Engulfment during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is governed by a multi-protein complex containing tandemly acting autolysins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-152

  Chastanet, Arnaud ^a   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPOIIB; PROTEIN SPOIID; PROTEIN SPOIIM; PROTEIN SPOIIP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33947252355     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05652.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Abanes-De Mello, A., Sun, Y.L., Aung, S., and Pogliano, K. (2002) A cytoskeleton-like role for the bacterial cell wall during engulfment of the Bacillus subtilis forespore. Genes Dev 16: 3253-3264.
2. Chastanet, A., Fert, J., and Msadek, T. (2003) Comparative genomics reveal novel heat shock regulatory mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria. Mol Microbiol 47: 1061-1073.
3. Coote, J.G. (1972) Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Characterization of oligosporogenous mutants and comparison of their phenotypes with those of asporogenous mutants. J Gen Microbiol 71: 1-15.
4. Cormack, B.P., Valdivia, R.H., and Falkow, S. (1996) FACS-optimized mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Gene 173: 33-38.
5. Eichenberger, P., Fawcett, P., and Losick, R. (2001) A three-protein inhibitor of polar septation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol 42: 1147-1162.
6. Ellermeier, C.D., and Losick, R. (2006) Evidence for a novel protease governing regulated intramembrane proteolysis and resistance to antimicrobial peptides in Bacillus subtilis. Genes Dev 20: 1911-1922.
7. Frandsen, N., and Stragier, P. (1995) Identification and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis spoIIP locus. J Bacteriol 177: 716-722.
8. Harwood, C.R., and Cutting, S.M. (1990) In Molecular Biological Methods for Bacillus. Harwood and Cuttings (eds). John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
9. Herbold, D.R., and Glaser, L. (1975) Bacillus subtilis N-acetylmuramic acid L-alanine amidase. J Biol Chem 250: 1676-1682.
10. Kaltwasser, M., Wiegert, T., and Schumann, W. (2002) Construction and application of epitope- and green fluorescent protein-tagging integration vectors for Bacillus subtilis. Appl Environ Microbiol 68: 2624-2628.
11. Lopilato, J., Bortner, S., and Beckwith, J. (1986) Mutations in a new chromosomal gene of Escherichia coli K-12, pcnB, reduce plasmid copy number of pBR322 and its derivatives. Mol Gen Genet 205: 285-290.
12. Margolis, P.S., Driks, A., and Losick, R. (1993) Sporulation gene spoIIB from Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 175: 528-540.
13. Middleton, R., and Hofmeister, A. (2004) New shuttle vectors for ectopic insertion of genes into Bacillus subtilis. Plasmid 51: 238-245.
14. van Ooij, C., Eichenberger, P., and Losick, R. (2004) Dynamic patterns of subcellular protein localization during spore coat morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 186: 4441-4448.
15. Perez, A.R., Abanes-De Mello, A., and Pogliano, K. (2000) SpoIIB localizes to active sites of septal biogenesis and spatially regulates septal thinning during engulfment in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 182: 1096-1108.
16. Perez, A.R., Abanes-De Mello, A., and Pogliano, K. (2006) Suppression of engulfment defects in Bacillus subtilis by elevated expression of the motility regulon. J Bacteriol 188: 1159-1164.
17. Ramamurthi, K.S., Clapham, K.R., and Losick, R. (2006) Peptide anchoring spore coat assembly to the outer forespore membrane in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol 62: 1547-1557.
18. Rong, S., Rosenkrantz, M.S., and Sonenshein, A.L. (1986) Transcriptional control of the Bacillus subtilis spoIID gene. J Bacteriol 165: 771-779.
19. Rudner, D.Z., and Losick, R. (2002) A sporulation membrane protein tethers the pro-sigmaK processing enzyme to its inhibitor and dictates its subcellular localization. Genes Dev 16: 1007-1018.
20. Sandman, K., Losick, R., and Youngman, P. (1987) Genetic analysis of Bacillus subtilis spo mutations generated by Tn917-mediated insertional mutagenesis. Genetics 117: 603-617.
21. Shida, T., Hattori, H., Ise, F., and Sekiguchi, J. (2001) Mutational analysis of catalytic sites of the cell wall lytic N-acetylmuramoyl- L-alanine amidases CwlC and CwlV. J Biol Chem 276: 28140-28146.
22. Smith, K., and Youngman, P. (1993) Evidence that the spoIIM gene of Bacillus subtilis is transcribed by RNA polymerase associated with sigma E. J Bacteriol 175: 3618-3627.
23. Smith, K., Bayer, M.E., and Youngman, P. (1993) Physical and functional characterization of the Bacillus subtilis spoIIM gene. J Bacteriol 175: 3607-3617.
24. Soding, J., Biegert, A., and Lupas, A.N. (2005) The HHpred interactive server for protein homology detection and structure prediction. Nucleic Acids Res 33: W244-W248.
25. Sterlini, J.M., and Mandelstam, J. (1969) Commitment to sporulation in Bacillus subtilis and its relationship to development of actinomycin resistance. Biochem J 113: 29-37.
26. Sugai, M., Akiyama, T., Komatsuzawa, H., Miyake, Y., and Suginaka, H. (1990) Characterization of sodium dodecyl sulfate-stable Staphylococcus aureus bacteriolytic enzymes by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. J Bacteriol 172: 6494-6498.
27. Youngman, P., Perkins, J.B., and Losick, R. (1984) Construction of a cloning site near one end of Tn917 into which foreign DNA may be inserted without affecting transposition in Bacillus subtilis or expression of the transposonborne erm gene. Plasmid 12: 1-9.
28. Zheng, L. (1990) Spore coat protein genes and their regulation in B. subtilis. PhD Thesis. Harvard University.