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Journal of Bacteriology, August 2000, p. 4478-4490, Vol. 182, No. 16
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Phosphate Starvation-Inducible Proteins of Bacillus subtilis: Proteomics and Transcriptional Analysis

Haike Antelmann, Christian Scharf, and Michael Hecker*

Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Received 2 March 2000/Accepted 17 May 2000

The phosphate starvation response in Bacillus subtilis was analyzed using two-dimensional (2D) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cell extracts and supernatants from phosphate-starved cells. Most of the phosphate starvation-induced proteins are under the control of sigma B, the activity of which is increased by energy depletion. In order to define the proteins belonging to the Pho regulon, which is regulated by the two-component regulatory proteins PhoP and PhoR, the 2D protein pattern of the wild type was compared with those of a sigB mutant and a phoR mutant. By matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry, two alkaline phosphatases (APases) (PhoA and PhoB), an APase-alkaline phosphodiesterase (PhoD), a glycerophosphoryl diester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ), and the lipoprotein YdhF were identified as very strongly induced PhoPR-dependent proteins secreted into the extracellular medium. In the cytoplasmic fraction, PstB1, PstB2, and TuaD were identified as already known PhoPR-dependent proteins, in addition to PhoB, PhoD, and the previously described PstS. Transcriptional studies of glpQ and ydhF confirmed the strong PhoPR dependence. Northern hybridization and primer extension experiments showed that glpQ is transcribed monocistronically from a sigma A promoter which is overlapped by four putative TT(A/T)ACA-like PhoP binding sites. Furthermore, ydhF might be cotranscribed with phoB initiating from the phoB promoter. Only a small group of proteins remained phosphate starvation inducible in both phoR and sigB mutant and did not form a unique regulation group. Among these, YfhM and YjbC were controlled by sigma B-dependent and unknown PhoPR-independent mechanisms. Furthermore, YtxH and YvyD seemed to be induced after phosphate starvation in the wild type in a sigma B-dependent manner and in the sigB mutant probably via sigma H. YxiE was induced by phosphate starvation independently of sigma B and PhoPR.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, 17487 Greifswald, Germany. Phone: 49 (3834) 864200. Fax: 49 (3834) 864202. E-mail: hecker{at}microbio7.biologie.uni-greifswald.de.

Journal of Bacteriology, August 2000, p. 4478-4490, Vol. 182, No. 16
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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