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ArticleMicrobial ecology2010

Transcriptional response of Rhodococcus aetherivorans I24 to polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sediments.

Edoardo Puglisi, Matt J Cahill, Philip A Lessard, Ettore Capri, Anthony J Sinskey, John A C Archer, Paolo Boccazzi

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Article in Microbial ecology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Edoardo PuglisiIstituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Matt J Cahill
Philip A Lessard
Ettore Capri
Anthony J Sinskey
John A C Archer
Paolo Boccazzi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SAUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used a microarray targeting 3,524 genes to assess the transcriptional response of the actinomycete Rhodococcus aetherivorans I24 in minimal medium supplemented with various substrates (e.g., PCBs) and in both PCB-contaminated and non-contaminated sediment slurries. Relative to the reference condition (minimal medium supplemented with glucose), 408 genes were upregulated in the various treatments. In medium and in sediment, PCBs elicited the upregulation of a common set of 100 genes, including gene-encoding chaperones (groEL), a superoxide dismutase (sodA), alkyl hydroperoxide reductase protein C (ahpC), and a catalase/peroxidase (katG). Analysis of the R. aetherivorans I24 genome sequence identified orthologs of many of the genes in the canonical biphenyl pathway, but very few of these genes were upregulated in response to PCBs or biphenyl. This study is one of the first to use microarrays to assess the transcriptional response of a soil bacterium to a pollutant under conditions that more closely resemble the natural environment. Our results indicate that the transcriptional response of R. aetherivorans I24 to PCBs, in both medium and sediment, is primarily directed towards reducing oxidative stress, rather than catabolism.

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Soil MicrobiologyBiodegradation, EnvironmentalCulture MediaGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialGeologic SedimentsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOxidative StressPolychlorinated BiphenylsRhodococcusRNA, BacterialSequence Analysis, DNASoil PollutantsTranscription, GeneticCulture MediaPolychlorinated BiphenylsRNA, BacterialSoil Pollutants

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