%0 Journal Article
%T Proteomics reveals a core molecular response of Pseudomonas putida F1 to acute chromate challenge
%A Dorothea K Thompson
%A Karuna Chourey
%A Gene S Wickham
%A Stephanie B Thieman
%A Nathan C VerBerkmoes
%A Bing Zhang
%A Andrea T McCarthy
%A Matt A Rudisill
%A Manesh Shah
%A Robert L Hettich
%J BMC Genomics
%D 2010
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2164-11-311
%X Growth studies demonstrated that F1 sensitivity to Cr(VI) was impacted substantially by nutrient conditions, with a carbon-source-dependent hierarchy (lactate > glucose >> acetate) observed in minimal media. Two-dimensional HPLC-MS/MS was employed to identify differential proteome profiles generated in response to 1 mM chromate under LB and M9L growth conditions. The immediate response to Cr(VI) in LB-grown cells was up-regulation of proteins involved in inorganic ion transport, secondary metabolite biosynthesis and catabolism, and amino acid metabolism. By contrast, the chromate-responsive proteome derived under defined minimal growth conditions was characterized predominantly by up-regulated proteins related to cell envelope biogenesis, inorganic ion transport, and motility. TonB-dependent siderophore receptors involved in ferric iron acquisition and amino acid adenylation domains characterized up-regulated systems under LB-Cr(VI) conditions, while DNA repair proteins and systems scavenging sulfur from alternative sources (e.g., aliphatic sulfonates) tended to predominate the up-regulated proteome profile obtained under M9L-Cr(VI) conditions.Comparative analysis indicated that the core molecular response to chromate, irrespective of the nutritional conditions tested, comprised seven up-regulated proteins belonging to six different functional categories including transcription, inorganic ion transport/metabolism, and amino acid transport/metabolism. These proteins might potentially serve as indicators of chromate stress in natural microbial communities.Pseudomonas putida is a ubiquitous gram-negative, saprophytic bacterium belonging to the gamma class of the Proteobacteria. Endowed with a remarkable environmental adaptability, P. putida strain F1 [1], for example, has been investigated most extensively as a model organism for the microbial degradation of such xenobiotic aromatic compounds as toluene, benzene, and ethylbenzene [2]. Considerably less scientific focus
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