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Journal of Bacteriology, May 1999, p. 3242-3245, Vol. 181, No. 10
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Purification, Kinetic Properties, and Intracellular Concentration of SpoIIE, an Integral Membrane Protein That Regulates Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Isabelle Lucet,1 Rainer Borriss,2 and Michael D. Yudkin1,*

Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom,1 and Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität, 10115 Berlin, Germany2

Received 30 December 1998/Accepted 5 March 1999

SpoIIE is a bifunctional protein which controls sigma F activation and formation of the asymmetric septum in sporulating Bacillus subtilis. The spoIIE gene of B. subtilis has now been overexpressed in Escherichia coli, and SpoIIE has been purified by anion-exchange chromatography and affinity chromatography. Kinetic studies showed that the rate of dephosphorylation of SpoIIAA-P by purified SpoIIE in vitro was 100 times greater, on a molar basis, than the rate of phosphorylation of SpoIIAA by SpoIIAB. The intracellular concentrations of SpoIIE and SpoIIAB were measured by quantitative immunoblotting between 0 and 4 h after the beginning of sporulation. The facts that these concentrations were very similar at hour 2 and that SpoIIE could be readily detected before asymmetric septation suggest that SpoIIE activity may be strongly regulated.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd., Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 1865 275302. Fax: 44 1865 275297. E-mail: mdy{at}bioch.ox.ac.uk.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 1999, p. 3242-3245, Vol. 181, No. 10
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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