Deinococcus radiodurans

GENETIC SYSTEMS

1. Genetic methods
2. Genomic approaches
3. Proteome

analysis

survive cold, dehydration, vacuum,  acid and has been listed as the

world's toughest bacterium in The Guinness Book Of World Records. Also, they are mesophiles.

*Gram-positive bacteria (* although its cell envelope is unusual and is reminiscent of the cell walls of Gram negative bacteria)
*Colonies- convex, smooth,
pink to red in color
(deinocrates - carotene)

* Habitat - rich in organic materials, such as soil, feces,

*Size of cells- 1.5 to 3.5 µm.
*Do not form endospores, non-motile
*Obligate aerobic chemo-organo-heterotroph

meat, or sewage, but has also been isolated from dried foods, room dust, medical instruments and textiles

increase the yield of biomass.

radiodurans VKPM B-8209, Deinococcus radiodurans BKM-1422, Deinococcus radiodurans BKM-1467.

Different concentrations

of soy flour – 10g, 50g, 100g per liter Strains of Deinococcus radiodurans was grown in 250-ml wide-mouthed Erlenmeyer flasks with 50 ml of this liquid media, which contributed 50 µl of overnight culture of bacteria.
Regime: 150 rpm on the circular shaker at 30°C for 48 hours

Evaluation of growth:
1) Visual: pink-orange color of medium (intensity of color)
2) Quantitative: number of CFU/ml (standard technique of parallel dilutions in saline solution and in-depth inoculation on solid agar medium [30°C for 24-48 hours])

Batch, Continuous, Semi-continuous

Culture monitoring -> Primarily Visual evaluation (pink-orange

to red color and turbidity), microscopy, evaluation of cell density.

Basic parameters->
*aerobic cultivation
* pH neutral 6,8-7,2 +/- 0.2 range
* Temperature 25°C- 37°C
*Stirring intensity and etc

2. Growth studies

The complete sequence of the R1 strain has 3,284,156 base

pairs made up of two circular chromosomes (2,648,638 and 412,348 base pairs), a major plasmid (177,466 base pairs), and a small plasmid (45,704 base pairs).
No current research shows whether or not these plasmids contribute specifically to functionality or virulence. However, it is known that multiple copies of each gene are found on all the chromosomes and plasmids, which most likely contributes to its amazing repair capabilities associated with its radiation resistance.

radioactive mixed waste environments
E.Coli BL308
D.radiodurans
merA gene
Resistance to

highly toxic ionic mercury (Hg) (II)

Transformation

4.2-kb mer operon of pBD724 encodes six proteins: MerR, activation/repression of the mer operon; MerT, mercuric ion transport protein; MerP, periplasmic mercuric ion binding protein; MerC, transmembrane protein; MerA, mercuric reductase; and MerD, putative secondary regulatory protein. OP, operator/ promoter sequence; M, MfeI; N, NcoI; E, EcoRI; Bg, BglII.

strain R1 by selection with kanamycin (Kan), giving MD735. dORI,

deinococcal origin of
replication18; eORI, E. coli origin of replication18. P1 and P2 are two different constitutive deinococcal promoters. KanR, kanamycin resistance gene aphA; mer, mercury operon. Bg/B, BglII/BamHI fusion; M/E, MfeI/EcoRI fusion.

pMD728 was transformed into strain R1
with Km selection, giving MD736. Two rounds of recombinative duplication are illustrated, yielding two vector copies on a chromosome. bc, duplicated chromosomal target sequence; X, Xba1; all other abbreviations and symbols, as in A.

with Km selection, giving MD737. Several rounds of recombinative duplication

are illustrated, yielding many insertions per chromosome. abcd, duplicated chromosomal target sequence; all other abbreviations and symbols, as in A and B above.

for treatment of mixed radioactive wastes by developing a strain

to detoxify both mercury and toluene.

Construction and characterization of a mercury resistant and toluene metabolizing D. radiodurans. MD56021 is a previously constructed D. radiodurans strain cloned with the tod genes of Pseudomonas putida, encoding TDO. The aphA gene in MD560 was replaced with cat by transformation and Cm selection, using XbaI linearized pMD18325, forming MD744. MD744 genomic DNA was transformed into MD737 with double Cm and KanR selection, giving MD764.

for treatment of mixed radioactive wastes by developing a strain

to detoxify both mercury and toluene.

(B) Southern blotting of genomic DNA from MD764 using both a merA- and a tod-specific radiolabeled probe. (C) A TGY agar plate containing 30 mM Merbromin and grown in the irradiator were spotted with 2 x 105 cells of the indicated strains. (D) The production of cis-toluene dihydrodiol from toluene by MD764 growing in the presence of 50 mM Merbromin, monitored by TLC. Lane 1: cis-toluene dihydrodiol; lane 2: organic extract of MD764 supernatant (20h); lane 3: organic extract of MD764 supernatant (40 h); lane 4: organic extract of MD737 supernatant (20 h).

that are typically inserted in genes involved in DNA metabolism

and other nucleotide-utilizing enzymes.
One of these is inserted in the ribonucleotide reductase and is similar to the inteins inserted in orthologous enzymes from B. subtilis, pyrococci, and chilo iridiscent virus.
The second intein is inserted between the P-loop motif and the Mg2+-binding (Walker B) motif of a SWI2/SNF2 family ATPase, which is involved in chromatin remodeling; this is the first documented instance of an intein interrupting a protein of this family.

in the D. radiodurans genome (Table 7). The three most

abundant ISs are IS4_DR (13 copies), IS2621_DR (11 copies), and IS200_DR (8 copies). IS elements are unevenly distributed on the chromosomes and plasmids. The number of copies per 10,000 nucleotides in the plasmid and the megaplasmid is more than 10 times greater than the number found in chromosomes I and II.
There is, however, little direct evidence for any active transposition in D.radiodurans. In the entire genome, there is only one example of gene disruption by an IS element, where IS2621 is inserted into the gene for alkaline serine exoprotease A (aqualysin I).

of small noncoding repeats (SNRs) in the D.radiodurans intergenic regions.

A comparison to other bacterial genomes showed that, like IS elements, SNRs are more abundant in D. radiodurans than in E. coli. However, the location bias observed for IS elements appears to be reversed for SNRs. There are no SNRs in the plasmid, that contains five IS elements. In contrast, chromosome II, that contains only one IS element, has 18 SNRs.

Involved in the Desiccation Tolerance
Mutational inactivation of the genes designated

DR1172 and DRB0118 in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 greatly sensitizes this species to desiccation, but not to ionizing radiation. These genes encode proteins that share features with the desiccation-induced LEA76 proteins of many plants and the PCC13-62 protein of Craterostigma plantagineum, suggesting that D. radiodurans may serve as a useful model for the study of desiccation tolerance in higher organisms.

Inactivation method- In vitro transposition was performed using the protocol developed by New England Biolabs Beverly,
-> circular pGTC101 was combined with the TnsABC* transposase supplied with the system and target DNA. The vector pGTC101 carries the transposon TnDrCat. When combined with this transposase, the transposon excises from pGTC101 and inserts randomly into the target DNA. The transposition reaction mixture was transformed into targeted cells by electroporation.
-> then colonies with insertion are selected, and the desiccation impact is tested.

and a single thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) as part of its

response to oxidative stress. Thioredoxin reductase is a member of the family of pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductase flavoenzymes.

Steps:

1. The TrxR gene (DR1982) was obtained by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using D. radiodurans strain R1 genomic DNA as a template (ATCC). The following were used as forward and reverse oligonucleotide primers for PCR, respectively: 5’-GCG CCA TGG GTA TGA CGG CAC CTA CTG-3’ and 5’-GCG GGA TCC TCA GTC GGC AGCC-3’.

2. 1kbp fragment was purified by gel extraction, digested with NcoI and BamHI and cloned into a modified pET-30b vector, by which E.coli is transformed for cloning.

with kanamycin, Then single colonies were selected and grown overnight

in LB media with also kanamycin.

4. The frozen cell pellets were thawed and resuspended in sonication buffer (50 mM Tris–HCl pH 8.0, 1 mM AEBSF, 20 mg ml1 Dnase and 20 mg ml1 lysozyme).
The thawed cells were mechanically disrupted by sonication and cell debris was removed by centrifugation. The resulting supernatant was loaded onto a POROS MC50 metal-chelation column (Applied Biosystems,USA) pre-equilibrated with a buffer containing 5 mM imidazole, 0.5 M NaCl, 50 mM Tris– HCl pH 8.0. The column was washed with a 60 mM imidazole, 0.5 M NaCl, 50 mM Tris–HCl pH 8.0 buffer to remove non-specific binding and the protein eluted with a 0–1 M imidazole gradient. Fractions (10 ml) were collected and the purity of the protein was checked on Coomassie-stained SDS–PAGE.

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Inactivation of Two Homologues of Proteins Presumed to Be Involved

in the Desiccation Tolerance of Plants Sensitizes Deinococcus radiodurans R1 to Desiccation. Cryobiology 43, 133–139 (2001)
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