期刊
MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 114, 期 6, 页码 966-978出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14587
关键词
cell division; cell wall; cytokinesis; elongation; morphogenesis; peptidoglycan
资金
- National Institutes of Health
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- NSF predoctoral fellowship [DGE1745303]
- EMBO fellowship [ALTF 89-2019, S10 RR027344-01]
A peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall composed of glycans crosslinked by short peptides surrounds most bacteria and protects them against osmotic rupture. InEscherichia coli, cell elongation requires crosslink cleavage by PG endopeptidases to make space for the incorporation of new PG material throughout the cell cylinder. Cell division, on the contrary, requires the localized synthesis and remodeling of new PG at midcell by the divisome. Little is known about the factors that modulate transitions between these two modes of PG biogenesis. In a transposon-insertion sequencing screen to identify mutants synthetically lethal with a defect in the division protein FtsP, we discovered that mutants impaired for cell division are sensitive to elevated activity of the endopeptidases. Increased endopeptidase activity in these cells was shown to interfere with the assembly of mature divisomes, and conversely, inactivation of MepS was found to suppress the lethality of mutations in essential division genes. Overall, our results are consistent with a model in which the cell elongation and division systems are in competition with one another and that control of PG endopeptidase activity represents an important point of regulation influencing the transition from elongation to the division mode of PG biogenesis.
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