Ott Emanuel, Kawaguchi Yuko, Kölbl Denise, Chaturvedi Palak, Nakagawa Kazumichi, Yamagishi Akihiko, Weckwerth Wolfram, Milojevic Tetyana
Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
PLoS One. 2017 Dec 15;12(12):e0189381. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189381. eCollection 2017.
The multiple extremes resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to withstand harsh conditions of simulated outer space environment. The Tanpopo orbital mission performs a long-term space exposure of D. radiodurans aiming to investigate the possibility of interplanetary transfer of life. The revealing of molecular machinery responsible for survivability of D. radiodurans in the outer space environment can improve our understanding of underlying stress response mechanisms. In this paper, we have evaluated the molecular response of D. radiodurans after the exposure to space-related conditions of UVC irradiation and vacuum. Notably, scanning electron microscopy investigations showed that neither morphology nor cellular integrity of irradiated cells was affected, while integrated proteomic and metabolomic analysis revealed numerous molecular alterations in metabolic and stress response pathways. Several molecular key mechanisms of D. radiodurans, including the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the DNA damage response systems, ROS scavenging systems and transcriptional regulators responded in order to cope with the stressful situation caused by UVC irradiation under vacuum conditions. These results reveal the effectiveness of the integrative proteometabolomic approach as a tool in molecular analysis of microbial stress response caused by space-related factors.
耐多极端环境的耐辐射球菌能够承受模拟外层空间环境的恶劣条件。“蒲公英”轨道任务对耐辐射球菌进行了长期太空暴露,旨在研究生命进行行星际转移的可能性。揭示耐辐射球菌在外层空间环境中生存能力的分子机制,有助于我们更好地理解其潜在的应激反应机制。在本文中,我们评估了耐辐射球菌在暴露于紫外线C辐射和真空等与太空相关条件后的分子反应。值得注意的是,扫描电子显微镜研究表明,受辐照细胞的形态和细胞完整性均未受到影响,而综合蛋白质组学和代谢组学分析揭示了代谢和应激反应途径中的众多分子变化。耐辐射球菌的几个分子关键机制,包括三羧酸循环、DNA损伤反应系统、活性氧清除系统和转录调节因子,为应对真空条件下紫外线C辐射引起的应激状况做出了反应。这些结果揭示了整合蛋白质组代谢组学方法作为分析由太空相关因素引起的微生物应激反应的分子工具的有效性。