Reconstitution of Spiroplasma swimming by expressing two bacterial actins in synthetic minimal bacterium
Kiyama, H.; Kakizawa, S.; Sasajima, Y.; Tahara, Y.; Miyata, M.
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Motility is one of the most important features of life, but its evolutionary origin remains unknown. In this study, we focused on Spiroplasma, commensal, or parasitic bacteria. They swim by switching the helicity of a ribbon-like cytoskeleton that comprises six proteins, each of which evolved from a nucleosidase and bacterial actin called MreB. We expressed these proteins in a synthetic, non-motile minimal bacterium, JCVI-syn3.0B, whose reduced genome was computer-designed and chemically synthesized. The synthetic bacterium exhibited swimming motility with features characteristic of Spiroplasma swimming. Moreover, some combinations of the two proteins produced a helical cell shape and swimming, suggesting that the swimming originated from the differentiation and coupling of bacterial actins, and we also obtained a minimal system for motility of the synthetic bacterium. One-Sentence SummaryThe minimal system comprised two bacterial actins that provided cell helicity and swimming to the synthetic minimal bacterium.
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