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Published on: June 30, 2016
Polarity of c-di-GMP synthesis and degradation
Vanessa Kreiling1, Kai M Thormann1
1Justus-Liebig-Universität, Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
Abstract:
The bacterial cell pole has long been recognized as a defined compartment for enzymatic activities that are important or even vital for the cell. Polarity of diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases, enzymes that synthesize and degrade the second messenger c-di-GMP, has now been demonstrated for several bacterial systems. Here we review these polar regulatory systems and show how the asymmetry of c-di-GMP production and turnover in concert with different modes of activation and deactivation creates heterogeneity in cellular c-di-GMP levels. We highlight how this heterogeneity generates a diverse set of phenotypic identities or states and how this may benefit the cell population, and we discuss reasons why the polarity of c-di-GMP signaling is probably widespread among bacteria.
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