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Background   Gluconobacter oxydans  is a strictly aerobic Gram-negative acetic acid bacterium used industrially for oxidative biotransformations due to its exceptional type of catabolism. It incompletely oxidizes a wide variety of carbohydrates regio- and stereoselectively in the periplasm using membrane-bound dehydrogenases with accumulation of the products in the medium. As a consequence, only a small fraction of the carbon and energy source enters the cell, resulting in a low biomass yield. Additionally, central carbon metabolism is characterized by the absence of a functional glycolysis and absence of a functional tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Due to these features,  G. oxydans  is a highly interesting model organism. Here we analyzed global mRNA decay in  G. oxydans  to describe its characteristic features and to identify short-lived mRNAs representing potential bottlenecks in the metabolism for further growth improvement by metabolic engineering.    Results  Using DNA microarrays we estimated the mRNA half-lives in  G. oxydans . Overall, the mRNA half-lives ranged mainly from 3 min to 25 min with a global mean of 5.7 min. The transcripts encoding GroES and GroEL required for proper protein folding ranked at the top among transcripts exhibiting both long half-lives and high abundance. The F-type H + -ATP synthase transcripts involved in energy metabolism ranked among the transcripts with the shortest mRNA half-lives. RNAseq analysis revealed low expression levels for genes of the incomplete TCA cycle and also the mRNA half-lives of several of those were short and below the global mean. The mRNA decay analysis also revealed an apparent instability of full-length 23S rRNA. Further analysis of the ribosome-associated rRNA revealed a 23S rRNA fragmentation pattern exhibiting new cleavage regions in 23S rRNAs which were previously not known.    Conclusions  The very short mRNA half-lives of the H + -ATP synthase, which is likely responsible for the ATP-proton motive force interconversion in  G. oxydans  under many or most conditions, is notably in contrast to mRNA decay data from other bacteria. Together with the short mRNA half-lives and low expression of some other central metabolic genes it could limit intended improvements of  G. oxydans’  biomass yield by metabolic engineering. Also, further studies are needed to unravel the multistep process of the 23S rRNA fragmentation in  G. oxydans .    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-5111-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Global mRNA decay and 23S rRNA fragmentation in Gluconobacter oxydans 621H