A Plasmid-Borne Gene Cluster Flanked by Two Restriction-Modification Systems Enables an Arctic Strain of Psychrobacter sp. to Decompose SDS

• Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
• Main Authors: Robert Lasek, Ignacy Piszczek, Monika Krolikowski, Adrian Sówka, Dariusz Bartosik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: Psychrobacter; psychrophile; SDS degradation; alkyl sulfatase; restriction–modification system; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Chemistry; QD1-999; Arctic; Arctic Island; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010551; https://doaj.org/article/e6e45bea9dc7416f9e6402488494166c

The cold-adapted Psychrobacter sp. strain DAB_AL62B, isolated from ornithogenic deposits on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, harbors a 34.5 kb plasmid, pP62BP1, which carries a genetic SLF module predicted to enable the host bacterium to metabolize alkyl sulfates including sodium dodecyl sulfate (S...