Essentiality of WalRK for growth in Bacillus subtilis and its role during heat stress

Microbiology
Hiraku TakadaHirofumi Yoshikawa

Abstract

WalRK is an essential two-component signal transduction system that plays a central role in coordinating cell wall synthesis and cell growth in Bacillus subtilis. However, the physiological role of WalRK and its essentiality for growth have not been elucidated. We investigated the behaviour of WalRK during heat stress and its essentiality for cell proliferation. We determined that the inactivation of the walHI genes which encode the negative modulator of WalK, resulted in growth defects and eventual cell lysis at high temperatures. Screening of suppressor mutations revealed that the inactivation of LytE, an dl-endopeptidase, restored the growth of the ΔwalHI mutant at high temperatures. Suppressor mutations that reduced heat induction arising from the walRK regulon were also mapped to the walK ORF. Therefore, we hypothesized that overactivation of LytE affects the phenotype of the ΔwalHI mutant. This hypothesis was corroborated by the overexpression of the negative regulator of LytE, IseA and PdaC, which rescued the growth of the ΔwalHI mutant at high temperatures. Elucidating the cause of the temperature sensitivity of the ΔwalHI mutant could explain the essentiality of WalRK. We proved that the constitutive expression of lytE...Continue Reading

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