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Environmental and biofilm-dependent changes in a Bacillus cereus secondary cell wall polysaccharide.


ABSTRACT: Bacterial species from the Bacillus genus, including Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis, synthesize secondary cell wall polymers (SCWP) covalently associated to the peptidoglycan through a phospho-diester linkage. Although such components were observed in a wide panel of B. cereus and B. anthracis strains, the effect of culture conditions or of bacterial growth state on their synthesis has never been addressed. Herein we show that B. cereus ATCC 14579 can synthesize not only one, as previously reported, but two structurally unrelated secondary cell wall polymers (SCWP) polysaccharides. The first of these SCWP, ?4)[GlcNAc(?1-3)]GlcNAc(?1-6)[Glc(?1-3)][ManNAc(?1-4)]GalNAc(?1-4)ManNAc(?1?, although presenting an original sequence, fits to the already described the canonical sequence motif of SCWP. In contrast, the second polysaccharide was made up by a totally original sequence, ?6)Gal(?1-2)(2-R-hydroxyglutar-5-ylamido)Fuc2NAc4N(?1-6)GlcNAc(?1?, which no equivalent has ever been identified in the Bacillus genus. In addition, we established that the syntheses of these two polysaccharides were differently regulated. The first one is constantly expressed at the surface of the bacteria, whereas the expression of the second is tightly regulated by culture conditions and growth states, planktonic, or biofilm.

SUBMITTER: Candela T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3173068 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Environmental and biofilm-dependent changes in a Bacillus cereus secondary cell wall polysaccharide.

Candela Thomas T   Maes Emmanuel E   Garénaux Estelle E   Rombouts Yoann Y   Krzewinski Frédéric F   Gohar Michel M   Guérardel Yann Y  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20110722 36


Bacterial species from the Bacillus genus, including Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis, synthesize secondary cell wall polymers (SCWP) covalently associated to the peptidoglycan through a phospho-diester linkage. Although such components were observed in a wide panel of B. cereus and B. anthracis strains, the effect of culture conditions or of bacterial growth state on their synthesis has never been addressed. Herein we show that B. cereus ATCC 14579 can synthesize not only one, as previous  ...[more]

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