Structure and Expression of Propanediol Utilization Microcompartments in Acetonema longum
ABSTRACT
Numerous bacteria assemble proteinaceous microcompartments to isolate certain biochemical reactions within the cytoplasm. The assembly, structure, contents, and functions of these microcompartments are active areas of research. Here we show that the Gram-negative sporulating bacterium Acetonema longum synthesizes propanediol utilization (PDU) microcompartments when starved or grown on 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PD) or rhamnose. Electron cryotomography of intact cells revealed that PDU microcompartments are highly irregular in shape and size, similar to purified PDU microcompartments from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 that were imaged previously. Homology searches identified a 20-gene operon in A. longum that contains most of the structural, enzymatic, and regulatory genes thought to be involved in PDU microcompartment assembly and function. Transcriptional data on PduU and PduC, which are major structural and enzymatic proteins, respectively, as well as imaging, indicate that PDU microcompartment synthesis is induced within 24 h of growth on 1,2-PD and after 48 h of growth on rhamnose.
INTRODUCTION
Bacterial microcompartments are small, cytoplasmic, organelle-like bodies consisting of a thin, selectively permeable proteinaceous shell that surrounds a cluster of enzymes. Together, these isolate certain metabolic pathways away from the rest of the cytoplasm. Microcompartments may increase metabolic efficiency by concentrating enzymes and substrates, inhibiting nonproductive side reactions, or sequestering toxic by-products (1, 2). The best-studied microcompartments are the “carboxysomes” that sequester ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) and facilitate carbon fixation (3, 4). After early electron microscopy images of carboxysomes revealed their general size and shape (5), crystal structures of the shell proteins led to pseudoatomic models of carboxysomes as irregular polyhedra with hexagonally packed faces joined at the vertices by pentagonal disclinations (6, 7). In the case of carboxysomes, it was also recently shown that the RubisCO enzymes destined to be internalized cluster together and then nucleate the assembly of the shell (8). Electron cryotomography (ECT) (9) of purified carboxysomes (10) and then of intact cells producing carboxysomes (11) has shown that while purification enriches for more-nearly-icosahedral shapes, carboxysomes inside cells are more heterogeneous, exhibit ordered layers of enzymes packed against the shell, and harbor small internal storage granules as well as elaborate connections to larger, external storage granules (11).
In addition to carboxysomes, there are several other types of bacterial microcompartments, including propanediol utilization (PDU) and ethanolamine microcompartments (12, 13). Whether or not all microcompartments share similar assembly and structural features remains unclear. Projection images of plastic-embedded sections of PDU and ethanolamine microcompartments from Salmonella enterica and Lactobacillus reuteri have shown that these are also irregular polyhedra with thin shells (12, 14).
We recently discovered microcompartments in another organism, Acetonema longum, which is a strictly anaerobic, acetogenic bacterium found in the gut of the phylogenetically lower wood-feeding termite Pterotermes occidentis (15). In addition to using H2 plus CO2 as a source of energy and carbon, this bacterium can use a variety of organic carbon sources to support its growth. A. longum is unusual in that while it affiliates phylogenetically with Clostridia, within the phylum Firmicutes, and can sporulate, it is a bona fide Gram-negative species with both an inner and an outer membrane (15, 16). In our previous study, aimed at characterizing sporulation in A. longum, we observed microcompartments in some but not all sporulating cells (16). Here we identify the microcompartments in A. longum as PDU microcompartments, identify the operon responsible for their synthesis, structurally characterize them three-dimensionally (3-D) in their native state within intact cells by ECT, and explore the timing of their assembly when A. longum is grown on different carbon sources.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Identification of PDU-associated genes.
Sequences for the genes of structural proteins and enzymes associated with PDU microcompartments were obtained from the complete genome sequence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2. These S. enterica genes were used to conduct BLAST (17) searches for homologs in the genome sequence of A. longum within the RAST annotation environment (18). A. longum homologs of S. enterica genes were used to conduct reciprocal BLAST searches against the NCBI database to confirm the putative gene identities.
Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) of pduC and pduU transcripts.
Total RNAs were prepared from 5-ml cultures of A. longum cells by first stabilizing each sample with 2 volumes of RNA Protect reagent for bacteria (Qiagen) and then extracting the samples with RNeasy extraction kits (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. To ensure removal of DNA from the samples, the RNeasy extraction was performed twice. The first extraction included a 10-min on-column DNA digestion step using Qiagen DNase. This was followed by a 30-min off-column DNase digestion at 37°C, using RQ1 RNase-free DNase (Promega Corp., Madison, WI), followed by a stop reaction performed according to the manufacturer's directions. Finally, the sample was run through a second RNeasy column without further DNase digestion. RNA was collected and quantified using absorbance values and ratios at 260 nm and 280 nm. All RNA samples had concentrations between 50 ng/μl and 400 ng/μl and 260-nm/280-nm absorbance ratios of approximately 2. Total RNA (500 ng) from each sample was converted into total cDNA by using am iScript randomly primed cDNA synthesis kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA).
The transcription levels of pduC and pduU were monitored by quantitative PCR using IQ PCR supermix reagent from Life Technologies and gene-specific primers. The forward and reverse primers used for pduC were 5′-GATATCGCCAAAATGCTGGT and 5′-ACCACGTTCATGGTGTTGAA, respectively, and the forward and reverse primers for pduU were 5′-GGGAGTTATGCGACAAGTT and 5′-GGTCCAGAAAGCCTATTTCC, respectively. Transcription levels of clpX, which encodes the housekeeping enzyme caseinolytic peptidase X, were used as an endogenous control for the cDNA concentration. Forward and reverse primers for clpX were 5′-CGTTGACGGAGTCGGTTAT and 5′-ACAATCCCTTTTTCGGCTTT, respectively.
ECT sample preparation, data collection, and analysis.
Cells were frozen and imaged as described previously (16). Data were collected from −60° to 60°, with an angular step of 1°, a total dose of 200 e−/Å2, a defocus value of 10 μm, and a pixel size of 2 nm on a 300-kV FEG G2 Polara transmission electron microscope (TEM) equipped with a lens-coupled 4k-by-4k Ultracam (Gatan, CA) and an energy filter. Data were collected automatically with the UCSF tomography package (19) and reconstructed using the IMOD software package (20). Manual segmentation of the PDU microcompartments was done using Amira (Mercury Computer Systems). Every 2-D slice was contoured individually to ultimately represent a 3-D surface of the whole microcompartment. The surface was additionally smoothened for visual representation.
Culture growth conditions.
Acetonema longum APO-1 cells were grown as described previously (16), with the following modifications. Cells were grown anaerobically in 4YACo medium (21) supplemented with different carbon sources at a 20 mM concentration. In order to test how well A. longum grew on 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PD), cultures were started on a combination of glucose and H2 plus CO2, a condition that enhances growth of the strain, presumably through mixotrophism (22) and as described previously (16). The carbon sources tested were glucose, rhamnose, 1,2-PD, and H2 plus CO2 (control). All cultures were grown in the presence of 80% H2 plus 20% CO2 to support mixotrophic growth. Cultures grown in this way were concentrated by gentle centrifugation (approximately 3,000 × g) under anaerobic conditions to remove residual glucose and H2 and were then inoculated into media containing a variety of carbon sources provided at a 20 mM concentration. Cultures were incubated at 27°C in anaerobic Hungate culture tubes (18-mm diameter), and optical densities at 600 nm (OD600) were recorded directly through the tubes. Cells were harvested for imaging and PCR analysis at the 24-h and 48-h time points. The growth of the cultures was also monitored by measuring the OD600 over 8 days.
Only a few bacterial species have been found to grow on 1,2-PD as the sole carbon and energy source, and studies have shown that growth on 1,2-PD depends on the presence of a specific terminal electron acceptor (12, 23, 24). We therefore tested growth of A. longum on 1,2-PD by providing an assortment of potential electron acceptors at a 10 mM concentration. To force the cells to use 1,2-PD as the electron donor in the presence of different terminal electron acceptors, the headspace of the Hungate tubes and the growth medium was flushed with a gas mixture of 80% N2 and 20% CO2. When S. enterica was grown similarly on 1,2-PD under anaerobic conditions, tetrathionate was required as an electron acceptor (provided at a 10 mM concentration) for growth on 1,2-PD (25). Therefore, in addition to tetrathionate (which supports growth of S. enterica on 1,2-PD), we tested nitrate (a strong inorganic electron acceptor), fumarate (a widely utilized organic electron acceptor), and glycine (an electron acceptor utilized by some other members of the phylum Firmicutes in Stickland reactions).
RESULTS
In our previous study of A. longum sporulation (16), microcompartments were observed in just ∼2.5% of the cells imaged. The microcompartments were present in both immature spores and mother cells (Fig. 1) and were clearly smaller and less regularly shaped and contained smaller enzymes than the RubisCO-containing carboxysomes of chemotrophic, carbon-fixing bacteria imaged before by ECT in our lab (11, 26).
FIG 1
PDU-associated genes in A. longum form a putative operon.
In order to identify what kind of microcompartments were formed by A. longum, we searched for homologs of two conserved carboxysome shell proteins, CcmK2 and CcmK4. The only homologous proteins in A. longum were found to be encoded within an operon also containing the genes for PduCDE, the main enzyme for 1,2-PD catabolism, suggesting that these were PDU microcompartments. The other 16 genes in the operon were then identified as encoding homologs of all of the major structural and enzymatic components associated with PDU microcompartments in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2, the model organism for PDU microcompartment structure and function (12, 27, 28) (Fig. 2). The operon was flanked upstream by genes predicted to encode a putative sensor kinase and a DNA-binding response regulator likely involved in regulating the expression of the PDU genes. Three PDU genes found in S. enterica were not found within the gene cluster in A. longum. Of these, the genes for propionate kinase (pduW) and a threonine kinase involved in B12 synthesis (pduX) were identified elsewhere in the A. longum genome. The gene for NADPH-dependent propanol dehydrogenase (pduQ) was not identified specifically, but several homologs of unspecified alcohol dehydrogenases were found.
FIG 2
1,2-PD induces transcription and translation of PDU-associated genes.
To check whether the appearance of the microcompartments correlated with expression of the PDU genes, the transcription of two PDU-associated genes was assessed using qRT-PCR. We focused on two A. longum genes, pduU and pduC, which are predicted to encode a structural PDU polyhedral body protein and the large subunit of the coenzyme B12-dependent diol dehydratase, respectively. The levels of pduU and pduC transcripts detected at different time points depended on the specific carbon source added to the medium (Fig. 3A). Cells grown on glucose had low transcription levels of both genes at all time points investigated. As expected for PDU microcompartments, when cells were exposed to 1,2-PD, they responded rapidly by increasing transcription of pduU and pduC, by over 23- and 28-fold, respectively, within 24 h. While previous work has shown that, in A. longum, fermentation of fructose, mannose, mannitol, ribose, pyruvate, and oxaloacetate results in the production of butyrate and acetate (15), the major product of rhamnose fermentation was 1,2-PD (15). We therefore tested whether growth on rhamnose would result in transcription of pduU and pduC. Both genes were in fact strongly induced (approximately 18-fold and 20-fold increases, respectively), but only after 48 h of growth on rhamnose.
FIG 3
Cryotomograms of A. longum cells grown under the conditions described above were then recorded. No microcompartments were observed in cells grown on glucose after 24 and 48 h (n = 20), whereas growth on 1,2-PD for 24 h resulted in microcompartments in 5 of 7 cells. The majority of cells grown on rhamnose (33 of 36 imaged) lacked microcompartments after 24 h, but all the cells (n = 15) imaged after 48 h contained numerous microcompartments (Fig. 3B). We also tested whether growth on H2 plus CO2 alone could induce the synthesis of microcompartments. None of the 7 cells imaged after 48 h demonstrated the production of microcompartments when these culture conditions were used. Because (i) the only microcompartment genes found in A. longum were clustered in a single operon closely resembling (in synteny and homology) the model PDU microcompartment genes of S. enterica, (ii) growth of A. longum cells in 1,2-PD or rhamnose resulted in expression of the putative PDU microcompartment genes, and (iii) transcription of these genes correlated with the appearance of the microcompartments, we concluded that the observed microcompartments were PDU microcompartments.
Structural features of PDU microcompartments.
Like the other microcompartments previously observed, A. longum PDU microcompartments were seen to be thin-shelled irregular polyhedra. In cells grown on 1,2-propanediol, 2 to 6 microcompartments were seen in the 2- to 4-μm field of view of each cryotomogram, leading to an estimate of 35 to 210 microcompartments per ∼70-μm cell. The size and shape of the intracellular PDU microcompartments (n = 40) were highly variable (Fig. 4). Manual segmentations of ∼30 PDU microcompartments showed that the longest dimensions ranged from 80 to 200 nm, with surface areas ranging from 1,100 nm2 to 3,100 nm2 and volumes ranging from 2,900 nm3 to 12,000 nm3.
FIG 4
All the microcompartments were densely packed, presumably with enzymes involved in 1,2-PD degradation. No empty or partially assembled microcompartments were observed. In some cases, a layer of material was found just inside or outside the microcompartment shell, but not all the way around (Fig. 5), suggesting that the shell was composed of a single proteinaceous layer. The patchy appearance of the additional layers could be indicative of some specific protein-protein interactions rather than a packing-induced order (11).
FIG 5
Growth of A. longum in different media.
Compared to glucose or rhamnose, growth on 1,2-PD was dramatically slower and limited to much lower optical densities (Fig. 6A). An increase in optical density was observed when cells were grown on 1,2-PD and H2 plus CO2, but similar increases were observed for controls containing H2 plus CO2 with no additional organic carbon source. Because growth on 1,2-PD may depend on the presence of an appropriate terminal electron acceptor, various candidates were tested. Among these, nitrate supported stronger growth than glycine and fumarate (Fig. 6B). Tetrathionate was apparently lethal to A. longum, as evidenced by the cessation of growth and loss of motility in cultures shortly after addition of this chemical (the growth curve is not shown in Fig. 6B because tetrathionate also immediately oxidized the redox indicator resazurin, which was included in our medium to detect oxygen contamination, turning the culture pink and prohibiting optical density measurements).
FIG 6
DISCUSSION
Here we have shown that when starved or grown on certain sugars, A. longum synthesizes PDU microcompartments. In the termite gut, where A. longum is naturally found, cellulose hydrolysis and subsequent fermentation of the released sugars are accomplished mainly by flagellate protozoa, which produce large amounts of CO2 and H2 in the process. Acetogenic bacteria such as A. longum then use these gasses to form acetate, thus contributing to the efficiency of the termite gut system by increasing the amount of acetate available for termite metabolism (29–31). In addition, it is known that A. longum can ferment fructose, mannose, mannitol, ribose, pyruvate, and oxaloacetate, resulting in the production of butyrate and acetate (15). The major product of rhamnose fermentation, however, is 1,2-PD (15). In Salmonella enterica, the presence of 1,2-PD induces the assembly of microcompartments, presumably to sequester the toxic by-products of 1,2-PD degradation (such as propionaldehyde) from the rest of the cytoplasm (12, 32–34). The possession and expression of PDU microcompartment genes by A. longum therefore suggest that A. longum is either sometimes involved in rhamnose fermentation or utilizes 1,2-PD that is otherwise available due to the breakdown of plant material within the termite gut (1). The absence of PDU microcompartments in cultures grown on glucose and the delayed assembly of PDU microcompartments in cultures grown on rhamnose (compared to growth on 1,2-PD directly) further suggest that sugars repress microcompartment assembly but that when these sugars are exhausted from the medium (for instance, before sporulation is induced) and/or when 1,2-PD concentrations surpass a regulatory threshold, assembly begins (Fig. 3).
Like purified PDU microcompartments from S. enterica (35), A. longum PDU microcompartments are smaller and less regular than carboxysomes purified from Synechococcus species strain WH8102 (10). When carboxysomes were imaged in whole Halothiobacillus neapolitanus cells, some were only partially assembled (11). In those cases, a layer of RubisCO laid along the inner curvature of the unclosed shell. These observations are consistent with the results of a recent study which showed that the enzymes of the carboxysome microcompartment cluster together before they are encapsulated by the shell (8). While partially assembled PDU microcompartments were not observed in A. longum, our observation of a proteinaceous layer along the inner surface of some microcompartments points again to a coassembly mechanism. The consistent differences in shape and size of PDU microcompartments compared to carboxysomes may therefore be due to differences in the clustering properties of the enzymes they enclose, as well as to differences in the shell proteins.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Energy (grant DE-FG02-07ER64484 to J.R.L.).
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