期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084231
关键词
bacteriophage P1; bacterial cell lysis; holin; pinholin; endolysin; SAR-endolysin; Escherichia coli; Enterobacter cloacae
资金
- National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM)
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
P1 is a model temperate myovirus that infects different Enterobacteriaceae and can develop lytically or form lysogens. It has unique cell lysis-associated genes, including holins and pinholins, that cooperate with the SAR-endolysin of P1 in cell lysis. The contribution of holins/pinholins to cell lysis varies depending on the host and growth conditions of P1. The complex lytic system facilitates P1 adaptation to various hosts and their growth conditions.
P1 is a model temperate myovirus. It infects different Enterobacteriaceae and can develop lytically or form lysogens. Only some P1 adaptation strategies to propagate in different hosts are known. An atypical feature of P1 is the number and organization of cell lysis-associated genes. In addition to SAR-endolysin Lyz, holin LydA, and antiholin LydB, P1 encodes other predicted holins, LydC and LydD. LydD is encoded by the same operon as Lyz, LydA and LydB are encoded by an unlinked operon, and LydC is encoded by an operon preceding the lydA gene. By analyzing the phenotypes of P1 mutants in known or predicted holin genes, we show that all the products of these genes cooperate with the P1 SAR-endolysin in cell lysis and that LydD is a pinholin. The contributions of holins/pinholins to cell lysis by P1 appear to vary depending on the host of P1 and the bacterial growth conditions. The pattern of morphological transitions characteristic of SAR-endolysin-pinholin action dominates during lysis by wild-type P1, but in the case of lydC lydD mutant it changes to that characteristic of classical endolysin-pinholin action. We postulate that the complex lytic system facilitates P1 adaptation to various hosts and their growth conditions.
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