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ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 189, Issue 1, Pages 49-58Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0292-z
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Bacillus; mechanosensitive channels; osmoregulation; osmotic downshock; sporulation; spore germination
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Previous work has shown that the mechanosensitive (MS) channel of large conductance (MscL) is essential for preventing lysis of Bacillus subtilis log phase cells upon a rapid, severe osmotic downshock. Growing cells of B. subtilis strains lacking MscL and one or more putative MS channel proteins of small conductance (YhdY, YkuT and YfkC) showed even higher sensitivity to an osmotic downshock. The effect was greatest for a strain lacking MscL and YkuT, and a strain lacking all four MS channel proteins had a similar phenotype. These defects were complemented by expression of either MscL or YkuT in trans. All MS channel mutant strains ultimately became resistant to osmotic downshock in stationary phase but at varying times, with mscL ykuT strains taking the longest time to become resistant. Expression of beta-galactosidase from gene fusions to lacZ showed modest expression of ykuT and lower levels of expression of yhdY and yfkC when strains were grown in medium containing high salt. Sporulation of all MS channel mutant strains was normal, and the mutant spores germinated normally with L-alanine or dodecylamine.
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