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Uppal G, Vural DC. On the possibility of engineering social evolution in microfluidic environments. Biophys J 2024; 123:407-419. [PMID: 38204167 PMCID: PMC10870175 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Many species of microbes cooperate by producing public goods from which they collectively benefit. However, these populations are under the risk of being taken over by cheating mutants that do not contribute to the pool of public goods. Here we present theoretical findings that address how the social evolution of microbes can be manipulated by external perturbations to inhibit or promote the fixation of cheaters. To control social evolution, we determine the effects of fluid-dynamical properties such as flow rate or domain geometry. We also study the social evolutionary consequences of introducing beneficial or harmful chemicals at steady state and in a time-dependent fashion. We show that by modulating the flow rate and by applying pulsed chemical signals, we can modulate the spatial structure and dynamics of the population in a way that can select for more or less cooperative microbial populations.
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- Gurdip Uppal
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Computational Pathology, Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Melaugh G, Martinez VA, Baker P, Hill PJ, Howell PL, Wozniak DJ, Allen RJ. Distinct types of multicellular aggregates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa liquid cultures. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes 2023; 9:52. [PMID: 37507436 PMCID: PMC10382557 DOI: 10.1038/s41522-023-00412-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa forms suspended multicellular aggregates when cultured in liquid media. These aggregates may be important in disease, and/or as a pathway to biofilm formation. The polysaccharide Psl and extracellular DNA (eDNA) have both been implicated in aggregation, but previous results depend strongly on the experimental conditions. Here we develop a quantitative microscopy-based method for assessing changes in the size distribution of suspended aggregates over time in growing cultures. For exponentially growing cultures of P. aeruginosa PAO1, we find that aggregation is mediated by cell-associated Psl, rather than by either eDNA or secreted Psl. These aggregates arise de novo within the culture via a growth process that involves both collisions and clonal growth, and Psl non-producing cells do not aggregate with producers. In contrast, we find that stationary phase (overnight) cultures contain a different type of multicellular aggregate, in which both eDNA and Psl mediate cohesion. Our findings suggest that the physical and biological properties of multicellular aggregates may be very different in early-stage vs late-stage bacterial cultures.
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- Gavin Melaugh
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.
- School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK.
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, M5G 0A4, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Microbial Infection and Immunity, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, M5G 0A4, ON, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Microbial Infection and Immunity, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
- Theoretical Microbial Ecology, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 07745, Germany
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Tychonema sp. BBK16 Characterisation: Lifestyle, Phylogeny and Related Phages. Viruses 2023; 15:v15020442. [PMID: 36851656 PMCID: PMC9958718 DOI: 10.3390/v15020442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Cyanobacterial expansion is harmful to the environment, the ecology of Lake Baikal and the economy of nearby regions and can be dangerous to people and animals. Since 2011, the process of colonisation of the lake with potentially toxic cyanobacteria belonging to the genus Tychonema has continued. An understanding of the mechanism of successful expansion of Tychonema requires scrutiny of biological and genomic features. Tychonema sp. BBK16 was isolated from the coastal zone of Lake Baikal. The morphology of BBK16 biofilm was studied with light, scanning electron and confocal microscopy. The biofilm is based on filaments of cyanobacteria, which are intertwined like felt; there are also dense fascicles of rope-like twisted filaments that impart heterogeneity to the surface of the biofilm. Genome sequencing, intergenomic comparisons and phylogenetic analyses indicated that Tychonema sp. BBK16 represent a new species related to planktic cyanobacterium Tychonema bourrellyi, isolated from Alpine lentic freshwater. Genome investigation revealed the genes possibly responsible for the mixotrophic lifestyle. The presence of CRISPR-Cas and restriction modification defence mechanisms allowed to suggest the existence of phages infecting Tychonema sp. BBK16. Analysis of CRISPR spacers and prophage-derived regions allowed to suggest related cyanophages. Genomic analysis supported the assumption that mobile elements and horizontal transfer participate in shaping the Tychonema sp. BBK16 genome. The findings of the current research suggest that the aptitude of Tychonema sp. BBK16 for biofilm formation and, possibly, its mixotrophic lifestyle provide adaptation advantages that lead to the successful expansion of this cyanobacterium in the Baikal's conditions of freshwater lake environments.
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Lissens M, Joos M, Lories B, Steenackers HP. Evolution-proof inhibitors of public good cooperation: a screening strategy inspired by social evolution theory. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2022; 46:6604382. [PMID: 35675280 PMCID: PMC9616471 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuac019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Interference with public good cooperation provides a promising novel antimicrobial strategy since social evolution theory predicts that resistant mutants will be counter-selected if they share the public benefits of their resistance with sensitive cells in the population. Although this hypothesis is supported by a limited number of pioneering studies, an extensive body of more fundamental work on social evolution describes a multitude of mechanisms and conditions that can stabilize public behaviour, thus potentially allowing resistant mutants to thrive. In this paper we theorize on how these different mechanisms can influence the evolution of resistance against public good inhibitors. Based hereon, we propose an innovative 5-step screening strategy to identify novel evolution-proof public good inhibitors, which involves a systematic evaluation of the exploitability of public goods under the most relevant experimental conditions, as well as a careful assessment of the most optimal way to interfere with their action. Overall, this opinion paper is aimed to contribute to long-term solutions to fight bacterial infections.
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- Maries Lissens
- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, B-3001, Belgium
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- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, B-3001, Belgium
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- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, B-3001, Belgium
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- Corresponding author: Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Kasteelpark Arenberg 20 – Box 2460, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail:
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Gangan MS, Vasconcelos MM, Mitra U, Câmara O, Boedicker JQ. Intertemporal trade-off between population growth rate and carrying capacity during public good production. iScience 2022; 25:104117. [PMID: 35391831 PMCID: PMC8980746 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Public goods are biomolecules that benefit cellular populations, such as by providing access to previously unutilized resources. Public good production is energetically costly. To reduce this cost, populations control public good biosynthesis, for example using density-dependent regulation accomplished by quorum sensing. Fitness costs and benefits of public good production must be balanced, similar to optimal investment decisions used in economics. We explore the regulation of a public good that increases the carrying capacity, through experimental measurements of growth in Escherichia coli and analysis using a modified logistic growth model. The timing of public good production showed a sharply peaked optimum in population fitness. The cell density associated with maximum public good benefits was determined by the trade-off between the cost of public good production, in terms of reduced growth rate, and benefits received from public goods, in the form of increased carrying capacity. Public good production creates trade-off between growth rate and carrying capacity Cell density-dependent regulation times the production to optimize this trade-off At this time, benefits of public good are maximum and received instantaneously
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- Manasi S. Gangan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Commonweath Cyber-Initiative and Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Corresponding author
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Zachar I, Boza G. The Evolution of Microbial Facilitation: Sociogenesis, Symbiogenesis, and Transition in Individuality. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.798045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Metabolic cooperation is widespread, and it seems to be a ubiquitous and easily evolvable interaction in the microbial domain. Mutual metabolic cooperation, like syntrophy, is thought to have a crucial role in stabilizing interactions and communities, for example biofilms. Furthermore, cooperation is expected to feed back positively to the community under higher-level selection. In certain cases, cooperation can lead to a transition in individuality, when freely reproducing, unrelated entities (genes, microbes, etc.) irreversibly integrate to form a new evolutionary unit. The textbook example is endosymbiosis, prevalent among eukaryotes but virtually lacking among prokaryotes. Concerning the ubiquity of syntrophic microbial communities, it is intriguing why evolution has not lead to more transitions in individuality in the microbial domain. We set out to distinguish syntrophy-specific aspects of major transitions, to investigate why a transition in individuality within a syntrophic pair or community is so rare. We review the field of metabolic communities to identify potential evolutionary trajectories that may lead to a transition. Community properties, like joint metabolic capacity, functional profile, guild composition, assembly and interaction patterns are important concepts that may not only persist stably but according to thought-provoking theories, may provide the heritable information at a higher level of selection. We explore these ideas, relating to concepts of multilevel selection and of informational replication, to assess their relevance in the debate whether microbial communities may inherit community-level information or not.
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Sun P, Gao M, Sun R, Wu Y, Dolfing J. Periphytic biofilms accumulate manganese, intercepting its emigration from paddy soil. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 411:125172. [PMID: 33858112 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 12/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Manganese (Mn) in acidic paddy soil has large potential in emigrating from the soil and pollute adjacent ecosystems. Single microorganisms modulate the biogeochemistry process of Mn via redox reactions, while the roles of microbial aggregates (e.g. periphytic biofilm) in modulating its biogeochemical cycle is poorly constrained. Here we collected a series of periphytic biofilms from acidic paddy fields in China to explore how periphytic biofilm regulates Mn behavior in paddy fields. We found that periphytic biofilms have large Mn accumulation potential: Mn contents in periphytic biofilm ranged from 176 ± 38 to 797 ± 271 mg/kg, which were 1.2-4.5 folds higher than that in the corresponding soils. Field experiments verified the Mn accumulation potential, underlining the biofilms function as natural barriers to intercept Mn emigrating from soil. Extracellular polymeric substances, especially the protein component, mediated adsorption was the main mechanism behind Mn accumulation by periphytic biofilm. Microorganisms in periphytic biofilms in general appeared to have inhibitory effects on Mn accumulation. Climatic conditions and nutrients in floodwater and soil affect the microorganisms, thus indirectly affecting Mn accumulation in periphytic biofilms. This study provides quantitative information on the extent to which microbial aggregates modulate the biogeochemistry of Mn in paddy fields.
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- Pengfei Sun
- Zigui Ecological Station for Three Gorges Dam Project, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Zigui Ecological Station for Three Gorges Dam Project, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Zigui Ecological Station for Three Gorges Dam Project, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Zigui Ecological Station for Three Gorges Dam Project, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China; College of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, Hubei, China.
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- Faculty Energy and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8QH, UK
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Ray S, Da Costa R, Thakur S, Nandi D. Salmonella Typhimurium encoded cold shock protein E is essential for motility and biofilm formation. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2021; 166:460-473. [PMID: 32159509 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The ability of bacteria to form biofilms increases their survival under adverse environmental conditions. Biofilms have enormous medical and environmental impact; consequently, the factors that influence biofilm formation are an important area of study. In this investigation, the roles of two cold shock proteins (CSP) during biofilm formation were investigated in Salmonella Typhimurium, which is a major foodborne pathogen. Among all CSP transcripts studied, the expression of cspE (STM14_0732) was higher during biofilm growth. The cspE deletion strain (ΔcspE) did not form biofilms on a cholesterol coated glass surface; however, complementation with WT cspE, but not the F30V mutant, was able to rescue this phenotype. Transcript levels of other CSPs demonstrated up-regulation of cspA (STM14_4399) in ΔcspE. The cspA deletion strain (ΔcspA) did not affect biofilm formation; however, ΔcspEΔcspA exhibited higher biofilm formation compared to ΔcspE. Most likely, the higher cspA amounts in ΔcspE reduced biofilm formation, which was corroborated using cspA over-expression studies. Further functional studies revealed that ΔcspE and ΔcspEΔcspA exhibited slow swimming but no swarming motility. Although cspA over-expression did not affect motility, cspE complementation restored the swarming motility of ΔcspE. The transcript levels of the major genes involved in motility in ΔcspE demonstrated lower expression of the class III (fliC, motA, cheY), but not class I (flhD) or class II (fliA, fliL), flagellar regulon genes. Overall, this study has identified the interplay of two CSPs in regulating two biological processes: CspE is essential for motility in a CspA-independent manner whereas biofilm formation is CspA-dependent.
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- Semanti Ray
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
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- Department of Undergraduate Studies, Indian Insitute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
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Sadiq FA, Burmølle M, Heyndrickx M, Flint S, Lu W, Chen W, Zhao J, Zhang H. Community-wide changes reflecting bacterial interspecific interactions in multispecies biofilms. Crit Rev Microbiol 2021; 47:338-358. [PMID: 33651958 DOI: 10.1080/1040841x.2021.1887079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Existence of most bacterial species, in natural, industrial, and clinical settings in the form of surface-adhered communities or biofilms has been well acknowledged for decades. Research predominantly focusses on single-species biofilms as these are relatively easy to study. However, microbiologists are now interested in studying multispecies biofilms and revealing interspecific interactions in these communities because of the existence of a plethora of different bacterial species together in almost all natural settings. Multispecies biofilms-led emergent properties are triggered by bacterial social interactions which have huge implication for research and practical knowledge useful for the control and manipulation of these microbial communities. Here, we discuss some important bacterial interactions that take place in multispecies biofilm communities and provide insights into community-wide changes that indicate bacterial interactions and elucidate underlying mechanisms.
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- Faizan Ahmed Sadiq
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Technology & Food Sciences Unit, Melle, Belgium.,Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry Diseases, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,National Engineering Research Center for Functional Food, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Egorova DA, Voronina OL, Solovyev AI, Kunda MS, Aksenova EI, Ryzhova NN, Danilova KV, Rykova VS, Scherbakova AA, Semenov AN, Polyakov NB, Grumov DA, Shevlyagina NV, Dolzhikova IV, Romanova YM, Gintsburg AL. Integrated into Environmental Biofilm Chromobacterium vaccinii Survives Winter with Support of Bacterial Community. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E1696. [PMID: 33143246 PMCID: PMC7716238 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8111696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Chromobacterium species are common in tropical and subtropical zones in environmental samples according to numerous studies. Here, we describe an environmental case of resident Chromobacterium vaccinii in biofilms associated with Carex spp. roots in Moscow region, Russia (warm-summer humid continental climate zone). We performed broad characterization of individual properties as well as surrounding context for better understanding of the premise of C. vaccinii survival during the winter season. Genome properties of isolated strains propose some insights into adaptation to habit and biofilm mode of life, including social cheaters carrying ΔluxR mutation. Isolated C. vaccinii differs from previously described strains in some biochemical properties and some basic characteristics like fatty acid composition as well as unique genome features. Despite potential to modulate membrane fluidity and presence of several genes responsible for cold shock response, isolated C. vaccinii did not survive during exposure to 4 °C, while in the complex biofilm sample, it was safely preserved for at least half a year in vitro at 4 °C. The surrounding bacterial community within the same biofilm with C. vaccinii represented a series of psychrophilic bacterial species, which may share resistance to low temperatures with other species within biofilm and provide C. vaccinii an opportunity to survive during the cold winter season.
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- Daria A. Egorova
- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
- Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Ministry of Health, 123098 Moscow, Russia; (A.I.S.); (M.S.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.N.R.); (K.V.D.); (V.S.R.); (A.A.S.); (A.N.S.); (N.B.P.); (D.A.G.); (N.V.S.); (I.V.D.); (Y.M.R.); (A.L.G.)
- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Bacteria harbor viruses called bacteriophages that, like all viruses, co-opt the host cellular machinery to replicate. Although this relationship is at first glance parasitic, there are social interactions among and between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts. These social interactions can take on many forms, including cooperation, altruism, and cheating. Such behaviors among individuals in groups of bacteria have been well described. However, the social nature of some interactions between phages or phages and bacteria is only now becoming clear. Bacteria harbor viruses called bacteriophages that, like all viruses, co-opt the host cellular machinery to replicate. Although this relationship is at first glance parasitic, there are social interactions among and between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts. These social interactions can take on many forms, including cooperation, altruism, and cheating. Such behaviors among individuals in groups of bacteria have been well described. However, the social nature of some interactions between phages or phages and bacteria is only now becoming clear. We are just beginning to understand how bacteriophages affect the sociobiology of bacteria, and we know even less about social interactions within bacteriophage populations. In this review, we discuss recent developments in our understanding of bacteriophage sociobiology, including how selective pressures influence the outcomes of social interactions between populations of bacteria and bacteriophages. We also explore how tripartite social interactions between bacteria, bacteriophages, and an animal host affect host-microbe interactions. Finally, we argue that understanding the sociobiology of bacteriophages will have implications for the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections.
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Silva LN, Costa DM, Vickery K, Melo DS, Leão-Vasconcelos LSNO, Hu H, Ribeiro EL, Tipple AFV. Microbiological contamination of clipboards used for patient records in intensive care units. J Hosp Infect 2020; 104:298-300. [PMID: 31927038 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- L N Silva
- Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Faculty of Nursing, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Nursing, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Institute of Tropical Pathology and Public Health, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute of Tropical Pathology and Public Health, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Faculty of Nursing, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
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Dieltjens L, Appermans K, Lissens M, Lories B, Kim W, Van der Eycken EV, Foster KR, Steenackers HP. Inhibiting bacterial cooperation is an evolutionarily robust anti-biofilm strategy. Nat Commun 2020; 11:107. [PMID: 31919364 PMCID: PMC6952394 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13660-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Bacteria commonly form dense biofilms encased in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Biofilms are often extremely tolerant to antimicrobials but their reliance on shared EPS may also be a weakness as social evolution theory predicts that inhibiting shared traits can select against resistance. Here we show that EPS of Salmonella biofilms is a cooperative trait whose benefit is shared among cells, and that EPS inhibition reduces both cell attachment and antimicrobial tolerance. We then compare an EPS inhibitor to conventional antimicrobials in an evolutionary experiment. While resistance against conventional antimicrobials rapidly evolves, we see no evolution of resistance to EPS inhibition. We further show that a resistant strain is outcompeted by a susceptible strain under EPS inhibitor treatment, explaining why resistance does not evolve. Our work suggests that targeting cooperative traits is a viable solution to the problem of antimicrobial resistance. Bacterial biofilms rely on shared extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and are often highly tolerant to antibiotics. Here, the authors show in in vitro experiments that Salmonella does not evolve resistance to EPS inhibition because such strains are outcompeted by a susceptible strain under inhibitor treatment.
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- Lise Dieltjens
- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Zoology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Organic & Microwave-Assisted Chemistry (LOMAC), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 6 Miklukho-Maklaya street, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Zoology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. .,Department of Zoology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Ning E, Turnbull G, Clarke J, Picard F, Riches P, Vendrell M, Graham D, Wark AW, Faulds K, Shu W. 3D bioprinting of mature bacterial biofilms for antimicrobial resistance drug testing. Biofabrication 2019; 11:045018. [DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/ab37a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Yan J, Monaco H, Xavier JB. The Ultimate Guide to Bacterial Swarming: An Experimental Model to Study the Evolution of Cooperative Behavior. Annu Rev Microbiol 2019; 73:293-312. [PMID: 31180806 PMCID: PMC7428860 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-020518-120033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Cooperation has fascinated biologists since Darwin. How did cooperative behaviors evolve despite the fitness cost to the cooperator? Bacteria have cooperative behaviors that make excellent models to take on this age-old problem from both proximate (molecular) and ultimate (evolutionary) angles. We delve into Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming, a phenomenon where billions of bacteria move cooperatively across distances of centimeters in a matter of a few hours. Experiments with swarming have unveiled a strategy called metabolic prudence that stabilizes cooperation, have showed the importance of spatial structure, and have revealed a regulatory network that integrates environmental stimuli and direct cooperative behavior, similar to a machine learning algorithm. The study of swarming elucidates more than proximate mechanisms: It exposes ultimate mechanisms valid to all scales, from cells in cancerous tumors to animals in large communities.
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- Jinyuan Yan
- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA;
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA;
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA;
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Jovanovic M, Radivojevic J, O'Connor K, Blagojevic S, Begovic B, Lukic V, Nikodinovic-Runic J, Savic V. Rhamnolipid inspired lipopeptides effective in preventing adhesion and biofilm formation of Candida albicans. Bioorg Chem 2019; 87:209-217. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2019.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2019] [Revised: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Friedman L, Smoum R, Feldman M, Mechoulam R, Steinberg D. Does the Endocannabinoid Anandamide Affect Bacterial Quorum Sensing, Vitality, and Motility? Cannabis Cannabinoid Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1089/can.2018.0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Liat Friedman
- Biofilm Research Laboratory, Bio-medicine Graduate Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Biofilm Research Laboratory, Bio-medicine Graduate Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Biofilm Research Laboratory, Bio-medicine Graduate Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Peng G, Hou X, Zhang W, Song M, Yin M, Wang J, Li J, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Zhou W, Li X, Li G. Alkyl rhamnosides, a series of amphiphilic materials exerting broad-spectrum anti-biofilm activity against pathogenic bacteria via multiple mechanisms. ARTIFICIAL CELLS NANOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 46:S217-S232. [PMID: 30618296 DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2018.1491474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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As novel amphiphilic materials, six uncharged alkyl rhamnosides incorporating various alkyl chain and one rhamnose amine quaternary ammonium salt were successfully synthesized in this study. Their amphiphilic properties (HLB and CMC), antimicrobial and anti-biofilm activity against S. aureus and P. aeruginosa were investigated. Differentially regulated proteins and pathways were identified by comparative proteomics research to first give a sight on how alkyl rhamnosides performed the anti-biofilm activity at protein and pathway levels. Among the uncharged alkyl rhamnosides, dodecyl rhamnoside and octyl rhamnoside showed the best antimicrobial and anti-biofilm ability against S. aureus and against P. aeruginosa, respectively. Interestingly, the relationships between amphiphilic properties or MIC with anti-biofilm activity were first established. Uncharged alkyl rhamnoside with an optimized HLB value of 5.0 had both the strongest antibacterial and anti-biofilm activity against S. aureus, and MIC was the maximum biofilm inhibitory concentration for all alkyl rhamnosides. Alkyl rhamnosides have a significant overall regulatory effect on the proteomics and pathways of bacterial biofilms, including energy production, substrates transportation, signal transduction, key molecules balance, and so on. These amphiphilic materials have a great potential to be used as additives in pharmaceutic, cosmetic, food industry, hospital and in other non-medical fields.
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- Guanghua Peng
- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- b Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College , Beijing , China
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- a Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Pharmaceutics and New Drug System, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Peking University Health Science Center , Beijing , China
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- b Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College , Beijing , China
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Velic A, Mathew A, Hines P, Yarlagadda PKDV. Control of bacterial attachment by fracture topography. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2018; 91:416-424. [PMID: 30424978 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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In the biomedical arena, bacterial fouling is a precursor to complications such as implant infection and nosocomial infection. These complications are further compounded by biochemical mechanisms of resistance that threaten the action of traditional antibacterial strategies. Accordingly, antibacterial property by physical, not biochemical, mechanisms of action is becoming increasingly popular and promising. The present work falls in line with this paradigm shift. Here, microtextured Ti-6Al-4V surfaces were manufactured by destructive tension at three different cross-head speeds, probed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and multifocus optical microscopy, and treated with Staphylococcus aureus to study bacterial attachment. The fractographic study revealed the presence of dual-mode fracture, typical of Ti-6Al-4V, comprising regions of both ductile, microvoid coalescence and brittle, cleavage faceting. Based on load-extension curves, quantitative roughness data, and qualitative SEM visualisation, it was evident that cross-head speed modulated fracture behaviour such that increased speed produced more brittle fracture whilst lower speeds produced more ductile fracture. The topography associated with ductile fracture was found to possess notable antibiofouling property due to geometric constrains imposed by the coalesced microvoids. Accordingly, fracture at low cross-head speeds (1 mm/min and 10 mm/min) yielded significant reduction in bacterial attachment, whilst fracture at high cross-head speeds (100 mm/min) did not. The greatest reduction (~72%) was achieved at a cross-head speed of 1 mm/min. These findings suggest that antibiofouling property can be elicited by fracture and further 'tuned' by fracture speed. Discovery of this novel, albeit simple, avenue for topography-mediated antibacterial property calls for further research into alternate techniques for the manufacture of 'physical antibacterial surfaces'.
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- Amar Velic
- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Central Analytical Research Facility, Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
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Morsky B, Vural DC. Cheater-altruist synergy in public goods games. J Theor Biol 2018; 454:231-239. [PMID: 29908187 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Much research has focused on the deleterious effects of free-riding in public goods games, and a variety of mechanisms that suppress cheating behavior. Here we argue that under certain conditions cheating can be beneficial to the population. In a public goods game, cheaters do not pay for the cost of the public goods, yet they receive the benefit. Although this free-riding harms the entire population in the long run, the success of cheaters may aid the population when there is a common enemy that antagonizes both cooperators and cheaters. Here we study models of the interactions between tumor cells, which play a public goods game, and the immune system. We investigate three population dynamics models of cancer growth combined with a model of effector cell dynamics. We show that under a public good with a limiting benefit, the presence of cheaters aids the tumor in overcoming immune system suppression, and explore the parameter space wherein it occurs. The mechanism of this phenomenon is that a polymorphism of cheaters and altruists optimizes the average growth rate of the tumor, which is what determines whether or not the immune response is overcome. Our results give support for a possible synergy between cooperators and cheaters in ecological public goods games.
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- Bryce Morsky
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame 46556, USA.
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- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame 46556, USA.
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Dragoš A, Kiesewalter H, Martin M, Hsu CY, Hartmann R, Wechsler T, Eriksen C, Brix S, Drescher K, Stanley-Wall N, Kümmerli R, Kovács ÁT. Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production. Curr Biol 2018; 28:1903-1913.e5. [PMID: 29887307 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2018] [Revised: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Organisms as simple as bacteria can engage in complex collective actions, such as group motility and fruiting body formation. Some of these actions involve a division of labor, where phenotypically specialized clonal subpopulations or genetically distinct lineages cooperate with each other by performing complementary tasks. Here, we combine experimental and computational approaches to investigate potential benefits arising from division of labor during biofilm matrix production. We show that both phenotypic and genetic strategies for a division of labor can promote collective biofilm formation in the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis. In this species, biofilm matrix consists of two major components, exopolysaccharides (EPSs) and TasA. We observed that clonal groups of B. subtilis phenotypically segregate into three subpopulations composed of matrix non-producers, EPS producers, and generalists, which produce both EPSs and TasA. This incomplete phenotypic specialization was outperformed by a genetic division of labor, where two mutants, engineered as specialists, complemented each other by exchanging EPSs and TasA. The relative fitness of the two mutants displayed a negative frequency dependence both in vitro and on plant roots, with strain frequency reaching a stable equilibrium at 30% TasA producers, corresponding exactly to the population composition where group productivity is maximized. Using individual-based modeling, we show that asymmetries in strain ratio can arise due to differences in the relative benefits that matrix compounds generate for the collective and that genetic division of labor can be favored when it breaks metabolic constraints associated with the simultaneous production of two matrix components.
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- Anna Dragoš
- Bacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark; Terrestrial Biofilms Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07743, Germany
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- Bacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Bacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark; Terrestrial Biofilms Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07743, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Disease Systems Immunology Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Disease Systems Immunology Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany; Department of Physics, Philipps University, Marburg 35037, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Bacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby 2800, Denmark; Terrestrial Biofilms Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07743, Germany.
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Extracellular polysaccharides are compounds secreted by microorganisms into the surrounding environment, and they are important for surface attachment and maintaining structural integrity within biofilms. The social nature of many extracellular polysaccharides remains unclear, and it has been suggested that they could function as either cooperative public goods or as traits that provide a competitive advantage. Here, we empirically tested the cooperative nature of the PSL polysaccharide, which is crucial for the formation of biofilms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We show that (i) PSL is not metabolically costly to produce; (ii) PSL provides population-level benefits in biofilms, for both growth and antibiotic tolerance; (iii) the benefits of PSL production are social and are shared with other cells; (iv) the benefits of PSL production appear to be preferentially directed toward cells which produce PSL; (v) cells which do not produce PSL are unable to successfully exploit cells which produce PSL. Taken together, this suggests that PSL is a social but relatively nonexploitable trait and that growth within biofilms selects for PSL-producing strains, even when multiple strains are on a patch (low relatedness at the patch level). Many studies have shown that bacterial traits, such as siderophores and quorum sensing, are social in nature. This has led to an impression that secreted traits act as public goods, which are costly to produce but benefit both the producing cell and its surrounding neighbors. Theories and subsequent experiments have shown that such traits are exploitable by asocial cheats, but we show here that this does not always hold true. We demonstrate that the Pseudomonas aeruginosa exopolysaccharide PSL provides social benefits to populations but that it is nonexploitable, because most of the fitness benefits accrue to PSL-producing cells. Our work builds on an increasing body of work showing that secreted traits can have both private and public benefits to cells.
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Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrial-scale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics selects for resistance at answering scale. The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies. In turning to biological manifestations of antibiotic use, sciences fathom material outcomes of their own previous concepts. Archival work with stored soil and clinical samples produces a record described here as 'the biology of history': the physical registration of human history in bacterial life. This account thus foregrounds the importance of understanding both the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life today.
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Díaz-Muñoz SL, Boddy AM, Dantas G, Waters CM, Bronstein JL. Contextual organismality: Beyond pattern to process in the emergence of organisms. Evolution 2016; 70:2669-2677. [PMID: 27704542 PMCID: PMC5132100 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Revised: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 09/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Biologists have taken the concept of organism largely for granted. However, advances in the study of chimerism, symbiosis, bacterial‐eukaryote associations, and microbial behavior have prompted a redefinition of organisms as biological entities exhibiting low conflict and high cooperation among their parts. This expanded view identifies organisms in evolutionary time. However, the ecological processes, mechanisms, and traits that drive the formation of organisms remain poorly understood. Recognizing that organismality can be context dependent, we advocate elucidating the ecological contexts under which entities do or do not act as organisms. Here we develop a “contextual organismality” framework and provide examples of entities, such as honey bee colonies, tumors, and bacterial swarms, that can act as organisms under specific life history, resource, or other ecological circumstances. We suggest that context dependence may be a stepping stone to the development of increased organismal unification, as the most integrated biological entities generally show little context dependence. Recognizing that organismality is contextual can identify common patterns and testable hypotheses across different entities. The contextual organismality framework can illuminate timeless as well as pressing issues in biology, including topics as disparate as cancer emergence, genomic conflict, evolution of symbiosis, and the role of the microbiota in impacting host phenotype.
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- Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85281
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 5180 Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721
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Microbial adaptation is conspicuous in essentially every environment, but the mechanisms of adaptive evolution are poorly understood. Studying evolution in the laboratory under controlled conditions can be a tractable approach, particularly when new, discernible phenotypes evolve rapidly. This is especially the case in the spatially structured environments of biofilms, which promote the occurrence and stability of new, heritable phenotypes. Further, diversity in biofilms can give rise to nascent social interactions among coexisting mutants and enable the study of the emerging field of sociomicrobiology. Here, we review findings from laboratory evolution experiments with either Pseudomonas fluorescens or Burkholderia cenocepacia in spatially structured environments that promote biofilm formation. In both systems, ecotypes with overlapping niches evolve and produce competitive or facilitative interactions that lead to novel community attributes, demonstrating the parallelism of adaptive processes captured in the lab.
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Ghanbari A, Dehghany J, Schwebs T, Müsken M, Häussler S, Meyer-Hermann M. Inoculation density and nutrient level determine the formation of mushroom-shaped structures in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32097. [PMID: 27611778 PMCID: PMC5017200 DOI: 10.1038/srep32097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 08/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa often colonises immunocompromised patients and the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. It exhibits resistance to many antibiotics by forming biofilms, which makes it hard to eliminate. P. aeruginosa biofilms form mushroom-shaped structures under certain circumstances. Bacterial motility and the environment affect the eventual mushroom morphology. This study provides an agent-based model for the bacterial dynamics and interactions influencing bacterial biofilm shape. Cell motility in the model relies on recently published experimental data. Our simulations show colony formation by immotile cells. Motile cells escape from a single colony by nutrient chemotaxis and hence no mushroom shape develops. A high number density of non-motile colonies leads to migration of motile cells onto the top of the colonies and formation of mushroom-shaped structures. This model proposes that the formation of mushroom-shaped structures can be predicted by parameters at the time of bacteria inoculation. Depending on nutrient levels and the initial number density of stalks, mushroom-shaped structures only form in a restricted regime. This opens the possibility of early manipulation of spatial pattern formation in bacterial colonies, using environmental factors.
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- Azadeh Ghanbari
- Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, Twincore, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, Twincore, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
- Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, Twincore, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
- Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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Xavier JB. Sociomicrobiology and Pathogenic Bacteria. Microbiol Spectr 2016; 4:10.1128/microbiolspec.VMBF-0019-2015. [PMID: 27337482 PMCID: PMC4920084 DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.vmbf-0019-2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The study of microbial pathogenesis has been primarily a reductionist science since Koch's principles. Reductionist approaches are essential to identify the causal agents of infectious disease, their molecular mechanisms of action, and potential drug targets, and much of medicine's success in the treatment of infectious disease stems from that approach. But many bacteria-caused diseases cannot be explained by a single bacterium. Several aspects of bacterial pathogenesis will benefit from a more holistic approach that takes into account social interaction among bacteria of the same species and between species in consortia such as the human microbiome. The emerging discipline of sociomicrobiology provides a framework to dissect microbial interactions in single and multi-species communities without compromising mechanistic detail. The study of bacterial pathogenesis can benefit greatly from incorporating concepts from other disciplines such as social evolution theory and microbial ecology, where communities, their interactions with hosts, and with the environment play key roles.
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- Joao B. Xavier
- Program for Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, Box 460, New York, NY 10065,
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Bacterial biofilms are dense and often mixed-species surface-attached communities in which bacteria coexist and compete for limited space and nutrients. Here we present the different antagonistic interactions described in biofilm environments and their underlying molecular mechanisms, along with ecological and evolutionary insights as to how competitive interactions arise and are maintained within biofilms.
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Vural DC, Isakov A, Mahadevan L. The organization and control of an evolving interdependent population. J R Soc Interface 2016; 12:20150044. [PMID: 26040593 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Starting with Darwin, biologists have asked how populations evolve from a low fitness state that is evolutionarily stable to a high fitness state that is not. Specifically of interest is the emergence of cooperation and multicellularity where the fitness of individuals often appears in conflict with that of the population. Theories of social evolution and evolutionary game theory have produced a number of fruitful results employing two-state two-body frameworks. In this study, we depart from this tradition and instead consider a multi-player, multi-state evolutionary game, in which the fitness of an agent is determined by its relationship to an arbitrary number of other agents. We show that populations organize themselves in one of four distinct phases of interdependence depending on one parameter, selection strength. Some of these phases involve the formation of specialized large-scale structures. We then describe how the evolution of independence can be manipulated through various external perturbations.
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- Dervis C Vural
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Steenackers HP, Parijs I, Dubey A, Foster KR, Vanderleyden J. Experimental evolution in biofilm populations. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2016; 40:373-97. [PMID: 26895713 PMCID: PMC4852284 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuw002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Biofilms are a major form of microbial life in which cells form dense surface associated communities that can persist for many generations. The long-life of biofilm communities means that they can be strongly shaped by evolutionary processes. Here, we review the experimental study of evolution in biofilm communities. We first provide an overview of the different experimental models used to study biofilm evolution and their associated advantages and disadvantages. We then illustrate the vast amount of diversification observed during biofilm evolution, and we discuss (i) potential ecological and evolutionary processes behind the observed diversification, (ii) recent insights into the genetics of adaptive diversification, (iii) the striking degree of parallelism between evolution experiments and real-life biofilms and (iv) potential consequences of diversification. In the second part, we discuss the insights provided by evolution experiments in how biofilm growth and structure can promote cooperative phenotypes. Overall, our analysis points to an important role of biofilm diversification and cooperation in bacterial survival and productivity. Deeper understanding of both processes is of key importance to design improved antimicrobial strategies and diagnostic techniques. This review paper provides an overview of (i) the different experimental models used to study biofilm evolution, (ii) the vast amount of diversification observed during biofilm evolution (including potential causes and consequences) and (iii) recent insights in how growth in biofilms can lead to the evolution of cooperative phenotypes.
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- Hans P Steenackers
- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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Microbial Surface Colonization and Biofilm Development in Marine Environments. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2015; 80:91-138. [PMID: 26700108 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00037-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 462] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms. Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous advantages to these organisms and support critical ecological and biogeochemical functions in the changing marine environment. Microbial surface association also contributes to deleterious effects such as biofouling, biocorrosion, and the persistence and transmission of harmful or pathogenic microorganisms and their genetic determinants. The processes and mechanisms of colonization as well as key players among the surface-associated microbiota have been studied for several decades. Accumulating evidence indicates that specific cell-surface, cell-cell, and interpopulation interactions shape the composition, structure, spatiotemporal dynamics, and functions of surface-associated microbial communities. Several key microbial processes and mechanisms, including (i) surface, population, and community sensing and signaling, (ii) intraspecies and interspecies communication and interaction, and (iii) the regulatory balance between cooperation and competition, have been identified as critical for the microbial surface association lifestyle. In this review, recent progress in the study of marine microbial surface colonization and biofilm development is synthesized and discussed. Major gaps in our knowledge remain. We pose questions for targeted investigation of surface-specific community-level microbial features, answers to which would advance our understanding of surface-associated microbial community ecology and the biogeochemical functions of these communities at levels from molecular mechanistic details through systems biological integration.
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Boyle KE, Monaco H, van Ditmarsch D, Deforet M, Xavier JB. Integration of Metabolic and Quorum Sensing Signals Governing the Decision to Cooperate in a Bacterial Social Trait. PLoS Comput Biol 2015; 11:e1004279. [PMID: 26102206 PMCID: PMC4477906 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Many unicellular organisms live in multicellular communities that rely on cooperation between cells. However, cooperative traits are vulnerable to exploitation by non-cooperators (cheaters). We expand our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that allow multicellular systems to remain robust in the face of cheating by dissecting the dynamic regulation of cooperative rhamnolipids required for swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We combine mathematical modeling and experiments to quantitatively characterize the integration of metabolic and population density signals (quorum sensing) governing expression of the rhamnolipid synthesis operon rhlAB. The combined computational/experimental analysis reveals that when nutrients are abundant, rhlAB promoter activity increases gradually in a density dependent way. When growth slows down due to nutrient limitation, rhlAB promoter activity can stop abruptly, decrease gradually or even increase depending on whether the growth-limiting nutrient is the carbon source, nitrogen source or iron. Starvation by specific nutrients drives growth on intracellular nutrient pools as well as the qualitative rhlAB promoter response, which itself is modulated by quorum sensing. Our quantitative analysis suggests a supply-driven activation that integrates metabolic prudence with quorum sensing in a non-digital manner and allows P. aeruginosa cells to invest in cooperation only when the population size is large enough (quorum sensing) and individual cells have enough metabolic resources to do so (metabolic prudence). Thus, the quantitative description of rhlAB regulatory dynamics brings a greater understating to the regulation required to make swarming cooperation stable. Although bacteria are not multicellular organisms, they commonly live in large communities and engage in many cooperative behaviors. Cooperation can allow bacteria to access additional nutrients, but it requires the secretion of products that will be shared by the community. How bacteria make the molecular decision to cooperate within a community is still not completely understood. The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulates the secretion of one of these shared products, rhamnolipids, using information about population density and nutrient availability in its environment. Expression of the operon rhlAB is required for the bacteria to produce rhamnolipids. We use a combined computational and experimental approach to investigate how P. aeruginosa continually combines current information of population density and nutrient availability to determine if it should express rhlAB. We find that when conditions are nutrient rich, P. aeruginosa uses population density to modulate the amount rhlAB expression, however when the bacteria are starved for nutrients the starvation condition largely determines how the bacteria will express rhlAB. Because the bacteria continually adjust expression based on the current conditions, the molecular decision to produce rhamnolipids can be adjusted if either population density or nutrient conditions change. Our combined computational and experimental approach sheds new light on the rich regulatory dynamics that govern a cellular decision to cooperate.
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- Kerry E. Boyle
- Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, United States of America
- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York, United States of America
- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
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A host's microbiota may increase, diminish, or have no effect at all on cancer susceptibility. Assigning causal roles in cancer to specific microbes and microbiotas, unraveling host-microbiota interactions with environmental factors in carcinogenesis, and exploiting such knowledge for cancer diagnosis and treatment are areas of intensive interest. This Review considers how microbes and the microbiota may amplify or mitigate carcinogenesis, responsiveness to cancer therapeutics, and cancer-associated complications.
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- Wendy S Garrett
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Glamočlija J, Ćirić A, Nikolić M, Fernandes Â, Barros L, Calhelha RC, Ferreira ICFR, Soković M, van Griensven LJLD. Chemical characterization and biological activity of Chaga (Inonotus obliquus), a medicinal "mushroom". JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2015; 162:323-32. [PMID: 25576897 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.12.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2014] [Revised: 12/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE In Russian traditional medicine, an extract from the mushroom Inonotus obliquus (Fr.) Pil´at is used as an anti-tumor medicine and diuretic. It has been reported that Inonotus obliquus has therapeutic effects, such as anti-inflammatory, immuno-modulatory and hepatoprotective effects. This study was designed to investigate the chemical composition and biological properties of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Inonotus obliquus from Finland, Russia, and Thailand. Their antioxidative, antimicrobial, and antiquorum properties were tested as well as the cytotoxicity on various tumor cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS The tested extract was subjected to conventional chemical study to identified organic acids and phenolic compounds. Antioxidative activity was measured by several different assays. Antimicrobial potential of extracts was tested by microdilution method, and antiquorum sensing activity and antibiofilm formation of Inonotus obliquus extracts was tested on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cytotoxicity of the extracts was tested on tumor cells (MCF-7, NCI-H460, HeLa and HepG2) and non-tumor liver cells primary cultures. RESULTS Oxalic acid was found as the main organic acid, with the highest amount in the aqueous extract from Russia. Gallic, protocatechuic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids were detected in all samples. Inonotus obliquus extracts showed high antioxidant and antimicrobial activity. Extracts were tested at subMIC for anti-quorum sensing (AQS) activity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and all extracts showed definite AQS activity. The assays were done using twitching and swarming of bacterial cultures, and the amount of produced pyocyanin as QS parameters. All the extracts demonstrated cytotoxic effect on four tumor cell lines and not on primary porcine liver cells PLP2. CONCLUSIONS As the Inonotus obliquus presence in Chaga conks is limited, further purification is necessary to draw quantitative conclusions. The presence of AQS activity in medicinal mushrooms suggests a broader anti-infectious disease protection than only immunomodulatory effects.
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- Jasmina Glamočlija
- University of Belgrade, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- University of Belgrade, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- University of Belgrade, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Mountain Research Center (CIMO), ESA, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Ap. 1172, 5301-855 Bragança, Portugal
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- Mountain Research Center (CIMO), ESA, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Ap. 1172, 5301-855 Bragança, Portugal
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- Mountain Research Center (CIMO), ESA, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Ap. 1172, 5301-855 Bragança, Portugal
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- Mountain Research Center (CIMO), ESA, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Ap. 1172, 5301-855 Bragança, Portugal
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- University of Belgrade, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen 6700 AA, Netherlands.
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Perron GG, Inglis RF, Pennings PS, Cobey S. Fighting microbial drug resistance: a primer on the role of evolutionary biology in public health. Evol Appl 2015; 8:211-22. [PMID: 25861380 PMCID: PMC4380916 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Although microbes have been evolving resistance to antimicrobials for millennia, the spread of resistance in pathogen populations calls for the development of new drugs and treatment strategies. We propose that successful, long-term resistance management requires a better understanding of how resistance evolves in the first place. This is an opportunity for evolutionary biologists to engage in public health, a collaboration that has substantial precedent. Resistance evolution has been an important tool for developing and testing evolutionary theory, especially theory related to the genetic basis of new traits and constraints on adaptation. The present era is no exception. The articles in this issue highlight the breadth of current research on resistance evolution and also its challenges. In this introduction, we review the conceptual advances that have been achieved from studying resistance evolution and describe a path forward.
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- Gabriel G Perron
- Department of Biology, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biology, San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
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Pascual-García A, Tamames J, Bastolla U. Bacteria dialog with Santa Rosalia: Are aggregations of cosmopolitan bacteria mainly explained by habitat filtering or by ecological interactions? BMC Microbiol 2014; 14:284. [PMID: 25472003 PMCID: PMC4263022 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-014-0284-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Since the landmark Santa Rosalia paper by Hutchinson, niche theory addresses the determinants of biodiversity in terms of both environmental and biological aspects. Disentangling the role of habitat filtering and interactions with other species is critical for understanding microbial ecology. Macroscopic biogeography explores hypothetical ecological interactions through the analysis of species associations. These methods have started to be incorporated into microbial ecology relatively recently, due to the inherent experimental difficulties and the coarse grained nature of the data. RESULTS Here we investigate the influence of environmental preferences and ecological interactions in the tendency of bacterial taxa to either aggregate or segregate, using a comprehensive dataset of bacterial taxa observed in a wide variety of environments. We assess significance of taxa associations through a null model that takes into account habitat preferences and the global distribution of taxa across samples. The analysis of these associations reveals a surprisingly large number of significant aggregations between taxa, with a marked community structure and a strong propensity to aggregate for cosmopolitan taxa. Due to the coarse grained nature of our data we cannot conclusively reject the hypothesis that many of these aggregations are due to environmental preferences that the null model fails to reproduce. Nevertheless, some observations are better explained by ecological interactions than by habitat filtering. In particular, most pairs of aggregating taxa co-occur in very different environments, which makes it unlikely that these associations are due to habitat preferences, and many are formed by cosmopolitan taxa without well defined habitat preferences. Moreover, known cooperative interactions are retrieved as aggregating pairs of taxa. As observed in similar studies, we also found that phylogenetically related taxa are much more prone to aggregate than to segregate, an observation that may play a role in bacterial speciation. CONCLUSIONS We hope that these results stimulate experimental verification of the putative cooperative interactions between cosmopolitan bacteria, and we suggest several groups of aggregated cosmopolitan bacteria that are interesting candidates for such an investigation.
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- Alberto Pascual-García
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), c. Nicolás Cabrera 1, campus UAM, Madrid, E-28049, Spain.
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnologí a (CSIC) c. Darwin 3, campus UAM, Madrid, E-28049, Spain.
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), c. Nicolás Cabrera 1, campus UAM, Madrid, E-28049, Spain.
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Molina CA, Vilchez S. Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution. REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL 2014. [DOI: 10.1186/s40693-014-0014-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Vega NM, Gore J. Collective antibiotic resistance: mechanisms and implications. Curr Opin Microbiol 2014; 21:28-34. [PMID: 25271119 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2014] [Revised: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In collective resistance, microbial communities are able to survive antibiotic exposures that would be lethal to individual cells. In this review, we explore recent advances in understanding collective resistance in bacteria. The population dynamics of 'cheating' in a system with cooperative antibiotic inactivation have been described, providing insight into the demographic factors that determine resistance allele frequency in bacteria. Extensive work has elucidated mechanisms underlying collective resistance in biofilms and addressed questions about the role of cooperation in these structures. Additionally, recent investigations of 'bet-hedging' strategies in bacteria have explored the contributions of stochasticity and regulation to bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity and examined the effects of these strategies on community survival.
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- Nicole M Vega
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Koul V, Adholeya A, Kochar M. Sphere of influence of indole acetic acid and nitric oxide in bacteria. J Basic Microbiol 2014; 55:543-53. [PMID: 24913042 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201400224] [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: 03/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Bacterial biosynthesis of the phytohormone, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is well established and along with the diffusible gaseous molecule, nitric oxide (NO) is known to positively regulate the developmental processes of plant roots. IAA and NO act as signaling molecules in plant-microbe interactions as they modulate the gene expression in both, plants and microorganisms. Although IAA and NO may not be required for essential bacterial physiological processes, numerous studies point towards a crosstalk between IAA and NO in the rhizosphere. In this review, we describe various IAA and NO-responsive or sensing genes/proteins/regulators. There is also growing evidence for the interaction of IAA and NO with other plant growth regulators and the involvement of NO with the quorum sensing system in biofilm formation and virulence. This interactive network can greatly impact the host plant-microbe interactions in the soil. Coupled with this, the specialized σ(54) -dependent transcription observed in some of the IAA and NO-influenced genes can confer inducibility to these traits in bacteria and may allow the expression of IAA and NO-influenced microbial genes in nutrient limiting or changing environmental conditions for the benefit of plants.
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- Vatsala Koul
- TERI Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, Biotechnology and Bioresources Division, The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
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We introduce the field of Hamiltonian medicine, which centres on the roles of genetic relatedness in human health and disease. Hamiltonian medicine represents the application of basic social-evolution theory, for interactions involving kinship, to core issues in medicine such as pathogens, cancer, optimal growth and mental illness. It encompasses three domains, which involve conflict and cooperation between: (i) microbes or cancer cells, within humans, (ii) genes expressed in humans, (iii) human individuals. A set of six core principles, based on these domains and their interfaces, serves to conceptually organize the field, and contextualize illustrative examples. The primary usefulness of Hamiltonian medicine is that, like Darwinian medicine more generally, it provides novel insights into what data will be productive to collect, to address important clinical and public health problems. Our synthesis of this nascent field is intended predominantly for evolutionary and behavioural biologists who aspire to address questions directly relevant to human health and disease.
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- Bernard Crespi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CanadaV5A 1S6
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
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Bridier A, Sanchez-Vizuete P, Guilbaud M, Piard JC, Naïtali M, Briandet R. Biofilm-associated persistence of food-borne pathogens. Food Microbiol 2014; 45:167-78. [PMID: 25500382 DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2014.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2014] [Revised: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Microbial life abounds on surfaces in both natural and industrial environments, one of which is the food industry. A solid substrate, water and some nutrients are sufficient to allow the construction of a microbial fortress, a so-called biofilm. Survival strategies developed by these surface-associated ecosystems are beginning to be deciphered in the context of rudimentary laboratory biofilms. Gelatinous organic matrices consisting of complex mixtures of self-produced biopolymers ensure the cohesion of these biological structures and contribute to their resistance and persistence. Moreover, far from being just simple three-dimensional assemblies of identical cells, biofilms are composed of heterogeneous sub-populations with distinctive behaviours that contribute to their global ecological success. In the clinical field, biofilm-associated infections (BAI) are known to trigger chronic infections that require dedicated therapies. A similar belief emerging in the food industry, where biofilm tolerance to environmental stresses, including cleaning and disinfection/sanitation, can result in the persistence of bacterial pathogens and the recurrent cross-contamination of food products. The present review focuses on the principal mechanisms involved in the formation of biofilms of food-borne pathogens, where biofilm behaviour is driven by its three-dimensional heterogeneity and by species interactions within these biostructures, and we look at some emergent control strategies.
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- Inra, UMR 1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France; AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Massy, France
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- Inra, UMR 1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France; AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Massy, France
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- Inra, UMR 1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France; AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Massy, France
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- Inra, UMR 1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France; AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Massy, France
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- Inra, UMR 1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France; AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Massy, France.
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Nickzad A, Déziel E. The involvement of rhamnolipids in microbial cell adhesion and biofilm development - an approach for control? Lett Appl Microbiol 2014; 58:447-53. [PMID: 24372465 DOI: 10.1111/lam.12211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/20/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Biofilms are omnipresent in clinical and industrial settings and most of the times cause detrimental side effects. Finding efficient strategies to control surface-growing communities of micro-organisms remains a significant challenge. Rhamnolipids are extracellular secondary metabolites with surface-active properties mainly produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is growing evidence for the implication of this biosurfactant in different stages of biofilm development of this bacterium. Furthermore, rhamnolipids display a significant potential as anti-adhesive and disrupting agents against established biofilms formed by several bacterial and fungal species. Their low toxicity, biodegradability, efficiency and specificity, compared to synthetic surfactants typically used in biofilm control, might compensate for the economic hurdle still linked to their superior production costs and make them promising antifouling agents.
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- A Nickzad
- INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, QC, Canada
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Deng P, de Vargas Roditi L, van Ditmarsch D, Xavier JB. The ecological basis of morphogenesis: branching patterns in swarming colonies of bacteria. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 2014; 16:015006-15006. [PMID: 24587694 PMCID: PMC3935381 DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/015006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Understanding how large-scale shapes in tissues, organs and bacterial colonies emerge from local interactions among cells and how these shapes remain stable over time are two fundamental problems in biology. Here we investigate branching morphogenesis in an experimental model system, swarming colonies of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We combine experiments and computer simulation to show that a simple ecological model of population dispersal can describe the emergence of branching patterns. In our system, morphogenesis depends on two counteracting processes that act on different length-scales: (1) colony expansion, which increases the likelihood of colonizing a patch at a close distance and (2) colony repulsion, which decreases the colonization likelihood over a longer distance. The two processes are included in a kernel based mathematical model using an integro-differential approach borrowed from ecological theory. Computer simulations show that the model can indeed reproduce branching, but only for a narrow range of parameter values, suggesting that P. aeruginosa has a fine-tuned physiology for branching. Simulations further show that hyperswarming, a process where highly dispersive mutants reproducibly arise within the colony and disrupt branching patterns, can be interpreted as a change in the spatial kernel.
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- Pan Deng
- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY, USA
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Interest in using bacteriophages to control the growth and spread of bacterial pathogens is being revived in the wake of widespread antibiotic resistance. However, little is known about the ecological effects that high concentrations of phages in the environment might have on natural microbial communities. We review the current evidence suggesting phage-mediated environmental perturbation, with a focus on agricultural examples, and describe the potential implications for human health and agriculture. Specifically, we examine the known and potential consequences of phage application in certain agricultural practices, discuss the risks of evolved bacterial resistance to phages, and question whether the future of phage therapy will emulate that of antibiotic treatment in terms of widespread resistance. Finally, we propose some basic precautions that could preclude such phenomena and highlight existing methods for tracking bacterial resistance to phage therapeutic agents.
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- Sean Meaden
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterPenryn, UK
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Bacteria have the remarkable ability to communicate as a group in what has become known as quorum sensing (QS), and this trait has been associated with important bacterial phenotypes, such as virulence and biofilm formation. Bacteria also have an incredible ability to evolve resistance to all known antimicrobials. Hence, although inhibition of QS has been hailed as a means to reduce virulence in a manner that is impervious to bacterial resistance mechanisms, this approach is unlikely to be a panacea. Here we review the evidence that bacteria can evolve resistance to quorum-quenching compounds.
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de Vargas Roditi L, Boyle KE, Xavier JB. Multilevel selection analysis of a microbial social trait. Mol Syst Biol 2013; 9:684. [PMID: 23959025 PMCID: PMC3779802 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2013.42] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The study of microbial communities often leads to arguments for the evolution of cooperation due to group benefits. However, multilevel selection models caution against the uncritical assumption that group benefits will lead to the evolution of cooperation. We analyze a microbial social trait to precisely define the conditions favoring cooperation. We combine the multilevel partition of the Price equation with a laboratory model system: swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We parameterize a population dynamics model using competition experiments where we manipulate expression, and therefore the cost-to-benefit ratio of swarming cooperation. Our analysis shows that multilevel selection can favor costly swarming cooperation because it causes population expansion. However, due to high costs and diminishing returns constitutive cooperation can only be favored by natural selection when relatedness is high. Regulated expression of cooperative genes is a more robust strategy because it provides the benefits of swarming expansion without the high cost or the diminishing returns. Our analysis supports the key prediction that strong group selection does not necessarily mean that microbial cooperation will always emerge.
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- Laura de Vargas Roditi
- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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van Ditmarsch D, Boyle KE, Sakhtah H, Oyler JE, Nadell CD, Déziel É, Dietrich LEP, Xavier JB. Convergent evolution of hyperswarming leads to impaired biofilm formation in pathogenic bacteria. Cell Rep 2013; 4:697-708. [PMID: 23954787 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Revised: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Most bacteria in nature live in surface-associated communities rather than planktonic populations. Nonetheless, how surface-associated environments shape bacterial evolutionary adaptation remains poorly understood. Here, we show that subjecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa to repeated rounds of swarming, a collective form of surface migration, drives remarkable parallel evolution toward a hyperswarmer phenotype. In all independently evolved hyperswarmers, the reproducible hyperswarming phenotype is caused by parallel point mutations in a flagellar synthesis regulator, FleN, which locks the naturally monoflagellated bacteria in a multiflagellated state and confers a growth rate-independent advantage in swarming. Although hyperswarmers outcompete the ancestral strain in swarming competitions, they are strongly outcompeted in biofilm formation, which is an essential trait for P. aeruginosa in environmental and clinical settings. The finding that evolution in swarming colonies reliably produces evolution of poor biofilm formers supports the existence of an evolutionary trade-off between motility and biofilm formation.
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- Dave van Ditmarsch
- Program in Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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