Journal
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 204, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/jb.00202-22
Keywords
acyl carrier proteins; fatty acid synthesis; phospholipids
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- National Institutes of Health [AI15650]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Enterococcus faecalis utilizes AcpA protein for fatty acid synthesis, and the absence of this gene can be compensated by unsaturated fatty acids. AcpB protein is not able to replace the function of AcpA in this process.
Enterococcus faecalis encodes two proteins, AcpA and AcpB, having the characteristics of acyl carrier proteins (ACPs). We report that the acpA gene located in the fatty acid synthesis operon is essential for fatty acid synthesis and the Delta acpA strain requires unsaturated fatty acids for growth. The Delta acpA strain could be complemented by a plasmid carrying a wild-type acpA gene, but not by a plasmid carrying a wild-type acpB gene. Substitution of four AcpA residues for those of AcpB resulted in a protein that modestly complemented the Delta acpA strain and restored fatty acid synthesis, although the acyl chains synthesized were unusually short. IMPORTANCE Enterococcus faecalis, as well as related species, has two genes-acpA and acpB-encoding putative acyl carrier proteins (ACPs). It has been assumed that AcpA is essential for fatty acid synthesis whereas AcpB is involved utilization of environmental fatty acids. We report here the first experimental test of the essentiality of acpA and show that it is indeed an essential gene that cannot be replaced by acpB.
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