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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 229-238Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12464
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- BIO program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
- ST-FLOW Contract of the EU
- ARISYS Contract of the EU
- ERANET-IB Program
- PROMT Project of the Autonomous Community of Madrid
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The genome of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putidaKT2440 bears two virtually identical arsRBCH operons putatively encoding resistance to inorganic arsenic species. Single and double chromosomal deletions in each of these ars clusters of this bacterium were tested for arsenic sensitivity and found that the contribution of each operon to the resistance to the metalloid was not additive, as either cluster sufficed to endow cells with high-level resistance. However, otherwise identical traits linked to each of the ars sites diverged when temperature was decreased. Growth of the various mutants at 15 degrees C (instead of the standard 30 degrees C for P.putida) uncovered that ars2 affords a much higher resistance to As (III) than the ars1 counterpart. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction of arsB1 and arsB2 genes as well as lacZ fusions to the Pars1 and Pars2 promoters traced the difference to variations in transcription of the corresponding gene sets at each temperature. Functional redundancy may thus be selected as a stable condition - rather than just as transient state - if it affords one key activity to be expressed under a wider range of physicochemical settings. This seems to provide a straightforward solution to regulatory problems in environmental bacteria that thrive under changing scenarios.
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