Physiological functions of spermidine acetyltransferase in Escherichia coli have been studied using the spermidine acetyltransferase (speG) gene-deficient mutant CAG2242 and the cloned speG gene. The growth of E. coli CAG2242 in the defined M9 medium was normal in the presence and absence of 0.5 mM spermidine. However, cell viability of E. coli CAG2242 at 48 h after the onset of growth decreased greatly by the addition of 0.5 mM spermidine. The amount of spermidine accumulated in the cells was approximately 3-fold that in the cells grown in the absence of spermidine. Transformation of the cloned speG gene to E. coli CAG2242 recovered the cell viability. Decrease in cell viability of E. coli CAG2242 was observed even when 0.5 mM spermidine was added at 24 h after the onset of growth. The results indicate that accumulated spermidine functions at the late stationary phase of growth. The accumulation of spermidine caused a decrease in protein synthesis but not in DNA and RNA synthesis at 28 h after the onset of growth. The synthesis of several kinds of proteins was particularly inhibited. They included ribosome modulation factor and OmpC protein. Since the ribosome modulation factor is essential for cell viability at the stationary phase of growth (Yamagishi, M., Matsushima, H., Wada, A., Sakagami, M., Fujita, N., and Ishihama, A.(1993) EMBO J. 12, 625-630), the decrease in the protein was thought to be one of the reasons for the decrease in cell viability. The decrease in the ribosome modulation factor mainly occurred at the translational level.

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