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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2000, p. 1499-1506, Vol. 182, No. 6
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Novel Spore Peptidoglycan Hydrolase of Bacillus cereus: Biochemical Characterization and Nucleotide Sequence of the Corresponding Gene, sleL

Yinghua Chen,1 Satoshi Fukuoka,2 and Shio Makino1,*

Department of Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601,1 and Marine Resources Department, Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395,2 Japan

Received 10 September 1999/Accepted 17 December 1999

The exudate of germinated spores of B. cereus IFO 13597 in 0.15 M KCl-50 mM potassium phosphate (pH 7.0) contained a spore-lytic enzyme which has substrate specificity for fragmented spore cortex from wild-type organisms (cortical-fragment-lytic enzyme [CFLE]), in addition to a previously characterized germination-specific hydrolase which acts on intact spore cortex (spore cortex-lytic enzyme [SCLE]) (R. Moriyama, S. Kudoh, S. Miyata, S. Nonobe, A. Hattori, and S. Makino, J. Bacteriol. 178:5330-5332, 1996). CFLE was not capable of degrading isolated cortical fragments from spores of Bacillus subtilis ADD1, which lacks muramic acid delta -lactam. This suggests that CFLE cooperates with SCLE in cortex hydrolysis during germination. CFLE was purified in an active form and identified as a 48-kDa protein which functions as an N-acetylglucosaminidase. Immunochemical studies suggested that the mature enzyme is localized on a rather peripheral region of the dormant spore, probably the exterior of the cortex layer. A gene encoding the enzyme, sleL, was cloned in Escherichia coli, and the nucleotide sequence was determined. The gene encodes a protein of 430 amino acids with a deduced molecular weight of 48,136. The N-terminal region contains a repeated motif common to several peptidoglycan binding proteins. Inspection of the data banks showed no similarity of CFLE with N-acetylglucosaminidases found so far, suggesting that CFLE is a novel type of N-acetylglucosaminidase. The B. subtilis genome sequence contains genes, yaaH and ydhD, which encode putative proteins showing similarity to SleL.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan. Phone: 81 (52) 789-4132. Fax: 81 (52) 789-4120. E-mail: makino{at}nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2000, p. 1499-1506, Vol. 182, No. 6
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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