Impact of high salinity and the compatible solute glycine betaine on global gene expression of Bacillus subtilis
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Project description:Glycine betaine (GB) is a potent osmoprotectant for salt stressed Bacillus subtilis cells, which possess three high-affinity uptake systems for GB. OpuA is the dominant transporter for this compatible solute. Northern blot analysis, primer extension experiments and opuA-treA reporter gene fusion studies demonstrated that opuA expression is strongly induced at high osmolality from a single SigA-type promoter. Promoter mutations that improve the match of the opuA promoter to the consensus sequence substantially increase basal-level expression but reduce inducibility by high salinity. Expression of opuA is sensitively controlled by GB, which causes significant repression of opuA transcription at low and high salinity. GB influences the kinetics as well as the final level of high salinity induction of opuA in a concentration-dependent fashion. The repressing effect of GB on opuA transcription requires the intracellular presence of GB, regardless whether it is taken up via OpuA or other transporters or synthesized from choline. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of salt-stressed B. subtilis cells demonstrated that the repressive effect of GB targets only a subset of high-salinity induced genes. This group of GB-responsive genes comprises in essence the full set of genes with demonstrated functions in either the uptake or synthesis of compatible solutes. Four different samples (untreated, GB, NaCl, and GB + NaCl treated) were analyzed and each sample was hybridized in triplicate.
2010-05-15 | E-GEOD-17435 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Glycine betaine (GB) is a potent osmoprotectant for salt stressed Bacillus subtilis cells, which possess three high-affinity uptake systems for GB. OpuA is the dominant transporter for this compatible solute. Northern blot analysis, primer extension experiments and opuA-treA reporter gene fusion studies demonstrated that opuA expression is strongly induced at high osmolality from a single SigA-type promoter. Promoter mutations that improve the match of the opuA promoter to the consensus sequence substantially increase basal-level expression but reduce inducibility by high salinity. Expression of opuA is sensitively controlled by GB, which causes significant repression of opuA transcription at low and high salinity. GB influences the kinetics as well as the final level of high salinity induction of opuA in a concentration-dependent fashion. The repressing effect of GB on opuA transcription requires the intracellular presence of GB, regardless whether it is taken up via OpuA or other transporters or synthesized from choline. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of salt-stressed B. subtilis cells demonstrated that the repressive effect of GB targets only a subset of high-salinity induced genes. This group of GB-responsive genes comprises in essence the full set of genes with demonstrated functions in either the uptake or synthesis of compatible solutes.
2009-08-01 | GSE17435 | GEO
Project description:In order to reveal so far unknown facets of the adaptation of B. subtilis to growth under high-salinity conditions, a whole-transcriptome analysis of B. subtilis BSB (168 Trp+) was performed using strand-specific tiling arrays (tiling step of 22 nucleotides). In addition, the effects of glycine betaine (GB) were analyzed under high salinity and standard growth conditions in a chemically defined medium. Important novel findings were a sustained low-level induction of the SigB-dependent general stress response and strong repression of biofilm matrix genes under high-salinity conditions. GB influences gene expression not only under high-salinity, but also under standard growth conditions without additional salt.
2020-05-18 | GSE145124 | GEO
Project description:Sea-ice algae provide an important source of primary production in polar regions, yet we have limited understanding of their responses to the seasonal cycling of temperature and salinity. Using a targeted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approach, we found that axenic cultures of the Antarctic sea-ice diatom, Nitzschia lecointei, displayed large differences in their metabolomes when grown in a matrix of conditions that included temperatures of –1 and 4°C, and salinities of 32 and 41, despite relatively small changes in growth rate. Temperature exerted a greater effect than salinity on cellular metabolite pool sizes, though the N- or S-containing compatible solutes, 2,3-dihydroxypropane-1-sulfonate (DHPS), glycine betaine (GBT), dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), and proline responded strongly to both temperature and salinity, suggesting complexity in their control. We saw the largest (> 4 fold) response to salinity for proline. DHPS, a rarely studied but potential compatible solute, reached the highest intracellular compatible solute concentrations of ~ 85 mM. When comparing the culture findings to natural Arctic sea-ice diatom communities, we found extensive overlap in metabolite profiles, highlighting the relevance of culture-based studies to probe environmental questions. Large changes in sea-ice diatom metabolomes and compatible solutes over a seasonal cycle could be significant components of biogeochemical cycling within sea ice.
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Project description:Cells were grown aerobically at 37 degC in Spizizen minimal medium either supplemented with 1 mM glycine betaine, 1.2 M NaCl or 1.2 M NaCl and 1 mM glycine betaine. Cells were harvested in the exponential growth phase at an OD600nm of 1.0.
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2020-01-08 | MSV000084766 | MassIVE
Project description:To investigate whether salt-stress dependent activation of SigB is mitigated when cells are pre-loaded with the compatible solute glycine betaine, we analyzed salt induction of the SigB regulon in the presence of the precursor choline at a genome-wide level. The median expression value of SigB-regulated genes was 1.7-fold higher in cells that received choline immediately before salt stress compared to cells where choline was added 60 minutes prior to the salt stress.
2020-03-01 | GSE141882 | GEO
Project description:Global gene expression profiles of V. parahaemolyticus grown under 2% and 0.66% NaCl were compared to define the minimum low-salt stimulon. The ectABC-lysC operon for synthesis of the compatible solute ectoine, as well as three compatible-solute transport systems, namely ProU (glycine betaine), OpuD1 (glycine betaine) and Pot2 (spermidine), was up-regulated under 2% NaCl in relative to 0.66% NaCl. The 2% NaCl condition favored the inducible expression of OmpW, OmpN and OmpA2, while repressed the expression of OmpA1, OmpU and VP1008. These results indicated that, to master the hyperosmotic stress of saline environments, V. parahaemolyticus might not only accumulate osmoprotectants through uptake or endogenous synthesis of compatible solutes, but also remodel its profiles of outer membrane protein to restore its cell membrane. The above differentially regulated genes will provide novel candidates for the further investigation of the molecular mechanisms of osmoadaptation in V. parahaemolyticus.
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Project description:Gene regulation in Bacillus subtilis by the compatible solute glycine betaine
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Project description:Vibrio natriegens strain ATCC 14048 is a salt marsh isolate with a notably rapid growth rate that has garnered considerable interest for biotechnological applications. We used systems-level tools (i.e. metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) to characterize its physiological response to different salinities and temperatures that are relevant not only to its natural environment but also to planned scalable culturing processes. We found organic osmolyte synthesis and membrane transporters were most responsive to changes in salinity. The osmolytes glutamate, glutamine and ectoine responded to salinity across temperature treatments. However, when media was supplemented with choline, glycine betaine appeared to replace ectoine. These results provide a baseline data set for metabolic activity under a variety of conditions that will influence future basic and applied V. natriegens research.
2021-09-18 | GSE184146 | GEO
Project description:Glycine betaine (GBT) is a component of labile dissolved organic matter and a compatible solute in high concentrations in marine microbial populations. GBT has complex biochemical potential, but, once taken up from the environment, the cellular fate of the carbon and nitrogen from GBT is unknown. Here we determine the uptake kinetics and metabolism of GBT in two natural microbial communities characterized by different nitrate concentrations in the North Pacific transition zone. Dissolved GBT had maximum uptake rates of 0.36 and 0.56 nM hr -1 and half-saturation constants of 79 and 11 nM in the high nitrate and low nitrate stations, respectively. GBT taken into cells was predominantly retained as an untransformed compatible solute. A portion of GBT was transformed into other metabolites, through characterized and uncharacterized pathways. Where nitrate was scarce, GBT was primarily catabolized via the demethylation to glycine. Resulting metabolites were used to build protein biomass, and remineralized ammonia was re-assimilated into cells. Gene expression data from this region show that bacteria, especially SAR11, are the dominant organisms expressing the demethylation genes. Where nitrate concentrations were higher, more GBT was used for choline synthesis. Our data highlight undiscussed metabolic pathways and potential routes of microbial metabolite exchange.
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