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c-di-AMP Accumulation Impairs Muropeptide Synthesis in Listeria monocytogenes.

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:Cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP) is an essential and ubiquitous second messenger among bacteria. c-di-AMP regulates many cellular pathways through direct binding to several molecular targets in bacterial cells. c-di-AMP depletion is well known to destabilize the bacterial cell wall, resulting in increased bacteriolysis and enhanced susceptibility to cell wall targeting antibiotics. Using the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes as a model, we found that c-di-AMP accumulation also impaired cell envelope integrity. An L. monocytogenes mutant deleted for c-di-AMP phosphodiesterases (pdeA pgpH mutant) exhibited a 4-fold increase in c-di-AMP levels and several cell wall defects. For instance, the pdeA pgpH mutant was defective for the synthesis of peptidoglycan muropeptides and was susceptible to cell wall-targeting antimicrobials. Among different muropeptide precursors, we found that the pdeA pgpH strain was particularly impaired in the synthesis of d-Ala-d-Ala, which is required to complete the pentapeptide stem associated with UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc). This was consistent with an increased sensitivity to d-cycloserine, which inhibits the d-alanine branch of peptidoglycan synthesis. Finally, upon examining d-Ala:d-Ala ligase (Ddl), which catalyzes the conversion of d-Ala to d-Ala-d-Ala, we found that its activity was activated by K+ Based on previous reports that c-di-AMP inhibits K+ uptake, we propose that c-di-AMP accumulation impairs peptidoglycan synthesis, partially through the deprivation of cytoplasmic K+ levels, which are required for cell wall-synthetic enzymes.IMPORTANCE The bacterial second messenger c-di-AMP is produced by a large number of bacteria and conditionally essential to many species. Conversely, c-di-AMP accumulation is also toxic to bacterial physiology and pathogenesis, but its mechanisms are largely undefined. We found that in Listeria monocytogenes, elevated c-di-AMP levels diminished muropeptide synthesis and increased susceptibility to cell wall-targeting antimicrobials. Cell wall defects might be an important mechanism for attenuated virulence in bacteria with high c-di-AMP levels.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Massa SM,Sharma AD,Siletti C,Tu Z,Godfrey JJ,Gutheil WG,Huynh TN

doi

10.1128/JB.00307-20

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-11-19 00:00:00

issue

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

pii

JB.00307-20

journal_volume

202

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c-di-AMP Accumulation Impairs Muropeptide Synthesis in Listeria monocytogenes.