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AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY
Volume 128, Issue -, Pages 215-232Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.12.006
Keywords
Pseudomonas fluorescens; Marine bacteria; Cadmium; Zinc; Copper; Resistance mechanisms; Proteomics
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- Syndicat mixte du Cotentin
- Conseil Regional de Basse-Normandie
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A global proteomic evaluation of the response of the marine bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens BA3SM1 to Cd, Zn and Cu was performed by two dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by mass spectrometry. When stressed with Cd, the most toxic metal for P. fluorescens BA3SM1, cell growth is rapidly affected and the number of proteins up-regulated (sixteen for 0.4 mM Cd) remains low in comparison with results obtained for Zn and Cu (twenty eight for 1.5 mM Zn and forty four for 1.5 mM Cu). The changes in protein expression indicate that the cell adapts to metals by inducing essentially seven defense mechanisms: cell aggregation/biofilm formation (Zn = Cu > Cd); modification of envelope properties to increase the extracellular metal biosorption and/or control the uptake of metal (Cu > Zn); metal export (Cd = Zn and probably Cu); responses to oxidative stress (Cu > Zn > Cd); intracellular metal sequestration (Zn = Cu and probably Cd); hydrolysis of abnormally folded proteins (Cd = Cu), and the over-synthesis of proteins inhibited by metal (Cd > Cu > Zn). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report showing that a marine P. fluorescens is able to acquire a metal-resistant phenotype, making the strain BA3SM1 a promising agent for bioremediation processes. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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