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Cyanobacteria are very sensitive to ketone action. To investigate the possible molecular mechanisms of the ketone 2-nonanone influence on cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, we applied a genetic approach. After Tn5-692 transposon mutagenesis, several 2-nonanone resistant mutants have been selected. Four different mutant strains were used for identification of the impaired genes (Synpcc7942_1362, Synpcc7942_0351, Synpcc7942_0732, Synpcc7942_0726) that encode correspondingly: 1) a murein-peptide ligase Mpl that is involved in the biogenesis of cyanobacteria cell wall; 2) a putative ABC transport system substrate-binding proteins MlaD, which participates in ABC transport system that maintains lipid asymmetry in the gram-negative outer membrane by aberrantly localized phospholipids transport from outer to inner membranes of bacterial cells; 3) a conserved hypothetical protein that is encoding by gene belonging to phage gene cluster in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 genome; 4) a protein containing the VRR-NUC (virus-type replication-repair nuclease) domain present in restriction-modification enzymes involved in replication and DNA repair. The obtained results demonstrated that 2-nonanone may have different targets in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 cells. Among them are proteins involved in the biogenesis and functioning of the cyanobacteria cell wall (Synpcc7942_1362, Synpcc7942_0351, Synpcc7942_0732) and protein participating in stress response at DNA restriction-modification level (Synpcc7942_0726). This paper is the first report about the genes that encode protein products, which can be affected by 2-nonanone.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/microorganisms8081234","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,13]],"date-time":"2020-08-13T09:23:44Z","timestamp":1597310624000},"page":"1234","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Four New Genes of Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 Are Responsible for Sensitivity to 2-Nonanone"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2913-9017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olga A.","family":"Koksharova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1-40, 119992 Moscow, Russia"},{"name":"Institute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Center \u201cKurchatov Institute\u201d, Kurchatov Square, 2, 123182 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexandra A.","family":"Popova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Center \u201cKurchatov Institute\u201d, Kurchatov Square, 2, 123182 Moscow, Russia"},{"name":"Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, The Federal Research Centre \u201cFundamentals of Biotechnology\u201d of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt 60 let Oktyabrya, 7\/2, 117312 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3127-4114","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vladimir A.","family":"Plyuta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Center \u201cKurchatov Institute\u201d, Kurchatov Square, 2, 123182 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3079-7845","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Inessa A.","family":"Khmel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Center \u201cKurchatov Institute\u201d, Kurchatov Square, 2, 123182 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"811","DOI":"10.1111\/pce.12254","article-title":"The emerging importance of microbial volatile organic compounds","volume":"37","author":"Piechulla","year":"2014","journal-title":"Plant Cell Environ."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"D1261","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkx1016","article-title":"mVOC 2.0: A database of microbial volatiles","volume":"46","author":"Lemfack","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nucl. 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