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. 2013 Mar 28;12:30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-30

Table 2.

Overview of the most relevant cellular functions affected by elevated pressure alone and by elevated pressure and DOT

Cellular function
Differentially expressed genes
  Pressure Pressure oxygen
Stress sensing/stress response
• aer-1 (-), MCP (-)
• aer-1 (-), MCP (-)
 
• rpoH and heat-shock genes (+)
• rpoH and heat-shock genes (+)
 
DNA repair (-)
DNA repair (-)
Control of reactive oxygen species
• ahpC, glutathione genes (+)
• ahpC, glutathione genes (+)
 
• anr (+) and cyo (+)
• anr (-) and cyo (+)
 
Cbb3-1 (+), Cbb3-2 (-), Aa3 (-), Cyo (+), azu (+)
Cbb3-1 (-), Cbb3-2 (-), Aa3 (-), Cyo (+), azu (-)
Cell envelope
• oprG (+), oprH (+)
• oprG (-), oprH (+)
 
membrane proteins
membrane proteins
 
secretion systems (+)
secretion systems (+)
Internal pH
urease (+)
secretion systems (+)
 
secretion systems (+)
 
 
oxidative stress (+)
oxidative stress (+)
Fe homeostasis/Fe-S clusters
siderophore transporters (+), bacterioferritin (-)
 
 
 
siderophore transporters (+), bacterioferritin (-)
Biosynthetic metabolism
 
ADI (-)
    Glu synthesis/metabolism (+)

Induction and repression of gene transcription is indicated by the signs (+) and (-), respectively, and major differences of gene transcription between the two conditions are indicated by the bold font. Abbreviations: ADI, arginine deiminase pathway; Glu, glutamate; MCP, methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein.