Protein aggregates act as a deterministic disruptor during bacterial cell size homeostasis.


Journal

Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS
ISSN: 1420-9071
Titre abrégé: Cell Mol Life Sci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 9705402

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 02 05 2023
accepted: 15 10 2023
revised: 13 10 2023
medline: 20 11 2023
pubmed: 17 11 2023
entrez: 16 11 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Mechanisms underlying deviant cell size fluctuations among clonal bacterial siblings are generally considered to be cryptic and stochastic in nature. However, by scrutinizing heat-stressed populations of the model bacterium Escherichia coli, we uncovered the existence of a deterministic asymmetry in cell division that is caused by the presence of intracellular protein aggregates (PAs). While these structures typically locate at the cell pole and segregate asymmetrically among daughter cells, we now show that the presence of a polar PA consistently causes a more distal off-center positioning of the FtsZ division septum. The resulting increased length of PA-inheriting siblings persists over multiple generations and could be observed in both E. coli and Bacillus subtilis populations. Closer investigation suggests that a PA can physically perturb the nucleoid structure, which subsequently leads to asymmetric septation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37971522
doi: 10.1007/s00018-023-05002-4
pii: 10.1007/s00018-023-05002-4
doi:

Substances chimiques

Bacterial Proteins 0
Protein Aggregates 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

360

Subventions

Organisme : Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
ID : 11B0519N
Organisme : Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
ID : 11J6222N
Organisme : Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
ID : 1135116N
Organisme : Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
ID : G0C7118N
Organisme : Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
ID : G0D8220N
Organisme : Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven
ID : PDM/20/118
Organisme : Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven
ID : STG/21/068

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Auteurs

Julien Mortier (J)

Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Sander K Govers (SK)

Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Alexander Cambré (A)

Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Ronald Van Eyken (R)

Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Jolanda Verheul (J)

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Bacterial Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Tanneke den Blaauwen (T)

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Bacterial Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abram Aertsen (A)

Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. abram.aertsen@kuleuven.be.

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