Quantitative proteome profiling during the fermentation process of pleiotropic Bacillus subtilis mutants
- 20 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Proteomics
- Vol. 4 (8), 2408-2424
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.200300752
Abstract
Using a combined quantitative proteomic and bioinformatic approach, we monitored the cytoplasmic proteome profile of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis during a fermentation process in complex medium. Proteome signatures were applied to elucidate the physiological changes occurring in the gene expression profile during growth. Furthermore, we determined the significance level of quantitative proteome changes, identified relative to the threshold of scatter in replicated samples and developed a statistically rigorous method that allowed us to determine significant fold-changes at 95% confidence between different proteomes. Different functional groups of proteins were clustered according to their pattern of significant expression changes. The largest group is induced by the exhaustion of glucose and the presence of alternative carbon and nitrogen sources. Furthermore, depletion of glucose caused the induction of the trichloroacetic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes and the downregulation of glycolytic enzymes. The onset of the transition phase may be provoked by amino acid starvation, resulting in the RelA-dependent repression of proteins involved in the translation process and in the induction of amino acid biosynthetic pathways. Comparisons between the parental strain and two subtilisin-hypersecreting strains revealed only small cytoplasmic differences in the main metabolic pathways. Instead, the overproduction of degradative enzymes in both of these mutants was reflected in the extracellular proteome.Keywords
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