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  - Handtke, Stefan
A1  - Volland, Sonja
A1  - Methling, Karen
A1  - Albrecht, Dirk
A1  - Becher, Dörte
A1  - Nehls, Jenny
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Lalk, Michael
A1  - Liesegang, Heiko
A1  - Voigt, Birgit
A1  - Daniel, Rolf
A1  - Hecker, Michael
T1  - Cell physiology of the biotechnological relevant bacterium Bacillus pumilus - An omics-based approach
JF  - Journal of Biotechnology
N2  - Members of the species Bacillus pumilus get more and more in focus of the biotechnological industry as potential new production strains. Based on exoproteome analysis, B. pumilus strain Jo2, possessing a high secretion capability, was chosen for an omics-based investigation. The proteome and metabolome of B. pumilus cells growing either in minimal or complex medium was analyzed. In total, 1542 proteins were identified in growing B. pumilus cells, among them 1182 cytosolic proteins, 297 membrane and lipoproteins and 63 secreted proteins. This accounts for about 43% of the 3616 proteins encoded in the B. pumilus Jo2 genome sequence. By using GC–MS, IP-LC/MS and H NMR methods numerous metabolites were analyzed and assigned to reconstructed metabolic pathways. In the genome sequence a functional secretion system including the components of the Sec- and Tat-secretion machinery was found. Analysis of the exoproteome revealed secretion of about 70 proteins with predicted secretion signals. In addition, selected production-relevant genome features such as restriction modification systems and NRPS clusters of B. pumilus Jo2 are discussed.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.08.028
SN  - 1873-4863 (E-Journal); 0168-1656 (Print)
IS  - 192(A)
SP  - 204
EP  - 214
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
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  -