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A proteolytic pathway coordinates cell division and heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207963119

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protease; divisome; cyanobacteria; cell-division inhibitor; peptidoglycan

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [92051106]
  2. Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDJ-SSW-SMC016]
  3. Featured Institute Service Projects from the Institute of Hydrobiology
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y85Z061601]
  5. Hubei Province Postdoctoral Innovation Research Post Project
  6. Special Research Assistant Project CAS
  7. Excellent Youth Program of Wuhan Talent

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In this study, a new negative regulator called PatU3 was identified in the prokaryote Anabaena, which regulates cell division and heterocyst development. The results showed that PatU3 is a specific substrate of the protease activity of HetF, and HetF controls cell division and heterocyst differentiation by controlling the inhibitory effects of PatU3.
The filamentous, multicellular cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (Anabaena) is a prokaryotic model for the study of cell differentiation and cell-cell interactions. Upon combined-nitrogen deprivation, Anabaena forms a particular cell type, heterocyst, for aerobic nitrogen fixation. Heterocysts are semiregularly spaced among vegetative cells. Heterocyst differentiation is coupled to cell division, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. This mechanism could be mediated by the putative protease HetF, which is a divisome component and is necessary for heterocyst differentiation. In this study, by suppressor screening, we identified PatU3, as a negative regulator acting downstream of HetF for cell division and heterocyst development. The inactivation of patU3 restored the capacity of cell division and heterocyst differentiation in the Delta hetF mutant, and overexpression of patU3 inhibited both processes in the wild-type background. We demonstrated that PatU3 was a specific substrate of the protease activity of HetF. Consequently, PatU3 accumulated in the hetF-deficient mutant, which was responsible for the resultant mutant phenotype. The cleavage site of PatU3 by HetF was mapped after the Arg117 residue, whose mutation made PatU3 resistant to HetF processing, and mimicked the effect of hetF deletion. Our results provided evidence that HetF regulated cell division and heterocyst differentiation by controlling the inhibitory effects of PatU3. This proteolytic pathway constituted a mechanism for the coordination between cell division and differentiation in a prokaryotic model used for studies on developmental biology and multicellularity.

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