TY  - JOUR
A1  - Handtke, Stefan
A1  - Schroeter, Rebecca
A1  - Jürgen, Britta
A1  - Methling, Karen
A1  - Schlüter, Rabea
A1  - Albrecht, Dirk
A1  - Hijum, Sacha A. F. T. van
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Lalk, Michael
A1  - Schweder, Thomas
A1  - Hecker, Michael
A1  - Voigt, Birgit
T1  - Bacillus pumilus reveals a remarkably high resistance to hydrogen peroxide provoked oxidative stress
JF  - PLOS one
N2  - Bacillus pumilus is characterized by a higher oxidative stress resistance than other comparable industrially relevant Bacilli such as B. subtilis or B. licheniformis. In this study the response of B. pumilus to oxidative stress was investigated during a treatment with high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide at the proteome, transcriptome and metabolome level. Genes/proteins belonging to regulons, which are known to have important functions in the oxidative stress response of other organisms, were found to be upregulated, such as the Fur, Spx, SOS or CtsR regulon. Strikingly, parts of the fundamental PerR regulon responding to peroxide stress in B. subtilis are not encoded in the B. pumilus genome. Thus, B. pumilus misses the catalase KatA, the DNA-protection protein MrgA or the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase AhpCF. Data of this study suggests that the catalase KatX2 takes over the function of the missing KatA in the oxidative stress response of B. pumilus. The genome-wide expression analysis revealed an induction of bacillithiol (Cys-GlcN-malate, BSH) relevant genes. An analysis of the intracellular metabolites detected high intracellular levels of this protective metabolite, which indicates the importance of bacillithiol in the peroxide stress resistance of B. pumilus.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085625
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
PB  - PLOS
CY  - San Francisco
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Voigt, Birgit
A1  - Albrecht, Dirk
A1  - Sievers, Susanne
A1  - Becher, Dörte
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Evers, Stefan
A1  - Schweder, Thomas
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Hecker, Michael
T1  - High-resolution proteome maps of Bacillus licheniformis cells growing in minimal medium
JF  - Proteomics
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201400504
SN  - 1615-9861
VL  - 15
IS  - 15
SP  - 2629
EP  - 2633
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schroeter, Rebecca
A1  - Hoffmann, Tamara
A1  - Voigt, Birgit
A1  - Meyer, Hanna
A1  - Bleisteiner, Monika
A1  - Muntel, Jan
A1  - Jürgen, Britta
A1  - Albrecht, Dirk
A1  - Becher, Dörte
A1  - Lalk, Michael
A1  - Evers, Stefan
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Putzer, Harald
A1  - Hecker, Michael
A1  - Schweder, Thomas
A1  - Bremer, Erhard
T1  - Stress responses of the industrial workhorse Bacillus licheniformis to osmotic challenges
JF  - PLoS ONE
N2  - The Gram-positive endospore-forming bacterium Bacillus licheniformis can be found widely in nature and it is exploited in industrial processes for the manufacturing of antibiotics, specialty chemicals, and enzymes. Both in its varied natural habitats and in industrial settings, B. licheniformis cells will be exposed to increases in the external osmolarity, conditions that trigger water efflux, impair turgor, cause the cessation of growth, and negatively affect the productivity of cell factories in biotechnological processes. We have taken here both systems-wide and targeted physiological approaches to unravel the core of the osmostress responses of B. licheniformis. Cells were suddenly subjected to an osmotic upshift of considerable magnitude (with 1 M NaCl), and their transcriptional profile was then recorded in a time-resolved fashion on a genome-wide scale. A bioinformatics cluster analysis was used to group the osmotically up-regulated genes into categories that are functionally associated with the synthesis and import of osmostress-relieving compounds (compatible solutes), the SigB-controlled general stress response, and genes whose functional annotation suggests that salt stress triggers secondary oxidative stress responses in B. licheniformis. The data set focusing on the transcriptional profile of B. licheniformis was enriched by proteomics aimed at identifying those proteins that were accumulated by the cells through increased biosynthesis in response to osmotic stress. Furthermore, these global approaches were augmented by a set of experiments that addressed the synthesis of the compatible solutes proline and glycine betaine and assessed the growth-enhancing effects of various osmoprotectants. Combined, our data provide a blueprint of the cellular adjustment processes of B. licheniformis to both sudden and sustained osmotic stress.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080956
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 8
IS  - 11
PB  - PLOS
CY  - San Francisco
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Voigt, Birgit
A1  - Schroeter, Rebecca
A1  - Jürgen, Britta
A1  - Albrecht, Dirk
A1  - Evers, Stefan
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Schweder, Thomas
A1  - Hecker, Michael
T1  - The response of Bacillus licheniformis to heat and ethanol stress and the role of the SigB regulon
JF  - Proteomics
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 1615-9861 (E-Journal); 1615-9853 (Print)
VL  - Vol. 13
IS  - Iss. 14
SP  - 2140
EP  - 2146
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -