title: Changes in transcription during recovery from heat injury in Salmonella typhimurium and effects of BCAA on recovery.
abstract: Mechanisms of recovery from heat injury in Salmonella typhimurium were elucidated. Recovery of the heat-injured S. typhimurium cells in TSB resulted in full recovery after 3 h of incubation at 37°C. The DNA microarray analysis of 30- and 60-min recovering cells resulted in an increase in transcription of 89 and 141 genes, respectively. Among them, 15 genes, with known function, seemed to be somewhat involved in recovery. They encoded proteins involved in branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) transport (livJ, livH), cell envelope integrity (ddg), heat-shock response (cpxP, rrmJ), phage shock protein (pspA), ribosome modulation factor (rmf), virulence (sseB) transcriptional regulation (rpoE, rpoH, rseA, rseB, rseC) and ArcB signal transduction (sixA) and cytoplasmic membrane protein (fxsA). Among them, the effects of BCAA supplementation on recovery from heat injury were studied to confirm the importance of the BCAA transport liv genes during recovery. It was found that supplementation of TSB with 0.1% BCAA resulted in an enhanced recovery of injured cells in comparison to those recovered in TSB without BCAA. Supplementation of BCAA at 0.1% resulted in a cell count increase 4.4-fold greater than that of the control after 1 h incubation. It seems that BCAA promoted the recovery by promoting protein synthesis either directly through their use in translation or indirectly through stimulation of protein synthesis by activation of the Lrp protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hsu-Ming
authors.forename: Kimitaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: Yoshimasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Ken-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honjoh
authors.forename: Kousuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tashiro
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000597:Amino Acids, Branched-Chain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018869:Heat-Shock Response / Q000235:genetics*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D050296:Microbial Viability / Q000235:genetics; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000235:genetics; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D000597:Amino Acids, Branched-Chain; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins