Project description:KaiC is the central cog of the circadian clock in Cyanobacteria. Close homologs of this protein are widespread among bacteria not known to have a circadian physiology. The function, interaction network, and mechanism of action of these KaiC homologs are still largely unknown. Here, we focus on KaiC homologs found in environmental Pseudomonas species. We characterize experimentally the only KaiC homolog present in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 and Pseudomonas protegens CHA0. Through phenotypic assays and transcriptomics, we show that KaiC is involved in osmotic and oxidative stress resistance in P. putida and in biofilm production in both P. putida and P. protegens.
Project description:The bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 has the ability to reduce selenite forming nanoparticles of elemental selenium. This is the transcriptome of the organism when cultured in the presence of selenite.
Project description:The entire set of flagellar structural components and flagellar-specific transcriptional regulators, as well as much of the core chemotaxis machinery, is encoded into a >70 kbp cluster in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 genome. We have performed RNA-seq of the wild-type strain in order to identify operon boundaries and promoters location in this cluster.
Project description:Gene expression patterns of the plant colonizing bacterium,Pseudomonas putida KT2440 were evaluated as a function of growth in the Arabidopsis thaliana rhizosphere. Gene expression in rhizosphere grown P. putida cells was compared to gene expression in non-rhizosphere grown cells. Keywords: Gene expression
Project description:Sohn2010 - Genome-scale metabolic network of
Pseudomonas putida (PpuMBEL1071)
This model is described in the article:
In silico genome-scale
metabolic analysis of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 for
polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis, degradation of aromatics and
anaerobic survival.
Sohn SB, Kim TY, Park JM, Lee
SY.
Biotechnol J 2010 Jul; 5(7):
739-750
Abstract:
Genome-scale metabolic models have been appearing with
increasing frequency and have been employed in a wide range of
biotechnological applications as well as in biological studies.
With the metabolic model as a platform, engineering strategies
have become more systematic and focused, unlike the random
shotgun approach used in the past. Here we present the
genome-scale metabolic model of the versatile Gram-negative
bacterium Pseudomonas putida, which has gained widespread
interest for various biotechnological applications. With the
construction of the genome-scale metabolic model of P. putida
KT2440, PpuMBEL1071, we investigated various characteristics of
P. putida, such as its capacity for synthesizing
polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and degrading aromatics. Although
P. putida has been characterized as a strict aerobic bacterium,
the physiological characteristics required to achieve anaerobic
survival were investigated. Through analysis of PpuMBEL1071,
extended survival of P. putida under anaerobic stress was
achieved by introducing the ackA gene from Pseudomonas
aeruginosa and Escherichia coli.
This model is hosted on
BioModels Database
and identified by:
MODEL1507180043.
To cite BioModels Database, please use:
BioModels Database:
An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published
quantitative kinetic models.
To the extent possible under law, all copyright and related or
neighbouring rights to this encoded model have been dedicated to
the public domain worldwide. Please refer to
CC0
Public Domain Dedication for more information.
Project description:Pseudomonas putida KT2440 encodes 3 homologs of the LitR/CarH family (designated PplR1–PplR3; Pseudomonas putida light-induced transcription; regulator), which is an adenosyl B12-dependent light-sensitive MerR family transcriptional regulator. Transcriptome and individual transcriptional analysis revealed the existence of a number of photo-inducible genes including pplR1, phrB (encoding DNA photolyase), cfaA (cyclopropane synthase), folE (GTP cyclohydrolase I), cryB (cryptochrome-like protein), and multiple hypothetical genes. Transcriptional analysis based on a β-galactosidase reporter assay with single-, double-, and triple-knockout mutants of pplR1–pplR3 showed that deletion of pplR1–pplR3 completely abolished the light-inducible transcription in P. putida, which indicates that the transcription of light-inducible genes is under the ternary regulation of PplR proteins. DNase I footprint assay showed that PplR1 protein specifically binds to the promoter regions of light-inducible genes, suggesting a consensus PplR1-binding site, 5’-T(G/A)TACAn12TGTA(C/T)A-3’, predicted upon nucleotide sequence alignment. The disruption of cobalamin biosynthesis cluster did not affect the light-inducible transcription; however, disruption of ppSB1-LOV and ppSB2-LOV, a blue light photoreceptor genes, which are adjacent to pplR3 and pplR2, respectively, led to the complete loss of light-inducible transcription. Overall, the results suggest that 3 PplR and 2 PpSB-LOV regulate light-induced gene transcription in response to illumination. The high conservation of the pplR/ppSB-LOV cognate pair in Pseudomonas spp. suggests that the response and adaptation to light is similarly regulated in the group of non-phototrophic bacteria.