Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

ORCID

0000-0002-1637-4125

ResearcherID

F-8809-2011

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Scientific World Journal

ISSN

2356-6140

Publication Date

2012

Keywords

Bacterial Proteins/genetics, Bacterial proteins/metabolism, Coculture techniques/methods, Gene expression regulation, Bacterial, Gene expression regulation enzymologic, Genes bacterial, Oxidoreductases/genetics, Oxidoreductases/metabolism, Pseudomonas aeruginosa/enzymology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa/genetics, Pyocyanine/genetics, Pyocyanine/metabolism, Quorum sensing, RNA, Bacterial/genetics, Real-time polymerase chain reaction, Roseobacter/enzymology, Roseobacter/genetics, Thiosulfate sulfurtransferase/genetics, Thiosulfate sulfurtransferase/metabolism, beta-lactamases/genetics, beta-lactamases/metabolism

Abstract

Consistent biosynthesis of desired secondary metabolites (SMs) from pure microbial cultures is often unreliable. In a proof-ofprinciple study to induce SM gene expression and production, we describe mixed “co-culturing” conditions and monitoring of messages via quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR). Gene expression of model bacterial strains (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and Roseobacter denitrificans Och114) was analyzed in pure solo and mixed cocultures to infer the effects of interspecies interactions on gene expression in vitro, Two P. aeruginosa genes (PhzH coding for portions of the phenazine antibiotic pathway leading to pyocyanin (PCN) and the RhdA gene for thiosulfate: cyanide sulfurtransferase (Rhodanese)) and two R. denitrificans genes (BetaLact formetallo-beta-lactamase and the DMSP gene for dimethylpropiothetin dethiomethylase) were assessed for differential expression. Results showed that R. denitrificans DMSP and BetaLact gene expression became elevated in a mixed culture. In contrast, P. aeruginosa co-cultures with R. denitrificans or a third species did not increase target gene expression above control levels. This paper provides insight for better control of target SM gene expression in vitro and bypass complex genetic engineering manipulations.

DOI

10.1100/2012/120108

Volume

2012

Issue

120108

First Page

1

Last Page

5

Comments

©2012 Crystal A. Conway et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Additional Comments

NOAA award #: NA07NOS4000200

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