Penicillin-induced formation of osmotically stable spheroplasts in nongrowing Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.

Journal of Bacteriology
M F Thomashow, S C Rittenberg

Abstract

Bdellovibrio peptidoglycan is of typical gram-negative composition. The molar ratios of alanine:glutamic acid:diaminopimelic acid:muramic acid:glucosamine were about 2:1:1:1:1. Nascent, nongrowing Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J were converted from highly motile vibrios to highly motile spheres when shaken in dilute buffer plus penicillin, cephalothin, bacitracin, or D-cycloserine. The spherical forms contained essentially no sedimentable peptidoglycan; i.e., they were spheroplasts. Spheroplasts induced by penicillin, D-cycloserine, and lysozyme were stable in dilute buffer and did not lyse when subjected to osmotic shock. Normal Bdellovibrio suspended in buffer turned over their peptidoglycan at a rate of approximately 30% h during the initial 120 min of starvation. Chloramphenicol and sodium azide strongly inhibited Bdellovibrio peptidoglycan turnover and the induction of spheroplasts by penicillin. The data indicate that nongrowing B. bacteriovorus are sensitive to penicillin and other antibiotics affecting cell walls because of their high rate of peptidoglycan turnover. It is also concluded that an intact peptidoglycan layer is required for maintaining cell shape, but is not required for osmotic stability of B. bacteriovorus.

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