Secretion and processing of staphylococcal nuclease by Bacillus subtilis.

AUTOR(ES)

Miller, J R

RESUMO

We have studied the secretion and processing of Staphylococcus aureus nuclease in Bacillus subtilis. We show that the initial species of nuclease found in the cell supernatants during short-term radioactive labeling (pulse-chase) had a molecular weight of approximately 18,800 and comigrated in a sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel with staphylococcal nuclease B. This nuclease B form was processed to the mature nuclease A extracellularly by a phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride-sensitive protease. The nuclease B-processing site is a consensus signal peptidase site, and the processing of nuclease B was coupled to secretion as judged by pulse-chase experiments. The nuclease A was shown by microsequencing of the N terminus to be 2 amino acid residues shorter than the nuclease A described for S. aureus Foggi. The nuclease B form was still the first species found in the culture supernatant after removal of the N-terminal 26 amino acids of the native 60-amino-acid signal peptide. However, removal of the N-terminal 72 amino acids abolishes secretion of any nuclease form and leads to the intracellular accumulation of nuclease.

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