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Proteomic and molecular investigations revealed that Acidithiobacillus caldus adopts multiple strategies for adaptation to NaCl stress

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Acidithiobacillus caldus plays an important role in commercial bioleaching. To understand how NaCl stress adaptation occurs in A. caldus, we grew A. caldus strain SM-1 in media containing high NaCl concentrations. SM-1 grew at concentrations of up to 1.0-mol L−1 NaCl, but growth was severely inhibited at higher concentrations. Proteomic analysis showed that SM-1 used multiple strategies to respond to NaCl stress. In addition to several heat-shock proteins, enzymes involved in proline biosynthesis increased under NaCl stress. In addition, two DNA-binding proteins and a third protein of unknown function (Atc_1291), which was subsequently identified as a putative single-stranded DNA-binding protein, were up-regulated in the presence of NaCl stress. These DNA-binding proteins might play a role in response to osmotic stress. Atc_1291 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Surprisingly, we found that E. coli BL21/pET28a-atc_1291 grew to higher cell densities than E. coli BL21/pET28a, regardless of NaCl stress. Homologs to Atc_1291 were identified in several groups of Proteobacteria. The role of Atc_1291 in enhancing cell growth needs further investigation.

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This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2012AA061501), the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (2010CB630903) and the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (31171234).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Xu Guo, Chengying Jiang, Yuanming Luo, Mingjiang Zhang & Shuangjiang Liu

  2. Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Chengying Jiang & Shuangjiang Liu

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xu Guo & Mingjiang Zhang

  4. Lehrstuhl for Biochemie der Pflanzen, Ruhr Universitaet, 44801, Bochum, Germany

    Ansgar Poetsch

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Guo, X., Jiang, C., Luo, Y. et al. Proteomic and molecular investigations revealed that Acidithiobacillus caldus adopts multiple strategies for adaptation to NaCl stress. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 301–309 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-013-0039-y

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