Stable inheritance of Sinorhizobium meliloti cell growth polarity requires an FtsN-like protein and an amidase
Open Access
- 22 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Communications
- Vol. 12 (1), 1-13
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20739-3
Abstract
In Rhizobiales bacteria, such as Sinorhizobium meliloti, cell elongation takes place only at new cell poles, generated by cell division. Here, we show that the role of the FtsN-like protein RgsS in S. meliloti extends beyond cell division. RgsS contains a conserved SPOR domain known to bind amidase-processed peptidoglycan. This part of RgsS and peptidoglycan amidase AmiC are crucial for reliable selection of the new cell pole as cell elongation zone. Absence of these components increases mobility of RgsS molecules, as well as abnormal RgsS accumulation and positioning of the growth zone at the old cell pole in about one third of the cells. These cells with inverted growth polarity are able to complete the cell cycle but show partially impaired chromosome segregation. We propose that amidase-processed peptidoglycan provides a landmark for RgsS to generate cell polarity in unipolarly growing Rhizobiales.Funding Information
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (269423233—TRR 174)
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