TY - JOUR
T1 - Plasmids pMOL28 and pMOL30 of Cupriavidus metallidurans are specialised in the maximal viable response to heavy metals
AU - Monchy, Sébastien
AU - Benotmane, Rafi
AU - Janssen, Paul
AU - Vallaeys, Tatiana
AU - Taghavi, Safiyh
AU - van der Lelie, Daniel
AU - Mergeay, Max
A2 - Van Houdt, Rob
N1 - Score = 10
PY - 2007/10/1
Y1 - 2007/10/1
N2 - We fully reannotated two large plasmids, pMOL28 (164 ORFs; 171 459 bp) and pMOL30 (247 ORFs; 233 720 bp), in the genome of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34. Genes involved in the resistance to the heavy metals Co(II), Cr(VI), Hg(II), and Ni(II) are concentrated within a region of 34kb on pMOL28; those involved in the resistance to Ag(I), Cd(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Hg(II), Pb(II), and Zn(II) occur within a 132kb region on pMOL30. We identified putative genomic islands containing metal-resistance operons flanked by mobile genetic elements, one on pMOL28 and two on pMOL30. Transcriptomic analysis using quantitative PCR and microarrays revealed the metal-mediated up-regulation of 83 genes on pMOL28 and of 143 genes on pMOL30 that coded for all known heavy-metal resistance proteins, membrane proteins, truncated transposases, conjugative transfer-proteins, and many unknown proteins, and for some new ones (czcJ, mmrQ, and pbrU). Five genes on each plasmid were down-regulated; for one of them, chrI localised on pMOL28, this occurs in the presence of five cations.
We observed multiple cross-responses ,suggesting that the cellular defences of C. metallidurans against heavy metal stress involves various regulons, and probably has multiple stages including a more general response, and a more metal-specific one
AB - We fully reannotated two large plasmids, pMOL28 (164 ORFs; 171 459 bp) and pMOL30 (247 ORFs; 233 720 bp), in the genome of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34. Genes involved in the resistance to the heavy metals Co(II), Cr(VI), Hg(II), and Ni(II) are concentrated within a region of 34kb on pMOL28; those involved in the resistance to Ag(I), Cd(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Hg(II), Pb(II), and Zn(II) occur within a 132kb region on pMOL30. We identified putative genomic islands containing metal-resistance operons flanked by mobile genetic elements, one on pMOL28 and two on pMOL30. Transcriptomic analysis using quantitative PCR and microarrays revealed the metal-mediated up-regulation of 83 genes on pMOL28 and of 143 genes on pMOL30 that coded for all known heavy-metal resistance proteins, membrane proteins, truncated transposases, conjugative transfer-proteins, and many unknown proteins, and for some new ones (czcJ, mmrQ, and pbrU). Five genes on each plasmid were down-regulated; for one of them, chrI localised on pMOL28, this occurs in the presence of five cations.
We observed multiple cross-responses ,suggesting that the cellular defences of C. metallidurans against heavy metal stress involves various regulons, and probably has multiple stages including a more general response, and a more metal-specific one
KW - plasmids
KW - heavy metal resistance
KW - transcriptomics
KW - annotation
KW - Cupriavidus
KW - genomic islands
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/ezp_85652
UR - http://knowledgecentre.sckcen.be/so2/bibref/4765
U2 - 10.1128/JB.00375-07
DO - 10.1128/JB.00375-07
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-9193
VL - 189
SP - 7417
EP - 7425
JO - Journal of Bacteriology
JF - Journal of Bacteriology
IS - 20
ER -