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ArticleAnaerobe2016

Expression of arsenic resistance genes in the obligate anaerobe Bacteroides vulgatus ATCC 8482, a gut microbiome bacterium.

Jiaojiao Li, Goutam Mandal, Barry P Rosen

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Article in Anaerobe, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiaojiao LiDepartment of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, United States.
Goutam MandalDepartment of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, United States.
Barry P RosenDepartment of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, United States. Electronic address: brosen@fiu.edu.
Florida International University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of arsenical transportR37GM055425 · NIGMS · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 2005 to 2014
$4.4M
The human arsenic methylation pathwayR01ES023779 · NIEHS · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, BARRY P. · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES023779NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM055425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The response of the obligate anaerobe Bacteroides vulgatus ATCC 8482, a common human gut microbiota, to arsenic was determined. B. vulgatus ATCC 8482 is highly resistant to pentavalent As(V) and methylarsenate (MAs(V)). It is somewhat more sensitive to trivalent inorganic As(III) but 100-fold more sensitive to methylarsenite (MAs(III)) than to As(III). B. vulgatus ATCC 8482 has eight continuous genes in its genome that we demonstrate form an arsenical-inducible transcriptional unit. The first gene of this ars operon, arsR, encodes a putative ArsR As(III)-responsive transcriptional repressor. The next three genes encode proteins of unknown function. The remaining genes, arsDABC, have well-characterized roles in detoxification of inorganic arsenic, but there are no known genes for MAs(III) resistance. Expression of each gene after exposure to trivalent and pentavalent inorganic and methylarsenicals was analyzed. MAs(III) was the most effective inducer. The arsD gene was the most highly expressed of the ars operon genes. These results demonstrate that this anaerobic microbiome bacterium has arsenic-responsive genes that confer resistance to inorganic arsenic and may be responsible for the organism's ability to maintain its prevalence in the gut following dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, BacterialAnaerobiosisArsenicalsBacterial ProteinsBacteroidesDrug Resistance, BacterialGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansOperonTranscription, GeneticArsenicalsBacterial ProteinsAnaerobeArsenicBacteroides vulgatusMethylarsenicMicrobiomeRegulation

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PMID27040269
PMCPMC4984537
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