Cell wall turnover in batch and chemostat cultures of Bacillus subtilis

Author:

De Boer W R,Kruyssen F J,Wouters J T

Abstract

Wall turnover was studied in Bacillus subtilis. The loss of radioactively labeled wall polymers was followed during exponential growth in batch and chemostat cultures. Turnover kinetics were identical under all growth conditions; pulse-labeled wall material was lost with first-order kinetics, but only after exponential growth for 1 generation time after its incorporation. Similarly, continuously labeled cells showed an accelerating decrease in wall-bound radioactivity starting immediately after removal of the labeled precursor and also reached first-order kinetics after 1 generation time. A mathematical description was derived for these turnover kinetics, which embraced the concept of "spreading" of old wall chains (H. M. Pooley, J. Bacteriol. 125:1127-1138, 1976). Using this description, we were able to calculate from our experimental data the rate of loss of wall polymers from cells and the fraction of the wall which was sensitive to turnover. We found that about 20% of the wall was lost per generation time and that this loss was affected by turnover activity located in the outer 20 to 45% of the wall; rather large variations were found with both quantities and also between duplicate cultures. These parameters were quite independent of the growth rate (the specific growth rate varied from 1.3 h-1 in broth cultures to 0.2 to 0.3 h-1 in chemostat cultures) and of the nature of the anionic polymer in the wall (which was teichoic acid in cultures with an excess of phosphate and teichuronic acid in phosphate-limited chemostat cultures). Some implications of the observed wall turnover kinetics for models of wall growth in B. subtilis are discussed.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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