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ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2009

Microbial responses to xenobiotic compounds. Identification of genes that allow Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to cope with 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene.

Matilde Fernández, Estrella Duque, Paloma Pizarro-Tobías, Pieter Van Dillewijn, Rolf-Michael Wittich, Juan L Ramos

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Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matilde FernándezBio-Iliberis Research and Development, Edificio BIC, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, E-18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain.
Estrella Duque
Paloma Pizarro-Tobías
Pieter Van Dillewijn
Rolf-Michael Wittich
Juan L Ramos
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESParque Tecnológico de la Salud · ES

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudomonas putida KT2440 grows in M9 minimal medium with glucose in the presence of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) at a similar rate than in the absence of TNT, although global transcriptional analysis using DNA microarrays revealed that TNT exerts some stress. Response to TNT stress is regulated at the transcriptional level, as significant changes in the level of expression of 65 genes were observed. Of these genes, 39 appeared upregulated, and 26 were downregulated. The identity of upregulated genes suggests that P. putida uses two kinds of strategies to overcome TNT toxicity: (i) induction of genes encoding nitroreductases and detoxification-related enzymes (pnrA, xenD, acpD) and (ii) induction of multidrug efflux pump genes (mexEF/oprN) to reduce intracellular TNT concentrations. Mutants of 13 up- and 7 downregulated genes were analysed with regards to TNT toxicity revealing the role of the MexE/MexF/OprN pump and a putative isoquinoline 1-oxidoreductase in tolerance to TNT. The ORF PP1232 whose transcriptional level did not change in response to TNT affected growth in the presence of nitroaromatic compounds and it was found in a screening of 4000 randomly generated mutants.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialPseudomonas putidaTranscription, GeneticTrinitrotolueneXenobioticsBacterial ProteinsTrinitrotolueneXenobiotics

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PMID21261922
PMCPMC3815848
OpenAlexW2022628245

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