Novel Metal Cation Resistance Systems from Mutant Fitness Analysis of Denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri.

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Metal ion transport systems have been studied extensively, but the specificity of a given transporter is often unclear from amino acid sequence data alone. In this study, predicted Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) resistance systems in Pseudomonas stutzeri strain RCH2 are compared with those experimentally implicated in Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) resistance, as determined by using a DNA-barcoded transposon mutant library. Mutant fitness data obtained under denitrifying conditions are combined with regulon predictions to yield a much more comprehensive picture of Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) resistance in strain RCH2. The results not only considerably expand what is known about well-established metal ion exporters (CzcCBA, CzcD, and CusCBA) and their accessory proteins (CzcI and CusF), they also reveal tha

SUBMITTER: Vaccaro BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5038046 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature