Abstract：
:Engulfment of the forespore by the mother cell is a universal feature of endosporulation. In Bacillus subtilis, the forespore protein SpoIIQ and the mother cell protein SpoIIIAH form a channel, essential for endosporulation, through which the developing spore is nurtured. The two proteins also form a backup system for engulfment. Unlike in B. subtilis, SpoIIQ of Clostridium difficile has intact LytM zinc-binding motifs. We show that spoIIQ or spoIIIAH deletion mutants of C. difficile result in anomalous engulfment, and that disruption of the SpoIIQ LytM domain via a single amino acid substitution (H120S) impairs engulfment differently. SpoIIQ and SpoIIQ(H120S) interact with SpoIIIAH throughout engulfment. SpoIIQ, but not SpoIIQ(H120S) , binds Zn(2+) , and metal absence alters the SpoIIQ-SpoIIIAH complex in vitro. Possibly, SpoIIQ(H120S) supports normal engulfment in some cells but not a second function of the complex, required following engulfment completion. We show that cells of the spoIIQ or spoIIIAH mutants that complete engulfment are impaired in post-engulfment, forespore and mother cell-specific gene expression, suggesting a channel-like function. Both engulfment and a channel-like function may be ancestral functions of SpoIIQ-SpoIIIAH while the requirement for engulfment was alleviated through the emergence of redundant mechanisms in B. subtilis and related organisms.
journal_name
Mol Microbioljournal_title
Molecular microbiologyauthors
Serrano M,Crawshaw AD,Dembek M,Monteiro JM,Pereira FC,Pinho MG,Fairweather NF,Salgado PS,Henriques AOdoi
10.1111/mmi.13311subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-04-01 00:00:00pages
204-28issue
1eissn
0950-382Xissn
1365-2958journal_volume
100pub_type
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