Survival Strategies in the Aquatic and Terrestrial World: The Impact of Second Messengers on Cyanobacterial Processes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Second Messengers in Cyanobacteria
2.1. Calcium, Ca2+
2.1.1. Calcium Controls Motility
2.1.2. The Role of Ca2+ in Heterocyst Differentiation
2.1.3. Responses to Temperature Stress and Other Stresses Are Mediated by Ca2+
2.2. Guanosine-3’, 5’-(bis) Pyrophosphate, (p)ppGpp
Second messenger | Pfam | Function | Number of genomes |
---|---|---|---|
(p)ppGpp | 04607 | (p)ppGpp synthesis and degradation | 83 |
cAMP or cGMP | 00211 | Adenylate and guanylate cyclase | 65 |
c-di-GMP | 00990 | Diguanylate cyclase | 61 |
00563 | Diguanylate phosphodiesterase | 60 | |
Nitric oxide | 00394 | Nitrite reductase | 27 |
07731 | Nitrite reductase | 49 | |
07732 | Nitrite reductase | 47 | |
13442 | Nitrite reductase | 80 | |
00115 | Nitric oxide reductase | 83 | |
c-di-AMP | 02457 | Diadenylyl cyclase | 83 |
2.2.1. The Role of (p)ppGpp in Cyanobacterial Cells
2.2.2. Cyanophage and (p)ppGpp
2.3. Cyclic Adenosine 3’,5’-Monophosphate, cAMP
2.3.1. Cyclic AMP Regulates Motility Under Blue, Red, and Far Red Light
2.3.2. cAMP-dependent Transcriptional Regulation of Motility
2.3.3. Cyclic AMP as Nutrient Deficiency Signal
2.3.4. The Role of cAMP under Other Stresses
2.4. Cyclic Guanosine 3’,5’-Monophosphate, cGMP
2.5. Cyclic Dimeric Guanosine 3’,5’-Monophosphate, c-di-GMP
2.6. Nitric Oxide, NO
2.7. New Second Messenger-Dependent Phenotypes in Cyanobacteria
2.8. Cross Talk in Second Messenger Signaling
3. Challenges for the Future
3.1. The Complexity of Second Messenger Regulatory Networks
3.2. Second Messengers and Practical Application in Biotechnology or Therapeutics
4. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Supplementary Materials
Conflicts of Interest
References and Notes
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Agostoni, M.; Montgomery, B.L. Survival Strategies in the Aquatic and Terrestrial World: The Impact of Second Messengers on Cyanobacterial Processes. Life 2014, 4, 745-769. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040745
Agostoni M, Montgomery BL. Survival Strategies in the Aquatic and Terrestrial World: The Impact of Second Messengers on Cyanobacterial Processes. Life. 2014; 4(4):745-769. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040745
Chicago/Turabian StyleAgostoni, Marco, and Beronda L. Montgomery. 2014. "Survival Strategies in the Aquatic and Terrestrial World: The Impact of Second Messengers on Cyanobacterial Processes" Life 4, no. 4: 745-769. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040745