Evidence for the synthesis of soluble peptidoglycan fragments by protoplasts of Streptococcus faecalis.
AUTOR(ES)
Rosenthal, R S
RESUMO
Growing protoplasts of Streptococcus faecalis 9790 were found to synthesize and excrete soluble peptidoglycan fragments. The presence of soluble peptidoglycan derivatives in culture supernatants was determined by (i) incorporation of three different radioactively labeled precursors (L-lysine, D-alanine, and acetate) into products which, after hen egg-white lysozyme hydrolysis, had the same KD values on gel filtration as muramidase hydrolysis products of isolated walls; (ii) inhibition of net synthesis of these products by cycloserine and vancomycin; and (iii) identification of disaccharide-peptide monomer using the beta-elimination reaction, gel filtration, and high-voltage paper electrophoresis. Under the conditions of these experiments the presence of newly synthesized, acid-precipitable (macromolecular) peptidoglycan was not detected. The predominance of monomer (70 to 80%) in lysozyme digests of peptidoglycan synthesized by protoplasts was in sharp contrast to digest of walls from intact streptococci which contain mostly peptide cross-linked products. Biosynthesis and release of relatively uncross-linked, soluble peptidoglycan fragments by protoplasts was related to the absence of suitable, preexisting acceptor wall.
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