Psychrophilicity of Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus: a proteomic study

Proteomics. 2004 Nov;4(11):3654-9. doi: 10.1002/pmic.200401025.

Abstract

Psychrophilicity of Gram-positive bacterium, Bacillus psychrosaccharolyticus was investigated in a proteomic approach. One hundred and thirty-one protein spots were analyzed by electrospray ionization-quadrupole-time of flight-tandem mass spectrometry and identified using an unpublished translated contig database as well as a nonredundant Gram-positive bacteria protein database from NCBI because of the lack of a genome sequence of this organism. Results focused on proteomic behavior of cold-response show that global up-regulation of metabolic functions and protective mechanism by stress responses might play a major role in psychrophilicity of B. psychrosaccharolyticus.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacillus / metabolism*
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism*
  • Cold Temperature
  • Computational Biology
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
  • Heat-Shock Proteins / metabolism
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Proteome / metabolism*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Heat-Shock Proteins
  • Proteome