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Roseophage RDJLΦ1, Infecting the Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114

Yongyu Zhang, Nianzhi Jiao
Yongyu Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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Nianzhi Jiao
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DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02131-08
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ABSTRACT

A marine roseophage RDJLΦ1 lytically infecting Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114 was isolated and characterized. RDJLΦ1 can package several host cellular proteins into its virions, and its DNA is refractory to several commonly used restriction enzymes. This paper presents the first report of a bacteriophage isolated from the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria.

Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAPB) are considered to play a unique role in global oceanic carbon and energy cycles (17, 18). Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114, the first bacterium discovered to have the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic feature (14, 31), is the most studied model strain of an AAPB (43). In addition, R. denitrificans OCh114 is a member of the Roseobacter lineage, which is one of the dominant lineages in the marine environment (7, 37).

In recent years, great attention has been given to the ecological dynamics and genetic diversity of AAPB (4, 15, 17-19, 30, 38) and to the Roseobacter lineage (7, 37); however, little is known about the viruses that infect AAPB. As is well known, viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the sea (13, 33), and most of them are phages responsible for a substantial portion of the bacterial mortality there (3, 39). They can structure the microbial community and influence the processes and biogeochemical cycles of the microbial food web. Meanwhile, lateral gene transfer by viral infection also promotes the community's evolutionary processes (5, 13, 20, 23, 34, 39, 40). Therefore, studies on marine phages, especially those infecting environmentally important microorganisms such as AAPB and roseobacters, are of great ecological significance. However, so far, no AAPB phage, and only one roseophage, are reported (29).

To set up a host-phage system belonging to the Roseobacter and AAPB group, R. denitrificans OCh114 was employed as the host to select phages. Surface-water samples (100 liters) were collected from the South China Sea (17.597°N, 116.029°E) and then concentrated following a protocol described by Chen et al. (10). The final viral concentrate was used to screen phages using the double-agar layer method (1). As a result, a phage provisionally named RDJLΦ1 that could form small, clear, round plaques (ca. 3 mm in diameter) on the bacterial lawn was obtained and then purified using the CsCl density gradient ultracentrifugation method as previously described by Chen et al. (11).

A transmission electron micrograph (Fig. 1) of the purified phage negatively stained with 2% phosphotungstic acid shows that RDJLΦ1 has an isometric head (ca. 69 nm in diameter) and a long, flexible, noncontractile tail (ca. 170 nm long and ca. 9 nm wide) and thus should be a member of the Siphoviridae family.

To understand if the virion of RDJLΦ1 contains lipids, we tested the phage sensitivity to chloroform as described by Alonso et al. (2). As a result, no decrease was observed in the viable titer of RDJLΦ1 when mixed with chloroform (data not shown). The resistance to chloroform indicated that RDJLΦ1 is a lipid-free phage.

Using the double-agar layer method (1), the host range of RDJLΦ1 was tested with twenty-four available bacterial strains. As shown in Table 1, only R. denitrificans OCh114 was susceptible to RDJLΦ1, indicating the relatively narrow host range of this phage. Next, the one-step growth curve of RDJLΦ1 was measured using a modification of the method of Wu et al. (42). Bacteriophages and the exponentially growing R. denitrificans OCh114 culture, at a multiplicity of infection of approximately 0.1, were incubated for 20 min at 4°C to allow phage adsorption. The mixture was then centrifuged, and the pelleted cells were resuspended in 30 ml of the autoclaved medium containing (liter−1 of 0.22-μm-filtered seawater) 1.0 g of yeast extract and 1.0 g of peptone. Samples were taken at 20- to 30-min intervals and immediately fixed with glutaraldehyde (2.5% final concentration) prior to enumeration. The host and phages stained with SYBR gold were enumerated using epifluorescence microscopy (9). Finally, based on the growth curves of RDJLΦ1 and its host (Fig. 2A and B), the burst size of RDJLΦ1 was estimated to be ca. 203, and the latent period was ca. 80 min. We have to point out that the burst size of an isolated host-phage system is consistently larger, and the latent period is shorter than those occurring in the natural environment, since the growth characteristics of a phage are influenced by the nutritional or metabolic status of the host (6, 39).

To determine the nature of the RDJLΦ1 nucleic acid, we extracted the phage genome following the procedures described by Jamalludeen et al. (16) and treated it with RNase A and DNase I separately. The results showed that the phage genome was insensitive to RNase A, but completely degraded by DNase I (data not shown), indicating that RDJLΦ1 is a DNA phage.

Then the phage DNA was subjected to digestion by six different restriction enzymes, including AfaI, HhaI, HaeIII, TaqI, XbaI, and EcoRI. Of these enzymes, only AfaI, TaqI, and EcoRI could digest the phage DNA (data not shown). The susceptibility of the phage DNA to restriction digestion further indicated that the RDJLΦ1 genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule. However, the phage DNA was resistant to the other three enzymes (HhaI, HaeIII, and XbaI).

Many phages have been reported to be refractory to restriction digestion (28, 32, 42). The resistance to restriction digestion is considered a phage development during the endless arms race between the phage and its host (25, 36). Some bacteria can use their restriction-modification systems to fight against phages by cutting the exogenous phage DNA into pieces (8, 26). Correspondingly, to escape digestion by the restriction-modification system, phages can evolve several strategies to protect themselves, such as losing restriction sites, the incorporation of unusual bases within the phage DNA, and encoding methyltransferase to modify specific nucleotides within the recognition site (25).

In order to obtain some phage DNA sequences for investigating the resistance mechanism of RDJLΦ1 to several restriction enzymes, two decamer primers (P1 [5′-GGG TAA CGC C-3′] and P2 [5′-AAC GGG CAG A-3′]) were applied to the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) PCR of the phage genome (32, 41). RAPD PCR was performed with a total volume of 50 μl containing 35.5 μl of distilled water, 5 μl of 10× PCR buffer, 4 μl of deoxynucleoside triphosphate mixture, 50 pmol of primer, 0.5 μg template DNA, and 0.5 μl of Taq DNA polymerase under the following conditions: 94°C for 5 min, followed by 35 cycles of 94°C for 5 s, 36°C for 45 s, and 72°C for 1.3 min and finally an extension step at 72°C for 5 min.

Cloning and sequencing of the RAPD PCR products revealed a 1,651-bp phage DNA sequence (GenBank accession no. FJ169484) with G+C content of 58.7%. Using DNAssist software (27), an in silico digestion of this phage DNA fragment was performed with those restriction enzymes unable to cut the phage genome as described above. Interestingly, besides XbaI, both HhaI and HaeIII were found to have their specific cleavage sites within this DNA fragment (HhaI, 9 sites; HaeIII, 14 sites). This suggested that the phage genome may contain some modified DNA bases which conferred upon RDJLΦ1 resistance to these commonly used restriction enzymes. In the RDJLΦ1-host system, although the host genome was found to contain the R/M system (type I) genes (35), whose translated products are potent to be involved in the defense against phages, RDJLΦ1 still can infect R. denitrificans OCh114 without any restriction, probably due to the modification of its DNA.

By using the online GeneMark.hmm programs (22), the 1,651-bp DNA fragment obtained was predicted to contain two complete genes, provisionally named N1 (215 to 616 [402 bp]) and N2 (621 to 941 [321 bp]). Then the deduced amino acid sequences of N1 and N2 were used as the query in a BLAST search of the nonredundant GenBank protein database. The results showed that the most significant matches (i.e., the most homologous proteins) of N1 and N2 were both from a marine phage, ΦJL001, indicating a close relationship between phages RDJLΦ1 and ΦJL001. ΦJL001 is a marine double-stranded DNA siphophage infecting a sponge-associated alphaproteobacterium (21). While different from RDJLΦ1, which has a high lytic ability, ΦJL001 is a temperate phage with some pseudolysogenic characteristics (21).

To characterize the proteome of RDJLΦ1, the phage proteins were extracted following the procedure of Cho et al. (12) and separated by electrophoresis in 12.5% Tris-glycine-sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel with a 3% stacking gel. The visualized protein bands were then analyzed via matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry. A protein score of more than 75 and at least 4 matched peptides per protein were set as the threshold for positive identification. The results show that RDJLΦ1 contains at least 12 proteins (Fig. 3). Surprisingly, two of them were successfully identified as cellular proteins of R. denitrificans OCh114 (Table 2, bands F and I), and they accounted for a large proportion of the phage proteome. Before it was analyzed, phage RDJLΦ1 had been extensively purified by filtration and density gradient ultracentrifugation and verified to be free of cellular organelles by electron microscopy (data not shown); hence, it is unlikely that the phages were contaminated with cellular proteins. Finding cellular proteins within RDJLΦ1 is unusual, for it is commonly considered that small viruses lacking envelopes have limited or no capacity to package host proteins (24). We are still unclear as to whether or not the two cellular proteins can play functional roles in the virion of RDJLΦ1 or are just passenger proteins accidentally packaged due to their location and high abundance. Further studies will be required to clarify the functions and assembly mechanisms of these cellular proteins within RDJLΦ1.

In addition, except for the phage protein bands J and L, which were identified as putative, the cellular 50S ribosomal protein L22, and protein RD1_3847 with less than four peptides matched, the other eight phage proteins are all novel proteins with no reliable homologous matches in the NCBI database, although all of them had high-quality MS spectra.

Despite the fact that interactions between a phage and host in culture would more or less differ from those occurring in the natural environment, setting up of the host-phage system for different microbial communities is ecologically meaningful and useful practically. The present study has opened a window to interactions between AAPB and their phages. We believe that with more and more phages isolated, more host-phage systems will be built up. Information from such models would contribute to our understanding of the ecological dynamics of AAPB as well as the origin of the phototrophic function of AAPB. In addition, studies on RDJLΦ1 will expand our knowledge concerning the roseophages.

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Electron micrograph of RDJLΦ1.

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One-step growth curve of RDJLΦ1 (A) and the growth curve of the infected R. denitrificans OCh114 (B).

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Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the structural proteins of RDJLΦ1. The molecular masses (M) of the standard proteins are indicated on the left. The letters on the right indicate the bands.

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Bacterial strains used in this study and their susceptibility to RDJLΦ1

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Phage proteins identified using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight tandem mass spectrometry

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by the MOST projects (2007CB815904 and 2006BAC11B04), SOA project (200805068), NSFC project (40632013), and MOE key project (704029).

We thank Chun-xiao Huang for assistance in the laboratory and Feng Chen for the gift of two bacterial cultures. John Hodgkiss is thanked for his help with English.

FOOTNOTES

    • Received 14 September 2008.
    • Accepted 6 January 2009.
  • Copyright © 2009 American Society for Microbiology

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Roseophage RDJLΦ1, Infecting the Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114
Yongyu Zhang, Nianzhi Jiao
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Mar 2009, 75 (6) 1745-1749; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02131-08
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