Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>

ABSTRACT Spiroplasma bacteria are highly motile bacteria with no cell wall and a helical morphology. This clade includes many vertically transmitted insect endosymbionts, including Spiroplasma poulsonii, a natural endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster. S. poulsonii bacteria are mainly found in the...

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Autores principales:	Elodie Ramond, Catherine Maclachlan, Stéphanie Clerc-Rosset, Graham W. Knott, Bruno Lemaitre
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:18befbe0cb9c441998ef0e1c9e52870b2021-11-15T15:50:19ZCell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>10.1128/mBio.00881-162150-7511https://doaj.org/article/18befbe0cb9c441998ef0e1c9e52870b2016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00881-16https://doaj.org/toc/2150-7511ABSTRACT Spiroplasma bacteria are highly motile bacteria with no cell wall and a helical morphology. This clade includes many vertically transmitted insect endosymbionts, including Spiroplasma poulsonii, a natural endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster. S. poulsonii bacteria are mainly found in the hemolymph of infected female flies and exhibit efficient vertical transmission from mother to offspring. As is the case for many facultative endosymbionts, S. poulsonii can manipulate the reproduction of its host; in particular, S. poulsonii induces male killing in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we analyze the morphology of S. poulsonii obtained from the hemolymph of infected Drosophila. This endosymbiont was not only found as long helical filaments, as previously described, but was also found in a Y-shaped form. The use of electron microscopy, immunogold staining of the FtsZ protein, and antibiotic treatment unambiguously linked the Y shape of S. poulsonii to cell division. Observation of the Y shape in another Spiroplasma, S. citri, and anecdotic observations from the literature suggest that cell division by longitudinal scission might be prevalent in the Spiroplasma clade. Our study is the first to report the Y-shape mode of cell division in an endosymbiotic bacterium and adds Spiroplasma to the so far limited group of bacteria known to utilize this cell division mode. IMPORTANCE Most bacteria rely on binary fission, which involves elongation of the bacteria and DNA replication, followed by splitting into two parts. Examples of bacteria with a Y-shape longitudinal scission remain scarce. Here, we report that Spiroplasma poulsonii, an endosymbiotic bacterium living inside the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, divide with the longitudinal mode of cell division. Observations of the Y shape in another Spiroplasma, S. citri, suggest that this mode of scission might be prevalent in the Spiroplasma clade. Spiroplasma bacteria are wall-less bacteria with a distinctive helical shape, and these bacteria are always associated with arthropods, notably insects. Our study raises the hypothesis that this mode of cell division by longitudinal scission could be linked to the symbiotic mode of life of these bacteria.Elodie RamondCatherine MaclachlanStéphanie Clerc-RossetGraham W. KnottBruno LemaitreAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmBio, Vol 7, Iss 4 (2016)
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spellingShingle	Microbiology QR1-502 Elodie Ramond Catherine Maclachlan Stéphanie Clerc-Rosset Graham W. Knott Bruno Lemaitre Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
description	ABSTRACT Spiroplasma bacteria are highly motile bacteria with no cell wall and a helical morphology. This clade includes many vertically transmitted insect endosymbionts, including Spiroplasma poulsonii, a natural endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster. S. poulsonii bacteria are mainly found in the hemolymph of infected female flies and exhibit efficient vertical transmission from mother to offspring. As is the case for many facultative endosymbionts, S. poulsonii can manipulate the reproduction of its host; in particular, S. poulsonii induces male killing in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we analyze the morphology of S. poulsonii obtained from the hemolymph of infected Drosophila. This endosymbiont was not only found as long helical filaments, as previously described, but was also found in a Y-shaped form. The use of electron microscopy, immunogold staining of the FtsZ protein, and antibiotic treatment unambiguously linked the Y shape of S. poulsonii to cell division. Observation of the Y shape in another Spiroplasma, S. citri, and anecdotic observations from the literature suggest that cell division by longitudinal scission might be prevalent in the Spiroplasma clade. Our study is the first to report the Y-shape mode of cell division in an endosymbiotic bacterium and adds Spiroplasma to the so far limited group of bacteria known to utilize this cell division mode. IMPORTANCE Most bacteria rely on binary fission, which involves elongation of the bacteria and DNA replication, followed by splitting into two parts. Examples of bacteria with a Y-shape longitudinal scission remain scarce. Here, we report that Spiroplasma poulsonii, an endosymbiotic bacterium living inside the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, divide with the longitudinal mode of cell division. Observations of the Y shape in another Spiroplasma, S. citri, suggest that this mode of scission might be prevalent in the Spiroplasma clade. Spiroplasma bacteria are wall-less bacteria with a distinctive helical shape, and these bacteria are always associated with arthropods, notably insects. Our study raises the hypothesis that this mode of cell division by longitudinal scission could be linked to the symbiotic mode of life of these bacteria.
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author	Elodie Ramond Catherine Maclachlan Stéphanie Clerc-Rosset Graham W. Knott Bruno Lemaitre
author_facet	Elodie Ramond Catherine Maclachlan Stéphanie Clerc-Rosset Graham W. Knott Bruno Lemaitre
author_sort	Elodie Ramond
title	Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
title_short	Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
title_full	Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
title_fullStr	Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
title_full_unstemmed	Cell Division by Longitudinal Scission in the Insect Endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">Spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
title_sort	cell division by longitudinal scission in the insect endosymbiont <named-content content-type="genus-species">spiroplasma poulsonii</named-content>
publisher	American Society for Microbiology
publishDate	2016
url	https://doaj.org/article/18befbe0cb9c441998ef0e1c9e52870b
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