Meier, Elizabeth L. and Daitch, Allison K. and Yao, Qing and Bhargava, Anant and Jensen, Grant J. and Goley, Erin D. (2017) FtsEX-mediated regulation of the final stages of cell division reveals morphogenetic plasticity in Caulobacter crescentus. PLOS Genetics, 13 (9). Art. No. e1006999. ISSN 1553-7404. PMCID PMC5607218. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170918-095203888
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Abstract
During its life cycle, Caulobacter crescentus undergoes a series of coordinated shape changes, including generation of a polar stalk and reshaping of the cell envelope to produce new daughter cells through the process of cytokinesis. The mechanisms by which these morphogenetic processes are coordinated in time and space remain largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that the conserved division complex FtsEX controls both the early and late stages of cytokinesis in C. crescentus, namely initiation of constriction and final cell separation. ΔftsE cells display a striking phenotype: cells are chained, with skinny connections between cell bodies resulting from defects in inner membrane fusion and cell separation. Surprisingly, the thin connections in ΔftsE cells share morphological and molecular features with C. crescentus stalks. Our data uncover unanticipated morphogenetic plasticity in C. crescentus, with loss of FtsE causing a stalk-like program to take over at failed division sites.
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Alternate Title: | FtsEX-Mediated Regulation Of Inner Membrane Fusion And Cell Separation Reveals Morphogenetic Plasticity In Caulobacter crescentus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional Information: | © 2017 Meier et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Received: April 5, 2017; Accepted: August 25, 2017; Published: September 8, 2017. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences through grant numbers R35 GM122588 (GJJ) and R01 GM108640 (EDG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. We thank Jasmine Burrell for her work characterizing stalk protein localization in ΔftsE; Martin Thanbichler for sharing plasmids, strains and preliminary LdpF data; Yves Brun, Erkin Kuru, and Michael van Nieuwehnze for HADA; Kousik Sundararajan for assistance with TEM; Yves Brun and Ellen Quardokus for assistance with TEM and for sharing the StpX-CFP plasmid; and Zhuo Li for providing the wild-type stalks images in S3 Fig. Author Contributions: Conceptualization: Elizabeth L. Meier, Erin D. Goley. Formal analysis: Elizabeth L. Meier, Allison K. Daitch, Qing Yao, Anant Bhargava, Erin D. Goley. Funding acquisition: Grant J. Jensen, Erin D. Goley. Investigation: Elizabeth L. Meier, Allison K. Daitch, Qing Yao, Erin D. Goley. Methodology: Elizabeth L. Meier, Allison K. Daitch, Qing Yao, Anant Bhargava. Supervision: Grant J. Jensen, Erin D. Goley. Writing ± original draft: Elizabeth L. Meier. Writing ± review & editing: Elizabeth L. Meier, Allison K. Daitch, Qing Yao, Anant Bhargava, Grant J. Jensen, Erin D. Goley. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Meier EL, Daitch AK, Yao Q, Bhargava A, Jensen GJ, Goley ED (2017) FtsEX-mediated regulation of the final stages of cell division reveals morphogenetic plasticity in Caulobacter crescentus. PLoS Genet 13(9): e1006999. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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