Regulated breakdown of Escherichia coli deoxyribonucleic acid during intraperiplasmic growth of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J.
AUTOR(ES)
Rosson, R A
RESUMO
During growth of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus on [2-14C]deoxythymidine-labeled Escherichia coli, approximately 30% of the radioactivity was released to the culture fluid as nucleoside monophosphates and free bases; the remainder was incorporated by the bdellovibrio. By 60 min after bdellovibrio attack, when only 10% of the E. coli deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) had been solubilized, the substrate cell DNA was degraded to 5 X 10(5)-dalton fragments retained within the bdelloplast. Kinetic studies showed these fragments were formed as the result of sequential accumulation of single- and then double-strand cuts. DNA fragments between 2 X 10(3) and 5 X 10(5) daltons were never observed. Chloramphenicol, added at various times after initiation of bdellovibrio intraperiplasmic growth on normal or on heated E. coli, which have inactivated deoxyribonucleases, inhibited further breakdown and solubilization of substrate cell DNA. Analysis of these intraperiplasmic culture deoxyribonuclease activities showed that bdellovibrio deoxyribonucleases are synthesized while E. coli nucleases are inactivated. It is concluded that continuous and sequential synthesis of bdellovibrio deoxyribonucleases of apparently differing specificities is necessary for complete breakdown and solubilization of substrate cell DNA, and that substrate cell deoxyribonucleases are not involved in any significant way in the degradation process.
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