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Regulation of organohalide respiration

Maillard, Julien  
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Willemin, Mathilde Stéphanie  
Poole, Robert K.
March 4, 2019
Advances in Microbial Physiology

Organohalide respiration (OHR) is an anaerobic metabolism by which bacteria conserve energy with the use of halogenated compounds as terminal electron acceptors. Genes involved in OHR are organized in reductive dehalogenase (rdh) gene clusters and can be found in relatively high copy numbers in the genomes of organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB). The minimal rdh gene set is composed by rdhA and rdhB, encoding the catalytic enzyme involved in reductive dehalogenation and its putative membrane anchor, respectively. In this chapter, we present the major findings concerning the regulatory strategies developed by OHRB to control the expression of the rdh gene clusters. The first section focuses on the description of regulation patterns obtained from targeted transcriptional analyses, and from transcriptomic and proteomic studies, while the second section offers a detailed overview of the biochemically characterized OHR regulatory proteins identified so far. Depending on OHRB, transcriptional regulators belonging to three different protein families are found in the direct vicinity of rdh gene clusters, suggesting that they activate the transcription of their cognate gene cluster. In this chapter, strong emphasis was laid on the family of CRP/FNR-type RdhK regulators which belong to members of the genera Dehalobacter and Desulfitobacterium. Whereas only chlorophenols have been identified as effectors for RdhK regulators, the protein sequence diversity suggests a broader organohalide spectrum. Thus, effector identification of new regulators offers a promising alternative to elucidate the substrates of yet uncharacterized reductive dehalogenases. Future work investigating the possible cross-talk between OHR regulators and their possible use as biosensors is discussed.

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book part or chapter
DOI
10.1016/bs.ampbs.2019.02.002
Web of Science ID

WOS:000500697200005

Author(s)
Maillard, Julien  
Willemin, Mathilde Stéphanie  
Editors
Poole, Robert K.
Date Issued

2019-03-04

Publisher

Academic Press

Published in
Advances in Microbial Physiology
ISBN of the book

978-0-12-817712-9

Total of pages

47

Start page

191

End page

238

Volume
74
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EPFL

EPFL units
LBE  
Available on Infoscience
February 5, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/165141
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