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PEERJ
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PEERJ INC
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12255
Keywords
Cystathionine-beta-synthase (CBS); Nitric oxide synthetase (NOS); Antioxidant system; H2S; NO; Norfloxacin; Vibrio alginolyticus
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- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2014A030313604]
- Graduate Education Innovation Program of Guangdong Ocean University [201724]
- Foundation for the Distinguished Young Talents in Higher Education of Guangdong, China
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The antioxidant system of Vibrio alginolyticus was found to be respectively enhanced by the gas molecules of H2S and NO under the stress induced by norfloxacin, suggesting a potential crosstalk regulative mechanism between H2S and NO. These results lay the foundation for the research on the regulation network of H2S and NO and provide insights for the future synthesis of anti-vibrio drugs.
Antioxidant system is of great importance for organisms to regulate the level of excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) under the environmental stresses including antibiotics stress. Effects of norfloxacin (NOR) on cystathionine-beta-synthase (CBS), nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and antioxidant enzymes were investigated, and interaction between NO and H2S and their regulation on the antioxidant system of Vibrio alginolyticus under NOR were determined as well in the present study. After treated with 2 mu g/mL NOR (1/2 MIC), CBS content, H2S and NO contents decreased while H2O2 accumulation and the antioxidant-related genes mRNA level increased. Additionally, the endogenous H2S content in V. alginolyticus was increased by the exogenous NO, while H2O2 accumulation and the relative expression level of SOD (Superoxide dismutase gene) decreased under exogenous NO or H2S. And the content of endogenous NO and NOS in V. alginolyticus increased under the exogenous H2S as well. Taken together, these results showed that anti-oxidative ability in V. alginolyticus was respectively enhanced by the gas molecules of H2S and NO under NOR-induced stress, and there may be a crosstalk regulative mechanism between H2S and NO. These results lay a foundation for the research of regulation network of H2S and NO, and provide a hint to synthesize anti-vibrio drugs in the future.
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