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- Dimethyl sulfoxide reduction by a hyperhermophilic archaeon Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 via a cysteine-cystine redox shuttle
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Ae Ran Choi , Min-Sik Kim , Sung Gyun Kang , Hyun Sook Lee
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J. Microbiol. 2016;54(1):31-38. Published online January 5, 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-016-5574-1
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A variety of microbes grow by respiration with dimethyl sulfoxide
(DMSO) as an electron acceptor, and several distinct
DMSO respiratory systems, consisting of electron carriers
and a terminal DMSO reductase, have been characterized.
The heterotrophic growth of a hyperthermophilic archaeon
Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 was enhanced by the addition
of DMSO, but the archaeon was not capable of reducing
DMSO to DMS directly using a DMSO reductase. Instead, the
archaeon reduced DMSO via a cysteine-cystine redox shuttle
through a mechanism whereby cystine is microbially reduced
to cysteine, which is then reoxidized by DMSO reduction.
A thioredoxin reductase-protein disulfide oxidoreductase
redox couple was identified to have intracellular cystine-reducing
activity, permitting recycle of cysteine. This study presents
the first example of DMSO reduction via an electron
shuttle. Several Thermococcales species also exhibited enhanced
growth coupled with DMSO reduction, probably by
disposing of excess reducing power rather than conserving
energy.
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The unique gene encoding thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) was previously cloned and characterized
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stress. To elucidate the regulatory mechanism of the S. pombe TrxR gene, three fusion plasmids
were generated using polymerase chain reaction: pYUTR20, pYUTR30, and pYUTR40. Plasmid
pYUTR20 has an upstream region of 891 base pairs, pYUTR30 has 499 in this region, and
pYUTR40 has an 186 bp upstream region. Negatively acting sequence is located between ‒1,526
~ ‒891 bp upstream of the gene. The upstream sequence, responsible for the induction of TrxR
by menadione (MD), is situated on the ‒499 ~ ‒186 bp region, which is also required for TrxR
induction by mercuric chloride. The same region also appeared to be required for Pap1-mediated
transcriptional regulation of the TrxR gene, which contains the two plausible Pap1 binding sites,
TTACGAAT and TTACGCGA. Consistently, basal and inducible expression of the TrxR gene
was markedly lower in the Pap1-negative TP108-3C cells than in wild-type yeast cells. In summary,
up-regulation of the S. pombe TrxR gene is mediated by Pap1 via the transcriptional motif(
s) located on the ‒499 ~ ‒186 bp region.