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Inactivation of the high-affinity phosphate transporter confers oxygen and thiol resistance and alters metal homeostasis Free

Abstract

Numerous strategies allowing bacteria to detect and respond to oxidative conditions depend on the cell redox state. Here we examined the ability of to survive aerobically in the presence of the reducing agent dithiothreitol (DTT), which would be expected to modify the cell redox state and disable the oxidative stress response. DTT inhibited growth at 37 °C in aerobic conditions, but not in anaerobiosis. Mutants selected as DTT resistant all mapped to the locus, encoding a high-affinity phosphate transporter. Transcription of and a downstream putative regulator of stress response, , was deregulated in a strain, but amounts of major oxidative stress proteins were unchanged. As metals participate in oxygen radical formation, we compared metal sensitivity of wild-type and strains. The mutant showed approximately 100-fold increased resistance to copper and zinc. Furthermore, copper or zinc addition exacerbated the sensitivity of a wild-type strain to DTT. Inactivation of conferred a more general resistance to oxidative stress, alleviating the oxygen- and thermo-sensitivity of a mutant. This study establishes a role for the locus in metal homeostasis, suggesting that inactivation lowers intracellular reactivity of copper and zinc, which would limit bacterial sensitivity to oxygen.

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Keyword(s): ROS, radical oxygen species
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Inactivation of the Lactococcus lactis high-affinity phosphate transporter confers oxygen and thiol resistance and alters metal homeostasis
Microbiology 155, 2274 (2009); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.027797-0
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