Temperature Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis by Chromosomal groEL Replacement

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  • ENDO Ayako
    Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
  • SASAKI Mayumi
    Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
  • MARUYAMA Akihiko
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • KURUSU Yasurou
    Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University

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  • Temperature Adaptation of<i>Bacillus subtilis</i>by Chromosomal<i>groEL</i>Replacement

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We investigated a temperature adaptation of Bacillus subtilis 168 in which chromosomal groEL was replaced with a psychrophilic groEL. This strain can grow at 50 °C but not at 51 °C, a temperature at which wild-type B. subtilis can grow. Using in vivo random mutagenesis by the B. subtilis mutator strain (mutS, mutM, mutY), two thermo-adaptants were isolated from the groEL substituted strain at 52 °C. They contained novel amino acid alterations in their ATP binding motif (T93I) and the inter-monomer contact (R285H) region of GroEL. These results suggest that GroEL participates in bacterial temperature adaptation.

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