used for the industrial production of solvents, they later fell into disuse, being replaced by more efficient chemical production. A return to a more biological production of solvents therefore requires a thorough understanding of clostridial metabolism. Transcriptome analysis, which reflects the involvement of individual genes in all cellular processes within a population, at any given (sampling) moment, is a valuable tool for gaining a deeper insight into clostridial life. In this review, we describe techniques to study transcription, summarize the evolution of these techniques and compare methods for data processing and visualization of solventogenic clostridia, particularly the species Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium beijerinckii. Individual approaches for evaluating transcriptomic data are compared and their contributions to advancements in the field are assessed. Moreover, utilization of transcriptomic data for reconstruction of computational clostridial metabolic models is considered and particular models are described. Transcriptional changes in glucose transport, central carbon metabolism, the sporulation cycle, butanol and butyrate stress responses, the influence of lignocellulose-derived inhibitors on growth and solvent production, and other respective topics, are addressed and common trends are highlighted.
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- Petra Patakova
- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Brno University of Technology, Technicka 10, 61600 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brno University of Technology, Technicka 10, 61600 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brno University of Technology, Technicka 10, 61600 Brno, Czech Republic
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Kint N, Morvan C, Martin-Verstraete I. Oxygen response and tolerance mechanisms in Clostridioides difficile. Curr Opin Microbiol 2021; 65:175-182. [PMID: 34896836 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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While the gut is typically thought of as anoxic, there are two intersecting and decreasing oxygen gradients that are observed in the gut: oxygen decreases from the small to the large intestine and from the intestinal epithelium toward the colon lumen. Gut oxygen levels also increase following antibiotic induced-dysbiosis. While dysbiosis favors growth of Clostridioides difficile, the oxygen increase also causes stress to this anaerobic enteropathogen. To circumvent oxygen threat, C. difficile has developed efficient strategies: sporulation, biofilm formation, the rerouting of central metabolism and the production of oxygen detoxification enzymes. Especially, reverse rubrerythrins and flavodiiron proteins involved in oxygen reduction are crucial in C. difficile ability to tolerate and survive the oxygen concentrations encountered in the gastrointestinal tract. Two regulators, σB and PerR, play pivotal role in the mastering of these adaptive responses by controlling the various systems that protect cells from oxidative damages.
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- Nicolas Kint
- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, UMR CNRS 2001, Laboratoire Pathogenèse des Bactéries Anaérobies, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, UMR CNRS 2001, Laboratoire Pathogenèse des Bactéries Anaérobies, F-75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, UMR CNRS 2001, Laboratoire Pathogenèse des Bactéries Anaérobies, F-75015 Paris, France; Institut Universitaire de France, France.
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When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence. Nat Rev Microbiol 2021; 19:774-785. [PMID: 34183820 PMCID: PMC9191689 DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00583-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The defining trait of obligate anaerobes is that oxygen blocks their growth, yet the underlying mechanisms are unclear. A popular hypothesis was that these microorganisms failed to evolve defences to protect themselves from reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, and that this failure is what prevents their expansion to oxic habitats. However, studies reveal that anaerobes actually wield most of the same defences that aerobes possess, and many of them have the capacity to tolerate substantial levels of oxygen. Therefore, to understand the structures and real-world dynamics of microbial communities, investigators have examined how anaerobes such as Bacteroides, Desulfovibrio, Pyrococcus and Clostridium spp. struggle and cope with oxygen. The hypoxic environments in which these organisms dwell - including the mammalian gut, sulfur vents and deep sediments - experience episodic oxygenation. In this Review, we explore the molecular mechanisms by which oxygen impairs anaerobes and the degree to which bacteria protect their metabolic pathways from it. The emergent view of anaerobiosis is that optimal strategies of anaerobic metabolism depend upon radical chemistry and low-potential metal centres. Such catalytic sites are intrinsically vulnerable to direct poisoning by molecular oxygen and ROS. Observations suggest that anaerobes have evolved tactics that either minimize the extent to which oxygen disrupts their metabolism or restore function shortly after the stress has dissipated.
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Morvan C, Folgosa F, Kint N, Teixeira M, Martin-Verstraete I. Responses of Clostridia to oxygen: from detoxification to adaptive strategies. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4112-4125. [PMID: 34245087 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Revised: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Clostridia comprise bacteria of environmental, biotechnological and medical interest and many commensals of the gut microbiota. Because of their strictly anaerobic lifestyle, oxygen is a major stress for Clostridia. However, recent data showed that these bacteria can cope with O2 better than expected for obligate anaerobes through their ability to scavenge, detoxify and consume O2 . Upon O2 exposure, Clostridia redirect their central metabolism onto pathways less O2 -sensitive and induce the expression of genes encoding enzymes involved in O2 -reduction and in the repair of oxidized damaged molecules. While Faecalibacterium prausnitzii efficiently consumes O2 through a specific extracellular electron shuttling system requiring riboflavin, enzymes such as rubrerythrins and flavodiiron proteins with NAD(P)H-dependent O2 - and/or H2 O2 -reductase activities are usually encoded in other Clostridia. These two classes of enzymes play indeed a pivotal role in O2 tolerance in Clostridioides difficile and Clostridium acetobutylicum. Two main signalling pathways triggering O2 -induced responses have been described so far in Clostridia. PerR acts as a key regulator of the O2 - and/or reactive oxygen species-defence machinery while in C. difficile, σB , the sigma factor of the general stress response also plays a crucial role in O2 tolerance by controlling the expression of genes involved in O2 scavenging and repair systems.
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- Claire Morvan
- Laboratoire Pathogenèses des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Paris, F-75015, France
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, Oeiras, 2780-157, Portugal
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- Laboratoire Pathogenèses des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Paris, F-75015, France
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, Oeiras, 2780-157, Portugal
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- Laboratoire Pathogenèses des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Paris, F-75015, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Nitrite reduction in fermented meat products and its impact on aroma. ADVANCES IN FOOD AND NUTRITION RESEARCH 2021; 95:131-181. [PMID: 33745511 DOI: 10.1016/bs.afnr.2020.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fermented meat products are important not only for their sensory characteristics, nutrient content and cultural heritage, but also for their stability and convenience. The aroma of fermented meat products is unique and its formation mechanisms are not completely understood; however, the presence of nitrite and nitrate is essential for the development of cured aroma. The use of nitrite and nitrate as curing agents in meat products is based on its preservation activity. Even though their presence has been associated with several risks due to the formation of nitrosamines, their use is guarantee due to their antimicrobial action against Clostridium botulinum. Recent trends and recommendations by international associations are directed to use nitrite but at the minimum concentration necessary to provide the antimicrobial activity against Clostridium botulinum. This chapter discuss the actual limits of nitrite and nitrite content and their role as curing agents in meat products with special impact on dry fermented products. Regulatory considerations, antimicrobial mechanisms and actual trends regarding nitrite reduction and its effect on sensory and aroma properties are also considered.
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A Point Mutation in the Transcriptional Repressor PerR Results in a Constitutive Oxidative Stress Response in Clostridioides difficile 630Δ erm. mSphere 2021; 6:6/2/e00091-21. [PMID: 33658275 PMCID: PMC8546684 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00091-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The human pathogen Clostridioides difficile has evolved into the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea. The bacterium is capable of spore formation, which even allows survival of antibiotic treatment. Although C. difficile features an anaerobic lifestyle, we determined a remarkably high oxygen tolerance of the laboratory reference strain 630Δerm. A mutation of a single nucleotide (single nucleotide polymorphism [SNP]) in the DNA sequence (A to G) of the gene encoding the regulatory protein PerR results in an amino acid substitution (Thr to Ala) in one of the helices of the helix-turn-helix DNA binding domain of this transcriptional repressor in C. difficile 630Δerm. PerR is a sensor protein for hydrogen peroxide and controls the expression of genes involved in the oxidative stress response. We show that PerR of C. difficile 630Δerm has lost its ability to bind the promoter region of PerR-controlled genes. This results in a constitutive derepression of genes encoding oxidative stress proteins such as a rubrerythrin (rbr1) whose mRNA abundance under anaerobic conditions was increased by a factor of about 7 compared to its parental strain C. difficile 630. Rubrerythrin repression in strain 630Δerm could be restored by the introduction of PerR from strain 630. The permanent oxidative stress response of C. difficile 630Δerm observed here should be considered in physiological and pathophysiological investigations based on this widely used model strain. IMPORTANCE The intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile is one of the major challenges in medical facilities nowadays. In order to better combat the bacterium, detailed knowledge of its physiology is mandatory. C. difficile strain 630Δerm was generated in a laboratory from the patient-isolated strain C. difficile 630 and represents a reference strain for many researchers in the field, serving as the basis for the construction of insertional gene knockout mutants. In our work, we demonstrate that this strain is characterized by an uncontrolled oxidative stress response as a result of a single-base-pair substitution in the sequence of a transcriptional regulator. C. difficile researchers working with model strain 630Δerm should be aware of this permanent stress response.
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Although the gastrointestinal tract is regarded as mainly anoxic, low O2 tension is present in the gut and tends to increase following antibiotic-induced disruption of the host microbiota. Two decreasing O2 gradients are observed, a longitudinal one from the small to the large intestine and a second one from the intestinal epithelium toward the colon lumen. Thus, O2 concentration fluctuations within the gastrointestinal tract are a challenge for anaerobic bacteria such as C. difficile. This enteropathogen has developed efficient strategies to detoxify O2. In this work, we identified reverse rubrerythrins and flavodiiron proteins as key actors for O2 tolerance in C. difficile. These enzymes are responsible for the reduction of O2 protecting C. difficile vegetative cells from associated damages. Original and complex detoxification pathways involving O2-reductases are crucial in the ability of C. difficile to tolerate O2 and survive to O2 concentrations encountered in the gastrointestinal tract. Clostridioides difficile is a major cause of diarrhea associated with antibiotherapy. After germination of C. difficile spores in the small intestine, vegetative cells are exposed to low oxygen (O2) tensions. While considered strictly anaerobic, C. difficile is able to grow in nonstrict anaerobic conditions (1 to 3% O2) and tolerates brief air exposure indicating that this bacterium harbors an arsenal of proteins involved in O2 detoxification and/or protection. Tolerance of C. difficile to low O2 tensions requires the presence of the alternative sigma factor, σB, involved in the general stress response. Among the genes positively controlled by σB, four encode proteins likely involved in O2 detoxification: two flavodiiron proteins (FdpA and FdpF) and two reverse rubrerythrins (revRbr1 and revRbr2). As previously observed for FdpF, we showed that both purified revRbr1 and revRbr2 harbor NADH-linked O2- and H2O2-reductase activities in vitro, while purified FdpA mainly acts as an O2-reductase. The growth of a fdpA mutant is affected at 0.4% O2, while inactivation of both revRbrs leads to a growth defect above 0.1% O2. O2-reductase activities of these different proteins are additive since the quadruple mutant displays a stronger phenotype when exposed to low O2 tensions compared to the triple mutants. Our results demonstrate a key role for revRbrs, FdpF, and FdpA proteins in the ability of C. difficile to grow in the presence of physiological O2 tensions such as those encountered in the colon.
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The catalase-negative streptococci produce as well as tolerate high levels of H2O2. This work reports the molecular mechanisms of low-H2O2-concentration-induced adaptation to higher H2O2 stress in a Streptococcus species, in which the peroxide-responsive repressor PerR and its redox regulons play the major role. Distinct from the Bacillus subtilis PerR, which is inactivated by H2O2 through histidine oxidation by the Fe2+-triggered Fenton reaction, the streptococcal PerR is inactivated by H2O2 oxidation of the structural Zn2+ binding cysteine residues and thus derepresses the expression of genes defending against oxidative stress. The reversible cysteine oxidation could provide flexibility for PerR regulation in streptococci, and the mechanism might be widely used by lactic acid bacteria, including pathogenic streptococci, containing high levels of cellular manganese, in coping with oxidative stress. The adaptation mechanism could also be applied in oral hygiene by facilitating the fitness and adaptability of the oral commensal streptococci to suppress the pathogens. Preexposure to a low concentration of H2O2 significantly increases the survivability of catalase-negative streptococci in the presence of a higher concentration of H2O2. However, the mechanisms of this adaptation remain unknown. Here, using a redox proteomics assay, we identified 57 and 35 cysteine-oxidized proteins in Streptococcus oligofermentans bacteria that were anaerobically cultured and then pulsed with 40 μM H2O2 and that were statically grown in a 40-ml culture, respectively. The oxidized proteins included the peroxide-responsive repressor PerR, the manganese uptake repressor MntR, thioredoxin system proteins Trx and Tpx, and most glycolytic proteins. Cysteine oxidations of these proteins were verified through redox Western blotting, immunoprecipitation, and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assays. In particular, Zn2+-coordinated Cys139 and Cys142 mutations eliminated the H2O2 oxidation of PerR, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry detected significantly decreased amounts of Zn2+ in H2O2-treated PerR, demonstrating that cysteine oxidation results in Zn2+ loss. An electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) determined that the DNA binding of Mn2+-bound PerR protein (PerR:Zn,Mn) was abolished by H2O2 treatment but was restored by dithiothreitol reduction, verifying that H2O2 inactivates streptococcal PerR:Zn,Mn through cysteine oxidation, analogous to the findings for MntR. Quantitative PCR and EMSA demonstrated that tpx, mntA, mntR, and dpr belonged to the PerR regulons but that only dpr was directly regulated by PerR; mntA was also controlled by MntR. Deletion of mntR significantly reduced the low-H2O2-concentration-induced adaptation of S. oligofermentans to a higher H2O2 concentration, while the absence of PerR completely abolished the self-protection. Therefore, a low H2O2 concentration resulted in the cysteine-reversible oxidations of PerR and MntR to derepress their regulons, which function in cellular metal and redox homeostasis and which endow streptococci with the antioxidative capability. This work reveals a novel Cys redox-based H2O2 defense strategy employed by catalase-negative streptococci in Mn2+-rich cellular environments. IMPORTANCE The catalase-negative streptococci produce as well as tolerate high levels of H2O2. This work reports the molecular mechanisms of low-H2O2-concentration-induced adaptation to higher H2O2 stress in a Streptococcus species, in which the peroxide-responsive repressor PerR and its redox regulons play the major role. Distinct from the Bacillus subtilis PerR, which is inactivated by H2O2 through histidine oxidation by the Fe2+-triggered Fenton reaction, the streptococcal PerR is inactivated by H2O2 oxidation of the structural Zn2+ binding cysteine residues and thus derepresses the expression of genes defending against oxidative stress. The reversible cysteine oxidation could provide flexibility for PerR regulation in streptococci, and the mechanism might be widely used by lactic acid bacteria, including pathogenic streptococci, containing high levels of cellular manganese, in coping with oxidative stress. The adaptation mechanism could also be applied in oral hygiene by facilitating the fitness and adaptability of the oral commensal streptococci to suppress the pathogens.
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Yoo M, Nguyen NPT, Soucaille P. Trends in Systems Biology for the Analysis and Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum Metabolism. Trends Microbiol 2020; 28:118-140. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ślesak I, Kula M, Ślesak H, Miszalski Z, Strzałka K. How to define obligatory anaerobiosis? An evolutionary view on the antioxidant response system and the early stages of the evolution of life on Earth. Free Radic Biol Med 2019; 140:61-73. [PMID: 30862543 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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One of the former definitions of "obligate anaerobiosis" was based on three main criteria: 1) it occurs in organisms, so-called obligate anaerobes, which live in environments without oxygen (O2), 2) O2-dependent (aerobic) respiration, and 3) antioxidant enzymes are absent in obligate anaerobes. In contrast, aerobes need O2 in order to grow and develop properly. Obligate (or strict) anaerobes belong to prokaryotic microorganisms from two domains, Bacteria and Archaea. A closer look at anaerobiosis covers a wide range of microorganisms that permanently or in a time-dependent manner tolerate different concentrations of O2 in their habitats. On this basis they can be classified as obligate/facultative anaerobes, microaerophiles and nanaerobes. Paradoxically, O2 tolerance in strict anaerobes is usually, as in aerobes, associated with the activity of the antioxidant response system, which involves different antioxidant enzymes responsible for removing excess reactive oxygen species (ROS). In our opinion, the traditional definition of "obligate anaerobiosis" loses its original sense. Strict anaerobiosis should only be restricted to the occurrence of O2-independent pathways involved in energy generation. For that reason, a term better than "obligate anaerobes" would be O2/ROS tolerant anaerobes, where the role of the O2/ROS detoxification system is separated from O2-independent metabolic pathways that supply energy. Ubiquitous key antioxidant enzymes like superoxide dismutase (SOD) and superoxide reductase (SOR) in contemporary obligate anaerobes might suggest that their origin is ancient, maybe even the beginning of the evolution of life on Earth. It cannot be ruled out that c. 3.5 Gyr ago, local microquantities of O2/ROS played a role in the evolution of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all modern organisms. On the basis of data in the literature, the hypothesis that LUCA could be an O2/ROS tolerant anaerobe is discussed together with the question of the abiotic sources of O2/ROS and/or the early evolution of cyanobacteria that perform oxygenic photosynthesis.
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- Ireneusz Ślesak
- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Krakow, Poland.
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Krakow, Poland.
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- Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387, Krakow, Poland.
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239, Krakow, Poland.
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- Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7A, 30-387, Krakow, Poland; Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387, Krakow, Poland.
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Type E Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Clostridium butyricum Strains Are Aerotolerant during Vegetative Growth. mSystems 2019; 4:mSystems00299-18. [PMID: 31058231 PMCID: PMC6495232 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00299-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Botulinum neurotoxins, the causative agents of the potentially fatal disease of botulism, are produced by certain Clostridium strains during vegetative growth, usually in anaerobic environments. Our findings indicate that, contrary to current understanding, the growth of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum strains and botulinum neurotoxin type E production can continue upon transfer from anaerobic to aerated conditions and that adaptation of strains to oxygenated environments requires global changes in proteomic and metabolic profiles. We hypothesize that aerotolerance might constitute an unappreciated factor conferring physiological advantages on some botulinum toxin-producing clostridial strains, allowing them to adapt to otherwise restrictive environments. Clostridium butyricum, the type species of the genus Clostridium, is considered an obligate anaerobe, yet it has been shown to grow in the presence of oxygen. C. butyricum strains atypically producing the botulinum neurotoxin type E are the leading cause of type E human botulism in Italy. Here, we show that type E botulinum neurotoxin-producing C. butyricum strains growing exponentially were able to keep growing and producing toxin in vitro upon exposure to air, although less efficiently than under ideal oxygen-depleted conditions. Bacterial growth in air was maintained when the initial cell density was higher than 103 cells/ml. No spores were detected in the cultures aerated for 5 h. To understand the biological mechanisms allowing the adaptation of vegetative cells of C. butyricum type E to oxygen, we compared the proteome and metabolome profiles of the clostridial cultures grown for 5 h under either aerated or anaerobic conditions. The results indicated that bacterial cells responded to oxygen stress by slowing growth and modulating the expression of proteins involved in carbohydrate uptake and metabolism, redox homeostasis, DNA damage response, and bacterial motility. Moreover, the ratio of acetate to butyrate was significantly higher under aeration. This study demonstrates for the first time that a botulinum neurotoxin-producing Clostridium can withstand oxygen during vegetative growth. IMPORTANCE Botulinum neurotoxins, the causative agents of the potentially fatal disease of botulism, are produced by certain Clostridium strains during vegetative growth, usually in anaerobic environments. Our findings indicate that, contrary to current understanding, the growth of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum strains and botulinum neurotoxin type E production can continue upon transfer from anaerobic to aerated conditions and that adaptation of strains to oxygenated environments requires global changes in proteomic and metabolic profiles. We hypothesize that aerotolerance might constitute an unappreciated factor conferring physiological advantages on some botulinum toxin-producing clostridial strains, allowing them to adapt to otherwise restrictive environments.
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Inoue M, Nakamoto I, Omae K, Oguro T, Ogata H, Yoshida T, Sako Y. Structural and Phylogenetic Diversity of Anaerobic Carbon-Monoxide Dehydrogenases. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3353. [PMID: 30705673 PMCID: PMC6344411 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Anaerobic Ni-containing carbon-monoxide dehydrogenases (Ni-CODHs) catalyze the reversible conversion between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide as multi-enzyme complexes responsible for carbon fixation and energy conservation in anaerobic microbes. However, few biochemically characterized model enzymes exist, with most Ni-CODHs remaining functionally unknown. Here, we performed phylogenetic and structure-based Ni-CODH classification using an expanded dataset comprised of 1942 non-redundant Ni-CODHs from 1375 Ni-CODH-encoding genomes across 36 phyla. Ni-CODHs were divided into seven clades, including a novel clade. Further classification into 24 structural groups based on sequence analysis combined with structural prediction revealed diverse structural motifs for metal cluster formation and catalysis, including novel structural motifs potentially capable of forming metal clusters or binding metal ions, indicating Ni-CODH diversity and plasticity. Phylogenetic analysis illustrated that the metal clusters responsible for intermolecular electron transfer were drastically altered during evolution. Additionally, we identified novel putative Ni-CODH-associated proteins from genomic contexts other than the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway and energy converting hydrogenase system proteins. Network analysis among the structural groups of Ni-CODHs, their associated proteins and taxonomies revealed previously unrecognized gene clusters for Ni-CODHs, including uncharacterized structural groups with putative metal transporters, oxidoreductases, or transcription factors. These results suggested diversification of Ni-CODH structures adapting to their associated proteins across microbial genomes.
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- Masao Inoue
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Lee HN, Ji CJ, Lee HH, Park J, Seo YS, Lee JW, Oh JI. Roles of three FurA paralogs in the regulation of genes pertaining to peroxide defense in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 2 155. Mol Microbiol 2018; 108:661-682. [PMID: 29569300 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155 has three genes (MSMEG_6383, furA1; MSMEG_3460, furA2; MSMEG_6253, furA3) encoding FurA (ferric-uptake regulator A) paralogs. Three FurA paralogs in M. smegmatis are functionally redundant and negatively regulate expression of a subset of genes involved in peroxide detoxification such as ahpC, katG1 and katG2, as well as their own genes. The FurA paralogs sense H2 O2 via metal-catalyzed His oxidation (MCHO) in the same way as PerR. The propensity of FurA2 and FurA3 for MCHO is greater than that of FurA1. The three furA genes are transcribed into leaderless mRNAs lacking the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence. FurA1 and FurA3 have the quaternary structure of homodimers like most Fur homologs, whereas FurA2 occurs as a monomer. The monomeric structure of FurA2 is determined by the C-terminal region of its dimerization domain. FurA2 monomers appear to cooperatively bind to the FurA-binding site with an inverted repeat configuration and have a broader binding specificity for the target DNA than dimeric FurA1 and FurA3. Comparative transcriptomic analysis revealed that the FurA paralogs do not regulate genes related to iron homeostasis in M. smegmatis, and that expression of SigF-regulated genes is significantly decreased in a furA triple mutant relative to the wild-type strain of M. smegmatis.
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- Ha-Na Lee
- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea
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Kint N, Janoir C, Monot M, Hoys S, Soutourina O, Dupuy B, Martin-Verstraete I. The alternative sigma factor σ B plays a crucial role in adaptive strategies of Clostridium difficile during gut infection. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:1933-1958. [PMID: 28198085 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Revised: 01/19/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Clostridium difficile is a major cause of diarrhoea associated with antibiotherapy. Exposed to stresses in the gut, C. difficile can survive by inducing protection, detoxification and repair systems. In several firmicutes, most of these systems are controlled by the general stress response involving σB . In this work, we studied the role of σB in the physiopathology of C. difficile. We showed that the survival of the sigB mutant during the stationary phase was reduced. Using a transcriptome analysis, we showed that σB controls the expression of ∼25% of genes including genes involved in sporulation, metabolism, cell surface biogenesis and the management of stresses. By contrast, σB does not control toxin gene expression. In agreement with the up-regulation of sporulation genes, the sporulation efficiency is higher in the sigB mutant than in the wild-type strain. sigB inactivation also led to increased sensitivity to acidification, cationic antimicrobial peptides, nitric oxide and ROS. In addition, we showed for the first time that σB also plays a crucial role in oxygen tolerance in this strict anaerobe. Finally, we demonstrated that the fitness of colonisation by the sigB mutant is greatly affected in a dixenic mouse model of colonisation when compared to the wild-type strain.
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- Nicolas Kint
- Laboratoire Pathogénese des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- EA 4043, Unité Bactéries Pathogènes et Santé (UBaPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 92290, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- Laboratoire Pathogénese des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- EA 4043, Unité Bactéries Pathogènes et Santé (UBaPS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 92290, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- Laboratoire Pathogénese des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Pathogénese des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Pathogénese des Bactéries Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Development of a High-Efficiency Transformation Method and Implementation of Rational Metabolic Engineering for the Industrial Butanol Hyperproducer Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum Strain N1-4. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 83:AEM.02942-16. [PMID: 27836845 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02942-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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While a majority of academic studies concerning acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) production by Clostridium have focused on Clostridium acetobutylicum, other members of this genus have proven to be effective industrial workhorses despite the inability to perform genetic manipulations on many of these strains. To further improve the industrial performance of these strains in areas such as substrate usage, solvent production, and end product versatility, transformation methods and genetic tools are needed to overcome the genetic intractability displayed by these species. In this study, we present the development of a high-efficiency transformation method for the industrial butanol hyperproducer Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum strain N1-4 (HMT) ATCC 27021. Following initial failures, we found that the key to creating a successful transformation method was the identification of three distinct colony morphologies (types S, R, and I), which displayed significant differences in transformability. Working with the readily transformable type I cells (transformation efficiency, 1.1 × 106 CFU/μg DNA), we performed targeted gene deletions in C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 using a homologous recombination-mediated allelic exchange method. Using plasmid-based gene overexpression and targeted knockouts of key genes in the native acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) metabolic pathway, we successfully implemented rational metabolic engineering strategies, yielding in the best case an engineered strain (Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum strain N1-4/pWIS13) displaying an 18% increase in butanol titers and 30% increase in total ABE titer (0.35 g ABE/g sucrose) in batch fermentations. Additionally, two engineered strains overexpressing aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenases (encoded by adh11 and adh5) displayed 8.5- and 11.8-fold increases (respectively) in batch ethanol production. IMPORTANCE This paper presents the first steps toward advanced genetic engineering of the industrial butanol producer Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum strain N1-4 (HMT). In addition to providing an efficient method for introducing foreign DNA into this species, we demonstrate successful rational engineering for increasing solvent production. Examples of future applications of this work include metabolic engineering for improving desirable industrial traits of this species and heterologous gene expression for expanding the end product profile to include high-value fuels and chemicals.
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Edwards AN, Karim ST, Pascual RA, Jowhar LM, Anderson SE, McBride SM. Chemical and Stress Resistances of Clostridium difficile Spores and Vegetative Cells. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1698. [PMID: 27833595 PMCID: PMC5080291 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, sporogenic and anaerobic bacterium that causes a potentially fatal colitis. C. difficile enters the body as dormant spores that germinate in the colon to form vegetative cells that secrete toxins and cause the symptoms of infection. During transit through the intestine, some vegetative cells transform into spores, which are more resistant to killing by environmental insults than the vegetative cells. Understanding the inherent resistance properties of the vegetative and spore forms of C. difficile is imperative for the development of methods to target and destroy the bacterium. The objective of this study was to define the chemical and environmental resistance properties of C. difficile vegetative cells and spores. We examined vegetative cell and spore tolerances of three C. difficile strains, including 630Δerm, a 012 ribotype and a derivative of a past epidemic strain; R20291, a 027 ribotype and current epidemic strain; and 5325, a clinical isolate that is a 078 ribotype. All isolates were tested for tolerance to ethanol, oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, butanol, chloroform, heat and sodium hypochlorite (household bleach). Our results indicate that 630Δerm vegetative cells (630 spo0A) are more resistant to oxidative stress than those of R20291 (R20291 spo0A) and 5325 (5325 spo0A). In addition, 5325 spo0A vegetative cells exhibited greater resistance to organic solvents. In contrast, 630Δerm spores were more sensitive than R20291 or 5325 spores to butanol. Spores from all three strains exhibited high levels of resistance to ethanol, hydrogen peroxide, chloroform and heat, although R20291 spores were more resistant to temperatures in the range of 60-75°C. Finally, household bleach served as the only chemical reagent tested that consistently reduced C. difficile vegetative cells and spores of all tested strains. These findings establish conditions that result in vegetative cell and spore elimination and illustrate the resistance of C. difficile to common decontamination methods. These results further demonstrate that the vegetative cells and spores of various C. difficile strains have different resistance properties that may impact decontamination of surfaces and hands.
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- Adrianne N Edwards
- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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- Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, USA
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An operon comprising two genes, CA_P0037 and CA_P0036, that encode proteins of unknown function that were previously shown to be highly expressed in acidogenic cells and repressed in solventogenic and alcohologenic cells is located on the pSOL1 megaplasmid of Clostridium acetobutylicum upstream of adhE2 A CA_P0037::int (189/190s) mutant in which an intron was inserted at position 189/190 in the sense strand of CA_P0037 was successfully generated by the Targetron technique. The resultant mutant showed significantly different metabolic flux patterns in acidogenic (producing mainly lactate, butyrate, and butanol) and alcohologenic (producing mainly butyrate, acetate, and lactate) chemostat cultures but not in solventogenic or batch cultures. Transcriptomic investigation of the CA_P0037::int (189/190s) mutant showed that inactivation of CA_P0037 significantly affected the expression of more than 258 genes under acidogenic conditions. Surprisingly, genes belonging to the Fur regulon, involved in iron transport (CA_C1029-CA_C1032), or coding for the main flavodoxin (CA_C0587) were the most significantly expressed genes under all conditions, whereas fur (coding for the ferric uptake regulator) gene expression remained unchanged. Furthermore, most of the genes of the Rex regulon, such as the adhE2 and ldhA genes, and of the PerR regulon, such as rbr3A-rbr3B and dfx, were overexpressed in the mutant. In addition, the whole CA_P0037-CA_P0036 operon was highly expressed under all conditions in the CA_P0037::int (189/190s) mutant, suggesting a self-regulated expression mechanism. Cap0037 was shown to bind to the CA_P0037-CA_P0036 operon, sol operon, and adc promoters, and the binding sites were determined by DNA footprinting. Finally, a putative Cap0037 regulon was generated using a bioinformatic approach. IMPORTANCE Clostridium acetobutylicum is well-known for its ability to produce solvents, especially n-butanol. Understanding the regulatory network of C. acetobutylicum will be crucial for further engineering to obtain a strain capable of producing n-butanol at high yield and selectivity. This study has discovered that the Cap0037 protein is a novel regulator of C. acetobutylicum that drastically affects metabolism under both acidogenic and alcohologenic fermentation conditions. This is pioneering work for further determining the regulatory mechanism of Cap0037 in C. acetobutylicum and studying the role of proteins homologous to Cap0037 in other members of the phylum Firmicutes.
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Breitkopf R, Uhlig R, Drenckhan T, Fischer RJ. Two propanediol utilization-like proteins of Moorella thermoacetica with phosphotransacetylase activity. Extremophiles 2016; 20:653-61. [PMID: 27338272 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-016-0854-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Moorella thermoacetica is one of the model acetogenic bacteria for the resolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl (acetyl-CoA) pathway in which CO2 is autotrophically assimilated yielding acetyl-CoA as central intermediate. Its further conversion into acetate relies on subsequent phosphotransacetylase (PTA) and acetate kinase reactions. However, the genome of M. thermoacetica contains no pta homologous gene. It has been speculated that the moth_0864 and moth_1181 gene products sharing similarities with an evolutionarily distinct phosphotransacylase involved in 1,2-propanediol utilization (PDUL) of Salmonella enterica act as PTAs in M. thermoacetica. Here, we demonstrate specific PTA activities with acetyl-CoA as substrate of 9.05 and 2.03 U/mg for the recombinant enzymes PDUL1 (Moth_1181) and PDUL2 (Moth_0864), respectively. Both showed maximal activity at 65 °C and pH 7.6. Native proteins (90 kDa) are homotetramers composed of four subunits with apparent molecular masses of about 23 kDa. Thus, one or both PDULs of M. thermoacetica might act as PTAs in vivo catalyzing the penultimate step of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway toward the formation of acetate. In silico analysis underlined that up to now beside of M. thermoacetica, only Sporomusa ovata contains only PDUL like class(III)-PTAs but no other phosphotransacetylases or phosphotransbutyrylases (PTBs).
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- Ronja Breitkopf
- BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059, Rostock, Germany.
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Yoo M, Croux C, Meynial-Salles I, Soucaille P. Elucidation of the roles of adhE1 and adhE2 in the primary metabolism of Clostridium acetobutylicum by combining in-frame gene deletion and a quantitative system-scale approach. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2016; 9:92. [PMID: 27118994 PMCID: PMC4845359 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0507-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Clostridium acetobutylicum possesses two homologous adhE genes, adhE1 and adhE2, which have been proposed to be responsible for butanol production in solventogenic and alcohologenic cultures, respectively. To investigate their contributions in detail, in-frame deletion mutants of each gene were constructed and subjected to quantitative transcriptomic (mRNA molecules/cell) and fluxomic analyses in acidogenic, solventogenic, and alcohologenic chemostat cultures. RESULTS Under solventogenesis, compared to the control strain, only ΔadhE1 mutant exhibited significant changes showing decreased butanol production and transcriptional expression changes in numerous genes. In particular, adhE2 was over expressed (126-fold); thus, AdhE2 can partially replace AdhE1 for butanol production (more than 30 % of the in vivo butanol flux) under solventogenesis. Under alcohologenesis, only ΔadhE2 mutant exhibited striking changes in gene expression and metabolic fluxes, and butanol production was completely lost. Therefore, it was demonstrated that AdhE2 is essential for butanol production and thus metabolic fluxes were redirected toward butyrate formation. Under acidogenesis, metabolic fluxes were not significantly changed in both mutants except the complete loss of butanol formation in ΔadhE2, but numerous changes in gene expression were observed. Furthermore, most of the significantly up- or down-regulated genes under this condition showed the same pattern of change in both mutants. CONCLUSIONS This quantitative system-scale analysis confirms the proposed roles of AdhE1 and AdhE2 in butanol formation that AdhE1 is the key enzyme under solventogenesis, whereas AdhE2 is the key enzyme for butanol formation under acidogenesis and alcohologenesis. Our study also highlights the metabolic flexibility of C. acetobutylicum to genetic alterations of its primary metabolism.
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- Minyeong Yoo
- />INSA, UPS, INP, LISBP, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- />INRA, UMR792, Toulouse, France
- />CNRS, UMR5504, Toulouse, France
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- />INSA, UPS, INP, LISBP, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- />INRA, UMR792, Toulouse, France
- />CNRS, UMR5504, Toulouse, France
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- />INSA, UPS, INP, LISBP, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- />INRA, UMR792, Toulouse, France
- />CNRS, UMR5504, Toulouse, France
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- />INSA, UPS, INP, LISBP, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- />INRA, UMR792, Toulouse, France
- />CNRS, UMR5504, Toulouse, France
- />Metabolic Explorer, Biopôle Clermont-Limagne, Saint Beauzire, France
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Hillion M, Antelmann H. Thiol-based redox switches in prokaryotes. Biol Chem 2016; 396:415-44. [PMID: 25720121 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2015-0102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Bacteria encounter reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a consequence of the aerobic life or as an oxidative burst of activated neutrophils during infections. In addition, bacteria are exposed to other redox-active compounds, including hypochloric acid (HOCl) and reactive electrophilic species (RES) such as quinones and aldehydes. These reactive species often target the thiol groups of cysteines in proteins and lead to thiol-disulfide switches in redox-sensing regulators to activate specific detoxification pathways and to restore the redox balance. Here, we review bacterial thiol-based redox sensors that specifically sense ROS, RES and HOCl via thiol-based mechanisms and regulate gene transcription in Gram-positive model bacteria and in human pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We also pay particular attention to emerging widely conserved HOCl-specific redox regulators that have been recently characterized in Escherichia coli. Different mechanisms are used to sense and respond to ROS, RES and HOCl by 1-Cys-type and 2-Cys-type thiol-based redox sensors that include versatile thiol-disulfide switches (OxyR, OhrR, HypR, YodB, NemR, RclR, Spx, RsrA/RshA) or alternative Cys phosphorylations (SarZ, MgrA, SarA), thiol-S-alkylation (QsrR), His-oxidation (PerR) and methionine oxidation (HypT). In pathogenic bacteria, these redox-sensing regulators are often important virulence regulators and required for adapation to the host immune defense.
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Dash S, Ng CY, Maranas CD. Metabolic modeling of clostridia: current developments and applications. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2016; 363:fnw004. [PMID: 26755502 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Anaerobic Clostridium spp. is an important bioproduction microbial genus that can produce solvents and utilize a broad spectrum of substrates including cellulose and syngas. Genome-scale metabolic (GSM) models are increasingly being put forth for various clostridial strains to explore their respective metabolic capabilities and suitability for various bioconversions. In this study, we have selected representative GSM models for six different clostridia (Clostridium acetobutylicum, C. beijerinckii, C. butyricum, C. cellulolyticum, C. ljungdahlii and C. thermocellum) and performed a detailed model comparison contrasting their metabolic repertoire. We also discuss various applications of these GSM models to guide metabolic engineering interventions as well as assessing cellular physiology.
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- Satyakam Dash
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-1503, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-1503, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-1503, USA
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Liu D, Xu J, Wang Y, Chen Y, Shen X, Niu H, Guo T, Ying H. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of Clostridium acetobutylicum biofilm and planktonic cells. J Biotechnol 2016; 218:1-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Metabolic response of Clostridium ljungdahlii to oxygen exposure. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:8379-91. [PMID: 26431975 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02491-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Clostridium ljungdahlii is an important synthesis gas-fermenting bacterium used in the biofuels industry, and a preliminary investigation showed that it has some tolerance to oxygen when cultured in rich mixotrophic medium. Batch cultures not only continue to grow and consume H2, CO, and fructose after 8% O2 exposure, but fermentation product analysis revealed an increase in ethanol concentration and decreased acetate concentration compared to non-oxygen-exposed cultures. In this study, the mechanisms for higher ethanol production and oxygen/reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxification were identified using a combination of fermentation, transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) differential expression, and enzyme activity analyses. The results indicate that the higher ethanol and lower acetate concentrations were due to the carboxylic acid reductase activity of a more highly expressed predicted aldehyde oxidoreductase (CLJU_c24130) and that C. ljungdahlii's primary defense upon oxygen exposure is a predicted rubrerythrin (CLJU_c39340). The metabolic responses of higher ethanol production and oxygen/ROS detoxification were found to be linked by cofactor management and substrate and energy metabolism. This study contributes new insights into the physiology and metabolism of C. ljungdahlii and provides new genetic targets to generate C. ljungdahlii strains that produce more ethanol and are more tolerant to syngas contaminants.
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Facultative Anaerobe Caldibacillus debilis GB1: Characterization and Use in a Designed Aerotolerant, Cellulose-Degrading Coculture with Clostridium thermocellum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:5567-73. [PMID: 26048931 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00735-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Development of a designed coculture that can achieve aerotolerant ethanogenic biofuel production from cellulose can reduce the costs of maintaining anaerobic conditions during industrial consolidated bioprocessing (CBP). To this end, a strain of Caldibacillus debilis isolated from an air-tolerant cellulolytic consortium which included a Clostridium thermocellum strain was characterized and compared with the C. debilis type strain. Characterization of isolate C. debilis GB1 and comparisons with the type strain of C. debilis revealed significant physiological differences, including (i) the absence of anaerobic metabolism in the type strain and (ii) different end product synthesis profiles under the experimental conditions used. The designed cocultures displayed unique responses to oxidative conditions, including an increase in lactate production. We show here that when the two species were cultured together, the noncellulolytic facultative anaerobe C. debilis GB1 provided respiratory protection for C. thermocellum, allowing the synergistic utilization of cellulose even under an aerobic atmosphere.
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Zhang Y, Grosse-Honebrink A, Minton NP. A universal mariner transposon system for forward genetic studies in the genus Clostridium. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122411. [PMID: 25836262 PMCID: PMC4383383 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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DNA transposons represent an essential tool in the armoury of the molecular microbiologist. We previously developed a catP-based mini transposon system for Clostridium difficile in which the expression of the transposase gene was dependent on a sigma factor unique to C. difficile, TcdR. Here we have shown that the host range of the transposon is easily extended through the rapid chromosomal insertion of the tcdR gene at the pyrE locus of the intended clostridial target using Allele-Coupled Exchange (ACE). To increase the effectiveness of the system, a novel replicon conditional for plasmid maintenance was developed, which no longer supports the effective retention of the transposon delivery vehicle in the presence of the inducer isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG). As a consequence, those thiamphenicol resistant colonies that arise in clostridial recipients, following plating on agar medium supplemented with IPTG, are almost exclusively due to insertion of the mini transposon into the genome. The system has been exemplified in both Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium sporogenes, where transposon insertion has been shown to be entirely random. Moreover, appropriate screening of both libraries resulted in the isolation of auxotrophic mutants as well as cells deficient in spore formation/germination. This strategy is capable of being implemented in any Clostridium species.
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- Ying Zhang
- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (YZ); (NPM)
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Tao W, Dong H, Zhang Y, Cai Z, Li Y. Introducing transglutaminase with its precursor region into Clostridium acetobutylicum improves its tolerance to oxidative stress and solvent production. Process Biochem 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2014.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zhang L, Nie X, Ravcheev DA, Rodionov DA, Sheng J, Gu Y, Yang S, Jiang W, Yang C. Redox-responsive repressor Rex modulates alcohol production and oxidative stress tolerance in Clostridium acetobutylicum. J Bacteriol 2014; 196:3949-63. [PMID: 25182496 PMCID: PMC4248821 DOI: 10.1128/jb.02037-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rex, a transcriptional repressor that modulates its DNA-binding activity in response to NADH/NAD(+) ratio, has recently been found to play a role in the solventogenic shift of Clostridium acetobutylicum. Here, we combined a comparative genomic reconstruction of Rex regulons in 11 diverse clostridial species with detailed experimental characterization of Rex-mediated regulation in C. acetobutylicum. The reconstructed Rex regulons in clostridia included the genes involved in fermentation, hydrogen production, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, NAD biosynthesis, nitrate and sulfite reduction, and CO2/CO fixation. The predicted Rex-binding sites in the genomes of Clostridium spp. were verified by in vitro binding assays with purified Rex protein. Novel members of the C. acetobutylicum Rex regulon were identified and experimentally validated by comparing the transcript levels between the wild-type and rex-inactivated mutant strains. Furthermore, the effects of exposure to methyl viologen or H2O2 on intracellular NADH and NAD(+) concentrations, expression of Rex regulon genes, and physiology of the wild type and rex-inactivated mutant were comparatively analyzed. Our results indicate that Rex responds to NADH/NAD(+) ratio in vivo to regulate gene expression and modulates fermentation product formation and oxidative stress tolerance in C. acetobutylicum. It is suggested that Rex plays an important role in maintaining NADH/NAD(+) homeostasis in clostridia.
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Dahlsten E, Lindström M, Korkeala H. Mechanisms of food processing and storage-related stress tolerance in Clostridium botulinum. Res Microbiol 2014; 166:344-52. [PMID: 25303833 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2014.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Revised: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Vegetative cultures of Clostridium botulinum produce the extremely potent botulinum neurotoxin, and may jeopardize the safety of foods unless sufficient measures to prevent growth are applied. Minimal food processing relies on combinations of mild treatments, primarily to avoid deterioration of the sensory qualities of the food. Tolerance of C. botulinum to minimal food processing is well characterized. However, data on effects of successive treatments on robustness towards further processing is lacking. Developments in genetic manipulation tools and the availability of annotated genomes have allowed identification of genetic mechanisms involved in stress tolerance of C. botulinum. Most studies focused on low temperature, and the importance of various regulatory mechanisms in cold tolerance of C. botulinum has been demonstrated. Furthermore, novel roles in cold tolerance were shown for metabolic pathways under the control of these regulators. A role for secondary oxidative stress in tolerance to extreme temperatures has been proposed. Additionally, genetic mechanisms related to tolerance to heat, low pH, and high salinity have been characterized. Data on genetic stress-related mechanisms of psychrotrophic Group II C. botulinum strains are scarce; these mechanisms are of interest for food safety research and should thus be investigated. This minireview encompasses the importance of C. botulinum as a food safety hazard and its central physiological characteristics related to food-processing and storage-related stress. Special attention is given to recent findings considering genetic mechanisms C. botulinum utilizes in detecting and countering these adverse conditions.
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- Elias Dahlsten
- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Dahlsten E, Isokallio M, Somervuo P, Lindström M, Korkeala H. Transcriptomic analysis of (group I) Clostridium botulinum ATCC 3502 cold shock response. PLoS One 2014; 9:e89958. [PMID: 24587151 PMCID: PMC3933689 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Profound understanding of the mechanisms foodborne pathogenic bacteria utilize in adaptation to the environmental stress they encounter during food processing and storage is of paramount importance in design of control measures. Chill temperature is a central control measure applied in minimally processed foods; however, data on the mechanisms the foodborne pathogen Clostridium botulinum activates upon cold stress are scarce. Transcriptomic analysis on the C. botulinum ATCC 3502 strain upon temperature downshift from 37°C to 15°C was performed to identify the cold-responsive gene set of this organism. Significant up- or down-regulation of 16 and 11 genes, respectively, was observed 1 h after the cold shock. At 5 h after the temperature downshift, 199 and 210 genes were up- or down-regulated, respectively. Thus, the relatively small gene set affected initially indicated a targeted acute response to cold shock, whereas extensive metabolic remodeling appeared to take place after prolonged exposure to cold. Genes related to fatty acid biosynthesis, oxidative stress response, and iron uptake and storage were induced, in addition to mechanisms previously characterized as cold-tolerance related in bacteria. Furthermore, several uncharacterized DNA-binding transcriptional regulator-encoding genes were induced, suggesting involvement of novel regulatory mechanisms in the cold shock response of C. botulinum. The role of such regulators, CBO0477 and CBO0558A, in cold tolerance of C. botulinum ATCC 3502 was demonstrated by deteriorated growth of related mutants at 17°C.
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- Elias Dahlsten
- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Wang Q, Venkataramanan KP, Huang H, Papoutsakis ET, Wu CH. Transcription factors and genetic circuits orchestrating the complex, multilayered response of Clostridium acetobutylicum to butanol and butyrate stress. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2013; 7:120. [PMID: 24196194 PMCID: PMC3828012 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Background Organisms of the genus Clostridium are Gram-positive endospore formers of great importance to the carbon cycle, human normo- and pathophysiology, but also in biofuel and biorefinery applications. Exposure of Clostridium organisms to chemical and in particular toxic metabolite stress is ubiquitous in both natural (such as in the human microbiome) and engineered environments, engaging both the general stress response as well as specialized programs. Yet, despite its fundamental and applied significance, it remains largely unexplored at the systems level. Results We generated a total of 96 individual sets of microarray data examining the transcriptional changes in C. acetobutylicum, a model Clostridium organism, in response to three levels of chemical stress from the native metabolites, butanol and butyrate. We identified 164 significantly differentially expressed transcriptional regulators and detailed the cellular programs associated with general and stressor-specific responses, many previously unexplored. Pattern-based, comparative genomic analyses enabled us, for the first time, to construct a detailed picture of the genetic circuitry underlying the stress response. Notably, a list of the regulons and DNA binding motifs of the stress-related transcription factors were identified: two heat-shock response regulators, HrcA and CtsR; the SOS response regulator LexA; the redox sensor Rex; and the peroxide sensor PerR. Moreover, several transcriptional regulators controlling stress-responsive amino acid and purine metabolism and their regulons were also identified, including ArgR (arginine biosynthesis and catabolism regulator), HisR (histidine biosynthesis regulator), CymR (cysteine metabolism repressor) and PurR (purine metabolism repressor). Conclusions Using an exceptionally large set of temporal transcriptional data and regulon analyses, we successfully built a STRING-based stress response network model integrating important players for the general and specialized metabolite stress response in C. acetobutylicum. Since the majority of the transcription factors and their target genes are highly conserved in other organisms of the Clostridium genus, this network would be largely applicable to other Clostridium organisms. The network informs the molecular basis of Clostridium responses to toxic metabolites in natural ecosystems and the microbiome, and will facilitate the construction of genome-scale models with added regulatory-network dimensions to guide the development of tolerant strains.
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Biogenesis of [Fe–S] cluster in Firmicutes: an unexploited field of investigation. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:283-300. [DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9966-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bankar SB, Survase SA, Ojamo H, Granström T. Biobutanol: the outlook of an academic and industrialist. RSC Adv 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c3ra43011a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Tsakraklides V, Shaw AJ, Miller BB, Hogsett DA, Herring CD. Carbon catabolite repression in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2012; 5:85. [PMID: 23181505 PMCID: PMC3526391 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-5-85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND The thermophilic anaerobe Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum is capable of directly fermenting xylan and the biomass-derived sugars glucose, cellobiose, xylose, mannose, galactose and arabinose. It has been metabolically engineered and developed as a biocatalyst for the production of ethanol. RESULTS We report the initial characterization of the carbon catabolite repression system in this organism. We find that sugar metabolism in T. saccharolyticum is regulated by histidine-containing protein HPr. We describe a mutation in HPr, His15Asp, that leads to derepression of less-favored carbon source utilization. CONCLUSION Co-utilization of sugars can be achieved by mutation of HPr in T. saccharolyticum. Further manipulation of CCR in this organism will be instrumental in achieving complete and rapid conversion of all available sugars to ethanol.
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- Mascoma Corporation, 67 Etna Road, Suite 300, New Hampshire, 03766, Lebanon
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- Mascoma Corporation, 67 Etna Road, Suite 300, New Hampshire, 03766, Lebanon
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- Mascoma Corporation, 67 Etna Road, Suite 300, New Hampshire, 03766, Lebanon
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Janssen H, Grimmler C, Ehrenreich A, Bahl H, Fischer RJ. A transcriptional study of acidogenic chemostat cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum—Solvent stress caused by a transient n-butanol pulse. J Biotechnol 2012; 161:354-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.03.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2011] [Revised: 03/15/2012] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Vasileva D, Janssen H, Hönicke D, Ehrenreich A, Bahl H. Effect of iron limitation and fur gene inactivation on the transcriptional profile of the strict anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum. Microbiology (Reading) 2012; 158:1918-1929. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.056978-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Delyana Vasileva
- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann-Str. 4, D-85350, Freising, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann-Str. 4, D-85350, Freising, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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Tracy BP, Jones SW, Fast AG, Indurthi DC, Papoutsakis ET. Clostridia: the importance of their exceptional substrate and metabolite diversity for biofuel and biorefinery applications. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2012; 23:364-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 313] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2011] [Revised: 10/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/20/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Over-expression of stress protein-encoding genes helps Clostridium acetobutylicum to rapidly adapt to butanol stress. Biotechnol Lett 2012; 34:1643-9. [PMID: 22618238 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-012-0951-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 05/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The toxicity of n-butanol in microbial fermentations limits its formation. The stress response of Clostridium acetobutylicum involves various stress proteins and therefore, over-expression of genes encoding stress proteins constitutes an option to improve solvent tolerance. Over-expression of groESL, grpE and htpG, significantly improved butanol tolerance of C. acetobutylicum. Whereas the wild type and vector control strain did not survive 2 % (v/v) butanol for 2 h, the recombinant strains showed 45 % (groESL), 25 % (grpE) and 56 % (htpG), respectively, of the initial c.f.u. after 2 h of butanol exposure. As previously, over-expression of groESL led to higher butanol production rates, but the novel strains over-expressing grpE or htpG produced only 51 and 68 %, respectively, of the wild type butanol concentrations after 72 h clearly differentiating butanol tolerance and production. Not only butanol tolerance but also the adaptation to butanol in successive stress experiments was significantly facilitated by increased levels of GroESL, GrpE and HtpG. Re-transformation and sequence analyses of the plasmids confirmed that not the plasmids, but the host cells evolved to a more robust phenotype.
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Hönicke D, Janssen H, Grimmler C, Ehrenreich A, Lütke-Eversloh T. Global transcriptional changes of Clostridium acetobutylicum cultures with increased butanol:acetone ratios. N Biotechnol 2012; 29:485-93. [PMID: 22285530 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2012.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2011] [Revised: 01/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/12/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Artificial electron carriers have been widely used to shift the solvent ratio toward butanol in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation of solventogenic clostridia according to decreased hydrogen production. In this study, first insights on the molecular level were gained to explore the effect of methyl viologen addition to cultures of Clostridium acetobutylicum. Employing batch fermentation in mineral salts medium, the butanol:acetone ratio was successively increased from 2.3 to 12.4 on a 100-ml scale in serum bottles and from 1.4 to 16.5 on a 1300-ml scale in bioreactors, respectively. The latter cultures were used for DNA microarray analyses to provide new information on the transcriptional changes referring to methyl viologen exposure and thus, exhibit gene expression patterns according to the manipulation of the cellular redox balance. Methyl viologen-exposed cultures revealed lower expression levels of the sol operon (CAP0162-0164) and the adjacent adc gene (CAP0165) responsible for solvent formation as well as iron and sulfate transporters and the CAC0105-encoded ferredoxin. On the contrary, genes for riboflavin biosynthesis, for the butyrate/butanol metabolic pathway and genes coding for sugar transport systems were induced. Interestingly, the adhE2-encoded bifunctional NADH-dependent aldhehyde/alcohol-dehydrogenase (CAP0035) was upregulated up to more than 100-fold expression levels as compared to the control culture without methyl viologen addition. The data presented here indicate a transcriptional regulation for decreased acetone biosynthesis and the redox-dependent substitution of adhE1 (CAP0162) by adhE2.
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Germany
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Lütke-Eversloh T, Bahl H. Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum: recent advances to improve butanol production. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2011; 22:634-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 290] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2011] [Revised: 01/26/2011] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dong H, Tao W, Zhu L, Zhang Y, Li Y. CAC2634-disrupted mutant of Clostridium acetobutylicum can be electrotransformed in air. Lett Appl Microbiol 2011; 53:379-82. [PMID: 21711370 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2011.03111.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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AIMS To simplify the electrotransformation process of Clostridium acetobutylicum, which currently needs to be performed in an anaerobic chamber, thus laborious and time-consuming. METHODS AND RESULTS The CAC2634 gene encoding PerR is a known peroxide regulon repressor in Cl. acetobutylicum. CAC2634 in a previously constructed Restriction-Modification system deficient Cl. acetobutylicum mutant SMB009 was disrupted using ClosTron method. The resulted mutant SMB012 can be electrotransformed in air with an efficiency of 1.2-3.1 × 10(3) transformants μg(-1) DNA. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated that the disruption of CAC2634 in Cl. acetobutylicum enables its electrotransformation in air. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The electrotransformation process of Cl. acetobutylicum could be significantly simplified, especially when operating multiple electrotransformations.
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Cornelis P, Wei Q, Andrews SC, Vinckx T. Iron homeostasis and management of oxidative stress response in bacteria. Metallomics 2011; 3:540-9. [PMID: 21566833 DOI: 10.1039/c1mt00022e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Iron is both an essential nutrient for the growth of microorganisms, as well as a dangerous metal due to its capacity to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the Fenton reaction. For these reasons, bacteria must tightly control the uptake and storage of iron in a manner that restricts the build-up of ROS. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the control of iron homeostasis and responses to oxidative stress are coordinated. The mechanisms concerned with these processes, and the interactions involved, are the subject of this review.
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- Microbial Interactions, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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Zhu L, Dong H, Zhang Y, Li Y. Engineering the robustness of Clostridium acetobutylicum by introducing glutathione biosynthetic capability. Metab Eng 2011; 13:426-34. [PMID: 21296183 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 01/11/2011] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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To improve the aero- and solvent tolerance of the solvent-producing Clostridium acetobutylicum, glutathione biosynthetic capability was introduced into C. acetobutylicum DSM1731 by cloning and over-expressing the gshAB genes from Escherichia coli. Strain DSM1731(pITAB) produces glutathione, and shows a significantly improved survival upon aeration and butanol challenge, as compared with the control. In addition, strain DSM1731(pITAB) exhibited an improved butanol tolerance and an increased butanol production capability, as compared with the recombinant strains with only gshA or gshB gene. These results illustrated that introducing glutathione biosynthetic pathway, which is redundant for the metabolism of C. acetobutylicum, can increase the robustness of the host to achieve a better solvent production.
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- Linjiang Zhu
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Expression, purification and characterization of two Clostridium acetobutylicum flavodoxins: Potential electron transfer partners for CYP152A2. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2011; 1814:257-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2010] [Revised: 06/10/2010] [Accepted: 06/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Crown SB, Indurthi DC, Ahn WS, Choi J, Papoutsakis ET, Antoniewicz MR. Resolving the TCA cycle and pentose-phosphate pathway of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824: Isotopomer analysis, in vitro activities and expression analysis. Biotechnol J 2010; 6:300-5. [PMID: 21370473 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201000282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2010] [Revised: 09/12/2010] [Accepted: 09/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Solventogenic clostridia are an important class of microorganisms that can produce various biofuels. One of the bottlenecks in engineering clostridia stems from the fact that central metabolic pathways remain poorly understood. Here, we utilized the power of (13) C-based isotopomer analysis to re-examine central metabolic pathways of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. We demonstrate using [1,2-(13) C]glucose, MS analysis of intracellular metabolites, and enzymatic assays that C. acetobutylicum has a split TCA cycle where only Re-citrate synthase (CS) contributes to the production of α-ketoglutarate via citrate. Furthermore, we show that there is no carbon exchange between α-ketoglutarate and fumarate and that the oxidative pentose-phosphate pathway (oxPPP) is inactive. Dynamic gene expression analysis of the putative Re-CS gene (CAC0970), its operon, and all glycolysis, pentose-phosphate pathway, and TCA cycle genes identify genes and their degree of involvement in these core pathways that support the powerful primary metabolism of this industrial organism.
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- Scott B Crown
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology Laboratory, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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Janssen H, Döring C, Ehrenreich A, Voigt B, Hecker M, Bahl H, Fischer RJ. A proteomic and transcriptional view of acidogenic and solventogenic steady-state cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum in a chemostat culture. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 87:2209-26. [PMID: 20617312 PMCID: PMC3227527 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2741-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Revised: 06/15/2010] [Accepted: 06/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The complex changes in the life cycle of Clostridium acetobutylicum, a promising biofuel producer, are not well understood. During exponential growth, sugars are fermented to acetate and butyrate, and in the transition phase, the metabolism switches to the production of the solvents acetone and butanol accompanied by the initiation of endospore formation. Using phosphate-limited chemostat cultures at pH 5.7, C. acetobutylicum was kept at a steady state of acidogenic metabolism, whereas at pH 4.5, the cells showed stable solvent production without sporulation. Novel proteome reference maps of cytosolic proteins from both acidogenesis and solventogenesis with a high degree of reproducibility were generated. Yielding a 21% coverage, 15 protein spots were specifically assigned to the acidogenic phase, and 29 protein spots exhibited a significantly higher abundance in the solventogenic phase. Besides well-known metabolic proteins, unexpected proteins were also identified. Among these, the two proteins CAP0036 and CAP0037 of unknown function were found as major striking indicator proteins in acidogenic cells. Proteome data were confirmed by genome-wide DNA microarray analyses of the identical cultures. Thus, a first systematic study of acidogenic and solventogenic chemostat cultures is presented, and similarities as well as differences to previous studies of batch cultures are discussed.
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- Holger Janssen
- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abteilung Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Am Hochanger 4, 85350 Freising, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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Dong H, Zhang Y, Dai Z, Li Y. Engineering clostridium strain to accept unmethylated DNA. PLoS One 2010; 5:e9038. [PMID: 20161730 PMCID: PMC2817722 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2009] [Accepted: 01/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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It is difficult to genetically manipulate the medically and biotechnologically important genus Clostridium due to the existence of the restriction and modification (RM) systems. We identified and engineered the RM system of a model clostridial species, C. acetobutylicum, with the aim to allow the host to accept the unmethylated DNA efficiently. A gene CAC1502 putatively encoding the type II restriction endonuclease Cac824I was identified from the genome of C. acetobutylicum DSM1731, and disrupted using the ClosTron system based on group II intron insertion. The resulting strain SMB009 lost the type II restriction endonuclease activity, and can be transformed with unmethylated DNA as efficiently as with methylated DNA. The strategy reported here makes it easy to genetically modify the clostridial species using unmethylated DNA, which will help to advance the understanding of the clostridial physiology from the molecular level.
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- Hongjun Dong
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Alsaker KV, Paredes C, Papoutsakis ET. Metabolite stress and tolerance in the production of biofuels and chemicals: Gene-expression-based systems analysis of butanol, butyrate, and acetate stresses in the anaerobeClostridium acetobutylicum. Biotechnol Bioeng 2010; 105:1131-47. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.22628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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