Sigrid Schmitt

Publications (2)8.85 Total impact

• Article: Proteomic changes in maize roots after short-term adjustment to saline growth conditions.

  Christian Zörb, Sigrid Schmitt, Karl H Mühling
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  ABSTRACT: It is of fundamental importance to understand adaptation processes leading to salt resistance. The initial effects on maize roots in the first hour after the adjustment to saline conditions were monitored to elucidate initial responses. The subsequent proteome change was monitored using a 2-D proteomic approach. We found several new salt-inducible proteins, whose expression has not been previously reported to be modulated by salt. A set of phosphoproteins in maize was detected but only ten proteins were phosphorylated and six proteins were dephosphorylated after the application of 25 mM NaCl for 1 h. Some of the phosphorylated maize proteins such as fructokinase, UDP-glucosyl transferase BX9, and 2-Cys-peroxyredoxine were enhanced, whereas an isocitrate-dehydrogenase, calmodulin, maturase, and a 40-S-ribosomal protein were dephosphorylated after adjustment to saline conditions. The initial reaction of the proteome and phosphoproteome of maize after adjustment to saline conditions reveals members of sugar signalling and cell signalling pathways such as calmodulin, and gave hint to a transduction chain which is involved in NaCl-induced signalling. An alteration of 14-3-3 proteins as detected may change plasma membrane ATPase activity and cell wall growth regulators such as xyloglucane endotransglycosylase were also found to be changed immediately after the adjustment to salt stress.
  Proteomics 12/2010; 10(24):4441-9. · 4.43 Impact Factor
• Article: Staphylococcus aureus ClpC ATPase is a late growth phase effector of metabolism and persistence.

  Indranil Chatterjee, Sigrid Schmitt, Christoph F Batzilla, Susanne Engelmann, Andreas Keller, Michael W Ring, Ralf Kautenburger, Wilma Ziebuhr, Michael Hecker, Klaus T Preissner, Markus Bischoff, Richard A Proctor, Horst P Beck, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Greg A Somerville, Mathias Herrmann
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  ABSTRACT: Staphylococcus aureus Clp ATPases (molecular chaperones) alter normal physiological functions including an aconitase-mediated effect on post-stationary growth, acetate catabolism, and entry into death phase (Chatterjee et al., J. Bacteriol. 2005, 187, 4488-4496). In the present study, the global function of ClpC in physiology, metabolism, and late-stationary phase survival was examined using DNA microarrays and 2-D PAGE followed by MALDI-TOF MS. The results suggest that ClpC is involved in regulating the expression of genes and/or proteins of gluconeogenesis, the pentose-phosphate pathway, pyruvate metabolism, the electron transport chain, nucleotide metabolism, oxidative stress, metal ion homeostasis, stringent response, and programmed cell death. Thus, one major function of ClpC is balancing late growth phase carbon metabolism. Furthermore, these changes in carbon metabolism result in alterations of the intracellular concentration of free NADH, the amount of cell-associated iron, and fatty acid metabolism. This study provides strong evidence for ClpC as a critical factor in staphylococcal energy metabolism, stress regulation, and late-stationary phase survival; therefore, these data provide important insight into the adaptation of S. aureus toward a persister state in chronic infections.
  Proteomics 04/2009; 9(5):1152-76. · 4.43 Impact Factor