Apparent phosphate retrieval system in Bacillus cereus

Author:

Guddal P H1,Johansen T1,Schulstad K1,Little C1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus secretes three different phospholipases C. We studied the effect of Pi levels in the growth medium on the production of these exoenzymes. Production of both phosphatidylcholine-preferring phospholipase C and sphingomyelinase C was repressed by Pi in the growth medium, whereas production of phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C was unaffected. We also found that B. cereus secretes a phosphate-repressed alkaline phosphatase activity. Together with a previously reported highly efficient, active uptake system for Pi, these three phosphate-repressed exoenzyme activities seem to be part of a phosphate retrieval mechanism that operates under growth-limiting concentrations of Pi. In natural soil systems, which are the natural habitats of B. cereus, the scarcity of Pi is the major growth-limiting factor. A phosphate-repressed metalloprotease activity was also detected in culture supernatants of B. cereus. It is unclear whether this exoenzyme activity also participates in the proposed phosphate-scavenging system.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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