Essential nature of the mreC determinant of Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4490-4498

  Lee, Joong Chul ^a   Stewart, George C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROPYL BETA THIOGALACTOSIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PYRANOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; MRE GENE; MREB GENE; MREC GENE; MRED GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MURAMIC ACIDS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038782140     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.15.4490-4498.2003     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Abhayawardhane, Y. K., and G. C. Stewart. 1995. Bacillus subtilis possesses a second determinant with extensive sequence similarity to the Escherichia coli mreB morphogene. J. Bacteriol. 177:765-773.
2. Beall, B., and J. Lutkenhaus. 1991. FtsZ in Bacillus subtilis is required for vegetative septation and for asymmetric septation during sporulation. Genes Dev. 5:447-455.
3. Benson, A. K., and W. G. Haldenwang. 1993. Regulation of σB levels and activity in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 175:2347-2356.
4. Bhavsar, A. P., T. J. Beveridge, and E. D. Brown. 2001. Precise deletion of tagD and controlled depletion of its product, glycerol 3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase, leads to irregular morphology and lysis of Bacillus subtilis grown at physiological temperature. J. Bacteriol. 183:6688-6693.
5. Birnboim, H. C., and J. Doly. 1979. A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 7:1513-1523.
6. Bork, P., C. Sander, and A. Valencia. 1992. An ATPase domain common to prokaryotic cell cycle proteins, sugar kinases, actin, and Hsp70 shock proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:7290-7294.
7. Burger, A., K. Sichler, G. Kelemen, M. Buttner, and W. Wohlleben. 2000. Identification and characterization of the mre gene region of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Mol. Gen. Genet. 263:1053-1060.
8. Cha, J.-H., and G. C. Stewart. 1997. The divIVA minicell locus of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 179:1671-1683.
9. Cutting, S. M., and P. B. Vander Horn. 1990. Genetic analysis, p. 27-74. In C. R. Harwood and S. M. Cutting (ed.), Molecular biological methods for Bacillus. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, United Kingdom.
10. Dagert, M., and S. D. Ehrlich. 1979. Prolonged incubation in calcium chloride improves the competence of Escherichia coli cells. Gene 6:23-28.
11. Doi, M., M. Wachi, F. Ishino, S. Tomioka, M. Ito, Y. Sakagami, A. Suzuki, and M. Matsuhashi. 1988. Determinations of the DNA sequence of the mreB gene and of the gene products of the mre region that function in formation of the rod shape of Escherichia coli cells. J. Bacteriol. 170:4619-4624.
12. Ensign, J. C., and R. S. Wolfe. 1964. Nutritional control of morphogenesis in Arthrobacter crystallopoietes. J. Bacteriol. 47:137-153.
13. Erickson, R. J., and J. C. Copeland. 1972. Structure and replication of chromosomes in competent cells of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 109:1075-1084.
14. Gupta, R. S., and B. Singh. 1992. Cloning of the Hsp70 gene from Halobacterium marismortui: relatedness of archaebacterial Hsp70 to its eubacterial homologs and a model for the evolution of the Hsp70 gene. J. Bacteriol. 174:4594-4605.
15. Hadzija, O. 1974. A simple method for the quantitative determination of muramic acid. Anal. Biochem. 60:512-517.
16. Honeyman, A. L., and G. C. Stewart. 1989. The nucleotide sequence of the rodC operon of Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 3:1257-1268.
17. Jones, L. J. F., R. Carballido-Lopez, and J. Errington. 2001. Control of cell shape in bacteria: helical, actin-like filaments in Bacillus subtilis, Cell 104:913-922.
18. Kubo, M., D. J. Pierro, Y. Mochizuki, T. Kojima, T. Yamazaki, S. Satoh, N. Takizawa, and H. Kiyohara. 1996. Bacillus stearothermophilus cell shape determinant genes, mreC and mreD, and their stimulation of protease production in Bacillus subtilis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 60:271-276.
19. Lee, J.-C., J.-H. Cha, D. B. Zerby, and G. C. Stewart. Heterospecific expression of the Bacillus subtilis cell shape determination genes mreBCD in Escherichia coli. Curr. Microbiol., in press.
20. Levin, P. A., P. S. Margolis, P. Setlow, R. Losick, and D. Sun. 1992. Identification of Bacillus subtilis genes for septum placement and shape determination. J. Bacteriol. 174:6717-6728.
21. Lleo, M. M., P. Canepari, and G. Satta. 1990. Bacterial cell shape regulation: testing of additional predictions unique to the two -competing-sites model for peptidoglycan assembly and isolation of conditional rod-shaped mutants from some wild-type cocci. J. Bacteriol. 172:3758-3771.
22. Oskouian, B., and G. C. Stewart. 1990. Repression and catabolite repression of the lactose operon of Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 172:3804-3812.
23. Pooley, H. M., F.-X. Abellan, and D. Karamata. 1992. CDP-glycerol:poly(glycerophosphate) glycerophosphotransferase, which is involved in the synthesis of the major wall teichoic acid in Bacillus subtilis 168, is encoded by tagF (rodC). J. Bacteriol. 174:646-649.
24. Satta, G., P. Canepari, and R. Fontana. 1983. A novel hypothesis to explain regulation of the murein sacculus shape, p. 135-140. In R. Hakenbeck, J. V. Holtje, and H. Labischinski (ed.), The target of penicillin. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.
25. Signoretto, C., F. Di Stefano, and P. Canepari. 1996. Modified peptidoglycan chemical composition in shape-altered Escherichia coli. Microbiology 142:1919-1926.
26. Varley, A. W., and G. C. Stewart. 1992. The divIVB region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome encodes homologs of Escherichia coli septum placement (MinCD) and cell shape determinants (MreBCD). J. Bacteriol. 174:6729-6742.
27. Wachi, M., M. Doi, Y. Okada, and M. Matsuhashi. 1989. New mre genes mreC and mreD, responsible for formation of the rod shape of Escherichia coli cells. J. Bacteriol. 171:6511-6516.
28. Wachi, M., M. Doi, S. Tamaki, W. Park, S. Nakajima-lijima, and M. Matsuhashi. 1987. Mutant isolation and molecular cloning of mre genes which determine cell shape, sensitivity to mecillinam, and amount of penicillin-binding proteins in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 169:4935-4940.
29. Wachi, M., M. Doi, T. Ueda, M. Ueki, K. Tsuritani, K. Nagai, and M. Matsuhashi. 1991. Sequence of the downstream flanking region of the shape-determining genes mreBCD of Escherichia coli. Gene 106:135-136.
30. Wachi, M., and M. Matsuhashi. 1989. Negative control of cell division by mreB, a gene that functions in determining the rod shape of Escherichia coli cells. J. Bacteriol. 171:3123-3127.
31. Wagner, P. M., and G. C. Stewart. 1991. Role and expression of the rodC operon of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 173:4341-4346.
32. Yanouri, A., R. A. Daniel, J. Errington, and C. E. Buchanan. 1993. Cloning and sequencing of the cell division gene pbpB, which encodes penicillin-binding protein 2B in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 175:7604-7616.
33. Yansura, D. G., and D. J. Henner. 1984. Use of the Escherichia coli lac repressor and operator to control gene expression in Bacillus subtilis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:439-443.