scholarly journals Erratum: Corrigendum: Universal stress protein Rv2624c alters abundance of arginine and enhances intracellular survival by ATP binding in mycobacteria

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiong Jia ◽  
Xinling Hu ◽  
Dawei Shi ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Meihao Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Protein ◽  
Intracellular Survival ◽  
Atp Binding ◽  
Universal Stress Protein

scholarly journals Bioinformatics Investigations of Universal Stress Proteins from Mercury-Methylating Desulfovibrionaceae

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1780
Author(s):  
Raphael D. Isokpehi ◽  
Dominique S. McInnis ◽  
Antoinette M. Destefano ◽  
Gabrielle S. Johnson ◽  
Akimio D. Walker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Stress Proteins ◽  
Stress Protein ◽  
Inorganic Mercury ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Atp Binding ◽  
Binding Motif ◽  
Universal Stress Protein ◽  
Methylmercury Production

The presence of methylmercury in aquatic environments and marine food sources is of global concern. The chemical reaction for the addition of a methyl group to inorganic mercury occurs in diverse bacterial taxonomic groups including the Gram-negative, sulfate-reducing Desulfovibrionaceae family that inhabit extreme aquatic environments. The availability of whole-genome sequence datasets for members of the Desulfovibrionaceae presents opportunities to understand the microbial mechanisms that contribute to methylmercury production in extreme aquatic environments. We have applied bioinformatics resources and developed visual analytics resources to categorize a collection of 719 putative universal stress protein (USP) sequences predicted from 93 genomes of Desulfovibrionaceae. We have focused our bioinformatics investigations on protein sequence analytics by developing interactive visualizations to categorize Desulfovibrionaceae universal stress proteins by protein domain composition and functionally important amino acids. We identified 651 Desulfovibrionaceae universal stress protein sequences, of which 488 sequences had only one USP domain and 163 had two USP domains. The 488 single USP domain sequences were further categorized into 340 sequences with ATP-binding motif and 148 sequences without ATP-binding motif. The 163 double USP domain sequences were categorized into (1) both USP domains with ATP-binding motif (3 sequences); (2) both USP domains without ATP-binding motif (138 sequences); and (3) one USP domain with ATP-binding motif (21 sequences). We developed visual analytics resources to facilitate the investigation of these categories of datasets in the presence or absence of the mercury-methylating gene pair (hgcAB). Future research could utilize these functional categories to investigate the participation of universal stress proteins in the bacterial cellular uptake of inorganic mercury and methylmercury production, especially in anaerobic aquatic environments.

The bacterial universal stress protein: function and regulation

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Kvint ◽  
Laurence Nachin ◽  
Alfredo Diez ◽  
Thomas Nyström
Keyword(s):  
Protein Function ◽  
Stress Protein ◽  
Universal Stress Protein
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