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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2004, p. 6230-6238, Vol. 186, No. 18
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6230-6238.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Bacillus subtilis StoA Is a Thiol-Disulfide Oxidoreductase Important for Spore Cortex Synthesis

Lyður S. Erlendsson, Mirja Möller, and Lars Hederstedt*

Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Received 16 March 2004/ Accepted 24 June 2004

Bacillus subtilis is an endospore-forming bacterium. There are indications that protein disulfide linkages occur in spores, but the role of thiol-disulfide chemistry in spore synthesis is not understood. Thiol-disulfide oxidoreductases catalyze formation or breakage of disulfide bonds in proteins. CcdA is the only B. subtilis thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase that has previously been shown to play some role in endospore biogenesis. In this work we show that lack of the StoA (YkvV) protein results in spores sensitive to heat, lysozyme, and chloroform. Compared to CcdA deficiency, StoA deficiency results in a 100-fold-stronger negative effect on sporulation efficiency. StoA is a membrane-bound protein with a predicted thioredoxin-like domain probably localized in the intermembrane space of the forespore. Electron microscopy of spores of CcdA- and StoA-deficient strains showed that the spore cortex is absent in both cases. The BdbD protein catalyzes formation of disulfide bonds in proteins on the outer side of the cytoplasmic membrane but is not required for sporulation. Inactivation of bdbD was found to suppress the sporulation defect of a strain deficient in StoA. Our results indicate that StoA is a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase that is involved in breaking disulfide bonds in cortex components or in proteins important for cortex synthesis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden. Phone: 046 (46) 2228622. Fax: 046 (46) 2224113. E-mail: Lars.Hederstedt{at}cob.lu.se.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2004, p. 6230-6238, Vol. 186, No. 18
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6230-6238.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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