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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 1950-1962Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12468
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [MCB 0817170]
- Montana Agricultural Experiment Station [911310]
- Ministry of Education, P.R. of China as part of a Major International Joint Research Project of Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [31010103903]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1413321] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Microbial arsenite (AsIII) oxidation forms a critical piece of the arsenic cycle in nature, though our understanding of how and why microorganisms oxidize AsIII remains rudimentary. Our model organism Agrobacterium tumefaciens 5A contains two distinct ars operons (ars1 and ars2) that are similar in their coding region content. The ars1 operon is located nearby the aio operon that is essential for AsIII oxidation. The AsIII/H+ anti-porters encoded by acr3-1 and acr3-2 are required for maximal AsIII and antimonite (SbIII) resistance, but acr3-1 (negatively regulated by ArsR-1) appears more active in this regard and also required for AsIII oxidation and expression of aioBA. A malate-phosphate anti-porter DctA is regulated by RpoN and AsIII, and is required for normal growth with malate as a sole carbon source. Qualitatively, a dctA mutant was normal for AsIII oxidation and AsIII/SbIII resistance at metalloid concentrations inhibitory to the acr3-1 mutant; however, aioBA induction kinetics was significantly phase-shift delayed. Acr3 involvement in AsIII/SbIII resistance is reasonably well understood, but the role of Acr3 and DctA anti-porters in AsIII oxidation and its regulation is unexpected, and suggests that controlled AsIII trafficking across the cytoplasmic membrane is important to a process understood to occur in the periplasm.
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