Spores of Bacillus subtilis show similar plating efficiency on media with or without 1.5 M NaCl. In contrast, vegetative cells are osmosensitive unless the stationary phase has been reached. In the present work, loss of heat and osmotic resistance during germination was studied. Their kinetics and sensitivity to protein synthesis inhibition were different: heat resistance was lost first and even in the presence of chloramphenicol, whereas loss of osmotolerance occurred later and was inhibited in the presence of this antibiotic. The influence of spore-associated small acid-soluble proteins (SASPs) on spore osmotolerance was investigated using ssp mutants: all produced spores which germinated poorly and were sensitive to osmotic strength. SASP-E deficiency was particularly significant. Spore osmotolerance was largely restored in complementation assays performed with cloned ssp genes. It is possible that germination-associated degradation of SASP proteins provides osmotically significant levels of amino acids (especially glutamate).
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Osmoresistance of spores from Bacillus subtilis and the effect of ssp mutations |
Autor: | Ruzal, S.M.; Alice, A.F.; Sanchez-Rivas, C. |
Filiación: | Fac de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Quimica Biologica, Ciudad Universitaria Pabellon II, Piso 4, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Palabras clave: | Bacillus subtilis; Small acid-soluble protein; Spore osmoresistance; ssp; amino acid; antibiotic agent; bacterial protein; chloramphenicol; glutamic acid; sodium chloride; article; assay; Bacillus subtilis; bacterial spore; gene mutation; genetic complementation; germination; heat loss; heat tolerance; kinetics; nonhuman; osmosis; priority journal; protein degradation; protein synthesis inhibition; Bacillus subtilis; Bacteria (microorganisms) |
Año: | 1994 |
Volumen: | 140 |
Número: | 8 |
Página de inicio: | 2173 |
Página de fin: | 2177 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/13500872-140-8-2173 |
Título revista: | Microbiology |
Título revista abreviado: | MICROBIOLOGY |
ISSN: | 13500872 |
CODEN: | MROBE |
CAS: | amino acid, 65072-01-7; chloramphenicol, 134-90-7, 2787-09-9, 56-75-7; glutamic acid, 11070-68-1, 138-15-8, 56-86-0, 6899-05-4; sodium chloride, 7647-14-5 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_13500872_v140_n8_p2173_Ruzal |