Germination proteins in the inner membrane of dormant Bacillus subtilis spores colocalize in a discrete cluster

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作者
Griffiths, Keren K. [1 ]
Zhang, Jingqiao [2 ]
Cowan, Ann E. [1 ,2 ]
Yu, Ji [2 ]
Setlow, Peter [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Connecticut, Ctr Hlth, Dept Mol Microbial & Struct Biol, Farmington, CT 06030 USA
[2] Univ Connecticut, Ctr Hlth, Ctr Cell Anal & Modeling, Farmington, CT 06030 USA
关键词
NUTRIENT RECEPTORS; GERD SPORE; LOCALIZATION; SPORULATION; SPOVA; GENE; COOPERATIVITY; RESISTANCE; OPERON;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07753.x
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Dormant bacterial spores are extraordinarily resistant to environmental insults and are vectors of various illnesses. However, spores cannot cause disease unless they germinate and become vegetative cells. The molecular details of initiation of germination are not understood, but proteins essential in early stages of germination, such as nutrient germinant receptors (GRs) and GerD, are located in the spore inner membrane. In this study, we examine how these germination proteins are organized in dormant Bacillus subtilis spores by expressing fluorescent protein fusions that were at least partially functional and observing spores by fluorescence microscopy. We show that GRs and GerD colocalize primarily to a single cluster in dormant spores, reminiscent of the organization of chemoreceptor signalling complexes in Escherichia coli. GRs require all their subunits as well as GerD for clustering, and also require diacylglycerol addition to GerD and GRs' C protein subunits. However, different GRs cluster independently of each other, and GerD forms clusters in the absence of all the GRs. We predict that the clusters represent a functional germination unit or 'germinosome' in the spore inner membrane that is necessary for rapid and cooperative response to nutrients, as conditions known to block nutrient germination also disrupt the protein clusters.
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页码:1061 / 1077
页数:17
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