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DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2683(19990101)20:4/5<781::AID-ELPS781>3.0.CO;2-A
Title (Primary) Induction of heat shock proteins in response to primary alcohols in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
Author Benndorf, D.; Loffhagen, N.; Babel, W.
Source Titel Electrophoresis
Year 1999
Department UMB; PROTEOM
Volume 20
Issue 4-5
Page From 781
Page To 789
Language englisch
Keywords Heat shock response; Primary alcohols; Membrane; Heat shock proteins GroEl; DnaK; High temperature protein
Abstract Cells of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus 69-V, a species able to metabolize a range of aliphatic hydrocarbons and alcohols, were confronted with ethanol, butanol, hexanol or heat shock during growth on acetate as sole source of carbon and energy. The primary alcohols and the heat shock led to the synthesis of new proteins or amplified expression of specific, common and general proteins, which were detected by silver staining after two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Some of the alcohol-inducible proteins were identified as heat shock proteins by comparing protein patterns of alcohol-shocked cells with those of heat-shocked cells, and by N-terminal amino acid sequencing. DnaK was found to be amplified after all treatments, but GroEl only after heat shock and ethanol treatment. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein, which was considerably amplified after alcohol treatment and heat shock, shows homology to HtpG (high temperature protein G). Some of the heat shock proteins induced by ethanol differ from those induced by butanol and hexanol, suggesting there are at least two different signals for the induction of some heat shock proteins by primary alcohols. This could be due to the different localization of ethanol, butanol and hexanol in the membrane, or because higher cytoplasmic concentrations of ethanol than of butanol or hexanol were applied in these tests in order to keep concentrations of the alcohols in the membrane roughly similar. Besides heat shock proteins, a group of proteins were observed which were only induced by butanol and hexanol, possibly indicating the existence of a further defense mechanism against high concentrations of hydrophobic substrates preventing protein denaturation and membrane damage.
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Benndorf, D., Loffhagen, N., Babel, W. (1999):
Induction of heat shock proteins in response to primary alcohols in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
Electrophoresis 20 (4-5), 781 - 789