A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Rodrigues CDA, Henry X, Neumann E, Kurauskas V, Bellard L, Fichou Y, Schanda P, Schoehn G, Rudner DZ, Morlot C. 2016. A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(41), 11585–11590.

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Rodrigues, Christopher D. A.; Henry, Xavier; Neumann, Emmanuelle; Kurauskas, Vilius; Bellard, Laure; Fichou, Yann; Schanda, PaulISTA ; Schoehn, Guy; Rudner, David Z.; Morlot, Cecile
Abstract
During spore formation in Bacillus subtilis a transenvelope complex is assembled across the double membrane that separates the mother cell and forespore. This complex (called the “A–Q complex”) is required to maintain forespore development and is composed of proteins with remote homology to components of type II, III, and IV secretion systems found in Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we show that one of these proteins, SpoIIIAG, which has remote homology to ring-forming proteins found in type III secretion systems, assembles into an oligomeric ring in the periplasmic-like space between the two membranes. Three-dimensional reconstruction of images generated by cryo-electron microscopy indicates that the SpoIIIAG ring has a cup-and-saucer architecture with a 6-nm central pore. Structural modeling of SpoIIIAG generated a 24-member ring with dimensions similar to those of the EM-derived saucer. Point mutations in the predicted oligomeric interface disrupted ring formation in vitro and impaired forespore gene expression and efficient spore formation in vivo. Taken together, our data provide strong support for the model in which the A–Q transenvelope complex contains a conduit that connects the mother cell and forespore. We propose that a set of stacked rings spans the intermembrane space, as has been found for type III secretion systems.
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2016-09-28
Journal Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
113
Issue
41
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11585-11590
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Rodrigues CDA, Henry X, Neumann E, et al. A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113(41):11585-11590. doi:10.1073/pnas.1609604113
Rodrigues, C. D. A., Henry, X., Neumann, E., Kurauskas, V., Bellard, L., Fichou, Y., … Morlot, C. (2016). A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609604113
Rodrigues, Christopher D. A., Xavier Henry, Emmanuelle Neumann, Vilius Kurauskas, Laure Bellard, Yann Fichou, Paul Schanda, Guy Schoehn, David Z. Rudner, and Cecile Morlot. “A Ring-Shaped Conduit Connects the Mother Cell and Forespore during Sporulation in Bacillus Subtilis.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609604113.
C. D. A. Rodrigues et al., “A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 41. National Academy of Sciences, pp. 11585–11590, 2016.
Rodrigues CDA, Henry X, Neumann E, Kurauskas V, Bellard L, Fichou Y, Schanda P, Schoehn G, Rudner DZ, Morlot C. 2016. A ring-shaped conduit connects the mother cell and forespore during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(41), 11585–11590.
Rodrigues, Christopher D. A., et al. “A Ring-Shaped Conduit Connects the Mother Cell and Forespore during Sporulation in Bacillus Subtilis.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 41, National Academy of Sciences, 2016, pp. 11585–90, doi:10.1073/pnas.1609604113.

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