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Journal of Bacteriology, June 2001, p. 3365-3371, Vol. 183, No. 11
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.11.3365-3371.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Role of Trehalose in Growth at High Temperature of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

David Cánovas,1,2,dagger Susanne A. Fletcher,1 Mikachi Hayashi,1 and Laszlo N. Csonka1,*

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1392,1 and Departamento de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain2

Received 2 January 2001/Accepted 5 March 2001

Moderate osmolality can stimulate bacterial growth at temperatures near the upper limit for growth. We investigated the mechanism by which high osmolality enhances the thermotolerance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, by isolating bacteriophage MudI1734-induced insertion mutations that blocked the growth-stimulatory effect of 0.2 M NaCl at 45°C. One of these mutations proved to be in the seqA gene (a regulator of initiation of DNA synthesis). Because this gene is cotranscribed with pgm (which encodes phosphoglucomutase), it is likely to be polar on the expression of the pgm gene. Pgm catalyzes the conversion of glucose-6-phosphate to glucose-1-phosphate during growth on glucose, and therefore loss of Pgm results in a deficiency in a variety of cellular constituents derived from glucose-1-phosphate, including trehalose. To test the possibility that the growth defect of the seqA::MudI1734 mutant at high temperature in medium of high osmolality is due to the block in trehalose synthesis, we determined the effect of an otsA mutation, which inactivates the first step of the trehalose biosynthetic pathway. The otsA mutation caused a growth defect at 45°C in minimal medium containing 0.2 M NaCl that was similar to that caused by the pgm mutation, but otsA did not affect growth rate in this medium at 37°C. These results suggest that the growth defect of the seqA-pgm mutant at high temperature could be a consequence of the block in trehalose synthesis. We found that, in addition to the well-known osmotic control, there is a temperature-dependent control of trehalose synthesis such that, in medium containing 0.2 M NaCl, cells grown at 45°C had a fivefold higher trehalose pool size than cells grown at 30°C. Our observations that trehalose accumulation is thermoregulated and that mutations that block trehalose synthesis cause a growth defect at high temperature in media of high osmolality suggested that this disaccharide is crucial for growth at high temperature either for turgor maintenance or for protein stabilization.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392. Phone: (765) 494-4969. Fax: (765) 496-1496. E-mail: lcsonka{at}bilbo.bio.purdue.edu.

dagger Present address: Departamento Biotecnologia Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC, Campus UAM-Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Journal of Bacteriology, June 2001, p. 3365-3371, Vol. 183, No. 11
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.11.3365-3371.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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