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Mechanistic insights into c-di-GMP-dependent control of the biofilm regulator FleQ from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 113:E209-18. [PMID: 26712005 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523148113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bacterial biofilm formation during chronic infections confers increased fitness, antibiotic tolerance, and cytotoxicity. In many pathogens, the transition from a planktonic lifestyle to collaborative, sessile biofilms represents a regulated process orchestrated by the intracellular second-messenger c-di-GMP. A main effector for c-di-GMP signaling in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the transcription regulator FleQ. FleQ is a bacterial enhancer-binding protein (bEBP) with a central AAA+ ATPase σ(54)-interaction domain, flanked by a C-terminal helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif and a divergent N-terminal receiver domain. Together with a second ATPase, FleN, FleQ regulates the expression of flagellar and exopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes in response to cellular c-di-GMP. Here we report structural and functional data that reveal an unexpected mode of c-di-GMP recognition that is associated with major conformational rearrangements in FleQ. Crystal structures of FleQ's AAA+ ATPase domain in its apo-state or bound to ADP or ATP-γ-S show conformations reminiscent of the activated ring-shaped assemblies of other bEBPs. As revealed by the structure of c-di-GMP-complexed FleQ, the second messenger interacts with the AAA+ ATPase domain at a site distinct from the ATP binding pocket. c-di-GMP interaction leads to active site obstruction, hexameric ring destabilization, and discrete quaternary structure transitions. Solution and cell-based studies confirm coupling of the ATPase active site and c-di-GMP binding, as well as the functional significance of crystallographic interprotomer interfaces. Taken together, our data offer unprecedented insight into conserved regulatory mechanisms of gene expression under direct c-di-GMP control via FleQ and FleQ-like bEBPs.
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Papa R, Selan L, Parrilli E, Tilotta M, Sannino F, Feller G, Tutino ML, Artini M. Anti-Biofilm Activities from Marine Cold Adapted Bacteria Against Staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1333. [PMID: 26696962 PMCID: PMC4677098 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Microbial biofilms have great negative impacts on the world’s economy and pose serious problems to industry, public health and medicine. The interest in the development of new approaches for the prevention and treatment of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation has increased. Since, bacterial pathogens living in biofilm induce persistent chronic infections due to the resistance to antibiotics and host immune system. A viable approach should target adhesive properties without affecting bacterial vitality in order to avoid the appearance of resistant mutants. Many bacteria secrete anti-biofilm molecules that function in regulating biofilm architecture or mediating the release of cells from it during the dispersal stage of biofilm life cycle. Cold-adapted marine bacteria represent an untapped reservoir of biodiversity able to synthesize a broad range of bioactive compounds, including anti-biofilm molecules. The anti-biofilm activity of cell-free supernatants derived from sessile and planktonic cultures of cold-adapted bacteria belonging to Pseudoalteromonas, Psychrobacter, and Psychromonas species were tested against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Reported results demonstrate that we have selected supernatants, from cold-adapted marine bacteria, containing non-biocidal agents able to destabilize biofilm matrix of all tested pathogens without killing cells. A preliminary physico-chemical characterization of supernatants was also performed, and these analyses highlighted the presence of molecules of different nature that act by inhibiting biofilm formation. Some of them are also able to impair the initial attachment of the bacterial cells to the surface, thus likely containing molecules acting as anti-biofilm surfactant molecules. The described ability of cold-adapted bacteria to produce effective anti-biofilm molecules paves the way to further characterization of the most promising molecules and to test their use in combination with conventional antibiotics.
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- Rosanna Papa
- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II Naples, Italy
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II Naples, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
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Campos-Galvão MEM, Ribon AOB, Araújo EF, Vanetti MCD. Changes in the Salmonella enterica Enteritidis phenotypes in presence of acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals. J Basic Microbiol 2015; 56:493-501. [PMID: 26662614 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201500471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Quorum sensing is used by bacteria to coordinate gene expression in response to population density and involves the production, detection and response to extracellular signaling molecules known as autoinducers (AIs). Salmonella does not synthesize the AI-1, acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) common to gram-negative bacteria; however, it has a receptor for AI-1, the SdiA protein. The effect of SdiA in modulating phenotypes of Salmonella has not been elucidated. In this report, we provide evidence that the AIs-1 affect Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis behavior by enhancing the biofilm formation and expression of virulence genes under anaerobic conditions. Biofilm formation by Salmonella was detected by the crystal violet method and by scanning electron microscopy. The presence of AHLs, particularly C12-HSL, increased biofilm formation and promoted expression of biofilm formation genes (lpfA, fimF, fliF, glgC) and virulence genes (hilA, invA, invF). Our results demonstrated that AHLs produced by other organisms played an important role in virulence phenotypes of Salmonella Enteritidis.
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- Department of Microbiology, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa-MG, Brazil
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Rajput A, Kaur K, Kumar M. SigMol: repertoire of quorum sensing signaling molecules in prokaryotes. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 44:D634-9. [PMID: 26490957 PMCID: PMC4702795 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Quorum sensing is a widespread phenomenon in prokaryotes that helps them to communicate among themselves and with eukaryotes. It is driven through quorum sensing signaling molecules (QSSMs) in a density dependent manner that assists in numerous biological functions like biofilm formation, virulence factors secretion, swarming motility, bioluminescence, etc. Despite immense implications, dedicated resources of QSSMs are lacking. Therefore, we have developed SigMol (http://bioinfo.imtech.res.in/manojk/sigmol), a specialized repository of these molecules in prokaryotes. SigMol harbors information on QSSMs pertaining to different quorum sensing signaling systems namely acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs), diketopiperazines (DKPs), 4-hydroxy-2-alkylquinolines (HAQs), diffusible signal factors (DSFs), autoinducer-2 (AI-2) and others. Database contains 1382 entries of 182 unique signaling molecules from 215 organisms. It encompasses biological as well as chemical aspects of signaling molecules. Biological information includes genes, preliminary bioassays, identification assays and applications, while chemical detail comprises of IUPAC name, SMILES and structure. We have provided user-friendly browsing and searching facilities for easy data retrieval and comparison. We have gleaned information of diverse QSSMs reported in literature at a single platform ‘SigMol’. This comprehensive resource will assist the scientific community in understanding intraspecies, interspecies or interkingdom networking and further help to unfold different facets of quorum sensing and related therapeutics.
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- Akanksha Rajput
- Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-160036, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-160036, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-160036, India
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Pascoe B, Méric G, Murray S, Yahara K, Mageiros L, Bowen R, Jones NH, Jeeves RE, Lappin-Scott HM, Asakura H, Sheppard SK. Enhanced biofilm formation and multi-host transmission evolve from divergent genetic backgrounds in Campylobacter jejuni. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4779-89. [PMID: 26373338 PMCID: PMC4862030 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2015] [Revised: 09/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Multicellular biofilms are an ancient bacterial adaptation that offers a protective environment for survival in hostile habitats. In microaerophilic organisms such as Campylobacter, biofilms play a key role in transmission to humans as the bacteria are exposed to atmospheric oxygen concentrations when leaving the reservoir host gut. Genetic determinants of biofilm formation differ between species, but little is known about how strains of the same species achieve the biofilm phenotype with different genetic backgrounds. Our approach combines genome‐wide association studies with traditional microbiology techniques to investigate the genetic basis of biofilm formation in 102 Campylobacter jejuni isolates. We quantified biofilm formation among the isolates and identified hotspots of genetic variation in homologous sequences that correspond to variation in biofilm phenotypes. Thirteen genes demonstrated a statistically robust association including those involved in adhesion, motility, glycosylation, capsule production and oxidative stress. The genes associated with biofilm formation were different in the host generalist ST‐21 and ST‐45 clonal complexes, which are frequently isolated from multiple host species and clinical samples. This suggests the evolution of enhanced biofilm from different genetic backgrounds and a possible role in colonization of multiple hosts and transmission to humans.
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- Ben Pascoe
- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.,MRC CLIMB Consortium, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.,Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- Division of Biomedical Food Research, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.,MRC CLIMB Consortium, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Hasan J, Chatterjee K. Recent advances in engineering topography mediated antibacterial surfaces. NANOSCALE 2015; 7:15568-75. [PMID: 26372264 PMCID: PMC4642214 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr04156b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The tendency of bacterial cells to adhere and colonize a material surface leading to biofilm formation is a fundamental challenge underlying many different applications including microbial infections associated with biomedical devices and products. Although, bacterial attachment to surfaces has been extensively studied in the past, the effect of surface topography on bacteria-material interactions has received little attention until more recently. We review the recent progress in surface topography based approaches for engineering antibacterial surfaces. Biomimicry of antibacterial surfaces in nature is a popular strategy. Whereas earlier endeavors in the field aimed at minimizing cell attachment, more recent efforts have focused on developing bactericidal surfaces. However, not all such topography mediated bactericidal surfaces are necessarily cytocompatible thus underscoring the need for continued efforts for research in this area for developing antibacterial and yet cytocompatible surfaces for use in implantable biomedical applications. This mini-review provides a brief overview of the current strategies and challenges in the emerging field of topography mediated antibacterial surfaces.
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- Jafar Hasan
- Department of Materials Engineering , Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012 , India . ; Tel: +91-80-22933408
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- Department of Materials Engineering , Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012 , India . ; Tel: +91-80-22933408
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Rahman MRT, Lou Z, Yu F, Wang P, Wang H. Anti-quorum sensing and anti-biofilm activity of Amomum tsaoko ( Amommum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemarie) on foodborne pathogens. Saudi J Biol Sci 2015; 24:324-330. [PMID: 28149169 PMCID: PMC5272928 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 09/27/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Cell-to-cell communication or quorum sensing (QS) leads to biofilm formation and causing other virulence factors which are extreme problems for food safety, biofilm related infectious diseases etc. This study evaluated the anti-QS activity of the Amomum tsaoko extract (0.5-4 mg/ml) by using Chromobacterium violaceum a biosensor strain and biofilm formation by crystal violate assay. Experimental results demonstrated that the overall yield of Amomum tsao-ko extract was 11.33 ± 0.3% (w/w). MIC for Staphylococcus aureus (Gram positive), Salmonella Typhimurium and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Gram negative) was 1, 2 and 2 mg/ml, respectively. A concentration of 4 mg/ml extract showed highest biofilm inhibition 51.96% on S. Typhimurium when 47.06%, 45.28% were shown by S. aureus, P. aeruginosa respectively. The damage of biofilm architecture was observed by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM). A level of 44.59% inhibition of violacein production was demonstrated when the dose was 4 mg/ml. Swarming motility inhibition was observed in a dose dependent manner. Taken together, the treatment of A. tsaoko extract can deliver value to food product and medicine by controlling pathogenesis.
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- Md Ramim Tanver Rahman
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Research Center of Food Nutrition & Functional Factors, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Research Center of Food Nutrition & Functional Factors, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Research Center of Food Nutrition & Functional Factors, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Research Center of Food Nutrition & Functional Factors, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China; Research Center of Food Nutrition & Functional Factors, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, PR China
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Zhou G, Shi QS, Huang XM, Xie XB. The Three Bacterial Lines of Defense against Antimicrobial Agents. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:21711-33. [PMID: 26370986 PMCID: PMC4613276 DOI: 10.3390/ijms160921711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial agents target a range of extra- and/or intracellular loci from cytoplasmic wall to membrane, intracellular enzymes and genetic materials. Meanwhile, many resistance mechanisms employed by bacteria to counter antimicrobial agents have been found and reported in the past decades. Based on their spatially distinct sites of action and distribution of location, antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of bacteria were categorized into three groups, coined the three lines of bacterial defense in this review. The first line of defense is biofilms, which can be formed by most bacteria to overcome the action of antimicrobial agents. In addition, some other bacteria employ the second line of defense, the cell wall, cell membrane, and encased efflux pumps. When antimicrobial agents permeate the first two lines of defense and finally reach the cytoplasm, many bacteria will make use of the third line of defense, including alterations of intracellular materials and gene regulation to protect themselves from harm by bactericides. The presented three lines of defense theory will help us to understand the bacterial resistance mechanisms against antimicrobial agents and design efficient strategies to overcome these resistances.
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- Gang Zhou
- Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
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- Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
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- Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
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- Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangzhou 510070, Guangdong, China.
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This paper considers whether multispecies biofilms are evolutionary individuals. Numerous multispecies biofilms have characteristics associated with individuality, such as internal integrity, division of labor, coordination among parts, and heritable adaptive traits. However, such multispecies biofilms often fail standard reproductive criteria for individuality: they lack reproductive bottlenecks, are comprised of multiple species, do not form unified reproductive lineages, and fail to have a significant division of reproductive labor among their parts. If such biofilms are good candidates for evolutionary individuals, then evolutionary individuality is achieved through other means than frequently cited reproductive processes. The case of multispecies biofilms suggests that standard reproductive requirements placed on individuality should be reconsidered. More generally, the case of multispecies biofilms indicates that accounts of individuality that focus on single-species eukaryotes are too restrictive and that a pluralistic and open-ended account of evolutionary individuality is needed.
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- Marc Ereshefsky
- Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4;
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Bacterial blight of rice is an important serious bacterial diseases of rice in many rice-growing regions, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). The thiG gene from Xoo strain ZJ173, which is involved with thiazole moiety production in the thiamine biosynthesis pathway, is highly conserved among the members of Xanthomonas. The thiG deletion mutant displayed impaired virulence and growth in thiamine-free medium but maintained its normal growth rate in the rice tissues, indicating that the thiG gene is involved in Xoo virulence. Compared to the wild type strain, the formation of cell-cell aggregates was affected in thiG deletion mutants. Although biofilm formation was promoted, motility and migration in rice leaves were repressed in the thiG mutants, and therefore limited the expansion of pathogen infection in rice. Quorum sensing and extracellular substance are two key factors that contribute to the formation of cell-cell aggregates. Our study found that in the thiG mutant the expression of two genes, rpfC and rpfG, which form a two-component regulatory signal system involved in the regulation of biofilm formation by a second messenger cyclic di-GMP is down-regulated. In addition, our study showed that xanthan production was not affected but the expression of some genes associated with xanthan biosynthesis, like gumD, gumE, gumH and gumM, were up-regulated in thiG mutants. Taken together, these findings are the first to demonstrate the role of the thiazole biosynthsis gene, thiG, in virulence and the formation of aggregates in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.
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Emerenini BO, Hense BA, Kuttler C, Eberl HJ. A Mathematical Model of Quorum Sensing Induced Biofilm Detachment. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0132385. [PMID: 26197231 PMCID: PMC4511412 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2015] [Accepted: 06/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cell dispersal (or detachment) is part of the developmental cycle of microbial biofilms. It can be externally or internally induced, and manifests itself in discrete sloughing events, whereby many cells disperse in an instance, or in continuous slower dispersal of single cells. One suggested trigger of cell dispersal is quorum sensing, a cell-cell communication mechanism used to coordinate gene expression and behavior in groups based on population densities. METHOD To better understand the interplay of colony growth and cell dispersal, we develop a dynamic, spatially extended mathematical model that includes biofilm growth, production of quorum sensing molecules, cell dispersal triggered by quorum sensing molecules, and re-attachment of cells. This is a highly nonlinear system of diffusion-reaction equations that we study in computer simulations. RESULTS Our results show that quorum sensing induced cell dispersal can be an efficient mechanism for bacteria to control the size of a biofilm colony, and at the same time enhance its downstream colonization potential. In fact we find that over the lifetime of a biofilm colony the majority of cells produced are lost into the aqueous phase, supporting the notion of biofilms as cell nurseries. We find that a single quorum sensing based mechanism can explain both, discrete dispersal events and continuous shedding of cells from a colony. Moreover, quorum sensing induced cell dispersal affects the structure and architecture of the biofilm, for example it might lead to the formation of hollow inner regions in a biofilm colony.
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- Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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Khemiri A, Jouenne T, Cosette P. Proteomics dedicated to biofilmology: What have we learned from a decade of research? Med Microbiol Immunol 2015; 205:1-19. [PMID: 26068406 DOI: 10.1007/s00430-015-0423-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Advances in proteomics techniques over the past decade, closely integrated with genomic and physicochemical approach, have played a great role in developing knowledge of the biofilm lifestyle of bacteria. Despite bacterial proteome versatility, many studies have demonstrated the ability of proteomics approaches to elucidating the biofilm phenotype. Though these investigations have been largely used for biofilm studies in the last decades, they represent, however, a very low percentage of proteomics works performed up to now. Such approaches have offered new targets for combating microbial biofilms by providing a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative overview of their protein cell content. Herein, we summarized the state of the art in knowledge about biofilm physiology after one decade of proteomic analysis. In a second part, we highlighted missing research tracks for the next decade, emphasizing the emergence of posttranslational modifications in proteomic studies stemming from recent advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics.
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- Arbia Khemiri
- CNRS, UMR 6270, Laboratory "Polymères, Biopolymères, Surfaces", 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
- University of Normandy, UR, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
- PISSARO Proteomic Facility, IRIB, 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
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- CNRS, UMR 6270, Laboratory "Polymères, Biopolymères, Surfaces", 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
- University of Normandy, UR, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
- PISSARO Proteomic Facility, IRIB, 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- CNRS, UMR 6270, Laboratory "Polymères, Biopolymères, Surfaces", 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
- University of Normandy, UR, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
- PISSARO Proteomic Facility, IRIB, 76820, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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Ye Y, Ling N, Jiao R, Wu Q, Han Y, Gao J. Effects of Ca2+
and Mg2+
on the Biofilm Formation of Cronobacter Sakazakii
Strains from Powdered Infant Formula. J Food Saf 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/jfs.12190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Yingwang Ye
- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Hefei University of Technology; Hefei 230009 China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology; South China (the Ministry-Province Joint Development); Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbiology Culture Collection and Application; Guangdong Institute of Microbiology; Guangzhou 510070 China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Hefei University of Technology; Hefei 230009 China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Hefei University of Technology; Hefei 230009 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology; South China (the Ministry-Province Joint Development); Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbiology Culture Collection and Application; Guangdong Institute of Microbiology; Guangzhou 510070 China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Hefei University of Technology; Hefei 230009 China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Hefei University of Technology; Hefei 230009 China
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Luo LM, Wu LJ, Xiao YL, Zhao D, Chen ZX, Kang M, Zhang Q, Xie Y. Enhancing pili assembly and biofilm formation in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC19606 using non-native acyl-homoserine lactones. BMC Microbiol 2015; 15:62. [PMID: 25888221 PMCID: PMC4381447 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0397-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background Quorum Sensing (QS) systems influence biofilm formation, an important virulence factor related to the bacterial survival and antibiotic resistance. In Acinetobacter baumannii, biofilm formation depends on pili biosynthesis, structures assembled via the csuA/BABCDE chaperone-usher secretion system. QS signaling molecules are hypothesized to affect pili formation; however, the mechanism behind this remains unclear. This study aimed to demonstrate the possible role of QS signaling molecules in regulating pili formation and mediating the ability to form biofilms on abiotic surfaces. Results Real-time quantitative PCR analysis showed the expression of the csuA/BABCDE genes distinctly increased when co-cultured with C6-HSL (P < 0.05). Under the same experimental conditions, expression of BfmS and BfmR was significantly higher than the control strain (P < 0.05). A subsurface twitching assay showed a switch from a small to a large and structured clone that may result from enhanced twitching motility (P < 0.05). Transmission electron microscopy analysis of cells lifted from a MH broth co-cultured with C6-HSL showed more abundant pili-like structures than the control strain. We then tested the idea that the addition of a QS signal, and therefore induction of chaperone-usher secretion system genes, provides a greater benefit at higher biofilm densities. An assay for the total fluorescence intensity of the biofilm using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy revealed an obvious increase. Conclusion Our study demonstrated that, increased transcription of the BfmS and BfmR genes, QS signaling molecules enhance the expression of the chaperone-usher secretion system, and this expression is required for twitching motility in A. baumannii. The concomitant pili expression and strain twitching allowed A. baumannii to attach easily to abiotic surfaces and form biofilms at an earlier timepoint.
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- Li-mei Luo
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Gutiérrez-Barranquero JA, Reen FJ, McCarthy RR, O'Gara F. Deciphering the role of coumarin as a novel quorum sensing inhibitor suppressing virulence phenotypes in bacterial pathogens. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:3303-16. [PMID: 25672848 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6436-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Revised: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The rapid unchecked rise in antibiotic resistance over the last few decades has led to an increased focus on the need for alternative therapeutic strategies for the treatment and clinical management of microbial infections. In particular, small molecules that can suppress microbial virulence systems independent of any impact on growth are receiving increased attention. Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell signalling communication system that controls the virulence behaviour of a broad spectrum of bacterial pathogens. QS systems have been proposed as an effective target, particularly as they control biofilm formation in pathogens, a key driver of antibiotic ineffectiveness. In this study, we identified coumarin, a natural plant phenolic compound, as a novel QS inhibitor, with potent anti-virulence activity in a broad spectrum of pathogens. Using a range of biosensor systems, coumarin was active against short, medium and long chain N-acyl-homoserine lactones, independent of any effect on growth. To determine if this suppression was linked to anti-virulence activity, key virulence systems were studied in the nosocomial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Consistent with suppression of QS, coumarin inhibited biofilm, the production of phenazines and swarming motility in this organism potentially linked to reduced expression of the rhlI and pqsA quorum sensing genes. Furthermore, coumarin significantly inhibited biofilm formation and protease activity in other bacterial pathogens and inhibited bioluminescence in Aliivibrio fischeri. In light of these findings, coumarin would appear to have potential as a novel quorum sensing inhibitor with a broad spectrum of action.
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- José A Gutiérrez-Barranquero
- BIOMERIT Research Centre, School of Microbiology, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
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Die for the community: an overview of programmed cell death in bacteria. Cell Death Dis 2015; 6:e1609. [PMID: 25611384 PMCID: PMC4669768 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2014.570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2014] [Revised: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Programmed cell death is a process known to have a crucial role in many aspects of eukaryotes physiology and is clearly essential to their life. As a consequence, the underlying molecular mechanisms have been extensively studied in eukaryotes and we now know that different signalling pathways leading to functionally and morphologically different forms of death exist in these organisms. Similarly, mono-cellular organism can activate signalling pathways leading to death of a number of cells within a colony. The reason why a single-cell organism would activate a program leading to its death is apparently counterintuitive and probably for this reason cell death in prokaryotes has received a lot less attention in the past years. However, as summarized in this review there are many reasons leading to prokaryotic cell death, for the benefit of the colony. Indeed, single-celled organism can greatly benefit from multicellular organization. Within this forms of organization, regulation of death becomes an important issue, contributing to important processes such as: stress response, development, genetic transformation, and biofilm formation.
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Solleti VS, Alhariri M, Halwani M, Omri A. Antimicrobial properties of liposomal azithromycin for Pseudomonas infections in cystic fibrosis patients. J Antimicrob Chemother 2014; 70:784-96. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Wu F, Menn DJ, Wang X. Quorum-sensing crosstalk-driven synthetic circuits: from unimodality to trimodality. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 21:1629-38. [PMID: 25455858 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 10/08/2014] [Accepted: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Widespread quorum-sensing (QS) enables bacteria to communicate and plays a critical role in controlling bacterial virulence. However, effects of promiscuous QS crosstalk and its implications for gene regulation and cell decision-making remain largely unknown. Here we systematically studied the crosstalk between LuxR/I and LasR/I systems and found that QS crosstalk can be dissected into signal crosstalk and promoter crosstalk. Further investigations using synthetic positive feedback circuits revealed that signal crosstalk significantly decreases a circuit's bistable potential while maintaining unimodality. Promoter crosstalk, however, reproducibly generates complex trimodal responses resulting from noise-induced state transitions and host-circuit interactions. A mathematical model that integrates the circuit's nonlinearity, stochasticity, and host-circuit interactions was developed, and its predictions of conditions for trimodality were verified experimentally. Combining synthetic biology and mathematical modeling, this work sheds light on the complex behaviors emerging from QS crosstalk, which could be exploited for therapeutics and biotechnology.
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- Fuqing Wu
- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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Farmer JT, Shimkevitch AV, Reilly PS, Mlynek KD, Jensen KS, Callahan MT, Bushaw-Newton KL, Kaplan JB. Environmental bacteria produce abundant and diverse antibiofilm compounds. J Appl Microbiol 2014; 117:1663-73. [PMID: 25179003 DOI: 10.1111/jam.12639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIMS The aim of this study was to isolate novel antibiofilm compounds produced by environmental bacteria. METHODS AND RESULTS Cell-free extracts were prepared from lawns of bacteria cultured on agar. A total of 126 bacteria isolated from soil, cave and river habitats were employed. Extracts were tested for their ability to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus biofilm in a 96-well microtitre plate assay. A total of 55/126 extracts (44%) significantly inhibited Staph. aureus biofilm. Seven extracts were selected for further analysis. The antibiofilm activities in all seven extracts exhibited unique patterns of molecular mass, chemical polarity, heat stability and spectrum of activity against Staph. aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Pseudomonas fluorescens, suggesting that these seven antibiofilm activities were mediated by unique chemical compounds with different mechanisms of action. CONCLUSIONS Environmental bacteria produce abundant and diverse antibiofilm compounds. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Screening cell-free extracts is a useful method for identifying secreted compounds that regulate biofilm formation. Such compounds may represent a novel source of antibiofilm agents for technological development.
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- J T Farmer
- Department of Biology, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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Nagar E, Schwarz R. To be or not to be planktonic? Self-inhibition of biofilm development. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:1477-86. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Elad Nagar
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Bar-Ilan University; Ramat-Gan 5290002 Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Bar-Ilan University; Ramat-Gan 5290002 Israel
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