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“Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”

Haloferax volcanii and other Haloarchaea can be pleomorphic, adopting different shapes, which vary with growth stages. Several studies have shown that H. volcanii cell shape is sensitive to various external factors including growth media and physical environment. In addition, several studies have no...

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Autores principales: Patro, Megha, Duggin, Iain G., Albers, Sonja-Verena, Ithurbide, Solenne
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10570808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37840741
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1270665
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author Patro, Megha
Duggin, Iain G.
Albers, Sonja-Verena
Ithurbide, Solenne
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Duggin, Iain G.
Albers, Sonja-Verena
Ithurbide, Solenne
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description Haloferax volcanii and other Haloarchaea can be pleomorphic, adopting different shapes, which vary with growth stages. Several studies have shown that H. volcanii cell shape is sensitive to various external factors including growth media and physical environment. In addition, several studies have noticed that the presence of a recombinant plasmid in the cells is also a factor impacting H. volcanii cell shape, notably by favoring the development of rods in early stages of growth. Here we investigated the reasons for this phenomenon by first studying the impact of auxotrophic mutations on cell shape in strains that are commonly used as genetic backgrounds for selection during strain engineering (namely: H26, H53, H77, H98, and H729) and secondly, by studying the effect of the presence of different plasmids containing selection markers on the cell shape of these strains. Our study showed that most of these auxotrophic strains have variation in cell shape parameters including length, aspect ratio, area and circularity and that the plasmid presence is impacting these parameters too. Our results indicated that ΔhdrB strains and hdrB selection markers have the most influence on H. volcanii cell shape, in addition to the sole presence of a plasmid. Finally, we discuss limitations in studying cell shape in H. volcanii and make recommendations based on our results for improving reproducibility of such studies.
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spelling pubmed-105708082023-10-14 “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity” Patro, Megha Duggin, Iain G. Albers, Sonja-Verena Ithurbide, Solenne Front Microbiol Microbiology Haloferax volcanii and other Haloarchaea can be pleomorphic, adopting different shapes, which vary with growth stages. Several studies have shown that H. volcanii cell shape is sensitive to various external factors including growth media and physical environment. In addition, several studies have noticed that the presence of a recombinant plasmid in the cells is also a factor impacting H. volcanii cell shape, notably by favoring the development of rods in early stages of growth. Here we investigated the reasons for this phenomenon by first studying the impact of auxotrophic mutations on cell shape in strains that are commonly used as genetic backgrounds for selection during strain engineering (namely: H26, H53, H77, H98, and H729) and secondly, by studying the effect of the presence of different plasmids containing selection markers on the cell shape of these strains. Our study showed that most of these auxotrophic strains have variation in cell shape parameters including length, aspect ratio, area and circularity and that the plasmid presence is impacting these parameters too. Our results indicated that ΔhdrB strains and hdrB selection markers have the most influence on H. volcanii cell shape, in addition to the sole presence of a plasmid. Finally, we discuss limitations in studying cell shape in H. volcanii and make recommendations based on our results for improving reproducibility of such studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10570808/ /pubmed/37840741 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1270665 Text en Copyright © 2023 Patro, Duggin, Albers and Ithurbide. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Patro, Megha
Duggin, Iain G.
Albers, Sonja-Verena
Ithurbide, Solenne
“Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title_full “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title_fullStr “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title_full_unstemmed “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title_short “Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
title_sort “influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity”
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10570808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37840741
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1270665
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