1. Proteomic comparison of biofilm vs. planktonic Staphylococcus epidermidis cells suggests key metabolic differences between these conditions.
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Martínez-García S, Peralta H, Betanzos-Cabrera G, Chavez-Galan L, Rodríguez-Martínez S, Cancino-Diaz ME, and Cancino-Diaz JC
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- Carbohydrate Metabolism, Chromatography, Liquid, Citric Acid Cycle, DNA, Bacterial, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Glycolysis, Humans, Proteomics, Staphylococcal Infections microbiology, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Bacterial Proteins genetics, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Biofilms, Proteome, Staphylococcus epidermidis genetics, Staphylococcus epidermidis metabolism
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Previous studies have shown that biofilm-forming bacteria are deficient in tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle metabolites, suggesting a relationship between these cellular processes. In this work, we compared the proteomes of planktonic vs biofilm cells from a clinical strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis using LC-MS/MS. A total of 168 proteins were identified from both growth conditions. The biofilm cells showed enrichment of proteins participating in glycolysis for the formation of pyruvate; however, the absence of TCA cycle proteins and the presence of lactate dehydrogenase, formate acetyltransferase, and acetoin reductase suggested that pyruvate was catabolized to their respective products: lactate, formate and acetoin. On the other hand, planktonic cells showed proteins participating in glycolysis and the TCA cycle, the pentose phosphate pathway, gluconeogenesis, ATP generation and the oxidative stress response. Functional networks with higher interconnection were predicted for planktonic proteins. We propose that in S. epidermidis, the relative absence of TCA cycle proteins is associated with the formation of biofilms and that lactate, formate and acetoin are the end products of partial glucose metabolism., (Copyright © 2021 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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