Global transcriptional response to salt shock of the plant microsymbiont Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099

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• 作者：Marta Laranjo^a ; Ana Alexandre^a ; Solange Oliveira^a ; ^b ; ^{ismo@uevora.pt}
• 关键词：Rhizobia ; Microarray ; Transcriptome ; Osmotic stress ; Salt
• 刊名：Research in Microbiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：168
• 期：1
• 页码：55-63
• 全文大小：1011 K
• 卷排序：168

文摘

Soil salinity affects rhizobia both as free-living bacteria and in symbiosis with the host. The aim of this study was to examine the transcriptional response of the Lotus microsymbiont Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 to salt shock. Changes in the transcriptome of bacterial cells subjected to a salt shock of 10% NaCl for 30 min were analyzed. From a total of 7231 protein-coding genes, 385 were found to be differentially expressed upon salt shock, among which 272 were overexpressed. Although a large number of overexpressed genes encode hypothetical proteins, the two most frequently represented COG categories are “defense mechanisms” and “nucleotide transport and metabolism”. A significant number of transcriptional regulators and ABC transporters genes were upregulated. Chemotaxis and motility genes were not differentially expressed. Moreover, most genes previously reported to be involved in salt tolerance were not differentially expressed. The transcriptional response to salt shock of a rhizobium with low ability to grow under salinity conditions, but enduring a salinity shock, may enlighten us concerning salinity stress response mechanisms.