ArticleMolecular microbiology2012
Dynamics of the assembly of a complex macromolecular structure--the coat of spores of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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- Identification of SpoVID as a putative new substrate of the sporulation-specific protease YabG inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Targeting the Impossible: A Review of New Strategies against Endospores.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Progress in research and application development of surface display technology using Bacillus subtilis spores.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2020Review
- Diverse supramolecular structures formed by self-assembling proteins of the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.Molecular microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
The coat is the outermost layer of spores of many Bacillus species, and plays a key role in these spores' resistance. The Bacillus subtilis spore coat contains > 70 proteins in four distinct layers: the basement layer, inner coat, outer coat and crust. In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, McKenney and Eichenberger study the dynamics of spore coat assembly using GFP-fusions to 41 B. subtilis coat proteins. A key finding in the work is that formation of the spore coat is initiated by the apparently simultaneous assembly of foci of proteins from all four coat layers on the developing spore just as forespore engulfment by the mother cell begins. The expansion of these foci before completion of forespore engulfment then sets up the scaffold to which coat proteins added later in sporulation are added. This study provides new understanding of the mechanism of the assembly of a multi-protein, multi-lamellar structure.
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