The role of polyhydroxyalkanoates in adaptation of Cupriavidus necator to osmotic pressure and high concentration of copper ions

0565356 - ÚPT 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Nováčková, I. - Hrabalová, V. - Slaninová, E. - Sedláček, P. - Samek, Ota - Koller, M. - Krzyžánek, Vladislav - Hrubanová, Kamila - Mrázová, Kateřina - Nebesářová, Jana - Obruča, S.
The role of polyhydroxyalkanoates in adaptation of Cupriavidus necator to osmotic pressure and high concentration of copper ions.
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Roč. 206, 1 May (2022), s. 977-989. ISSN 0141-8130. E-ISSN 1879-0003
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-20697S; GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015062
Institutional support: RVO:68081731 ; RVO:60077344
Keywords : Adaptation * Cupriavidus necator * Heavy metals * Osmotic stress * Polyhydroxyalkanoates * Stress conditions
OECD category: Electrical and electronic engineering; Genetics and heredity (medical genetics to be 3) (BC-A)
Impact factor: 8.2, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are abundant microbial polyesters accumulated in the form of intracellular granules by numerous prokaryotes primarily as storage of carbon and energy. Apart from their storage function, the presence of PHA also enhances the robustness of the microbial cells against various stressors. In this work, we investigated the role of PHA in Cupriavidus necator, a model organism concerning PHA metabolism, for adaptation to osmotic pressure and copper ions. In long-term laboratory evolution experiments, the bacterial culture was cultivated in presence of elevated doses of sodium chloride or copper ions (incubations lasted 78 passages for Cu2+ and 68 passages for NaCl) and the evolved strains were compared with the wild-type strain in terms of growth and PHA production capacity, cell morphology (investigated by various electron microscopy techniques), activities of selected enzymes involved in PHA metabolism and other crucial metabolic pathways, the chemical composition of bacterial biomass (determined by infrared and Raman spectroscopy) and also considering robustness against various stressors. The results confirmed the important role of PHA metabolism for adaptation to both tested stressors.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0336908