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Characterization of the rate-limiting step of the secretion of Bacillus subtilis -amylase overproduced during the exponential phase of growth

Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Laboratoire Génétique et Membranes, Tour 43-2, place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France

¹ Author for correspondence: Marie-Françoise Petit-Glatron. Tel: +33 1 44 27 49 17. Fax: + 33 1 44 27 59 94.

ABSTRACT

The Bacillus subtilis -amylase gene, amyE, was expressed under the regulated control of sacR, the levansucrase leader region. The gene fusion including the complete amyE coding sequence with the signal peptide sequence was integrated into the chromosome of a degU32(Hy) strain deleted of the sacB DNA fragment. In this genetic context, -amylase is produced in the culture supernatant at a high level (2% of total protein) during the exponential phase of growth upon induction by sucrose. Pulse-chase experiments showed that the rate-limiting step (t_1/2 = 120 s) of the secretion process is the release of a cell-associated precursor form whose signal peptide has been cleaved. The efficiency of this ultimate step of secretion decreased dramatically in the presence of a metal chelator (EDTA) or when the cells were converted to protoplasts. The hypothesis that this step is tightly coupled with the folding process of -amylase occurring within the cell wall environment was substantiated by in vitro folding studies. The unfolding-folding transition, monitored by the resistance to proteolysis, was achieved within the same time range (t_1/2 = 60 s) and required the presence of calcium. This metal requirement could possibly be satisfied in vivo by the integrity of the cell wail. The t_1/2 of the -amylase release step is double that of levansucrase, although their folding rates are similar. This perhaps indicates that the passage through the cell wall may depend on parietal properties (e.g. metal ion binding and porosity) and on certain intrinsic properties of the protein (molecular mass and folding properties).

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