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grows in one of two ways: either (i) predatorily [in a host-dependent (HD) manner], when it invades the periplasm of another Gram-negative bacterium, exporting into the prey co-ordinated waves of soluble enzymes using the prey cell contents for growth; or (ii) in a host-independent (HI) manner, when it grows (slowly) axenically in rich media. Periplasmic invasion potentially exposes to extremes of pH and exposes the need to scavenge electron donors from prey electron transport components by synthesis of metalloenzymes. The twin-arginine transport system (Tat) in other bacteria transports folded metalloenzymes and the genome encodes 21 potential Tat-transported substrates and Tat transporter proteins TatA1, TatA2 and TatBC. GFP tagging of the Tat signal peptide from Bd1802, a high-potential iron–sulfur protein (HiPIP), revealed it to be exported into the prey bacterium during predatory growth. Mutagenesis showed that the and gene products are essential for both HI and HD growth, despite the fact that they partially complement (in SDS resistance assays) the corresponding mutations in where neither TatA nor TatC are essential for life. The essentiality of TatA2 was surprising given that the genome encodes a second homologue, . Transcription of was found to be induced upon entry to the bdelloplast, and insertional inactivation of showed that it significantly slowed the rates of both HI and HD growth. is one of a few bacterial species that are reliant on a functional Tat system and where deletion of a single gene causes a significant growth defect(s), despite the presence of its homologue.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Human Frontier Science Programme (Award RGP57/2005)
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