The secretion of lecithinase of Pseudomonas alcaligenes S2 was via type Ⅱ secretion pathway

Strain S2 is a lecithin （or phosphatidylcholine）- solubilizing bacterium, which was isolated from the rice rhizosphere in rural areas of Beijing, China. On the basis of a polyphasic study involving phenotypic tests, physiological and biochemical tests, 16S rDNA sequence analysis, G＋C content determination and DNA-DNA hybridizations analysis, strain S2 was identified as Pseudomonas alcaligenes. R alcaligenes S2 was mutagenized with Tn5 and four mutants showing decreased or increased solubilizing ability of lecithin were isolated based on the halo size around colonies on the solid plate supplemented with egg yolk. To characterize the genes of R alcaligenes S2 involved in solubilization of lecithin, the EcoR I fragments of the chromosomes from the four mutant strains carrying a single transposon were cloned, and the DNA sequences flanking the Tn5 were determined. The Tn5 insertion sites in the mutants M808, M1329 and M1400, showing decreased solubilizing ability of lecithin, were found to be located in the xcpS, xcpX and xcpW , respectively, whose products XcpS, XcpX and XcpW were the components of type Ⅱ secretion pathway. Complementation of xcpS, xcpX and xcpW could restore the corresponding mutants M808, M1329 and M1400 to solubilize lecithin. The data suggested that mutation in one of these xcp genes would lead to the absence of mature lecithinase secretion into the extracellular medium. The data also indicated that the secretion of lecithin-hydrolyzing enzyme of R alcaligenes was via type Ⅱ secretion pathway. In the mutant M20 showing increasing lecithin-hydrolyzing activity, the interrupted gene showed 86% identity with chpA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, whose product plays an important role in controlling twitching motility of the bacterial ceils.     

铜绿假单胞菌的LexA蛋白在大肠杆菌中的高效表达与纯化

目的:对铜绿假单胞菌(Pseudomonas aeruginosa,PA)的阻遏蛋白LexA进行基因克隆、重组表达及蛋白纯化.方法:采用PCR法从PAO1株基因组中扩增出1 086 bp的LexA基因,将此基因片段插入到表达载体pET32a( )上,并在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中表达.包涵体洗涤后用8 mol/L尿素溶解,以镍离子亲合柱层析作为第1步纯化,Superdex75凝胶过滤层析作为第2步精细纯化,反相高相液相色谱法(HPLC)测定蛋白的浓度.结果:LexA以包涵体形式表达,表达量为45%,经镍离子亲合柱层析纯化后LexA蛋白纯度达到85%以上,回收率大于80%,镍离子亲合柱层析和凝胶过滤层析两步纯化目的蛋白,经HPLC测定,最终目的蛋白的纯度为98.97%.结论:在pET32a( )表达系统中实现了PA的LexA蛋白的高效表达,两步纯化法获得高纯度的目的蛋白,为进一步鉴定LexA靶位点奠定了基础.     

具有ACC脱氨酶活性及抗枯萎病菌的假单胞菌株B*8

运用新的快速筛选程序,获得了具有１－氨基环丙烷－１－羧酸（１－ａｍｉｎｏｃｙｃｌｏｐｒｏｐａｎｅ－１ｃａｒ－ｂｏｘｙｌａｔｅ,ＡＣＣ）脱氨酶活性和拮抗瓜类枯萎病菌双重功能的根际假单胞菌株Ｂ８．利用ＡＣＣ为唯一氮源,从不同的土样中,快速筛选出８０个具有ＡＣＣ脱氨酶活性的菌落．在马铃薯葡萄糖培养基和西瓜培养基上,经异步培养法进一步筛选并纯化出３株对西瓜枯萎病菌具有较强拮抗作用的拮抗菌Ａ９、Ｂ８和Ｃ１７．对拮抗作用最强的Ｂ８进行分析表明,它属于假单孢菌属,能分泌较多的铁载体,对瓜类枯萎病以及其他植物病原菌具有广谱抗性．结果显示,此程序可替代通常采用的低效而耗时的筛选和生物测定过程,加快新的促进植物生长根际细菌的筛选和应用．     

溶微囊藻菌的分离与溶藻作用

从太湖梅梁湾水域放置的除藻中试反应器的人工介质上分离出1株溶藻细菌,并对该株菌溶解铜绿微囊藻和降解微囊藻毒素的效果与机制进行了研究.结果表明,结合形态学、生理与生化特性以及16S rRNA特异性引物扩增综合分析,初步鉴定该株细菌属于假单胞菌属;对源自太湖的微囊藻的最低溶藻细菌浓度为105个/mL;在太湖水、PBS缓冲液和BG11微囊藻培养基等反应体系中对微囊藻均有较强的溶解作用,24 h藻细胞溶解率分别为85.9%、67.9%和91.0%,完全溶藻时间为48 h.其溶藻方式可能为分泌某种胞外物质所致.该株菌对微囊藻毒素LR(MC-LR)也具有较强的降解作用.在MC-LR起始质量浓度为2.642 μg/L时,细菌对MC-LR作用18,36和72 h的降解率分别为14.2%、51.3%和100.0%.此菌株在太湖水中保持着较好的生物活性,表现出较强的溶藻与降解MC-LR作用.     

一株苯胺蓝降解菌的分离鉴定及其降解特性

从河水中驯化、筛选、分离得到一株对染料苯胺蓝有降解能力的菌株WZR-B,该菌能以苯胺蓝为唯一碳源、能源生长.通过对菌株WZR-B的形态特征、生理生化,以及16Sr DNA序列分析,初步鉴定为铜绿假单孢菌(Pseudomonas aeruginosa).研究苯胺蓝的质量浓度、pH值和温度等因素对该菌株生长,以及对降解苯胺蓝的影响.结果表明,菌株生长和脱色的最适pH值为6.5,最适合温度为30℃,苯胺蓝的最适脱色质量浓度为200 mg·L-1.此外,总有机碳(TOC)残留量测定结果表明,该菌株对苯胺蓝的脱色率可达83%,TOC去除率为80%以上,不仅能对苯胺蓝脱色,而且还能进行矿化降解.     

Predicting the product specificity and coupling of cytochrome P450cam

Summary We present an analysis of several molecular dynamics trajectories of substrate-bound cytochrome P450cam. Trajectories were calculated for the native substrate, camphor, as well as for the alternative substrates, norcamphor and thiocamphor. The system modeled consisted of the crystallographically resolved amino acids, the heme group with a single oxygen atom as the distal ligand, the bound substrate, and the crystallographic waters. These trajectories of the presumptive ferryl oxygen intermediate were used to predict regiospecificity of hydroxylation and coupling between NADH consumption and product formation. Simple geometric criteria in combination with electronic considerations were used to calculate the probability of hydroxylation at specific sites on the substrate. We found that for all the cases examined, the predicted product ratios were in good agreement with the experimentally observed values. We also determined that these simple geometric criteria can be used to predict the degree of coupling between NADH consumption and product formation for a given substrate, which was in good agreement with the experimental values.     

Determination of organophosphorus aromatic nitro insecticides by using electric-field cell orientation in microbial suspensions

We examined the effect of the cellular metabolism of the organophosphorus aromatic nitro insecticides metaphos and sumithion on the electro-physical properties (EPPs) of Pseudomonas putida C-11, P. putida BA-11, and Acinetobacter calcoaceticum A-122 suspensions. We used the dependences of cell-suspension absorbance changes induced by electric-field orientation on the orienting-field frequency in the range 10-10,000 kHz. Substantial orientational-spectrum changes, caused by insecticide action, occurred at frequencies of 10-1000 kHz. The plots of electro-optical effect versus insecticide-concentration were linear over the following concentration ranges: 0.5-3.0 mM metaphos and 0.5-3.5 mM sumithion for P. putida C-11 and BA-11; and 0.5-2.0 mM metaphos and 0.5-2.5 mM sumithion for A. calcoaceticum A-122. We discuss the possibility of developing a biosensor-method based on the measurement of cell-suspension orientational spectra (OS).     

Acute Toxicity of Cresols to Pseudomonas — An Initial Oxygen Uptake Method

Acute toxicity of cresols to both Pseudomonas I and II was estimated by an initial oxygen uptake method. Inhibition studies of toluene and cresols on the oxidation of either benzoate by Pseudomnas I or phenol by Pseudomonas II were analyzed and expressed as oxygen uptake rates. Double reciprocal plots for the inhibiton by cresols of oxygen uptake in Pseudomonas, two physical constants, Vmaxi and Ki, were obtained. The Vmaxi of o?, m? and p-cresol were 80%, 81% and 57% of Vmax in Pseudomnas I, and 10%, 25% and 36% in Pseudomonas II, respectively. Thus, the toxicity to Pseudomonas I decreases in the order p- > o- ≥ m-cresol, whereas to Pseudomonas II, the order is changed to o- > m- > p-cresol. This difference in the toxicity order is probably due to the allosteric effect of p-cresol towards Pseudomonas II. Inasmuch as most compounds inhibit noncompetively, the relative toxicity of different compounds can be estimated by a new toxicity parameter RI (relative inhibition) which is defined as 100/Ki. By comparing the RI value of each compound, the toxicity to Pseudomonas I decreases in the order m-chlorophenol > p-cresol > p-chlorophenol > o-cresol ≥ m-cresol > o-chlorophenol > toluene > phenol.     

Neue Siderophore des Pyoverdin-Typs ausPseudomonas fluorescens

Summary The structure of four new pyoverdins (Pf12-IA, -IIA, -IB und IIB) isolated from the culture medium ofPseudomonas fluorescens 12 was elucidated by combination of spectroscopic methods and degradation reactions. The pyoverdins comprise (1S)-5-amino-2,3-dihydro-8,9-dihydroxy-1H-pyrimido[1,2-a]quinoline-1-carboxylic acid whose amino group carries a 3-carboxypropanoyl-(IA), succinamoyl- (IIA), 4-carboxy-4-oxobutanoyl- (IB) or L-4-amino-4-carboxybutanoylresidue (II B) and whose carboxyl group is bound amidically to the N-terminus of D-Ser-L-Lys-Gly-. According to the short-hand-nomenclature suggested in [2, 3] the pyoverdins may be described as pyoverdin-Q-sKGOsSGK*oES*-SUC(IA), pyoverdin-Q-sKGOsSGK*o-ES*-SUCA (IIA), pyoverdin-Q-sKGOsSGK*oES*-KGL (IB) and pyoverdin-Q-sKGOsSGK*oES*-GLU (IIB). The pyoverdins described here possess the most complex structure encountered so far as their peptide part comprises eleven amino acids and the cyclo-tetrapeptide substructure. In addition, they are of special interest as for the first time glutamic acid could be identified as a chromophore side chain which is the key compound for the citric acid cycle to which belong all dicarboxylic acids found so far in pyoverdins.

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Verwendete Abkürzungen ASK Acylseitenkette - Chr Chromophor1 a - (HO)Chr Chromophor1 b - Dns Dansyl-Rest - DP Dansylpeptid - EDTA Ethylendiamintetraessigsäure - FAB Fast Atom Bombardment (PI=positive Ionen) - (HO)Orn N⁵-Hydroxyornithin - (CHO, HO)Orn N⁵-Formyl-N⁵-hydroxyornithin - PITC Phenylisothiocyanat - RP-HPLC Reversed-Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Kgl -Ketoglutarsäure bzw. 4-Carboxy-4-oxobutanoyl-Rest - R _t Retentionszeit - Suc Bernsteinsäure bzw. 3-Carboxypropanoyl-Rest - Suca Succinamoyl-Rest - Suci Succinimido-Rest - TAB Trifluoracetyl-n-butylester - TEA Triethylamin     

Lipid A components from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (serotype O5) and mutant strains investigated by electrospray ionization ion-trap mass spectrometry

The lipid A components of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PAO1 (wild-type) and derived mutants PAO1 algC::tet and PAO1 PDO100 were isolated after mild acetic acid hydrolysis of LPS. Their structural heterogeneities were characterized using electrospray ionization (ESI) ion-trap mass spectrometry (MS) with direct infusion in the negative ion mode without prior derivatization. The ESI-mass spectra revealed monophosphorylated molecules corresponding to known tetra-, penta- and hexaacylated structures of P. aeruginosa lipid A. The MS/MS fragmentation patterns allowed the location of fatty acyl chains on the disaccharide backbone of lipid A. In addition, a hexaacylated lipid A containing a hexadecanoyl chain was detected for the first time in strain P. aeruginosa PAO1. With multiple stages of fragmentation (MS(n)), the position of this hexadecanoyl chain O-linked to the decanoyl chain at the C-3(') position of the glucosamine backbone was determined. This sensitive method is suitable to reveal lipid A heterogeneity, i.e. the nature, number and distribution of acyl chains, without prior lipopolysaccharide purification. The lipid A from mutant strains were also characterized and significant differences were shown in the abundance of monophosphorylated lipid A components between the wild-type and the mutant strains.