Alkaline Response of a Halotolerant Alkaliphilic Halomonas Strain and Functional Diversity of Its Na+(K+)/H+ Antiporters

Overview

Journal J Biol Chem

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2016 Oct 26

PMID 27777302

Citations 22

Authors

Bin Cheng

Yiwei Meng

Yanbing Cui

Chunfang Li

Fei Tao

Huijia Yin

Chunyu Yang

Ping Xu

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Abstract

Halomonas sp. Y2 is a halotolerant alkaliphilic strain from Na-rich pulp mill wastewater with high alkalinity (pH >11.0). Transcriptome analysis of this isolate revealed this strain may use various transport systems for pH homeostasis. In particular, the genes encoding four putative Na/H antiporters were differentially expressed upon acidic or alkaline conditions. Further evidence, from heterologous expression and mutant studies, suggested that Halomonas sp. Y2 employs its Na/H antiporters in a labor division way to deal with saline and alkaline environments. Ha-NhaD2 displayed robust Na(Li) resistance and high transport activities in Escherichia coli; a ΔHa-nhaD2 mutant exhibited growth inhibition at high Na(Li) concentrations at pH values of 6.2, 8.0, and 10.0, suggesting its physiological role in osmotic homeostasis. In contrast, Ha-NhaD1 showed much weaker activities in ion exporting and pH homeostasis. Ha-Mrp displayed a combination of properties similar to those of Mrp transporters from some Bacillus alkaliphiles and neutrophiles. This conferred obvious Na(Li, K) resistance in E. coli-deficient strains, as those ion transport spectra of some neutrophil Mrp antiporters. Conversely, similar to the Bacillus alkaliphiles, Ha-Mrp showed central roles in the pH homeostasis of Halomonas sp. Y2. An Ha-mrp-disrupted mutant was seriously inhibited by high concentrations of Na(Li, K) but only under alkaline conditions. Ha-NhaP was determined to be a K/H antiporter and shown to confer strong K resistance both at acidic and alkaline stresses.

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