Characterization of bcsA Mutations That Bypass Two Distinct Signaling Requirements for Myxococcus xanthus Development
AUTOR(ES)
Cusick, John K.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The BsgA protease is required for starvation-induced development in Myxococcus xanthus. Bypass suppressors of a bsgA mutant were isolated to identify genes that may encode additional components of BsgA protease-dependent regulation of development. Strain M951 was isolated following Tn5 mutagenesis of a bsgA mutant and was capable of forming fruiting bodies and viable spores in the absence of the BsgA protease. The Tn5Ω951 insertion was localized to a gene, bcsA, that encodes a protein that has significant amino acid similarity to a group of recently described flavin-containing monooxygenases involved in styrene catabolism. Mutations in bcsA bypassed the developmental requirements for both extracellular B and C signaling but did not bypass the requirement for A signaling. Bypass of the B-signaling requirement by the bcsA mutation was accompanied by restored expression of a subset of developmentally induced lacZ fusions to the BsgA protease-deficient strain. bcsA mutant cells developed considerably faster than wild-type cells at low cell density and altered transcriptional levels of a developmentally induced, cell-density-regulated gene (Ω4427), suggesting that the bcsA gene product may normally act to inhibit development in a cell-density-regulated fashion. Bypass of the requirements for both B and C signaling by bcsA mutations suggests a possible link between these two genetically, biochemically, and temporally distinct signaling requirements.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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