Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688.
Abstract
The acid tolerance response (ATR) is an adaptive system triggered at external pH (pHo) values of 5.5 to 6.0 that will protect cells from more severe acid stress (J. Foster and H. Hall, J. Bacteriol. 172:771-778, 1990). Correlations between the internal pH (pHi) of adapted versus unadapted cells at pHo of 3.3 indicate that the ATR system produces an inducible pH-homeostatic function. This function serves to maintain the pHi above 5 to 5.5. Below this range, cells rapidly lose viability. Development of this pH homeostasis mechanism was sensitive to protein synthesis inhibitors and operated only to augment the pHi at pHo values below 4. In contrast, classical constitutive pH homeostasis was insensitive to protein synthesis inhibitors and was efficient only at pHo values above 4. Physiological studies indicated an important role for the Mg(2+)-dependent proton-translocating ATPase in affording ATR-associated survival during exposure to severe acid challenges. Along with being acid intolerant, cells deficient in this ATPase did not exhibit inducible pH homeostasis. We speculate that adaptive acid tolerance is important to Salmonella species in surviving acid encounters in both the environment and the infected host.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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