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  • 1
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    Temperature-regulated mRNA accumulation and stabilization for fatty acid desaturase genes in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 (1997)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Molecular microbiology 23 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Cyanobacteria acclimate to low-temperature conditions by desaturating their membrane lipids. The desB (ω3 desaturase) and desC (A9 desaturase) genes of Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 were cloned and characterized, and the expression of the desA (Δ12 desaturase), desB and desC genes was studied as a function of temperature. The steady-state mRNA abundance for the desA gene was threefold higher in cells grown at 22 C than in cells grown at 38°C. des B transcripts were not detected at 38°C, but were abundant in cells grown at 22°C. Levels of desC mRNA were similar at both growth temperatures. The mRNA levels of each desaturase gene increased within 15min of a temperature shift-down to 22°C, and mRNA levels recovered within 15min after a shift-up to 38°C. The cold-induced accumulation of transcripts from the desA and desB genes was suppressed by the addition of chloramphenicol, but the transient elevation of the desC transcript levels at 22°C was not affected by chloramphenicol. The half-lives of the desA and desB mRNAs were significantly longer in cells grown at 22°C than in cells grown at 38°C, but the desC mRNA had a similar half-life at both temperatures. These studies reveal three patterns of temperature regulation for the desaturase genes, whose expression is tightly controlled by a combination of mRNA synthesis and stabilization. These studies demonstrate that elevation of desaturase mRNA levels is not the rate-limiting event during the low-temperature acclimation of cyanobacteria.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3071676.x
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  • 2
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    Low-temperature-induced desaturation of fatty acids and expression of desaturase genes in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 (1997)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    FEMS microbiology letters 152 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1574-6968
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Changes in response to temperature of lipid classes, fatty acid composition and mRNA levels for acyl-lipid desaturase genes were studied in the marine unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. The degree of unsaturation of C18 fatty acids increased in cells grown at lower temperature for all lipid classes, and ω3 desaturation occurred specifically in cells grown at low temperature. While the level of 18:1(9) fatty acids declined, desaturation at the ω3 position of C18 fatty acids increased gradually during a 12-h period after a temperature shift-down to 22°C. However, the mRNA levels of the desA (Δ12 desaturase), desB (ω3 desaturase) and desC (Δ9 desaturase) genes increased within 15 min after a temperature shift-down to 22°C; the desaturase gene mRNA levels also rapidly declined within 15 min after a temperature shift-up to 38°C. Therefore, the elevation of mRNA levels for the desaturase genes is not the rate-limiting event for the increased desaturation of membrane lipids after a temperature shift-down. The rapid, low-temperature-induced changes in mRNA levels occurred even when cells were grown under light-limiting conditions for which the growth rates at 22°C and 38°C were identical. These studies indicate that the ambient growth temperature, and not some other growth rate-related process, regulates the expression of acyl lipid desaturation in this cyanobacterium.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1997.tb10445.x
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  • 3
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    Alteration of low-temperature susceptibility of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 by genetic manipulation of membrane lipid unsaturation (1997)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 169 (1997), S. 20-28 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Key words Chilling tolerance ; Cyanobacterium ; Fatty acid desaturase ; Low-temperature acclimation ; Membrane lipid ; Photosynthesis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Cyanobacteria acclimate to low temperature by desaturating their membrane lipids. Mutant strains of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 containing insertionally inactivated desA (Δ12 acyl-lipid desaturase) and desB (ω3 acyl-lipid desaturase) genes were produced, and their low-temperature susceptibility was characterized. The desA mutant synthesized no linoleic acid or α-linolenic acid, and the desB mutant did not produce α-linolenic acid. The desA mutant grew more slowly than the wild-type at 22° C and could not grow at 15° C. The desB mutant could not continuously grow at 15° C, although no observable phenotype appeared at higher temperatures. It has been shown that expression of the desA gene occurs at 38° C and is up-regulated at 22° C, and that the desB gene is only expressed at 22° C. These results indicate that the expression of the desA and desB genes occurs at higher temperatures than those at which a significant decline in physiological activities is caused by the absence of their products. The temperature dependency of photosynthesis was not affected by these mutations. Since chlorosis and inability to grow at 15° C with nitrate was suppressed by the substitution of urea as a nitrogen source, it is very likely that the chilling susceptibility of the desaturase mutants is attributable to nutrient limitation.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002030050536
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    Growth at low temperature causes nitrogen limitation in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 (1997)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 169 (1997), S. 10-19 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Key words Chilling tolerance ; Chlorosis ; Cyanobacterium ; Low-temperature acclimation ; Nitrogen assimilation ; Phycobiliprotein
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The coloration of cells of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 changed from normal blue-green to yellow-green when cells were grown at 15° C in a medium containing nitrate as the sole nitrogen source. This change of coloration was similar to a general response to nutrient deprivation (chlorosis). For the chlorotic cells at 15° C, the total amounts of phycobiliproteins and chlorophyll a decreased, high levels of glycogen accumulated, and growth was arithmetic rather than exponential. These changes in composition and growth occurred in cells grown at low (50 μE m–2 s–1) as well as high (250 μE m–2 s–1) light intensity. After a temperature shift-up to 38° C, chlorotic cells rapidly regained their normal blue-green coloration and normal exponential growth rate within 7 h. When cells were grown at 15° C in a medium containing urea as the reduced nitrogen source, cells grew exponentially and the symptoms of chlorosis were not observed. The decrease in photosynthetic oxygen evolution activity at low temperature was much smaller than the decrease in growth rate for cells grown on nitrate as the nitrogen source. These studies demonstrate that low-temperature-induced chlorosis of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 is caused by nitrogen limitation and is not the result of limited photosynthetic activity or photodamage to the photosynthetic apparatus, and that nitrogen assimilation is an important aspect of the low-temperature physiology of cyanobacteria.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002030050535
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  • 5
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    Identification of conserved domains in the Δ12 desaturases of cyanobacteria (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 24 (1994), S. 643-650 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: Anabaena variabilis ; fatty-acid desaturation ; Synechococcus PCC7002 ; Synechococcus PCC7942 ; Synechocystis PCC6714 ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Cyanobacterial genes for enzymes that desaturate fatty acids at the Δ12 position, designated desA, were isolated from Synechocystis PCC6714, Synechococcus PCC7002 and Anabaena variabilis by crosshybridization with a DNA probe derived from the desA gene of Synechocystis PCC6803. The genes of Synechocystis PCC6714, Synechococcus PCC7002 and A. variabilis encode proteins of 349, 347 and 350 amino acid residues, respectively. The transformation of Synechococcus PCC7942 with the desA genes from Synechocystis PCC6714, Synechococcus PCC7002 and A. variabilis was associated with the ability to introduce a second double bond at the Δ12 position of fatty acids. The amino acid sequence of the products of the desA genes revealed the presence of four conserved domains. Since one of the conserved domains was also found in the amino acid sequences of ω3 desaturases of Brassica napus and mung bean, this domain may play an essential role in the introduction of a double bond into fatty acids bound to membrane lipids.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00023560
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    Cloning of ω3 desaturase from cyanobacteria and its use in altering the degree of membrane-lipid unsaturation (1994)
    Springer
    Plant molecular biology 26 (1994), S. 249-263 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: desB gene ; desaturase ; fatty acid ; Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 ; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ; transformation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Cyanobacteria respond to a decrease in temperature by desaturating fatty acids of membrane lipids to compensate for the decrease in membrane fluidity. Among various desaturation reactions in cyanobacteria, the desaturation of the ω3 position of fatty acids is the most sensitive to the change in temperature. In the present study, we isolated a gene, designated desB, for the ω3 desaturase from the cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The desB gene encodes a protein a 359 amino-acid residues with molecular mass of 41.9 kDa. The desB gene is transcribed as a monocistronic operon that produced a single transcript of 1.4 kb. The level of the desB transcript in cells grown at 22°C was 10 times higher than that in cells grown at 34°C. In order to manipulate the fatty-acid unsaturation of membrane lipids, the desB gene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was mutated by insertion of a kanamycin-resistance gene cartridge. The resultant mutant was unable to desaturate fatty acids at the ω3 position. The desA gene, which encodes the Δ12 desaturase of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and the desB gene were introduced into Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942. Whilst the parent cyanobacterium can only desaturate membrane lipids at the Δ9 position of fatty acids, the resultant transformant was able to desaturate fatty acids of membrane lipids at the Δ9, Δ12 and ω3 positions. These results confirm the function of the desB gene and demonstrate that it is possible to genetically manipulate the fatty-acid unsaturation of membrane lipids in cyanobacteria.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00039536
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    Molecular characterization of an adenylate cyclase gene of the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis (1996)
    Springer
    Plant molecular biology 31 (1996), S. 175-181 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: cyanobacterium ; adenylate cyclase gene ; cAMP ; VsrA ; Spirulina platensis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A cyaA gene, encoding an adenylate cyclase, was isolated from a filamentous cyanobacterium, Spirulina platensis, by functional complementation of a cya mutant of Escherichia coli, defective in adenylate cyclase activity. The predicted gene product of cyaA contains a signal peptide-like domain, a putative sensor domain similar to the gene product of vsrA of Pseudomonas solanacearum, a putative membrane-spanning domain and an adenylate cyclase-like catalytic domain. Two other positive clones that complemented the E. coli mutant were isolated from the same cyanobacterium, suggesting that several cya genes are functioning in S. platensis.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00020618
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