Sangeetha Subramanian

Department of Biotechnology

School of Bio Sciences and Technology

Vellore Campus

Silviya sam

Gurunathan jayaraman

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African Journal of Microbiology Research

Halophilic bacteria respond to salt stress by regulating the cytosolic pools of organic solutes to achieve osmotic equilibrium. In order to understand the metabolic regulation of these organic solutes, for the first time, we have investigated the effect of salt on growth and biochemical changes in four major moderately halophilic bacterial strains isolated from a saltern region of the Kumta coast, India. The strains under study were Halomonas hydrothermalis VITP9, Bacillus aquimaris VITP4, Planococcus maritimus VITP21, and Virgibacillus dokdonensis VITP14, which exhibited similar salt tolerance (0% to 10% w/v NaCl) with optimal growth at 5% w/v NaCl. Biochemical analysis showed that the total intracellular organic solutes increased significantly with increasing NaCl concentration in the growth medium, and the compositions of the solutes were dependent on the type of strain and also on the nutrient richness of the growth medium. Glutamic acid levels increased in all the strains under salt stress, indicating the significance of glutamic acid as the anionic counterpart of K+/Na+ ions and precursor for other synthesized nitrogenous osmolytes. Though initial studies were performed with thin-layer chromatography, mass spectrometry was used to identify the major solutes accumulated by the strains under salt stress, such as proline (VITP4), ectoine (VITP14 and VITP9), and sugars (VITP21) under minimal medium and glycine betaine (by all the strains under study) under complex growth medium conditions. Such comparative study on the stress-dependent metabolic differences of different microbes, under identical experimental condition, helps to identify possible bacterial sources for the production of industrially important solutes. Copyright © 2016 Taylor &amp; Francis Group, LLC.

Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Biochemical changes induced by salt stress in halotolerant bacterial isolates are media dependent as well as species specific

Metabolomics-based approaches to study stress responses in bacteria have received much attention in recent years. In the present study, a metabolomic analysis of the representative halophilic bacterial isolates (Halomonas hydrothermalis VITP9, Bacillus aquimaris VITP4, Planococcus maritimus VITP21 and Virgibacillus dokdonensis VITP14) from a saltern region in India was performed using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Chemometric analysis of 1H NMR spectra revealed salt-dependent increase in the levels of metabolites, mainly from the aspartate and glutamate family, that are directed from the glycolytic pathway, pentose phosphate pathway and citric acid cycle. The composition of the metabolites was found to be different with respect to the species and the type of growth medium. Analysis of the two dimensional NMR data revealed accumulation of two rare diaminoacids, Nε-acetyl-α-lysine and Nδ-acetylornithine (by VITP21 and VITP4 strains respectively) apart from other well known solutes such as ectoine, proline, glutamate and glycine betaine. Metabolite profiles of strains capable of synthesizing Nε-acetyl-α-lysine and Nδ-acetylornithine suggested their biosynthesis from lysine and ornithine using aspartate and glutamate as their precursors, respectively. Further, the cells in moderate salinity (5% w/v NaCl) showed an increase in growth rate along with increase in the levels of nucleotides, whereas at higher salinity (10% w/v NaCl), the levels of aromatic and hydrophobic metabolites dropped, accompanied with a decrease in growth rate, rightly suggesting that at any salt-stress condition provided, cellular homeostasis was favored over growth. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.

Biochimie

Metabolomic characterization of halophilic bacterial isolates reveals strains synthesizing rare diaminoacids under salt stress

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Isolation and characterization of novel potent Cr(VI) reducing alkaliphilic Amphibacillus sp. KSUCr3 from hypersaline soda lakes

Marine Environmental Research

Assessment and characterization of heavy metal resistance in Palk Bay sediment bacteria

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Isolation and characterization of a chromium-resistant bacterium Serratia sp. Cr-10 from a chromate-contaminated site

International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Detoxification and accumulation of chromium from tannery effluent and spent chrome effluent by Paecilomyces lilacinus fungi

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Hexavalent Chromium Reduction by Bacillus sp. Strain FM1 Isolated from Heavy-Metal Contaminated Soil

Hexavalent chromium reduction by metal resistant and halotolerant Planococcus maritimus VITP21

Journal	African Journal of Microbiology Research
Publisher	Academic Journals
Open Access	Yes