Bacterial cell surface nanoenvironment requires a specialized chaperone to activate a peptidoglycan biosynthetic enzyme

Bacillus subtilis spores are produced inside the cytosol of a mother cell. Spore surface assembly requires the SpoVK protein in the mother cell, but its function is unknown. Here, we report that SpoVK is a dedicated chaperone from a distinct higher-order clade of AAA+ ATPases that activates the peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase MurG during sporulation, even though MurG does not normally require activation by a chaperone during vegetative growth. MurG redeploys to the spore surface during sporulation, where we show that the local pH is reduced and propose that this change in cytosolic nanoenvironment necessitates a specific chaperone for proper MurG function. Further, we show that SpoVK participates in a developmental checkpoint in which improper spore surface assembly inactivates SpoVK, which leads to sporulation arrest. The AAA+ ATPase clade containing SpoVK includes other dedicated chaperones involved in secretion, cell-envelope biosynthesis, and carbohydrate metabolism, suggesting that such fine-tuning might be a widespread feature of different subcellular nanoenvironments.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 06. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Delerue, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Chareyre, Sylvia [VerfasserIn]
Anantharaman, Vivek [VerfasserIn]
Gilmore, Michael C [VerfasserIn]
Popham, David L [VerfasserIn]
Cava, Felipe [VerfasserIn]
Aravind, L [VerfasserIn]
Ramamurthi, Kumaran S [VerfasserIn]

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Clostridium
DivIVA
FtsZ
MreB
Preprint
SpoIVA
SpoVM

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Date Revised 05.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2023.10.06.561273

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364782668