Alkaline pH Homeostasis in Bacteria: New Insights

Etana Padan

Eitan Bibi

Masahiro Ito

Terry Krulwich

^{Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 Israel}

^{Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel}

^{Graduate School of Life Sciences, Toyo University, Ouragun, Gunma 374-0193, Japan}

^{Department of Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10029 USA}

^{Corresponding author: Tel.: +972-2-6585094; fax: +972-2-6586947;}li.ca.ijuh.smv@anate (E. Padan)

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Abstract

The capacity of bacteria to survive and grow at alkaline pH values is of widespread importance in the epidemiology of pathogenic bacteria, in remediation and industrial settings, as well as in marine, plant-associated and extremely alkaline ecological niches. Alkali-tolerance and alkaliphily, in turn, strongly depend upon mechanisms for alkaline pH homeostasis, as shown in pH shift experiments and growth experiments in chemostats at different external pH values. Transcriptome and proteome analyses have recently complemented physiological and genetic studies, revealing numerous adaptations that contribute to alkaline pH homeostasis. These include elevated levels of transporters and enzymes that promote proton capture and retention (e.g. the ATP synthase and monovalent cation/proton antiporters), metabolic changes that lead to increased acid production, and changes in the cell surface layers that contribute to cytoplasmic proton retention. Targeted studies over the past decade have followed up the long-recognized importance of monovalent cations in active pH homeostasis. These studies show the centrality of monovalent cation/proton antiporters in this process while microbial genomics provides information about the constellation of such antiporters in individual strains. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genome databases has identified orthologes from bacteria to humans that allow better understanding of the specific functions and physiological roles of the antiporters. Detailed information about the properties of multiple antiporters in individual strains is starting to explain how specific monovalent cation/proton antiporters play dominant roles in alkaline pH homeostasis in cells that have several additional antiporters catalyzing ostensibly similar reactions. New insights into the pH-dependent Na^/H^{antiporter NhaA that plays an important role in}Escherichia coli have recently emerged from the determination of the structure of NhaA. This review highlights the approaches, major findings and unresolved problems in alkaline pH homeostasis, focusing on the small number of well-characterized alkali-tolerant and extremely alkaliphlic bacteria.

Keywords: pH homeostasis, Na^(K^)/H^{antiporters, alkaline pH homeostasis, NhaA, Mrp, MdfA, Tet(L)}

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