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Environmental pH stress constitutes a limiting factor for S. meliloti survival and development. The response to acidic pH stress in S. meliloti is versatile and characterized by the differential expression of genes associated with various cellular functions. The purpose of this study was to gain detailed insight into the participation of sigma factors in the complex stress response system of S. meliloti 1021 using pH stress as an effector. 相似文献2.
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T. Hagi M. Kobayashi S. Kawamoto J. Shima M. Nomura 《Journal of applied microbiology》2013,114(6):1763-1771
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To determine whether the carotenoid production improves stress tolerance of lactic acid bacteria, the cloned enterococcal carotenoid biosynthesis genes were expressed in Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363, and the survival rate of carotenoid‐producing engineered MG1363 strain under stress condition was investigated.Methods and Results
We cloned carotenoid biosynthesis genes from yellow‐pigmented Enterococcus gilvus. The cloned genes consisted of crtN and crtM and its promoter region were inserted into the shuttle vector pRH100, and the resulting plasmid was named pRC. The cloned crtNM was expressed using pRC in noncarotenoid‐producing L. lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363. The expression of crtNM led to the production of C30 carotenoid 4,4′‐diaponeurosporene. After exposure to 32 mmol l?1 H2O2, low pH (1.5, acidified with HCl), 20% bile acid and 12 mg ml?1 lysozyme, the survival rates of the MG1363 strain harbouring pRC were 18.7‐, 6.8‐, 8.8‐ and 4.4‐fold higher, respectively, than those of MG1363 strain harbouring the empty vector pRH100.Conclusions
The expression of carotenoid biosynthesis genes from Ent. gilvus improves the multistress tolerance of L. lactis.Significance and Impact of the study
First report of the improvement of multistress tolerance of lactic acid bacteria by the introduction of genes for carotenoid production. 相似文献5.
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Geetha Kannan Jessica C Wilks Devon M Fitzgerald Brian D Jones Sandra S BonDurant Joan L Slonczewski 《BMC microbiology》2008,8(1):37
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Many E. coli genes show pH-dependent expression during logarithmic growth in acid (pH 5–6) or in base (pH 8–9). The effect of rapid pH change, however, has rarely been tested. Rapid acid treatment could distinguish between genes responding to external pH, and genes responding to cytoplasmic acidification, which occurs transiently following rapid external acidification. It could reveal previously unknown acid-stress genes whose effects are transient, as well as show which acid-stress genes have a delayed response. 相似文献7.
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Despite wealth of information generated on salt tolerance mechanism, its basics still remain elusive. Thus, there is a need of continued effort to understand the salt tolerance mechanism using suitable biotechnological techniques and test plants (species) to enable development of salt tolerant cultivars of interest. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to generate information on salt stress responsive genes in a natural halophyte, Suaeda maritima, using PCR-based suppression subtractive hybridization (PCR-SSH) technique. 相似文献8.
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Teruaki Taji Kenji Komatsu Taku Katori Yoshikazu Kawasaki Yoichi Sakata Shigeo Tanaka Masatomo Kobayashi Atsushi Toyoda Motoaki Seki Kazuo Shinozaki 《BMC plant biology》2010,10(1):261
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Thellungiella halophila (also known as T. salsuginea) is a model halophyte with a small size, short life cycle, and small genome. Thellungiella genes exhibit a high degree of sequence identity with Arabidopsis genes (90% at the cDNA level). We previously generated a full-length enriched cDNA library of T. halophila from various tissues and from whole plants treated with salinity, chilling, freezing stress, or ABA. We determined the DNA sequences of 20 000 cDNAs at both the 5'- and 3' ends, and identified 9569 distinct genes. 相似文献10.
V.F. Bondici J.R. Lawrence N.H. Khan J.E. Hill E. Yergeau G.M. Wolfaardt J. Warner D.R. Korber 《Journal of applied microbiology》2013,114(6):1671-1686
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To describe the diversity and metabolic potential of microbial communities in uranium mine tailings characterized by high pH, high metal concentration and low permeability.Methods and Results
To assess microbial diversity and their potential to influence the geochemistry of uranium mine tailings using aerobic and anaerobic culture‐based methods, in conjunction with next generation sequencing and clone library sequencing targeting two universal bacterial markers (the 16S rRNA and cpn60 genes). Growth assays revealed that 69% of the 59 distinct culturable isolates evaluated were multiple‐metal resistant, with 15% exhibiting dual‐metal hypertolerance. There was a moderately positive correlation coefficient (R = 0·43, P < 0·05) between multiple‐metal resistance of the isolates and their enzyme expression profile. Of the isolates tested, 17 reduced amorphous iron, 22 reduced molybdate and seven oxidized arsenite. Based on next generation sequencing, tailings depth was shown to influence bacterial community composition, with the difference in the microbial diversity of the upper (0–20 m) and middle (20–40 m) tailings zones being highly significant (P < 0·01) from the lower zone (40–60 m) and the difference in diversity of the upper and middle tailings zone being significant (P < 0·05). Phylotypes closely related to well‐known sulfate‐reducing and iron‐reducing bacteria were identified with low abundance, yet relatively high diversity.Conclusions
The presence of a population of metabolically‐diverse, metal‐resistant micro‐organisms within the tailings environment, along with their demonstrated capacity for transforming metal elements, suggests that these organisms have the potential to influence the long‐term geochemistry of the tailings.Significance and Impact of the study
This study is the first investigation of the diversity and functional potential of micro‐organisms present in low permeability, high pH uranium mine tailings. 相似文献11.
Mahalingam R Gomez-Buitrago A Eckardt N Shah N Guevara-Garcia A Day P Raina R Fedoroff NV 《Genome biology》2003,4(3):R20
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To understand the gene networks that underlie plant stress and defense responses, it is necessary to identify and characterize the genes that respond both initially and as the physiological response to the stress or pathogen develops. We used PCR-based suppression subtractive hybridization to identify Arabidopsis genes that are differentially expressed in response to ozone, bacterial and oomycete pathogens and the signaling molecules salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid. 相似文献12.
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Recent reports suggest that vitamin B1 (thiamine) participates in the processes underlying plant adaptations to certain types of abiotic and biotic stress, mainly oxidative stress. Most of the genes coding for enzymes involved in thiamine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana have been identified. In our present study, we examined the expression of thiamine biosynthetic genes, of genes encoding thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes and the levels of thiamine compounds during the early (sensing) and late (adaptation) responses of Arabidopsis seedlings to oxidative, salinity and osmotic stress. The possible roles of plant hormones in the regulation of the thiamine contribution to stress responses were also explored. 相似文献13.
Nalini Eswaran Sriram Parameswaran Balaji Sathram Bhagyam Anantharaman Raja Krishna Kumar G Sudhakar Johnson Tangirala 《BMC biotechnology》2010,10(1):23
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Environmentally inflicted stresses such as salinity and drought limit the plant productivity both in natural and agricultural system. Increasing emphasis has been directed to molecular breeding strategies to enhance the intrinsic ability of plant to survive stress conditions. Functional screens in microorganisms with heterologous genes are a rapid, effective and powerful tool to identify stress tolerant genes in plants. Jatropha curcas (Physic nut) has been identified as a potential source of biodiesel plant. In order to improve its productivity under stress conditions to benefit commercial plantations, we initiated prospecting of novel genes expressed during stress in J. curcas that can be utilized to enhance stress tolerance ability of plant. 相似文献14.
Hualing Li Changhong Ren Jinping Shi Xingyi Hang Feilong Zhang Yan Gao Yonghong Wu Langlai Xu Changsheng Chen Chenggang Zhang 《Proteome science》2010,8(1):49
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is both sensitive and tolerant to hypoxic stress, particularly when the evolutionarily conserved hypoxia response pathway HIF-1/EGL-9/VHL is involved. Hypoxia-induced changes in the expression of a number of genes have been analyzed using whole genome microarrays in C. elegans, but the changes at the protein level in response to hypoxic stress still remain unclear. 相似文献15.
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To clone, characterize and compare the bile salt hydrolase (BSH) genes of Lactobacillus johnsonii PF01.Methods and Results
The BSH genes were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific oligonucleotide primers, and the products were inserted into the pET21b expression vector. Escherichia coli BLR (DE3) cells were transformed with pET21b vectors containing the BSH genes and induced using 0·1 mmol l?1 isopropylthiolgalactopyranoside. The overexpressed BSH enzymes were purified using a nickel–nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni2+‐NTA) agarose column and their activities characterized. BSH A hydrolysed tauro‐conjugated bile salts optimally at pH 5·0 and 55°C, whereas BSH C hydrolysed glyco‐conjugated bile salts optimally at pH 5·0 and 70°C. The enzymes had no preferential activities towards a specific cholyl moiety.Conclusions
BSH enzymes vary in their substrate specificities and characteristics to broaden its activity. Despite the lack of conservation in their putative substrate‐binding sites, these remain functional through motif conservation.Significance and Impact of the Study
This is to our knowledge the first report of isolation of BSH enzymes from a single strain, showing hydrolase activity towards either glyco‐conjugated or tauro‐conjugated bile salts. Future structural homology studies and site‐directed mutagenesis of sites associated with substrate specificity may elucidate specificities of BSH enzymes. 相似文献16.
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The heat shock protein Hsp70 promotes inducible thermotolerance in nearly every organism examined to date. Hsp70 interacts with a network of other stress-response proteins, and dissecting the relative roles of these interactions in causing thermotolerance remains difficult. Here we examine the effect of Hsp70 gene copy number modification on thermotolerance and the expression of multiple stress-response genes in Drosophila melanogaster, to determine which genes may represent mechanisms of stress tolerance independent of Hsp70. 相似文献17.
Song Chen Jennifer S Armistead Katie N Provost-Javier Joyce M Sakamoto Jason L Rasgon 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):142
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Mosquito vitellogenin (Vtg) genes belong to a small multiple gene family that encodes the major yolk protein precursors required for egg production. Multiple Vtg genes have been cloned and characterized from several mosquito species, but their origin and molecular evolution are poorly understood. 相似文献18.
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Arabidopsis thaliana is the model species of current plant genomic research with a genome size of 125 Mb and approximately 28,000 genes. The function of half of these genes is currently unknown. The purpose of this study is to infer gene function in Arabidopsis using machine-learning algorithms applied to large-scale gene expression data sets, with the goal of identifying genes that are potentially involved in plant response to abiotic stress. 相似文献19.
Felix A Grusche Cristina Hidalgo Georgina Fletcher Hsin-Ho Sung Erik Sahai Barry J Thompson 《BMC developmental biology》2009,9(1):14-10
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How epithelial cells adopt their particular polarised forms is poorly understood. In a screen for genes regulating epithelial morphology in Drosophila, we identified sds22, a conserved gene previously characterised in yeast. 相似文献20.
Irfan Erol Kwang-Cheol Jeong David J Baumler Boris Vykhodets Sang Ho Choi Charles W Kaspar 《BMC microbiology》2006,6(1):72-12