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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00472
Keywords
polyhydroxyalkanoates; Fnr; redox regulation; bacterial signal transduction; transcriptomics
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- CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) [458417/2014-9]
- Brazilian Program of National Institute of Science and Technology for Biological Nitrogen Fixation (INCT-FBN)/Brazilian Research Council-CNPq/MCT
- Fundacao Arauaaria
- CAPES
- UK Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/N013476/1]
- BBSRC [BB/N013476/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The ability of bacteria to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates such as poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) enables provision of a carbon storage molecule that can be mobilized under demanding physiological conditions. However, the precise function of PHB in cellular metabolism has not been clearly defined. In order to determine the impact of PHB production on global physiology, we have characterized the properties of a Delta phaC1 mutant strain of the diazotrophic bacterium Herbaspirillum seropedicae. The absence of PHB in the mutant strain not only perturbs redox balance and increases oxidative stress, but also influences the activity of the redox-sensing Fnr transcription regulators, resulting in significant changes in expression of the cytochrome c-branch of the electron transport chain. The synthesis of PHB is itself dependent on the Fnr1 and Fnr3 proteins resulting in a cyclic dependency that couples synthesis of PHB with redox regulation. Transcriptional profiling of the Delta phaC1 mutant reveals that the loss of PHB synthesis affects the expression of many genes, including approximately 30% of the Fnr regulon.
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