title: Impact of Solar Radiation on Gene Expression in Bacteria.
abstract: Microorganisms often regulate their gene expression at the level of transcription and/or translation in response to solar radiation. In this review, we present the use of both transcriptomics and proteomics to advance knowledge in the field of bacterial response to damaging radiation. Those studies pertain to diverse application areas such as fundamental microbiology, water treatment, microbial ecology and astrobiology. Even though it has been demonstrated that mRNA abundance is not always consistent with the protein regulation, we present here an exhaustive review on how bacteria regulate their gene expression at both transcription and translation levels to enable biomarkers identification and comparison of gene regulation from one bacterial species to another.
authors.affiliation: UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer F-66650, France. sabine.matallana@obs-banyuls.fr.|CNRS, UMR7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer F-66650, France. sabine.matallana@obs-banyuls.fr.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matallana-Surget
authors.affiliation: Department of Proteomics and Microbiology, Research Institute for Biosciences, Interdisciplinary Mass Spectrometry Center (CISMa), University of Mons, Mons B-7000, Belgium. ruddy.wattiez@umons.ac.be.
authors.forename: Ruddy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wattiez
keywords: bacteria; gene regulation; proteomic; radiation; transcriptomic