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Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination

The development of Bacillus spore cores involves the accumulation of 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA) during sporulation, following core acidification to ~6.4, and before decreases in core water content occur due to Ca-dipicolinc acid (CaDPA) uptake. This core acidification inhibits phosphoglycerate mutase...

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Autores principales: Korza, George, Goulet, Michelle, DeMarco, Angela, Wicander, James, Setlow, Peter
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677488
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010195
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author Korza, George
Goulet, Michelle
DeMarco, Angela
Wicander, James
Setlow, Peter
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Goulet, Michelle
DeMarco, Angela
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Setlow, Peter
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description The development of Bacillus spore cores involves the accumulation of 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA) during sporulation, following core acidification to ~6.4, and before decreases in core water content occur due to Ca-dipicolinc acid (CaDPA) uptake. This core acidification inhibits phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) at pH 6.4, allowing 3PGA accumulation, although PGM is active at pH 7.4. Spores’ 3PGA is stable for months at 4 °C and weeks at 37 °C. However, in wild-type spore germination, increases in core pH to 7.5–8 and in core water content upon CaDPA release and cortex peptidoglycan hydrolysis allow for rapid 3PGA catabolism, generating ATP; indeed, the earliest ATP generated following germination is from 3PGA catabolism. The current work found no 3PGA in those Bacillus subtilis spores that do not accumulate CaDPA during sporulation and have a core pH of ~7.4. The ATP production in the germination of 3PGA-less spores in a poor medium was minimal, and the germinated spores were >99% dead. However, the 3PGA-replete spores that germinated in the poor medium accumulated >30 times more ATP, and >70% of the germinated spores were found to be alive. These findings indicate why 3PGA accumulation during sporulation (and utilization during germination) in all the Firmicute spores studied can be crucial for spore revival due to the generation of essential ATP. The latter finding further suggests that targeting PGM activity during germination could be a novel way to minimize the damaging effects of spores.
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spelling pubmed-98643702023-01-22 Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination Korza, George Goulet, Michelle DeMarco, Angela Wicander, James Setlow, Peter Microorganisms Article The development of Bacillus spore cores involves the accumulation of 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA) during sporulation, following core acidification to ~6.4, and before decreases in core water content occur due to Ca-dipicolinc acid (CaDPA) uptake. This core acidification inhibits phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) at pH 6.4, allowing 3PGA accumulation, although PGM is active at pH 7.4. Spores’ 3PGA is stable for months at 4 °C and weeks at 37 °C. However, in wild-type spore germination, increases in core pH to 7.5–8 and in core water content upon CaDPA release and cortex peptidoglycan hydrolysis allow for rapid 3PGA catabolism, generating ATP; indeed, the earliest ATP generated following germination is from 3PGA catabolism. The current work found no 3PGA in those Bacillus subtilis spores that do not accumulate CaDPA during sporulation and have a core pH of ~7.4. The ATP production in the germination of 3PGA-less spores in a poor medium was minimal, and the germinated spores were >99% dead. However, the 3PGA-replete spores that germinated in the poor medium accumulated >30 times more ATP, and >70% of the germinated spores were found to be alive. These findings indicate why 3PGA accumulation during sporulation (and utilization during germination) in all the Firmicute spores studied can be crucial for spore revival due to the generation of essential ATP. The latter finding further suggests that targeting PGM activity during germination could be a novel way to minimize the damaging effects of spores. MDPI 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9864370/ /pubmed/36677488 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010195 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Korza, George
Goulet, Michelle
DeMarco, Angela
Wicander, James
Setlow, Peter
Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title_full Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title_fullStr Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title_full_unstemmed Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title_short Role of Bacillus subtilis Spore Core Water Content and pH in the Accumulation and Utilization of Spores’ Large 3-Phosphoglyceric Acid Depot, and the Crucial Role of This Depot in Generating ATP Early during Spore Germination
title_sort role of bacillus subtilis spore core water content and ph in the accumulation and utilization of spores’ large 3-phosphoglyceric acid depot, and the crucial role of this depot in generating atp early during spore germination
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677488
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010195
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