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The cell membrane and the struggle for life of lactic acid bacteria

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The major life-threatening event for lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in their natural environment is the depletion of their energy sources and LAB can survive such conditions only for a short period of time. During periods of starvation LAB can exploit optimally the potential energy sources in their environment usually by applying proton motive force generating membrane transport systems. These systems include in addition to the proton translocating FoF1-ATPase: a respiratory chain when hemin is present in the medium, electrogenic solute uptake and excretion systems, electrogenic lactate/proton symport and precursor/ product exchange systems. Most of these metabolic energy-generating systems offer as additional bonus the prevention of a lethal decrease of the internal and external pH. LAB have limited biosynthetic capacities and rely heavily on the presence of essential components such as sources of amino acids in their environment. The uptake of amino acids requires a major fraction of the available metabolic energy of LAB. The metabolic energy cost of amino acid uptake can be reduced drastically by accumulating oligopeptides instead of the individual amino acids and by proton motive force-generating efflux of excessively accumulated amino acids. Other life-threatening conditions that LAB encounter in their environment are rapid changes in the osmolality and the exposure to cytotoxic compounds, including antibiotics. LAB respond to osmotic upshock or downshock by accumulating or releasing rapidly osmolytes such as glycine-betaine. The life-threatening presence of cytotoxic compounds, including antibiotics, is effectively counteracted by powerful drug extruding multidrug resistance systems. The number and variety of defense mechanisms in LAB is surprisingly high. Most defense mechanisms operate in the cytoplasmic membrane to control the internal environment and the energetic status of LAB. Annotation of the functions of the genes in the genomes of LAB will undoubtely reveal additional defense mechanisms.

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Konings, W.N. The cell membrane and the struggle for life of lactic acid bacteria. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 82, 3–27 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020604203977

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