Fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum, a mesophile bacterium,
is usually found in estuarine and marine coastal ecosystems
worldwide that pose a constant stress to local organism by its
fluctuation in salinity as well as notable temperature change.
Though V. anguillarum is able to proliferate while maintain its
pathogenicity under low temperature (5–18°C), so far, coldadaption
molecular mechanism of the bacteria is unknown.
In this study, V. anguillarum was found possessing a putative
glycine betaine synthesis system, which is encoded by betABI
and synthesizes glycine betaine from its precursor choline.
Furthermore, significant up-regulation of the bet gene at the
transcriptional level was noted in log phase in response to
cold-stress. Moreover, the accumulation of betaine glycine
was only found appearing at low growth temperatures, suggesting
that response regulation of both synthesis system
and transporter system are cold-dependent. Furthermore,
in-frame deletion mutation in the two putative ABC transporters
and three putative BCCT family transporters associated
with glycine betaine uptake could not block cellular
accumulation of betaine glycine in V. anguillarum under coldstress,
suggesting the redundant feature in V. anguillarum betaine
transporter system. These findings confirmed that glycine
betaine serves as an effective cold stress protectant and
highlighted an underappreciated facet of the acclimatization
of V. anguillarum to cold environments.
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