SE180:/S01

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ID	TSE1338
Title	Alteration of cyanobacterial sugar and amino acid metabolism by overexpression hik8, encoding a KaiC-associated histidine kinase.
Description	Cyanobacteria possess circadian clocks consisting of KaiABC proteins, and circadian rhythm must closely relate to the primary metabolism. A histidine kinase, SasA, interacts with KaiC to transduce circadian signals and widely regulates transcription in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, although the involvement of SasA in primary metabolism has not been demonstrated at metabolite levels. Here, we generated a strain overexpressing hik8 (HOX80), an orthologue of SasA in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. HOX80 grew slowly under light conditions and lost viability under continuous dark conditions. Transcript levels of genes related to sugar catabolism remained higher in HOX80 under dark conditions. Metabolomic analysis revealed that under light conditions, glycogen was undetectable in HOX80, and there were decreased levels of metabolites of sugar catabolism and increased levels of amino acids, compared with those in the wild-type strain. HOX80 exhibited aberrant degradation of SigE proteins after a light-to-dark transition and immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that Hik8 directly interacts with KaiC1. The results of this study demonstrate that overexpression of hik8 widely alters sugar and amino acid metabolism, revealing the involvement of Hik8 in primary metabolism under both light and dark conditions in this cyanobacterium.
Authors	Osanai, T., Shirai, T., Iijima, H., Suzuki, I., Kondo, A. and Hirai, M.Y.
Reference	Environ Microbiol. 2015 Jul;17(7):2430-40. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12715
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ID	S01
Title	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Organism - Scientific Name	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substr. GT-I
Organism - ID	NCBI:txid1080228
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Preparation	The glucose‐tolerant strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, isolated by Williams (1988), and the hik8‐overexpressing strain, designated as HOX80, were grown in modified BG‐11 medium, which consisted of BG‐110 liquid medium (Rippka, 1988) containing 5 mM NH4Cl (buffered with 20 mM Hepes‐KOH, pH 7.8). Among GT substrains, the GT‐I strain was used in this study (Kanesaki et al., 2012). Liquid cultures were bubbled with 1% (v/v) CO2 in air and incubated at 30°C under continuous white light (c. 50–70 μmol photons m−2 s−1). For plate cultures, modified BG‐11 medium (containing 10 mM NH4Cl in liquid medium) was solidified with agar (1.5% w/v), and cultures were incubated in air at 30°C under continuous white light (c. 50–70 μmol photons m−2 s−1). Growth and cell densities were measured at OD730 with a Hitachi U‐3310 spectrophotometer (Hitachi High‐Tech., Tokyo, Japan).
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