Sodium antiporters of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in challenging conditions: effects on growth, biofilm formation, and swarming motility

Background

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterial pathogen that can cause grave and sometimes chronic infections in patients with weakened immune systems and cystic fibrosis. It is expected that sodium/proton transporters in the cellular membrane are crucial for the organism’s survival and growth under certain conditions, since many cellular processes rely on the maintenance of Na+ and H+ transmembrane gradients.

Results

This study focused on the role of the primary and secondary proton and/or sodium pumps Mrp, Nuo, NhaB, NhaP, and NQR for growth, biofilm formation, and swarming motility in P. aeruginosa. Using mutants with gene deletions, we investigated the impact of each sodium pump’s absence on the overall growth, biofilm formation, motility, and weak acid tolerance of the organism. We found that the absence of some, but not all, of the sodium pumps have a deleterious effect on the different phenotypes of P. aeruginosa.

Conclusion

The absence of the Mrp sodium/proton antiporter was clearly important in the organism’s ability to survive and function in environments of higher pH and sodium concentrations, while the absence of Complex I, which is encoded by the nuo genes, had some consistent impact on the organism’s growth regardless of the pH and sodium concentration of the environment.

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Tác giả:

Schubiger, Carla B.

Đề mục:

Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Nhà xuất bản:

Elsevier

Ngày xuất bản:

December 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43141-020-0019-y | ISSN 1687-157X

Nguồn gốc:

Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 1, December 2020, 4

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