The requirement for pneumococcal MreC and MreD is relieved by inactivation of the gene encoding PBP1a.

Abstract:

:MreC and MreD, along with the actin homologue MreB, are required to maintain the shape of rod-shaped bacteria. The depletion of MreCD in rod-shaped bacteria leads to the formation of spherical cells and the accumulation of suppressor mutations. Ovococcus bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, lack MreB homologues, and the functions of the S. pneumoniae MreCD (MreCD(Spn)) proteins are unknown. mreCD are located upstream from the pcsB cell division gene in most Streptococcus species, but we found that mreCD and pcsB are transcribed independently. Similarly to rod-shaped bacteria, we show that mreCD are essential in the virulent serotype 2 D39 strain of S. pneumoniae, and the depletion of MreCD results in cell rounding and lysis. In contrast, laboratory strain R6 contains suppressors that allow the growth of ΔmreCD mutants, and bypass suppressors accumulate in D39 ΔmreCD mutants. One class of suppressors eliminates the function of class A penicillin binding protein 1a (PBP1a). Unencapsulated Δpbp1a D39 mutants have smaller diameters than their pbp1a(+) parent or Δpbp2a and Δpbp1b mutants, which lack other class A PBPs and do not show the suppression of ΔmreCD mutations. Suppressed ΔmreCD Δpbp1a double mutants form aberrantly shaped cells, some with misplaced peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis compared to that of single Δpbp1a mutants. Quantitative Western blotting showed that MreC(Spn) is abundant (≈8,500 dimers per cell), and immunofluorescent microscopy (IFM) located MreCD(Spn) to the equators and septa of dividing cells, similarly to the PBPs and PG pentapeptides indicative of PG synthesis. These combined results are consistent with a model in which MreCD(Spn) direct peripheral PG synthesis and control PBP1a localization or activity.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Land AD,Winkler ME

doi

10.1128/JB.05245-11

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-08-01 00:00:00

pages

4166-79

issue

16

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

pii

JB.05245-11

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193

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