Salt-sensitive and auxotrophic mutants of Halomonas elongata and H. meridiana by use of hydroxylamine mutagenesis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 85-90

  Cánovas, David ^a   Vargas, Carmen ^a   Ventosa, Antonio ^a   Nieto, Joaquín J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 1842330326     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900149     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Arvanitis N, Vargas C, Tegos G, Perysinakis A, Nieto JJ, Ventosa A, Drainas C (1995) Development of a gene reporter system in moderately halophilic bacteria by employing the ice nucleation gene of Pseudomonas syringae. Appl Environ Microbiol 61:3821-3825
2. Berger I, Geyl D, Boeck A, Stoeffer G, Wittmann HG (1975) Localized mutagenesis of the aroe-strasection of the Escherichia coli chromosome coding for ribosomal proteins. Mol Gen Genet 141:207-211
3. Budowski EI, Sverdlov ED, Shibaeva RP, Monastyrskaya GS, Kochetkov NK (1971) Mechanism of the mutagenic action of hydroxylamine. 3. Reaction of hydroxylamine and O-methylhydroxylamine with the cytosine nucleus. Biochim Biophys Acta 246:300-319
4. Cohen GN, Rickenberg RH (1956) Concentration specifique reversible des amino acides chez E. coli. Ann Inst Pasteur Paris 91:693-720
5. Coronado MJ, Vargas C, Kunte HJ, Galinski EA, Ventosa A, Nieto JJ (1995) Influence of salt concentration on the susceptibility of moderately halophilic bacteria to antimicrobials and its potential use for genetic transfer studies. Curr Microbiol 31:365-371
6. Csonka LN, Hanson AD (1991) Prokariotic osmoregulation: genetics and physiology. Annu Rev Microbiol 45:569-606
7. De Goede P, Molema L (1973) Genetic fine structure of the glycosyltransferase gene of bacteriophage T2. Mutat Res 19:11-22
8. Dobson SJ, Franzmann PD (1996) Unification of the genera Deleya (Baumann et al. 1983), Halomonas (Vreeland et al. 1980) and Halovibrio (Fendrich 1988) and the species Paracoccus halodenitrificans (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) into a single genus, Halomonas, and placement of the genus Zymobacter in the family Halomonadaceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 46:550-558
9. Fernández-Castillo R, Nieto JJ, Megias M, Ruiz-Berraquero F (1990) Efficient hydroxylamine mutagenesis of Haloferax mediterranei and other extremely halophilic archaebacteria. Curr Microbiol 21:83-89
10. Fernández-Castillo R, Vargas C, Nieto JJ, Ventosa A, Ruiz-Berraquero F (1992) Characterization of a plasmid from moderately halophilic eubacteria. J Gen Microbiol 138:1133-1137
11. Galinski EA (1995) Osmoadaptation in bacteria. In: Adv Microb Physiol 37:273-328
12. Heard JT Jr, Matney TS (1980) Requirement of a partially diploid donor for the chemical induction of mutations in transforming DNA. Mutat Res 69:217-224
13. James SR, Dobson SJ, Franzmann PD, McMeekin TA (1990) Halomonas meridiana, a new species of extremely halotolerant bacteria isolated from antarctic saline lakes. Syst Appl Microbiol 13:270-278
14. Kamekura M (1986) Production and function of enzymes of eubacterial halophiles. FEMS Microbiol Rev 39:145-150
15. Kunte HJ, Galinski EA (1995) Transposon mutagenesis in halophilic eubacteria: conjugal transfer and insertion of transposon Tn5 and Tn1732 in Halomonas elogata. FEMS Microbiol Lett 128:293-299
16. Kushner DJ, Kamekura M (1988) Physiology of halophilic eubacteria. In: F. Rodríguez-Valera (ed.) Halophilic bacteria, Vol I. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, pp. 109-140
17. Maloy SR (1990) Experimental techniques in bacterial genetics. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
18. Marfey P, Robinson E (1981) The genetic toxicology of hydroxylamines. Mutat Res 86:155-191
19. Mellado E, Asturias JA, Nieto JJ, Timmis KN, Ventosa A (1995a) Characterization of the basic replicon of pCM1, a narrow-host-range plasmid from the moderate halophile Chromohalobacter marismortui. J Bacteriol 177:3443-3450
20. Mellado E, Nieto JJ, Ventosa A (1995b) Construction of novel shuttle vectors for use between moderately halophilic bacteria and Escherichia coli. Plasmid 34:157-164
21. Moore D (1975) Distribution of alleles of diverse mutagenic origins in the allele map of the FTR cistron. Mutat Res 28:455-458
22. Nieto JJ, Fernández-Castillo R, García MT, Márquez MC, Mellado E, Ventosa A (1993) Survey of antimicrobial susceptibility of moderately halophilic eubacteria and extremely halophilic aerobic archaeobacteria: utilization of antimicrobial resistance as a genetic marker. Syst Appl Microbiol 16:352-360
23. Rodríguez-Valera F (1986) The ecology and taxonomy of aerobic chemoorganotrophic halophilic eubacteria. FEMS Microbiol Rev 39:17-22
24. Singer B, Kusmierek JT (1982) Chemical mutagenesis. Annu Rev Biochem 52:655-693
25. 6-methoxyadenosine and cytidine. Biochemistry 26:4331-4337
26. Sweet DM, Moseley BEB (1976) The resistance of Micrococcus radiodurans to killing and mutation by agents which damage DNA. Mutat Res 34:175-186
27. Vargas C, Fernández-Castillo R, Cánovas D, Ventosa A, Nieto JJ (1995) Isolation of cryptic plasmids from moderately halophilic eubacteria of the genus Halomonas. Characterization of a small plasmid from H. elongata and its use for shuttle vector construction. Mol Gen Genet 246:411-418
28. Ventosa A (1994) Taxonomy and phylogeny of moderately halophilic bacteria. In: Priest FG, Ramos-Cormenzana A, Tindall BJ (eds) Bacterial diversity and systematics. New York: Plenum Press, pp 231-242
29. Ventosa A, Nieto JJ (1995) Biotechnological applications and potentialities of halophilic microorganisms. World J Microb Biotechnol 11:85-94
30. Vreeland RH (1992) The family Halomonadaceae. In: Balows A, Trüper HG, Dworkin M, Harder W, Schleifer KH (eds) The prokaryotes, 2nd edn. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp 3181-3188
31. Vreeland RH, Litchfield CD, Martin EL, Elliot E (1980) Halomonas elongata, a new genus and species of extremely salt-tolerant bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 30:485-495
32. Wohlfarth A, Severin J, Galinski EA (1990) The spectrum of compatible solutes in heterotrophic halophilic eubacteria of the family Halomonadaceae. J Gen Microbiol 136:705-712