Response of guanosine 5'-triphosphate concentration to nutritional changes and its significance for Bacillus subtilis sporulation.

Journal of Bacteriology
J M LopezE Freese

Abstract

We have investigated the changes in the guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) and P-ribosyl-PP pools in stringent and relaxed strains of Bacillus subtilis under conditions frequently used to initiate sporulation. After a shift-down from a Casamino Acids-glutamate to a glutamate medium (Sterlini-Mandelstam shift-down), the pools of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and P-ribosyl-PP increased in both strains; in the stringent strain, ppGpp and pppGpp increased and GTP decreased rapidly, whereas in the relaxed strain, ppGpp and pppGpp increased only slightly and GTP decreased only slowly and less extensively. The stringent strain sporulated well, whereas the relaxed strain sporulated late and poorly. Addition of decoyinine, an inhibitor of guanosine 5'-monophosphate synthetase, caused a further decrease of GTP and initiated good sporulation of the relaxed strain. After a shift-down from a glucose-lactate to a lactate medium (Ramaley-Burden shift-down) the pool of P-ribosyl-PP (and GTP) decreased in both strains, indicating a shortage of purine precursors. This shift-down also caused a stringent response which prevented the consumption of nucleotides, as shown by the maintenance of adenosine 5'-triphosphate at a high concentration in the stringe...Continue Reading

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