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The Conserved Spore Coat Protein SpoVM Is Largely Dispensable in Clostridium
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Ribis JW
; Ravichandran P
; Putnam EE
; Pishdadian K
; Shen A
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The spore-forming bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile is a leading cause of
health care-associated infections in the United States. In order for this
obligate anaerobe to transmit infection, it must form metabolically dormant
spores prior to exiting the host. A key step during this process is the assembly
of a protective, multilayered proteinaceous coat around the spore. Coat assembly
depends on coat morphogenetic proteins recruiting distinct subsets of coat
proteins to the developing spore. While 10 coat morphogenetic proteins have been
identified in Bacillus subtilis, only two of these morphogenetic proteins have
homologs in the Clostridia: SpoIVA and SpoVM. C. difficile SpoIVA is critical for
proper coat assembly and functional spore formation, but the requirement for
SpoVM during this process was unknown. Here, we show that SpoVM is largely
dispensable for C. difficile spore formation, in contrast with B. subtilis. Loss
of C. difficile SpoVM resulted in modest decreases (~3-fold) in heat- and
chloroform-resistant spore formation, while morphological defects such as coat
detachment from the forespore and abnormal cortex thickness were observed in ~30%
of spoVM mutant cells. Biochemical analyses revealed that C. difficile SpoIVA and
SpoVM directly interact, similarly to their B. subtilis counterparts. However, in
contrast with B. subtilis, C. difficile SpoVM was not essential for SpoIVA to
encase the forespore. Since C. difficile coat morphogenesis requires
SpoIVA-interacting protein L (SipL), which is conserved exclusively in the
Clostridia, but not the more broadly conserved SpoVM, our results reveal another
key difference between C. difficile and B. subtilis spore assembly pathways.
IMPORTANCE The spore-forming obligate anaerobe Clostridium difficile is the
leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrheal disease in the United States.
When C. difficile spores are ingested by susceptible individuals, they germinate
within the gut and transform into vegetative, toxin-secreting cells. During
infection, C. difficile must also induce spore formation to survive exit from the
host. Since spore formation is essential for transmission, understanding the
basic mechanisms underlying sporulation in C. difficile could inform the
development of therapeutic strategies targeting spores. In this study, we
determine the requirement of the C. difficile homolog of SpoVM, a protein that is
essential for spore formation in Bacillus subtilis due to its regulation of coat
and cortex formation. We observed that SpoVM plays a minor role in C. difficile
spore formation, in contrast with B. subtilis, indicating that this protein would
not be a good target for inhibiting spore formation.