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Chapter 18 : Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9

Authors: Douglas H. Bartlett1, Gail Ferguson2, Giorgio Valle3
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Affiliations: 1: Mail code 0202, Marine Biology Research Division, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 920930202; 2: School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom; 3: Department of Biology, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy
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Strains of and have become the work-horses for examining the adaptations of cold-adapted deep-sea microbes to high pressure. The chapter focuses on , with an emphasis on strain SS9. Transposon mutagenesis, insertional mutagenesis, -based transcriptional reporter studies, allelic exchange, and complementation are all possible. SS9 is both the most psychrotolerant and the most piezophilic microorganism for which such studies have been reported. More recently its entire genome sequence has been determined, and transcriptome and comparative genomic analyses have been undertaken. The sections describe the roles of the membrane, membrane-associated signaling systems, and DNA recombination in SS9 piezoadaptation, and provide recent insights obtained from the SS9 genome sequence and functional and comparative genomics. Advances in genomic approaches have dramatically altered the understanding of the evolution, diversity, biochemistry, and physiology of life. These technologies have also been applied to two piezophiles: strain SS9 and strain DSS12, and additional sequencing projects are in the works. Genetic manipulations are needed to establish which genes actually influence growth ability at high pressure. Additional important issues are which piezophile-specific genes were acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and which were lost by the mesophilic strain 3TCK, which genes 3TCK might have needed to acquire for adaptation to shallow-water and atmospheric pressure, and whether the last common ancestor to the strains was piezophilic or mesophilic.

Citation: Bartlett D, Ferguson G, Valle G. 2008. Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9, p 319-337. In Michiels C, Bartlett D, Aersten A (ed), High-Pressure Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555815646.ch18
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Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Photobacterium profundum Strain SS9
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Citation: Bartlett D, Ferguson G, Valle G. 2008. Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9, p 319-337. In Michiels C, Bartlett D, Aersten A (ed), High-Pressure Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555815646.ch18
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NanoOrange fluorescent image of a strain SS9 cell from a culture grown at 30 MPa. The body of the cell is approximately 2.5 µm in length. A single unsheathed polar flagellum is present.
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NanoOrange fluorescent image of a strain SS9 cell from a culture grown at 30 MPa. The body of the cell is approximately 2.5 µm in length. A single unsheathed polar flagellum is present.

Citation: Bartlett D, Ferguson G, Valle G. 2008. Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9, p 319-337. In Michiels C, Bartlett D, Aersten A (ed), High-Pressure Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555815646.ch18
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Locations in which isolates have been reported ( ). Stars indicate eastern Antarctica, the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the Peru Margin, the Ryukyu Trench, the San Diego Bay, and the Sulu Sea.
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Locations in which isolates have been reported ( ). Stars indicate eastern Antarctica, the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the Peru Margin, the Ryukyu Trench, the San Diego Bay, and the Sulu Sea.

Citation: Bartlett D, Ferguson G, Valle G. 2008. Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9, p 319-337. In Michiels C, Bartlett D, Aersten A (ed), High-Pressure Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555815646.ch18
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Many membrane components could be important for integrity and function at high pressure. Shown in schematic format is the outer membrane of a gram-negative bacterial cell. The outer leaflet is composed of LPS with its lipid A (vertical lines, some with branches), core oligosaccharide (horizontal oval), and O-antigen polysaccharide (wavy line) regions. The inner leaflet contains phospholipids containing head groups (shown as open circles) attached to different types of fatty acids at their -1 and -2 positions. Straight lines are used to depict saturated fatty acids, lines with one bend are used to depict MUFAs such as -vaccenic acid, and lines with multiple bends are used to depict the PUFA EPA. A porin protein is shown spanning the entire outer membrane. Lipoprotein is shown connecting the outer membrane to the cell wall below. Phospholipid composition is also important for inner membrane function (not shown). Many lipid-protein interactions, and thus many essential cellular processes, could be subject to strong influences by pressure.
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Many membrane components could be important for integrity and function at high pressure. Shown in schematic format is the outer membrane of a gram-negative bacterial cell. The outer leaflet is composed of LPS with its lipid A (vertical lines, some with branches), core oligosaccharide (horizontal oval), and O-antigen polysaccharide (wavy line) regions. The inner leaflet contains phospholipids containing head groups (shown as open circles) attached to different types of fatty acids at their -1 and -2 positions. Straight lines are used to depict saturated fatty acids, lines with one bend are used to depict MUFAs such as -vaccenic acid, and lines with multiple bends are used to depict the PUFA EPA. A porin protein is shown spanning the entire outer membrane. Lipoprotein is shown connecting the outer membrane to the cell wall below. Phospholipid composition is also important for inner membrane function (not shown). Many lipid-protein interactions, and thus many essential cellular processes, could be subject to strong influences by pressure.

Citation: Bartlett D, Ferguson G, Valle G. 2008. Adaptations of the Psychrotolerant Piezophile Strain SS9, p 319-337. In Michiels C, Bartlett D, Aersten A (ed), High-Pressure Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555815646.ch18
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