Isolation of gene conferring salt tolerance from halophilic bacteria of Lunsu, Himachal Pradesh, India

Sonika Gupta1, Parul Sharma1, Kamal Dev1, Anuradha Sourirajan1
1Faculty of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Halophiles offer an attractive source of genes conferring salt tolerance. Halobacillus trueperi SS1 strain of Lunsu, Himachal Pradesh, India, a strict halophile, was exploited to isolate and clone the genes for salt tolerance. The genomic library of BamH1 digest of H. trueperi SS1 was constructed in pUC19, and recombinants were screened for salt tolerance on an LB medium containing ampicillin (100 μg/ml) and NaCl (0 to 1.5 M). One recombinant clone named as salt-tolerant clone (STC) conferred salt tolerance to host Escherichia coli/DH5α, which showed growth in the LB medium supplemented with ampicillin and 1.2 M NaCl. Restriction digestion and PCR analysis revealed the presence of an insert of approximately 2000 bp in the STC. DNA sequencing of the 2-kb insert on both strands yielded a sequence of 2301 nucleotides. Protein BLAST analysis of 2301-bp sequence of H. trueperi SS1 present in STC showed 97% identity to multidrug transport ATP binding/permease protein of Halobacillus karajensis. The insert contained in STC was subcloned into pGEX4T2 vector, and the recombinant clone STC/pGEX4T2 conferred salt tolerance to the bacterial host E. coli. The present study led to the isolation of salt tolerance gene encoding a putative multidrug transport ATP binding/permease protein from H. trueperi SS1. The salt tolerance gene can be subcloned for transferring salt tolerance traits into agricultural crop plants for cultivation in saline and coastal lands.

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