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Regulation and mechanism of action of the small heat shock protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

ABSTRACT: The small heat shock protein (sHSP) from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus was specifically induced at the level of transcription by heat shock at 105 degrees C. The gene encoding this protein was cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant sHSP prevented the majority of E. coli proteins from aggregating in vitro for up to 40 min at 105 degrees C. The sHSP also prevented bovine glutamate dehydrogenase from aggregating at 56 degrees C. Survivability of E. coli overexpressing the sHSP was enhanced approximately sixfold during exposure to 50 degrees C for 2 h compared with the control culture, which did not express the sHSP. Apparently, the sHSP confers a survival advantage on mesophilic bacteria by preventing protein aggregation at supraoptimal temperatures.

SUBMITTER: Laksanalamai P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC95397 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Regulation and mechanism of action of the small heat shock protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

Laksanalamai P P Maeder D L DL Robb F T FT

Journal of bacteriology 20010901 17

The small heat shock protein (sHSP) from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus was specifically induced at the level of transcription by heat shock at 105 degrees C. The gene encoding this protein was cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant sHSP prevented the majority of E. coli proteins from aggregating in vitro for up to 40 min at 105 degrees C. The sHSP also prevented bovine glutamate dehydrogenase from aggregating at 56 degrees C. Survivability of E. coli overexpress ...[more]

PMID: 11489874

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Project description:Oxidative Stress Protection and the Repair Response To Hydrogen Peroxide in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus Pyrococcus furiosus is a shallow marine, anaerobic archaeon that grows optimally at 100Â°C. Addition of H2O2 (0.5 mM) to a growing culture resulted in cessation of growth with a 2 hour lag before normal growth resumed. Whole genome transcriptional profiling revealed that the main response occurs within 30 min of peroxide addition, with the up-regulation of 62 open reading frames (ORFs), 36 of which are part of 10 potential operons. More than half of the up-regulated ORFs are of unknown function while some others encode proteins that are involved potentially in sequestering iron and sulfide, in DNA repair and in generating NADPH. This response is thought to involve primarily damage repair rather than protection, since cultures exposed to sub-toxic levels of H2O2 were not more resistant to the subsequent addition of H2O2 (0.5 â 5.0 mM). Consequently, there is little if any induced protective response to peroxide, rather, the organism maintains a constitutive protective mechanism involving high levels of oxidoreductase-type enzymes such as superoxide reductase, rubrerythrin and alkyl hydroperoxide reductase I. The related hyperthermophiles P. woesei and Thermococcus kodakaraensis were more sensitive to peroxide than P. furiosus, apparently due to the lack of several of its peroxide-responsive ORFs. Pyrococcus furiosus (DSM 3638) was grown at 95Â°C in a 20-liter fermentor using maltose as the carbon and energy source. An exponential-phase culture of P. furiosus that had undergone three successive transfers in the experimental medium was used to inoculate the 20-liter fermentor. The culture was shocked with 0.5 mM of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) when cell density was in mid-exponential phase (~ 5.0 Â´ 107 cells/ml, as determined by direct microscopic cell count). To obtain RNA for microarray and for quantitative PCR (QPCR) analyses, samples (2 liter) were rapidly removed from the fermentor and cooled to 4Â°C. Total RNA was extracted using acid-phenol and stored at -80Â°C until needed. A total of 3 biological replicates in triplicate (3 copies on the same slide) was used in the data set.

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Regulation and mechanism of action of the small heat shock protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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Regulation and mechanism of action of the small heat shock protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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