Glycine betaine biosynthesized from glycine provides an osmolyte for cell growth and spore germination during osmotic stress in Myxococcus xanthus

Yoshio Kimura; Shinji Kawasaki; Hinae Yoshimoto; Kaoru Takegawa

doi:10.1128/JB.01118-09

Glycine betaine biosynthesized from glycine provides an osmolyte for cell growth and spore germination during osmotic stress in Myxococcus xanthus

Yoshio Kimura, Shinji Kawasaki, Hinae Yoshimoto, Kaoru Takegawa

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Abstract

Glycine sarcosine methyltransferase (Gsm) and sarcosine dimethylglycine methyltransferase (Sdm) catalyze glycine betaine synthesis from glycine. Disruption of the M. xanthus gsmA (MXAN 7068) or sdmA (MXAN 3190) gene, encoding Gsm or Sdm homologue proteins, respectively, generated mutants that exhibited a longer lag period of growth and delayed spore germination under osmostress.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1467-1470
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of bacteriology
Volume	192
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01118-09
Publication status	Published - Mar 2010

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Microbiology
Molecular Biology

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