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Cardiolipin and the osmotic stress responses of bacteria.

ABSTRACT: Cells control their own hydration by accumulating solutes when they are exposed to high osmolality media and releasing solutes in response to osmotic down-shocks. Osmosensory transporters mediate solute accumulation and mechanosensitive channels mediate solute release. Escherichia coli serves as a paradigm for studies of cellular osmoregulation. Growth in media of high salinity alters the phospholipid headgroup and fatty acid compositions of bacterial cytoplasmic membranes, in many cases increasing the ratio of anionic to zwitterionic lipid. In E. coli, the proportion of cardiolipin (CL) increases as the proportion of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) decreases when osmotic stress is imposed with an electrolyte or a non-electrolyte. Osmotic induction of the gene encoding CL synthase (cls) contributes to these changes. The proportion of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) increases at the expense of PE in cls(-) bacteria and, in Bacillus subtilis, the genes encoding CL and PG synthases (clsA and pgsA) are both osmotically regulated. CL is concentrated at the poles of diverse bacterial cells. A FlAsH-tagged variant of osmosensory transporter ProP is also concentrated at E. coli cell poles. Polar concentration of ProP is CL-dependent whereas polar concentration of its paralogue LacY, a H(+)-lactose symporter, is not. The proportion of anionic lipids (CL and PG) modulates the function of ProP in vivo and in vitro. These effects suggest that the osmotic induction of CL synthesis and co-localization of ProP with CL at the cell poles adjust the osmolality range over which ProP activity is controlled by placing it in a CL-rich membrane environment. In contrast, a GFP-tagged variant of mechanosensitive channel MscL is not concentrated at the cell poles but anionic lipids bind to a specific site on each subunit of MscL and influence its function in vitro. The sub-cellular locations and lipid dependencies of other osmosensory systems are not known. Varying CL content is a key element of osmotic adaptation by bacteria but much remains to be learned about its roles in the localization and function of osmoregulatory proteins.

SUBMITTER: Romantsov T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3622477 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cardiolipin and the osmotic stress responses of bacteria.

Romantsov Tatyana T Guan Ziqiang Z Wood Janet M JM

Biochimica et biophysica acta 20090617 10

Cells control their own hydration by accumulating solutes when they are exposed to high osmolality media and releasing solutes in response to osmotic down-shocks. Osmosensory transporters mediate solute accumulation and mechanosensitive channels mediate solute release. Escherichia coli serves as a paradigm for studies of cellular osmoregulation. Growth in media of high salinity alters the phospholipid headgroup and fatty acid compositions of bacterial cytoplasmic membranes, in many cases increas ...[more]

PMID: 19539601

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