Periplasmic enzymes in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Bdellovibrio stolpii.

AUTOR(ES)

Odelson, D A

RESUMO

When cells of either Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J or Bdellovibrio stolpii UKi2 were subjected to osmotic shock by treatment with sucrose-EDTA and MgCl2 solutions, only trace amounts of proteins or enzyme activities were released into the shock fluid. In contrast, when nongrowing cells were converted to motile, osmotically stable, peptidoglycan-free spheroplasts by penicillin treatment, numerous proteins were released into the suspending fluid. For both species, this suspending fluid contained substantial levels of 5'-nucleotidase, purine phosphorylase, and deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase. Penicillin treatment also released aminoendopeptidase N from B. bacteriovorus, but not from B. stolpii. Penicillin treatment did not cause release of cytoplasmic enzymes such as malate dehydrogenase. The data indicated that bdellovibrios possess periplasmic enzymes or peripheral enzymes associated with the cell wall complex. During intraperiplasmic bdellovibrio growth, periplasmic and cytoplasmic enzymes of the Escherichia coli substrate cell were not released upon formation of the spherical bdelloplast during bdellovibrio penetration. Most of the E. coli enzymes were retained within the bdelloplast until later in the growth cycle, when they became inactivated or released into the suspending buffer or both.

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