Temperature-sensitive cell division mutants of Escherichia coli with thermolabile penicillin-binding proteins.

Journal of Bacteriology
B G Spratt

Abstract

The thermostability of the penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of 31 temperature-sensitive cell division mutants of Escherichia coli has been examined. Two independent cell division mutants have been found that have highly thermolabile PBP3. Binding of [(14)C]benzylpenicillin to PBP3 (measured in envelopes prepared from cells grown at the permissive temperature) was about 30% of the normal level at 30 degrees C, and the ability to bind [(14)C]benzylpenicillin was rapidly lost on incubation at 42 degrees C. The other PBPs were normal in both mutants. At 30 degrees C both mutants were slightly longer than their parents and on shifting to 42 degrees C they ceased dividing, but cell mass and deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis continued and long filaments were formed. At 42 degrees C division slowly recommenced, but at 44 degrees C this did not occur. The inhibition of division at 42 degrees C was suppressed by 0.35 M sucrose, and in one of the mutants it was partially suppressed by 10 mM MgCl(2). PBP3 was not stabilized in vitro at 42 degrees C by these concentrations of sucrose or MgCl(2). Revertants that grew as normal rods at 42 degrees C regained both the normal level and the normal thermostability of PBP3. The results provide extr...Continue Reading

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