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Nucleic Acids Res ; 52(11): 6406-6423, 2024 Jun 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38742631

ABSTRACT

Bacteria have developed a wide range of strategies to respond to stress, one of which is the rapid large-scale reorganization of their nucleoid. Nucleoid associated proteins (NAPs) are believed to be major actors in nucleoid remodeling, but the details of this process remain poorly understood. Here, using the radiation resistant bacterium D. radiodurans as a model, and advanced fluorescence microscopy, we examined the changes in nucleoid morphology and volume induced by either entry into stationary phase or exposure to UV-C light, and characterized the associated changes in mobility of the major NAP in D. radiodurans, the heat-unstable (HU) protein. While both types of stress induced nucleoid compaction, HU diffusion was reduced in stationary phase cells, but was instead increased following exposure to UV-C, suggesting distinct underlying mechanisms. Furthermore, we show that UV-C-induced nucleoid remodeling involves a rapid nucleoid condensation step associated with increased HU diffusion, followed by a slower decompaction phase to restore normal nucleoid morphology and HU dynamics, before cell division can resume. These findings shed light on the diversity of nucleoid remodeling processes in bacteria and underline the key role of HU in regulating this process through changes in its mode of assembly on DNA.


Subject(s)
Bacterial Proteins , DNA-Binding Proteins , Deinococcus , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Deinococcus/radiation effects , Deinococcus/genetics , Deinococcus/metabolism , DNA, Bacterial/metabolism , DNA, Bacterial/genetics , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , Stress, Physiological , Ultraviolet Rays
3.
Sci Rep ; 6: 20629, 2016 Feb 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26865263

ABSTRACT

Glyoxylate accumulation within cells is highly toxic. In humans, it is associated with hyperoxaluria type 2 (PH2) leading to renal failure. The glyoxylate content within cells is regulated by the NADPH/NADH dependent glyoxylate/hydroxypyruvate reductases (GRHPR). These are highly conserved enzymes with a dual activity as they are able to reduce glyoxylate to glycolate and to convert hydroxypyruvate into D-glycerate. Despite the determination of high-resolution X-ray structures, the substrate recognition mode of this class of enzymes remains unclear. We determined the structure at 2.0 Å resolution of a thermostable GRHPR from Archaea as a ternary complex in the presence of D-glycerate and NADPH. This shows a binding mode conserved between human and archeal enzymes. We also determined the first structure of GRHPR in presence of glyoxylate at 1.40 Å resolution. This revealed the pivotal role of Leu53 and Trp138 in substrate trafficking. These residues act as gatekeepers at the entrance of a tunnel connecting the active site to protein surface. Taken together, these results allowed us to propose a general model for GRHPR mode of action.


Subject(s)
Alcohol Oxidoreductases/chemistry , Archaeal Proteins/chemistry , Hydroxypyruvate Reductase/chemistry , Pyrococcus furiosus/chemistry , Pyrococcus horikoshii/chemistry , Pyrococcus/chemistry , Alcohol Oxidoreductases/genetics , Alcohol Oxidoreductases/metabolism , Archaeal Proteins/genetics , Archaeal Proteins/metabolism , Catalytic Domain , Crystallography, X-Ray , Enzyme Assays , Escherichia coli/genetics , Escherichia coli/metabolism , Gene Expression , Glyceric Acids/chemistry , Glyceric Acids/metabolism , Glyoxylates/chemistry , Glyoxylates/metabolism , Hydroxypyruvate Reductase/genetics , Hydroxypyruvate Reductase/metabolism , Kinetics , Models, Molecular , NAD/chemistry , NAD/metabolism , NADP/chemistry , NADP/metabolism , Protein Binding , Protein Stability , Pyrococcus/enzymology , Pyrococcus furiosus/enzymology , Pyrococcus horikoshii/enzymology , Pyruvates/chemistry , Pyruvates/metabolism , Recombinant Proteins/chemistry , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Substrate Specificity
4.
Extremophiles ; 19(6): 1099-107, 2015 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26376634

ABSTRACT

Halobacterium salinarum is an extreme halophile archaeon with an absolute requirement for a multimolar salt environment. It accumulates molar concentrations of KCl in the cytosol to counterbalance the external osmotic pressure imposed by the molar NaCl. As a consequence, cytosolic proteins are permanently exposed to low water activity and highly ionic conditions. In non-adapted systems, such conditions would promote protein aggregation, precipitation, and denaturation. In contrast, in vitro studies showed that proteins from extreme halophilic cells are themselves obligate halophiles. In this paper, adaptation via dynamics to low-salt stress in H. salinarum cells was measured by neutron scattering experiments coupled with microbiological characterization. The molecular dynamic properties of a proteome represent a good indicator for environmental adaptation and the neutron/microbiology approach has been shown to be well tailored to characterize these modifications. In their natural setting, halophilic organisms often have to face important variations in environmental salt concentration. The results showed deleterious effects already occur in the H. salinarum proteome, even when the external salt concentration is still relatively high, suggesting the onset of survival mechanisms quite early when the environmental salt concentration decreases.


Subject(s)
Halobacterium salinarum/genetics , Proteome/metabolism , Salt Tolerance , Stress, Physiological , Archaeal Proteins/genetics , Archaeal Proteins/metabolism , Halobacterium salinarum/metabolism , Potassium/metabolism , Proteome/genetics
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J R Soc Interface ; 10(82): 20130003, 2013 May 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23446053

ABSTRACT

In vivo molecular dynamics in Halobacterium salinarum cells under stress conditions was measured by neutron scattering experiments coupled with microbiological characterization. Molecular dynamics alterations were detected with respect to unstressed cells, reflecting a softening of protein structures consistent with denaturation. The experiments indicated that the neutron scattering method provides a promising tool to study molecular dynamics modifications in the proteome of living cells induced by factors altering protein folds.


Subject(s)
Archaeal Proteins/metabolism , Halobacterium salinarum/metabolism , Heat-Shock Response/physiology , Proteome/metabolism , Halobacterium salinarum/cytology , Neutrons , Protein Denaturation , Scattering, Radiation
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FEMS Microbiol Lett ; 343(1): 49-56, 2013 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23480054

ABSTRACT

Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that induce root nodules formation in legume soybean (Glycine max.). Using (13)C- and (31)P-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we have analysed the metabolite profiles of cultivated B. japonicum cells and bacteroids isolated from soybean nodules. Our results revealed some quantitative and qualitative differences between the metabolite profiles of bacteroids and their vegetative state. This includes in bacteroids a huge accumulation of soluble carbohydrates such as trehalose, glutamate, myo-inositol and homospermidine as well as Pi, nucleotide pools and intermediates of the primary carbon metabolism. Using this novel approach, these data show that most of the compounds detected in bacteroids reflect the metabolic adaptation of rhizobia to the surrounding microenvironment with its host plant cells.


Subject(s)
Bradyrhizobium/chemistry , Bradyrhizobium/metabolism , Glycine max/microbiology , Metabolome , Root Nodules, Plant/microbiology , Carbohydrates/analysis , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Nucleotides/analysis , Phosphates/analysis
7.
Planta ; 231(6): 1495-504, 2010 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20358222

ABSTRACT

The effects of dark-induced stress on the evolution of the soluble metabolites present in senescent soybean (Glycine max L.) nodules were analysed in vitro using (13)C- and (31)P-NMR spectroscopy. Sucrose and trehalose were the predominant soluble storage carbons. During dark-induced stress, a decline in sugars and some key glycolytic metabolites was observed. Whereas 84% of the sucrose disappeared, only one-half of the trehalose was utilised. This decline coincides with the depletion of Gln, Asn, Ala and with an accumulation of ureides, which reflect a huge reduction of the N(2) fixation. Concomitantly, phosphodiesters and compounds like P-choline, a good marker of membrane phospholipids hydrolysis and cell autophagy, accumulated in the nodules. An autophagic process was confirmed by the decrease in cell fatty acid content. In addition, a slight increase in unsaturated fatty acids (oleic and linoleic acids) was observed, probably as a response to peroxidation reactions. Electron microscopy analysis revealed that, despite membranes dismantling, most of the bacteroids seem to be structurally intact. Taken together, our results show that the carbohydrate starvation induced in soybean by dark stress triggers a profound metabolic and structural rearrangement in the infected cells of soybean nodule which is representative of symbiotic cessation.


Subject(s)
Autophagy , Darkness , Glycine max/metabolism , Glycine max/ultrastructure , Root Nodules, Plant/metabolism , Root Nodules, Plant/ultrastructure , Carbon Isotopes , Cell Membrane/metabolism , Cellular Senescence , Fatty Acids/metabolism , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Metabolome , Microscopy, Electron , Phosphorus Isotopes , Root Nodules, Plant/cytology , Glycine max/cytology , Stress, Physiological
8.
Plant J ; 31(6): 729-40, 2002 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12220264

ABSTRACT

The effect of externally applied L-cysteine and glutathione (GSH) on ATP sulphurylase and adenosine 5'-phosphosulphate reductase (APR), two key enzymes of assimilatory sulphate reduction, was examined in Arabidopsis thaliana root cultures. Addition of increasing L-cysteine to the nutrient solution increased internal cysteine, gamma-glutamylcysteine and GSH concentrations, and decreased APR mRNA, protein and extractable activity. An effect on APR could already be detected at 0.2 mm L-cysteine, whereas ATP sulphurylase was significantly affected only at 2 mm L-cysteine. APR mRNA, protein and activity were also decreased by GSH at 0.2 mm and higher concentrations. In the presence of L-buthionine-S, R-sulphoximine (BSO), an inhibitor of GSH synthesis, 0.2 mm L-cysteine had no effect on APR activity, indicating that GSH formed from cysteine was the regulating substance. Simultaneous addition of BSO and 0.5 mm GSH to the culture medium decreased APR mRNA, enzyme protein and activity. ATP sulphurylase activity was not affected by this treatment. Tracer experiments using (35)SO(4)(2-) in the presence of 0.5 mm L-cysteine or GSH showed that both thiols decreased sulphate uptake, APR activity and the flux of label into cysteine, GSH and protein, but had no effect on the activity of all other enzymes of assimilatory sulphate reduction and serine acetyltransferase. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that thiols regulate the flux through sulphate assimilation at the uptake and the APR step. Analysis of radioactive labelling indicates that the flux control coefficient of APR is more than 0.5 for the intracellular pathway of sulphate assimilation. This analysis also shows that the uptake of external sulphate is inhibited by GSH to a greater extent than the flux through the pathway, and that the flux control coefficient of APR for the pathway, including the transport step, is proportionately less, with a significant share of the control exerted by the transport step.


Subject(s)
Arabidopsis/enzymology , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Oxidoreductases Acting on Sulfur Group Donors , Oxidoreductases/metabolism , Sulfate Adenylyltransferase/metabolism , Sulfates/metabolism , Arabidopsis/metabolism , Culture Techniques , Cysteine/pharmacology , Oxidoreductases/antagonists & inhibitors , Plant Roots/cytology , Plant Roots/enzymology , Plant Roots/metabolism , Plant Shoots/cytology , Plant Shoots/enzymology , Plant Shoots/metabolism , Sulfate Adenylyltransferase/antagonists & inhibitors , Sulfhydryl Compounds/pharmacology
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