Chlamydia Trachomatis Has Penicillin-binding Proteins but Not Detectable Muramic Acid

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1982 Jul 1

PMID 7085567

Citations 78

Authors

A G Barbour

K Amano

T Hackstadt

L Perry

H D Caldwell

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Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis LGV-434 was grown in HeLa 229 cells. Benzylpenicillin completely inhibited the formation of infectious elementary bodies (EBs) at a concentration of 19 pmol/ml or higher and produced abnormally large reticulate bodies (RBs) in the inclusions at 30 pmol/ml or higher. The possible targets for penicillin in C. trachomatis were three penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) which were identified in the Sarkosyl-soluble fractions of both RBs and EBs. The apparent subunit molecular weights were 88,000 (PBP 1), 61,000 (BPB 2), and 36,000 (PBP 3). The 50% binding concentrations of [3H]penicillin for PBPs 1 to 3 in EBs and RBs were between 7 and 70 pmol/ml. Such high susceptibility to penicillin was shown by an organism that did not have detectable muramic acid (less than 0.02% by weight) in preparations of either whole cells or sodium dodecyl sulfate-insoluble residues.

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