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Pyrococcus furiosus is a shallow marine, anaerobic archaeon that grows optimally at 100°C. Addition of H2O2 (0.5 mM) to a growing culture resulted in the cessation of growth with a 2-h lag before normal growth resumed. Whole genome transcriptional profiling revealed that the main response occurs within 30 min of peroxide addition, with the up-regulation of 62 open reading frames (ORFs), 36 of which are part of 10 potential operons. More than half of the up-regulated ORFs are of unknown function, while some others encode proteins that are involved potentially in sequestering iron and sulfide, in DNA repair and in generating NADPH. This response is thought to involve primarily damage repair rather than protection, since cultures exposed to sub-toxic levels of H2O2 were not more resistant to the subsequent addition of H2O2 (0.5–5.0 mM). Consequently, there is little if any induced protective response to peroxide. The organism maintains a constitutive protective mechanism involving high levels of oxidoreductase-type enzymes such as superoxide reductase, rubrerythrin, and alkyl hydroperoxide reductase. Related hyperthermophiles contain homologs of the proteins involved in the constitutive protective mechanism but these organisms were more sensitive to peroxide than P. furiosus and lack several of its peroxide-responsive ORFs.
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We thank Dr. Haruyuki Atomi for the kind gift of Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1 and Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm, Angeli Lal Menon, Sonya Clarkson and Farris Poole for many helpful discussions. This research was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship (to KRS) from the Norwegian Research Council and grants (to MWA) from the National Institutes of Health (GM 60329) and the Department of Energy (FG05-95ER20175 and FG02-08ER64690).
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Strand, K.R., Sun, C., Li, T. et al. Oxidative stress protection and the repair response to hydrogen peroxide in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and in related species. Arch Microbiol 192, 447–459 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-010-0570-z
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