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Nakaya Y, Uchiike M, Hattori M, Moriyama M, Abe K, Kim E, Eichenberger P, Imamura D, Sato T. Identification of CgeA as a glycoprotein that anchors polysaccharides to the spore surface in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol 2023; 120:384-396. [PMID: 37485949 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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The Bacillus subtilis spore is composed of a core, containing chromosomal DNA, surrounded by a cortex layer made of peptidoglycan, and a coat composed of concentric proteinaceous layers. A polysaccharide layer is added to the spore surface, and likely anchored to the crust, the coat outermost layer. However, the identity of the coat protein(s) to which the spore polysaccharides (SPS) are attached is uncertain. First, we showed that the crust proteins CotVWXYZ and CgeA were all contained in the peeled SPS layer obtained from a strain missing CotE, the outer coat morphogenetic protein, suggesting that the SPS is indeed bound to at least one of the spore surface proteins. Second, CgeA is known to be located at the most downstream position in the crust assembly pathway. An analysis of truncated variants of CgeA suggested that its N-terminal half is required for localization to the spore surface, while its C-terminal half is necessary for SPS addition. Third, an amino acid substitution strategy revealed that SPS was anchored at threonine 112 (T112), which constitutes a probable O-glycosylation site on CgeA. Our results indicated that CgeA is a glycoprotein required to initiate SPS assembly and serves as an anchor protein linking the crust and SPS layers.
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- Yusei Nakaya
- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Center of Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Center of Micro-Nano Technology, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
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Ramos-Silva P, Serrano M, Henriques AO. From Root to Tips: Sporulation Evolution and Specialization in Bacillus subtilis and the Intestinal Pathogen Clostridioides difficile. Mol Biol Evol 2020; 36:2714-2736. [PMID: 31350897 PMCID: PMC6878958 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Bacteria of the Firmicutes phylum are able to enter a developmental pathway that culminates with the formation of highly resistant, dormant endospores. Endospores allow environmental persistence, dissemination and for pathogens, are also infection vehicles. In both the model Bacillus subtilis, an aerobic organism, and in the intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile, an obligate anaerobe, sporulation mobilizes hundreds of genes. Their expression is coordinated between the forespore and the mother cell, the two cells that participate in the process, and is kept in close register with the course of morphogenesis. The evolutionary mechanisms by which sporulation emerged and evolved in these two species, and more broadly across Firmicutes, remain largely unknown. Here, we trace the origin and evolution of sporulation using the genes known to be involved in the process in B. subtilis and C. difficile, and estimating their gain-loss dynamics in a comprehensive bacterial macroevolutionary framework. We show that sporulation evolution was driven by two major gene gain events, the first at the base of the Firmicutes and the second at the base of the B. subtilis group and within the Peptostreptococcaceae family, which includes C. difficile. We also show that early and late sporulation regulons have been coevolving and that sporulation genes entail greater innovation in B. subtilis with many Bacilli lineage-restricted genes. In contrast, C. difficile more often recruits new sporulation genes by horizontal gene transfer, which reflects both its highly mobile genome, the complexity of the gut microbiota, and an adjustment of sporulation to the gut ecosystem.
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- Paula Ramos-Silva
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.,Marine Biodiversity Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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A LysM Domain Intervenes in Sequential Protein-Protein and Protein-Peptidoglycan Interactions Important for Spore Coat Assembly in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 2019; 201:JB.00642-18. [PMID: 30455281 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00642-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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At a late stage in spore development in Bacillus subtilis, the mother cell directs synthesis of a layer of peptidoglycan known as the cortex between the two forespore membranes, as well as the assembly of a protective protein coat at the surface of the forespore outer membrane. SafA, the key determinant of inner coat assembly, is first recruited to the surface of the developing spore and then encases the spore under the control of the morphogenetic protein SpoVID. SafA has a LysM peptidoglycan-binding domain, SafALysM, and localizes to the cortex-coat interface in mature spores. SafALysM is followed by a region, A, required for an interaction with SpoVID and encasement. We now show that residues D10 and N30 in SafALysM, while involved in the interaction with peptidoglycan, are also required for the interaction with SpoVID and encasement. We further show that single alanine substitutions on residues S11, L12, and I39 of SafALysM that strongly impair binding to purified cortex peptidoglycan affect a later stage in the localization of SafA that is also dependent on the activity of SpoVE, a transglycosylase required for cortex formation. The assembly of SafA thus involves sequential protein-protein and protein-peptidoglycan interactions, mediated by the LysM domain, which are required first for encasement then for the final localization of the protein in mature spores.IMPORTANCE Bacillus subtilis spores are encased in a multiprotein coat that surrounds an underlying peptidoglycan layer, the cortex. How the connection between the two layers is enforced is not well established. Here, we elucidate the role of the peptidoglycan-binding LysM domain, present in two proteins, SafA and SpoVID, that govern the localization of additional proteins to the coat. We found that SafALysM is a protein-protein interaction module during the early stages of coat assembly and a cortex-binding module at late stages in morphogenesis, with the cortex-binding function promoting a tight connection between the cortex and the coat. In contrast, SpoVIDLysM functions only as a protein-protein interaction domain that targets SpoVID to the spore surface at the onset of coat assembly.
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Nunes F, Fernandes C, Freitas C, Marini E, Serrano M, Moran CP, Eichenberger P, Henriques AO. SpoVID functions as a non-competitive hub that connects the modules for assembly of the inner and outer spore coat layers in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol 2018; 110:576-595. [PMID: 30168214 PMCID: PMC6282716 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2018] [Revised: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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During sporulation in Bacillus subtilis, a group of mother cell‐specific proteins guides the assembly of the coat, a multiprotein structure that protects the spore and influences many of its environmental interactions. SafA and CotE behave as party hubs, governing assembly of the inner and outer coat layers. Targeting of coat proteins to the developing spore is followed by encasement. Encasement by SafA and CotE requires E, a region of 11 amino acids in the encasement protein SpoVID, with which CotE interacts directly. Here, we identified two single alanine substitutions in E that prevent binding of SafA, but not of CotE, to SpoVID, and block encasement. The substitutions result in the accumulation of SafA, CotE and their dependent proteins at the mother cell proximal spore pole, phenocopying a spoVID null mutant and suggesting that mislocalized SafA acts as an attractor for the rest of the coat. The requirement for E in SafA binding is bypassed by a peptide with the sequence of E provided in trans. We suggest that E allows binding of SafA to a second region in SpoVID, enabling CotE to interact with E and SpoVID to function as a non‐competitive hub during spore encasement.
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- Filipa Nunes
- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Microbial Development Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Physical interaction and assembly of Bacillus subtilis spore coat proteins CotE and CotZ studied by atomic force microscopy. J Struct Biol 2016; 195:245-251. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2016.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Liu H, Krajcikova D, Zhang Z, Wang H, Barak I, Tang J. Investigating interactions of the Bacillus subtilis spore coat proteins CotY and CotZ using single molecule force spectroscopy. J Struct Biol 2015; 192:14-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Revised: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Li Y, Qiao H, Yan W, Zhang J, Xing C, Wang H, Zhang B, Tang J. Molecular recognition force spectroscopy study of the dynamic interaction between aptamer GBI-10 and extracellular matrix protein tenascin-C on human glioblastoma cell. J Mol Recognit 2013; 26:46-50. [PMID: 23280617 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Revised: 09/04/2012] [Accepted: 09/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Molecular recognition force spectroscopy (MR-FS) was applied to investigate the dynamic interaction between aptamer GBI-10 and tenascin-C (TN-C) on human glioblastoma cell surface at single-molecule level. The unbinding force between aptamer GBI-10 and TN-C was 39 pN at the loading rate of 0.3 nN sec⁻¹. A series of kinetic parameters concerning interaction process such as the unbinding force f(u) , the association rate constant k(on) , dissociation rate constant at zero force k(off) , and dissociation constant K(D) for aptamer GBI-10/TN-C complexes were acquired. In addition, the interaction of aptamer GBI-10 with TN-C depended on the presence of Mg²⁺. This work demonstrates that MR-FS can be used as an attractive tool for exploring the interaction forces and dynamic process of aptamer and ligand at the single-molecule level. As a future perspective, MR-FS may be used as a potential diagnostic and therapeutic tool by combining with other techniques.
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- Yongjun Li
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
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Qiao H, Krajcikova D, Xing C, Lu B, Hao J, Ke X, Wang H, Barak I, Tang J. Study of the interactions between the key spore coat morphogenetic proteins CotE and SpoVID. J Struct Biol 2012. [PMID: 23178679 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2012.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The capability of Bacillus subtilis spores to withstand extreme environmental conditions is thought to be conferred especially by their outermost proteinaceous protective layer, called the spore coat. Of the over 70 proteins that form the spore coat, only a small subset of them affect its morphogenesis, they are referred to as morphogenetic proteins. In this study we investigated the interaction between two spore coat morphogenetic proteins SpoVID and CotE. SpoVID is involved in the process of spore surface encirclement by individual coat proteins, these include CotE, which controls the assembly of the outer coat layer. Both proteins were proposed to be recruited to a common protein scaffold, but their direct association has not been previously shown. Here we studied the interactions between CotE and SpoVID in vitro for the first time by using molecule recognition force spectroscopy, which allows the detection of piconewton forces between conjugated biological pairs and also facilitates the investigation of dynamic processes. The most probable CotE-CotE unbinding force was 49.4±0.1pN at a loading rate of 3.16×10³ pN/s while that of SpoVID-CotE was 26.5±0.6pN at a loading rate of 7.8×10² pN/s. We further analyzed the interactions with the bacterial two hybrid system and pull-down experiments, which also indicate that SpoVID interacts directly with CotE. In combination with the previously identified direct contacts among SpoIVA, SpoVID and SafA, our data imply that the physical association of key morphogenetic proteins forms a basic skeleton where other coat proteins could be attached.
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- Haiyan Qiao
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
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