To combat this, a special stain technique called a Moeller stain is used. That allows the endospore to show up as red, while the rest of the cell stains blue.
Another staining technique for endospores is the Schaeffer-Fulton stain, which stains endospores green and bacterial bodies red. There are variations in endospore morphology. Examples of bacteria having terminal endospores include Clostridium tetani, the pathogen that causes the disease tetanus. Bacteria having a centrally placed endospore include Bacillus cereus, and those having a subterminal endospore include Bacillus subtilis.
Sometimes the endospore can be so large that the cell can be distended around the endospore. This is typical of Clostridium tetani. When a bacterium detects environmental conditions are becoming unfavorable it may start the process of endosporulation, which takes about eight hours. The DNA is replicated and a membrane wall known as a spore septum begins to form between it and the rest of the cell. The plasma membrane of the cell surrounds this wall and pinches off to leave a double membrane around the DNA, and the developing structure is now known as a forespore.
Calcium dipicolinate is incorporated into the forespore during this time. A germ cell wall resides under the cortex. This layer of peptidoglycan will become the cell wall of the bacterium after the endospore germinates. The inner membrane, under the germ cell wall, is a major permeability barrier against several potentially damaging chemicals. The center of the endospore, the core, exists in a very dehydrated state and houses the cell's DNA, ribosomes and large amounts of dipicolinic acid.
Small acid-soluble proteins SASPs are also only found in endospores. Other species-specific structures and chemicals associated with endospores include stalks, toxin crystals, or an additional outer glycoprotein layer called the exosporium.
The process of forming an endospore is complex. The model organism used to study endospore formation is Bacillus subtilis. Endospore development requires several hours to complete.
Key morphological changes in the process have been used as markers to define stages of development. As a cell begins the process of forming an endospore, it divides asymmetrically Stage II.
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Advanced search. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature. Abstract The extreme resistance of bacterial endospores to heat may result from dehydration of the central protoplast brought about and maintained by osmotic activity of expanded electronegative peptidoglycan polymer, and positively charged counterions associated with it, in the surrounding cortex.
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Google Scholar 27 Waldham, D. Google Scholar 37 Riemann, H. Analysis of enzyme structures within endospores suggests that reversible relaxation of their three-dimensional structure is the strategy Bacillus bacteria use to survive at temperatures deadly to non-spore forming cells. Since the functional enzyme shape has relaxed, the cell machinery stops and the dormant state associated with the endospore is the result. When cell temperature becomes more hospitable, the protein chains refold back into the the normal enzyme structure.
At this point, the cell returns to normal functioning. But much more work is needed to figure out the details of the mechanism. The molecular basis of spore dormancy and resistance is not understood , but the physical state of water in the different spore compartments is thought to play a key role … Spore dormancy therefore cannot be explained by glass-like quenching of molecular diffusion but may be linked to dehydration-induced conformational changes in key enzymes.
The data demonstrate that most spore proteins are rotationally immobilized, which may contribute to heat resistance by preventing heat-denatured proteins from aggregating irreversibly … The quantitative results reported here on water mobility and transport provide important clues about the mechanism of spore dormancy and resistance, with relevance to food preservation, disease prevention, and astrobiology.
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