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Luo N, Lu J, Şimşek E, Silver A, Yao Y, Ouyang X, West SA, You L. The collapse of cooperation during range expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nat Microbiol 2024; 9:1220-1230. [PMID: 38443483 PMCID: PMC7615952 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01627-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Cooperation is commonly believed to be favourable in spatially structured environments, as these systems promote genetic relatedness that reduces the likelihood of exploitation by cheaters. Here we show that a Pseudomonas aeruginosa population that exhibited cooperative swarming was invaded by cheaters when subjected to experimental evolution through cycles of range expansion on solid media, but not in well-mixed liquid cultures. Our results suggest that cooperation is disfavoured in a more structured environment, which is the opposite of the prevailing view. We show that spatial expansion of the population prolongs cooperative swarming, which was vulnerable to cheating. Our findings reveal a mechanism by which spatial structures can suppress cooperation through modulation of the quantitative traits of cooperation, a process that leads to population divergence towards distinct colonization strategies.
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- Nan Luo
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
- Center for Quantitative Biodesign, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
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Vázquez KRJ, López-Hernández J, García-Cárdenas E, Pelagio-Flores R, López-Bucio JS, Téxon AC, Ibarra-Laclette E, López-Bucio J. The plant growth promoting rhizobacterium Achromobacter sp. 5B1, rescues Arabidopsis seedlings from alkaline stress by enhancing root organogenesis and hormonal responses. Microbiol Res 2024; 281:127594. [PMID: 38211416 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2023.127594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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Soil alkalinity is a critical environmental factor for plant growth and distribution in ecosystems. An alkaline condition (pH > 7) is imposed by the rising concentration of hydroxides and cations, and prevails in semiarid and arid environments, which represent more than 25% of the total arable land of the world. Despite the great pressure exerted by alkalinity for root viability and plant survival, scarce information is available to understand how root microbes contribute to alkaline pH adaptation. Here, we assessed the effects of alkalinity on shoot and root biomass production, chlorophyll content, root growth and branching, lateral root primordia formation, and the expression of CYCB1, TOR kinase, and auxin and cytokinin-inducible trangenes in shoots and roots of Arabidopsis seedlings grown in Petri plates with agar-nutrient medium at pH values of 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0. The results showed an inverse correlation between the rise of pH and most growth, hormonal and genetic traits analyzed. Noteworthy, root inoculation with Achromobacter sp. 5B1, a beneficial rhizospheric bacterium, with plant growth promoting and salt tolerance features, increased biomass production, restored root growth and branching and enhanced auxin responses in WT seedlings and auxin-related mutants aux1-7 and eir1, indicating that stress adaptation operates independently of canonical auxin transporter proteins. Sequencing of the Achromobacter sp. 5B1 genome unveiled 5244 protein-coding genes, including genes possibly involved in auxin biosynthesis, quorum-sensing regulation and stress adaptation, which may account for its plant growth promotion attributes. These data highlight the critical role of rhizobacteria to increase plant resilience under high soil pH conditions potentially through genes for adaptation to an extreme environment and bacteria-plant communication.
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- Kirán Rubí Jiménez Vázquez
- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio B3, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P., 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio B3, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P., 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio B3, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P., 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Facultad de Químico Farmacobiología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Avenida Tzintzuntzan 173; Col. Matamoros, 58240 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Catedrático CONACYT-Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio B3, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P., 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Red de Estudios Moleculares Avanzados, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, C.P. 91070, Xalapa, Ver, Mexico; Departamento de la Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur., Carretera Villahermosa-Reforma Km 15.5, Ranchería el Guineo, Sección II C.P., 86280 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
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- Red de Estudios Moleculares Avanzados, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, C.P. 91070, Xalapa, Ver, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio B3, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P., 58030 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
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Moawad A, Abbara A, Bitbol AF. Evolution of cooperation in deme-structured populations on graphs. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:024307. [PMID: 38491653 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.024307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Understanding how cooperation can evolve in populations despite its cost to individual cooperators is an important challenge. Models of spatially structured populations with one individual per node of a graph have shown that cooperation, modeled via the prisoner's dilemma, can be favored by natural selection. These results depend on microscopic update rules, which determine how birth, death, and migration on the graph are coupled. Recently, we developed coarse-grained models of spatially structured populations on graphs, where each node comprises a well-mixed deme, and where migration is independent from division and death, thus bypassing the need for update rules. Here, we study the evolution of cooperation in these models in the rare-migration regime, within the prisoner's dilemma. We find that cooperation is not favored by natural selection in these coarse-grained models on graphs where overall deme fitness does not directly impact migration from a deme. This is due to a separation of scales, whereby cooperation occurs at a local level within demes, while spatial structure matters between demes.
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- Alix Moawad
- Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lin H, Wang D, Wang Q, Mao J, Bai Y, Qu J. Interspecific competition prevents the proliferation of social cheaters in an unstructured environment. THE ISME JOURNAL 2024; 18:wrad038. [PMID: 38365247 PMCID: PMC10939377 DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrad038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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Bacterial communities are intricate ecosystems in which various members interact, compete for resources, and influence each other's growth. Antibiotics intensify this complexity, posing challenges in maintaining biodiversity. In this study, we delved into the behavior of kin bacterial communities when subjected to antibiotic perturbations, with a particular focus on how interspecific interactions shape these responses. We hypothesized that social cheating-where resistant strains shield both themselves and neighboring cheaters-obstructed coexistence, especially when kin bacteria exhibited varied growth rates and antibiotic sensitivities. To explore potential pathways to coexistence, we incorporated a third bacterial member, anticipating a shift in the dynamics of community coexistence. Simulations and experimental bacterial communities confirmed our predictions, emphasizing the pivotal role of interspecific competition in promoting coexistence under antibiotic interference. These insights are crucial for understanding bacterial ecosystem stability, interpreting drug-microbiome interactions, and predicting bacterial community adaptations to environmental changes.
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- Hui Lin
- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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Mougi A. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in microbial interactions. Sci Rep 2023; 13:9042. [PMID: 37270654 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36221-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023] Open
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Microbes play an important role in ecosystem functioning and human health. A key feature of microbial interactions is a feedback system in which they modify the physical environment and react to it. Recently, it has been shown that the ecological consequences of microbial interactions driven by the modification of their surrounding pH environment can be predicted from the effects of their metabolic properties on pH. The optimum environmental pH for a given species can adaptively change in response to the changes in environmental pH that are induced by them. However, the mechanisms underlying the effect of these adaptive changes in pH niche on microbial coexistence are yet to be explored. In this study, I theoretically demonstrate that ecological theory can only accurately predict the qualitative ecological consequences if the growth and pH change rates are the same for each species, which suggests that adaptive pH niche changes can generally make ecological consequence predictions based on ecological theory difficult.
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- Akihiko Mougi
- Institute of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Academic Assembly, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-Cho, Matsue, 690-8504, Japan.
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Dong J, Liu L, Chen L, Xiang Y, Wang Y, Zhao Y. The Coexistence of Bacterial Species Restructures Biofilm Architecture and Increases Tolerance to Antimicrobial Agents. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0358122. [PMID: 36847543 PMCID: PMC10100793 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03581-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
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Chronic infections caused by polymicrobial biofilms are often difficult to treat effectively, partially due to the elevated tolerance of polymicrobial biofilms to antimicrobial treatments. It is known that interspecific interactions influence polymicrobial biofilm formation. However, the underlying role of the coexistence of bacterial species in polymicrobial biofilm formation is not fully understood. Here, we investigated the effect of the coexistence of Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella enteritidis on triple-species biofilm formation. Our results demonstrated that the coexistence of these three species enhanced the biofilm biomass and led to restructuring of the biofilm into a tower-like architecture. Furthermore, the proportions of polysaccharides, proteins, and eDNAs in the extracellular matrix (ECM) composition of the triple-species biofilm were significantly changed compared to those in the E. faecalis mono-species biofilm. Finally, we analyzed the transcriptomic profile of E. faecalis in response to coexistence with E. coli and S. enteritidis in the triple-species biofilm. The results suggested that E. faecalis established dominance and restructured the triple-species biofilm by enhancing nutrient transport and biosynthesis of amino acids, upregulating central carbon metabolism, manipulating the microenvironment through "biological weapons," and activating versatile stress response regulators. Together, the results of this pilot study reveal the nature of E. faecalis-harboring triple-species biofilms with a static biofilm model and provide novel insights for further understanding interspecies interactions and the clinical treatment of polymicrobial biofilms. IMPORTANCE Bacterial biofilms possess distinct community properties that affect various aspects of our daily lives. In particular, biofilms exhibit increased tolerance to chemical disinfectants, antimicrobial agents, and host immune responses. Multispecies biofilms are undoubtedly the dominant form of biofilms in nature. Thus, there is a pressing need for more research directed at delineating the nature of multispecies biofilms and the effects of the properties on the development and survival of the biofilm community. Here, we address the effects of the coexistence of Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, and Salmonella enteritidis on triple-species biofilm formation with a static model. In combination with transcriptomic analyses, this pilot study explores the potential underlying mechanisms that lead to the dominance of E. faecalis in triple-species biofilms. Our findings provide novel insights into the nature of triple-species biofilms and indicate that the composition of multispecies biofilms should be a key consideration when determining antimicrobial treatments.
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- Jiajun Dong
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Ibrahim AM. The conditional defector strategies can violate the most crucial supporting mechanisms of cooperation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:15157. [PMID: 36071078 PMCID: PMC9449918 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-18797-2] [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: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Cooperation is essential for all domains of life. Yet, ironically, it is intrinsically vulnerable to exploitation by cheats. Hence, an explanatory necessity spurs many evolutionary biologists to search for mechanisms that could support cooperation. In general, cooperation can emerge and be maintained when cooperators are sufficiently interacting with themselves. This communication provides a kind of assortment and reciprocity. The most crucial and common mechanisms to achieve that task are kin selection, spatial structure, and enforcement (punishment). Here, we used agent-based simulation models to investigate these pivotal mechanisms against conditional defector strategies. We concluded that the latter could easily violate the former and take over the population. This surprising outcome may urge us to rethink the evolution of cooperation, as it illustrates that maintaining cooperation may be more difficult than previously thought. Moreover, empirical applications may support these theoretical findings, such as invading the cooperator population of pathogens by genetically engineered conditional defectors, which could be a potential therapy for many incurable diseases.
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Nguyen AQ, Nguyen LN, Xu Z, Luo W, Nghiem LD. New insights to the difference in microbial composition and interspecies interactions between fouling layer and mixed liquor in a membrane bioreactor. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Gupta G, Ndiaye A, Filteau M. Leveraging Experimental Strategies to Capture Different Dimensions of Microbial Interactions. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:700752. [PMID: 34646243 PMCID: PMC8503676 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.700752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Microorganisms are a fundamental part of virtually every ecosystem on earth. Understanding how collectively they interact, assemble, and function as communities has become a prevalent topic both in fundamental and applied research. Owing to multiple advances in technology, answering questions at the microbial system or network level is now within our grasp. To map and characterize microbial interaction networks, numerous computational approaches have been developed; however, experimentally validating microbial interactions is no trivial task. Microbial interactions are context-dependent, and their complex nature can result in an array of outcomes, not only in terms of fitness or growth, but also in other relevant functions and phenotypes. Thus, approaches to experimentally capture microbial interactions involve a combination of culture methods and phenotypic or functional characterization methods. Here, through our perspective of food microbiologists, we highlight the breadth of innovative and promising experimental strategies for their potential to capture the different dimensions of microbial interactions and their high-throughput application to answer the question; are microbial interaction patterns or network architecture similar along different contextual scales? We further discuss the experimental approaches used to build various types of networks and study their architecture in the context of cell biology and how they translate at the level of microbial ecosystem.
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- Gunjan Gupta
- Département des Sciences des aliments, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF), Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département des Sciences des aliments, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF), Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Département des Sciences des aliments, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut sur la Nutrition et les Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF), Québec, QC, Canada
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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López-García P, Moreira D. Physical connections: prokaryotes parasitizing their kin. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2021; 13:54-61. [PMID: 33225570 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, AgroParisTech, 91400, France
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Babajanyan SG, Lin W, Cheong KH. Cooperate or Not Cooperate in Predictable but Periodically Varying Situations? Cooperation in Fast Oscillating Environment. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:2001995. [PMID: 33173734 PMCID: PMC7610311 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In this work, the cooperation problem between two populations in a periodically varying environment is discussed. In particular, the two-population prisoner's dilemma game with periodically oscillating payoffs is discussed, such that the time-average of these oscillations over the period of environmental variations vanishes. The possible overlaps of these oscillations generate completely new dynamical effects that drastically change the phase space structure of the two-population evolutionary dynamics. Due to these effects, the emergence of some level of cooperators in both populations is possible under certain conditions on the environmental variations. In the domain of stable coexistence the dynamics of cooperators in each population form stable cycles. Thus, the cooperators in each population promote the existence of cooperators in the other population. However, the survival of cooperators in both populations is not guaranteed by a large initial fraction of them.
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- S. G. Babajanyan
- Science, Mathematics and Technology ClusterSingapore University of Technology and Design8 Somapah Road S487372Singapore
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- Science, Mathematics and Technology ClusterSingapore University of Technology and Design8 Somapah Road S487372Singapore
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- Science, Mathematics and Technology ClusterSingapore University of Technology and Design8 Somapah Road S487372Singapore
- SUTD‐Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Design CentreS487372Singapore
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Jia D, Wang X, Song Z, Romić I, Li X, Jusup M, Wang Z. Evolutionary dynamics drives role specialization in a community of players. J R Soc Interface 2020; 17:20200174. [PMID: 32693747 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The progression of game theory from classical to evolutionary and spatial games provided a powerful means to study cooperation, and enabled a better understanding of general cooperation-promoting mechanisms. However, current standard models assume that at any given point players must choose either cooperation or defection, meaning that regardless of the spatial structure in which they exist, they cannot differentiate between their neighbours and adjust their behaviour accordingly. This is at odds with interactions among organisms in nature who are well capable of behaving differently towards different members of their communities. We account for this natural fact by introducing a new type of player-dubbed link players-who can adjust their behaviour to each individual neighbour. This is in contrast to more common node players whose behaviour affects all neighbours in the same way. We proceed to study cooperation in pure and mixed populations, showing that cooperation peaks at moderately low densities of link players. In such conditions, players naturally specialize in different roles. Node players tend to be either cooperators or defectors, while link players form social insulation between cooperative and defecting clusters by acting both as cooperators and defectors. Such fairly complex processes emerging from a simple model reflect some of the complexities observed in experimental studies on social behaviour in microbes and pave a way for the development of richer game models.
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- Danyang Jia
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Statistics and Mathematics College, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, People's Republic of China.,Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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- Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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Msimbira LA, Smith DL. The Roles of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes in Enhancing Plant Tolerance to Acidity and Alkalinity Stresses. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Podobnik B, Korošak D, Skelin Klemen M, Stožer A, Dolenšek J, Slak Rupnik M, Ivanov PC, Holme P, Jusup M. β Cells Operate Collectively to Help Maintain Glucose Homeostasis. Biophys J 2020; 118:2588-2595. [PMID: 32353256 PMCID: PMC7231924 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Residing in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, β cells contribute to glucose homeostasis by managing the body's insulin supply. Although it has been acknowledged that healthy β cells engage in heavy cell-to-cell communication to perform their homeostatic function, the exact role and effects of such communication remain partly understood. We offer a novel, to our knowledge, perspective on the subject in the form of 1) a dynamical network model that faithfully mimics fast calcium oscillations in response to above-threshold glucose stimulation and 2) empirical data analysis that reveals a qualitative shift in the cross-correlation structure of measured signals below and above the threshold glucose concentration. Combined together, these results point to a glucose-induced transition in β-cell activity thanks to increasing coordination through gap-junctional signaling and paracrine interactions. Our data and the model further suggest how the conservation of entire cell-cell conductance, observed in coupled but not uncoupled β cells, emerges as a collective phenomenon. An overall implication is that improving the ability to monitor β-cell signaling should offer means to better understand the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus.
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- Boris Podobnik
- Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia; Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia; Luxembourg School of Business, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto, Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
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- Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School and Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusets; Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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Human group coordination in a sensorimotor task with neuron-like decision-making. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8226. [PMID: 32427875 PMCID: PMC7237467 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64091-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The formation of cooperative groups of agents with limited information-processing capabilities to solve complex problems together is a fundamental building principle that cuts through multiple scales in biology from groups of cells to groups of humans. Here, we study an experimental paradigm where a group of humans is joined together to solve a common sensorimotor task that cannot be achieved by a single agent but relies on the cooperation of the group. In particular, each human acts as a neuron-like binary decision-maker that determines in each moment of time whether to be active or not. Inspired by the population vector method for movement decoding, each neuron-like decision-maker is assigned a preferred movement direction that the decision-maker is ignorant about. From the population vector reflecting the group activity, the movement of a cursor is determined, and the task for the group is to steer the cursor into a predefined target. As the preferred movement directions are unknown and players are not allowed to communicate, the group has to learn a control strategy on the fly from the shared visual feedback. Performance is analyzed by learning speed and accuracy, action synchronization, and group coherence. We study four different computational models of the observed behavior, including a perceptron model, a reinforcement learning model, a Bayesian inference model and a Thompson sampling model that efficiently approximates Bayes optimal behavior. The Bayes and especially the Thompson model excel in predicting the human group behavior compared to the other models, suggesting that internal models are crucial for adaptive coordination. We discuss benefits and limitations of our paradigm regarding a better understanding of distributed information processing.
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Heterogeneous nitrogen fixation rates confer energetic advantage and expanded ecological niche of unicellular diazotroph populations. Commun Biol 2020; 3:172. [PMID: 32286494 PMCID: PMC7156374 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0894-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Nitrogen fixing plankton provide nitrogen to fuel marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles but the factors that constrain their growth and habitat remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the importance of metabolic specialization in unicellular diazotroph populations, using laboratory experiments and model simulations. In clonal cultures of Crocosphaera watsonii and Cyanothece sp. spiked with 15N2, cellular 15N enrichment developed a bimodal distribution within colonies, indicating that N2 fixation was confined to a subpopulation. In a model of population metabolism, heterogeneous nitrogen (N2) fixation rates substantially reduce the respiration rate required to protect nitrogenase from O2. The energy savings from metabolic specialization is highest at slow growth rates, allowing populations to survive in deeper waters where light is low but nutrients are high. Our results suggest that heterogeneous N2 fixation in colonies of unicellular diazotrophs confers an energetic advantage that expands the ecological niche and may have facilitated the evolution of multicellular diazotrophs. Takako Masuda et al. show that individual cells in clonal populations of Crocosphaera watsonii and Cyanothece sp exhibit varied nitrogen fixation rates. This heterogeneity within the population decreases the energetic cost of respiration and expands the viable habitats for these unicellular diazotrophs.
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Guo H, Song Z, Geček S, Li X, Jusup M, Perc M, Moreno Y, Boccaletti S, Wang Z. A novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas. J R Soc Interface 2020; 17:20190789. [PMID: 32126192 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cooperation is the backbone of modern human societies, making it a priority to understand how successful cooperation-sustaining mechanisms operate. Cyclic dominance, a non-transitive set-up comprising at least three strategies wherein the first strategy overrules the second, which overrules the third, which, in turn, overrules the first strategy, is known to maintain biodiversity, drive competition between bacterial strains, and preserve cooperation in social dilemmas. Here, we present a novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas by adding to the traditional mix of cooperators, defectors and loners, a fourth player type, risk-averse hedgers, who enact tit-for-tat upon paying a hedging cost to avoid being exploited. When this cost is sufficiently small, cooperators, defectors and hedgers enter a loop of cyclic dominance that preserves cooperation even under the most adverse conditions. By contrast, when the hedging cost is large, hedgers disappear, consequently reverting to the traditional interplay of cooperators, defectors, and loners. In the interim region of hedging costs, complex evolutionary dynamics ensues, prompting transitions between states with two, three or four competing strategies. Our results thus reveal that voluntary participation is but one pathway to sustained cooperation via cyclic dominance.
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- Hao Guo
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruđer Bošković Institute, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.,Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, Vienna 1080, Austria.,Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.,ISI Foundation, Turin 10126, Italy
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- Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,CNR-Institute of Complex Systems, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research University, Moscow Region 141701, Russia
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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Galera-Laporta L, Garcia-Ojalvo J. Antithetic population response to antibiotics in a polybacterial community. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaaz5108. [PMID: 32181369 PMCID: PMC7060062 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Much is known about the effects of antibiotics on isolated bacterial species, but their influence on polybacterial communities is less understood. Here, we study the joint response of a mixed community of nonresistant Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli bacteria to moderate concentrations of the β-lactam antibiotic ampicillin. We show that when the two organisms coexist, their population response to the antibiotic is opposite to that in isolation: Whereas in monoculture B. subtilis is tolerant and E. coli is sensitive to ampicillin, in coculture it is E. coli who can proliferate in the presence of the antibiotic, while B. subtilis cannot. This antithetic behavior is predicted by a mathematical model constrained only by the responses of the two species in isolation. Our results thus show that the collective response of mixed bacterial ecosystems to antibiotics can run counter to what single-species potency studies tell us about their efficacy.
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Liu F, Mao J, Kong W, Hua Q, Feng Y, Bashir R, Lu T. Interaction variability shapes succession of synthetic microbial ecosystems. Nat Commun 2020; 11:309. [PMID: 31949154 PMCID: PMC6965111 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13986-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cellular interactions are a major driver for the assembly and functioning of microbial communities. Their strengths are shown to be highly variable in nature; however, it is unclear how such variations regulate community behaviors. Here we construct synthetic Lactococcus lactis consortia and mathematical models to elucidate the role of interaction variability in ecosystem succession and to further determine if casting variability into modeling empowers bottom-up predictions. For a consortium of bacteriocin-mediated cooperation and competition, we find increasing the variations of cooperation, from either altered labor partition or random sampling, drives the community into distinct structures. When the cooperation and competition are additionally modulated by pH, ecosystem succession becomes jointly controlled by the variations of both interactions and yields more diversified dynamics. Mathematical models incorporating variability successfully capture all of these experimental observations. Our study demonstrates interaction variability as a key regulator of community dynamics, providing insights into bottom-up predictions of microbial ecosystems. Cellular interactions are a major driver of microbial communities and shown highly variable in strength. Here the authors construct synthetic consortia and mathematical models to elucidate the role of interaction variability in driving ecosystem succession.
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- Feng Liu
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,School of Bioengineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Department of Physics, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.,School of Bioengineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. .,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. .,Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. .,Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. .,National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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Innan H, Veitia R, Govindaraju DR. Genetic and epigenetic Muller's ratchet as a mechanism of frailty and morbidity during aging: a demographic genetic model. Hum Genet 2019; 139:409-420. [PMID: 31713020 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-02067-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mutation accumulation has been proposed as a cause of senescence. During this process, age-related genetic and epigenetic mutations steadily accumulate. Cascading deleterious effects of mutations might initiate a steady "accumulation of deficits" in cells, despite the existence of repair mechanisms, leading to cellular senescence and functional decline of tissues and organs, which ultimately manifest as frailty and disease. Here, we investigate several of these aspects in differentiating cell populations through modeling and simulation using the Moran birth-death (demographic) process, under several scenarios of mutation accumulation. Deleterious mutations seem to rapidly accumulate particularly early in the course of life, during which the rate of cell division is high, thereby exerting a greater effect on subsequent cellular senescence. Our results are compatible with the principle of the Muller's ratchet taking place in asexually reproducing organisms. The ratchet speed in a given tissue depends on the size of the cell population, mutation rate and the impact of such mutations on cell phenotypes. It varies substantially among cells in different tissues and organs due to heterogeneity in relation to cell and organ-specific demographic features. Ratchet accelerates particularly after middle age, resulting in a synergistic fitness decay at the level of cell populations. We extend Fisher's average excess concept and rank order scale to interpret differential phenotypic effects of the increase of the mutation load among cell populations within a given tissue. We postulate that classical evolutionary genetic models can explain, at least in part, the origins of frailty, subclinical conditions, morbidity and the health consequences of senescence.
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- Hideki Innan
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan.
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- Institute Jacques Monod, Paris, France.,Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. .,The Institute of Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10460, USA.
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Cremer J, Melbinger A, Wienand K, Henriquez T, Jung H, Frey E. Cooperation in Microbial Populations: Theory and Experimental Model Systems. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:4599-4644. [PMID: 31634468 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world, mediated by the exchange of extracellular products called public goods. We focus on model species for which the production of a public good and the related growth disadvantage for the producing cells are well described. To unveil the biological and ecological factors promoting the emergence and stability of cooperative traits we take an interdisciplinary perspective and review insights gained from both mathematical models and well-controlled experimental model systems. Ecologically, we include crucial aspects of the microbial life cycle into our analysis and particularly consider population structures where ensembles of local communities (subpopulations) continuously emerge, grow, and disappear again. Biologically, we explicitly consider the synthesis and regulation of public good production. The discussion of the theoretical approaches includes general evolutionary concepts, population dynamics, and evolutionary game theory. As a specific but generic biological example, we consider populations of Pseudomonas putida and its regulation and use of pyoverdines, iron scavenging molecules, as public goods. The review closes with an overview on cooperation in spatially extended systems and also provides a critical assessment of the insights gained from the experimental and theoretical studies discussed. Current challenges and important new research opportunities are discussed, including the biochemical regulation of public goods, more realistic ecological scenarios resembling native environments, cell-to-cell signaling, and multispecies communities.
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- J Cremer
- Department of Molecular Immunology and Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Microbiology, Department of Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4, Martinsried, Germany
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- Microbiology, Department of Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshaderner Strasse 2-4, Martinsried, Germany.
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany.
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Li Y, Sun LL, Sun YY, Cha QQ, Li CY, Zhao DL, Song XY, Wang M, McMinn A, Chen XL, Zhang YZ, Qin QL. Extracellular Enzyme Activity and Its Implications for Organic Matter Cycling in Northern Chinese Marginal Seas. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2137. [PMID: 31608022 PMCID: PMC6755343 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Extracellular enzymes, initiating the degradation of organic macromolecules, are important functional components of marine ecosystems. Measuring in situ seawater extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) can provide fundamental information for understanding the biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in the ocean. Here we investigate the patterns of EEA and the major factors affecting the seawater EEA of Chinese marginal seas. The geographic distribution of EEA along a latitudinal transect was examined and found to be associated with dissolved organic carbon. Compared with offshore waters, inshore waters had higher enzyme activity. All the tested substrates were hydrolyzed at different rates and phosphatase, β-glucosidase and protease contributed greatly to summed hydrolysis rates. For any particular enzyme activity, the contribution of dissolved to total EEA was strongly heterogenous between stations. Comparisons of hydrolysis rates of the polymers and their corresponding oligomers suggest that molecule size does not necessarily limit the turnover of marine organic matter. In addition, several typical enzyme-producing clades, such as Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Chloroflexi, Roseobacter, Alteromonas, and Pseudoalteromonas, were detected in the in situ environments. These enzyme-producing clades may be responsible for the production of different enzymes. Overall, each enzyme was found to flexibly respond to environmental conditions and were linked to microbial community composition. It is likely that this activity will profoundly affect organic matter cycling in the Chinese marginal seas.
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- Yi Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.,College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.,Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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Weiss BL, Maltz MA, Vigneron A, Wu Y, Walter KS, O’Neill MB, Wang J, Aksoy S. Colonization of the tsetse fly midgut with commensal Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae inhibits trypanosome infection establishment. PLoS Pathog 2019; 15:e1007470. [PMID: 30817773 PMCID: PMC6394900 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [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: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) vector pathogenic trypanosomes (Trypanosoma spp.) in sub-Saharan Africa. These parasites cause human and animal African trypanosomiases, which are debilitating diseases that inflict an enormous socio-economic burden on inhabitants of endemic regions. Current disease control strategies rely primarily on treating infected animals and reducing tsetse population densities. However, relevant programs are costly, labor intensive and difficult to sustain. As such, novel strategies aimed at reducing tsetse vector competence require development. Herein we investigated whether Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae (Kco_Z), which confers Anopheles gambiae with resistance to Plasmodium, is able to colonize tsetse and induce a trypanosome refractory phenotype in the fly. Kco_Z established stable infections in tsetse’s gut and exhibited no adverse effect on the fly’s survival. Flies with established Kco_Z infections in their gut were significantly more refractory to infection with two distinct trypanosome species (T. congolense, 6% infection; T. brucei, 32% infection) than were age-matched flies that did not house the exogenous bacterium (T. congolense, 36% infected; T. brucei, 70% infected). Additionally, 52% of Kco_Z colonized tsetse survived infection with entomopathogenic Serratia marcescens, compared with only 9% of their wild-type counterparts. These parasite and pathogen refractory phenotypes result from the fact that Kco_Z acidifies tsetse’s midgut environment, which inhibits trypanosome and Serratia growth and thus infection establishment. Finally, we determined that Kco_Z infection does not impact the fecundity of male or female tsetse, nor the ability of male flies to compete with their wild-type counterparts for mates. We propose that Kco_Z could be used as one component of an integrated strategy aimed at reducing the ability of tsetse to transmit pathogenic trypanosomes. Tsetse flies transmit pathogenic African trypanosomes, which are the causative agents of socio-economically devastating human and animal African trypanosomiases. These diseases are currently controlled in large part by reducing the population size of tsetse vectors through the use of insecticides, traps and sterile insect technique. However, logistic and monetary hurdles often preclude the prolonged application of procedures necessary to maintain these control programs. Thus, novel strategies, including those aimed at sustainably reducing the ability of tsetse to transmit trypanosomes, are presently under development. Herein we stably colonize tsetse flies with a bacterium (Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae, Kco_Z) that acidifies their midgut, thus rendering the environment inhospitable to infection with two distinct, epidemiologically important trypanosome strains as well as an entomopathogenic bacteria. In addition to inducing a trypanosome refractory phenotype, colonization of tsetse with Kco_Z exerts only a modest fitness cost on the fly. Taken together, these findings suggest that Kco_Z could be applied to enhance the effectiveness of currently employed tsetse control programs.
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- Brian L. Weiss
- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- * E-mail: (BLW); (SA)
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- Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- * E-mail: (BLW); (SA)
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Olejarz J, Kaveh K, Veller C, Nowak MA. Selection for synchronized cell division in simple multicellular organisms. J Theor Biol 2018; 457:170-179. [PMID: 30172691 PMCID: PMC6169303 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The evolution of multicellularity was a major transition in the history of life on earth. Conditions under which multicellularity is favored have been studied theoretically and experimentally. But since the construction of a multicellular organism requires multiple rounds of cell division, a natural question is whether these cell divisions should be synchronous or not. We study a population model in which there compete simple multicellular organisms that grow by either synchronous or asynchronous cell divisions. We demonstrate that natural selection can act differently on synchronous and asynchronous cell division, and we offer intuition for why these phenotypes are generally not neutral variants of each other.
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- Jason Olejarz
- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Ratzke C, Denk J, Gore J. Ecological suicide in microbes. Nat Ecol Evol 2018; 2:867-872. [PMID: 29662223 PMCID: PMC5911225 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0535-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 03/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The growth and survival of organisms often depend on interactions between them. In many cases, these interactions are positive and caused by a cooperative modification of the environment. Examples are the cooperative breakdown of complex nutrients in microbes or the construction of elaborate architectures in social insects, where the individual profits from the collective actions of her peers. However, organisms can similarly display negative interactions by changing the environment in ways that are detrimental for them, for example by resource depletion or the production of toxic byproducts. Here we find an extreme type of negative interactions, in which Paenibacillus sp. bacteria modify the environmental pH to such a degree that it leads to a rapid extinction of the whole population, a phenomenon we call ecological suicide. Modification of the pH is more pronounced at higher population densities, and thus ecological suicide is more likely with increasing bacterial density. Correspondingly, promoting bacterial growth can drive populations extinct whereas inhibiting bacterial growth by the addition of harmful substances – like antibiotics – can rescue them. Moreover, ecological suicide can cause oscillatory dynamics, even in single-species populations. We find ecological suicide in a wide variety of microbes, suggesting that it could play a significant role in microbial ecology and evolution.
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- Christoph Ratzke
- Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Quintero-Galvis JF, Paleo-López R, Solano-Iguaran JJ, Poupin MJ, Ledger T, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Antoł A, Travisano M, Nespolo RF. Exploring the evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under bacteria environment: An experimental phylogenetics approach. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:4619-4630. [PMID: 29760902 PMCID: PMC5938455 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Revised: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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There have been over 25 independent unicellular to multicellular evolutionary transitions, which have been transformational in the complexity of life. All of these transitions likely occurred in communities numerically dominated by unicellular organisms, mostly bacteria. Hence, it is reasonable to expect that bacteria were involved in generating the ecological conditions that promoted the stability and proliferation of the first multicellular forms as protective units. In this study, we addressed this problem by analyzing the occurrence of multicellularity in an experimental phylogeny of yeasts (Sacharomyces cerevisiae) a model organism that is unicellular but can generate multicellular clusters under some conditions. We exposed a single ancestral population to periodic divergences, coevolving with a cocktail of environmental bacteria that were inoculated to the environment of the ancestor, and compared to a control (no bacteria). We quantified culturable microorganisms to the level of genera, finding up to 20 taxa (all bacteria) that competed with the yeasts during diversification. After 600 generations of coevolution, the yeasts produced two types of multicellular clusters: clonal and aggregative. Whereas clonal clusters were present in both treatments, aggregative clusters were only present under the bacteria treatment and showed significant phylogenetic signal. However, clonal clusters showed different properties if bacteria were present as follows: They were more abundant and significantly smaller than in the control. These results indicate that bacteria are important modulators of the occurrence of multicellularity, providing support to the idea that they generated the ecological conditions-promoting multicellularity.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES-UC) Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile.,Laboratorio de Bioingeniería Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Santiago Chile
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- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES-UC) Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile.,Laboratorio de Bioingeniería Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Santiago Chile
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- The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China.,CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Hobart TAS Australia
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile.,Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES-UC) Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile.,Millennium Institute for Integrative Systems and Synthetic Biology (MIISSB) Santiago Chile
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Bauer M, Frey E. Multiple scales in metapopulations of public goods producers. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:042307. [PMID: 29758643 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.042307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Multiple scales in metapopulations can give rise to paradoxical behavior: in a conceptual model for a public goods game, the species associated with a fitness cost due to the public good production can be stabilized in the well-mixed limit due to the mere existence of these scales. The scales in this model involve a length scale corresponding to separate patches, coupled by mobility, and separate time scales for reproduction and interaction with a local environment. Contrary to the well-mixed high mobility limit, we find that for low mobilities, the interaction rate progressively stabilizes this species due to stochastic effects, and that the formation of spatial patterns is not crucial for this stabilization.
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- Marianne Bauer
- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Theresienstr. 37, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Theresienstr. 37, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Microbes usually exist in communities consisting of myriad different but interacting species. These interactions are typically mediated through environmental modifications; microbes change the environment by taking up resources and excreting metabolites, which affects the growth of both themselves and also other microbes. We show here that the way microbes modify their environment and react to it sets the interactions within single-species populations and also between different species. A very common environmental modification is a change of the environmental pH. We find experimentally that these pH changes create feedback loops that can determine the fate of bacterial populations; they can either facilitate or inhibit growth, and in extreme cases will cause extinction of the bacterial population. Understanding how single species change the pH and react to these changes allowed us to estimate their pairwise interaction outcomes. Those interactions lead to a set of generic interaction motifs—bistability, successive growth, extended suicide, and stabilization—that may be independent of which environmental parameter is modified and thus may reoccur in different microbial systems. Microbes typically live alongside many other species in complex communities. These microbial communities are very important for us because they also live in and on our bodies and can determine our health and well-being. The composition and function of these communities, such as who is part of such a community and who is excluded, are decided by the interactions between the microbes. These microbial interactions can be driven by many different factors such as resource competition or toxin production. Although these factors are all different, the interactions are typically mediated through the environment; the microbes modify the environment, and they and other microbes have to live in this new environment. We show here that by understanding how microbes change and react to the environment, it is possible to understand and even predict their interactions. We believe that this way of thinking about microbial interactions will lead to a better understanding of more complex communities that are so important for our well-being.
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- Christoph Ratzke
- Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CR); (JG)
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- Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CR); (JG)
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Xu S, Van Dyken JD. Microbial expansion-collision dynamics promote cooperation and coexistence on surfaces. Evolution 2017; 72:153-169. [PMID: 29134631 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Microbes colonizing a surface often experience colony growth dynamics characterized by an initial phase of spatial clonal expansion followed by collision between neighboring colonies to form potentially genetically heterogeneous boundaries. For species with life cycles consisting of repeated surface colonization and dispersal, these spatially explicit "expansion-collision dynamics" generate periodic transitions between two distinct selective regimes, "expansion competition" and "boundary competition," each one favoring a different growth strategy. We hypothesized that this dynamic could promote stable coexistence of expansion- and boundary-competition specialists by generating time-varying, negative frequency-dependent selection that insulates both types from extinction. We tested this experimentally in budding yeast by competing an exoenzyme secreting "cooperator" strain (expansion-competition specialists) against nonsecreting "defectors" (boundary-competition specialists). As predicted, we observed cooperator-defector coexistence or cooperator dominance with expansion-collision dynamics, but only defector dominance otherwise. Also as predicted, the steady-state frequency of cooperators was determined by colonization density (the average initial cell-cell distance) and cost of cooperation. Lattice-based spatial simulations give good qualitative agreement with experiments, supporting our hypothesis that expansion-collision dynamics with costly public goods production is sufficient to generate stable cooperator-defector coexistence. This mechanism may be important for maintaining public-goods cooperation and conflict in microbial pioneer species living on surfaces.
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- Shuang Xu
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33143
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33143.,Institute of Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33143
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Amor DR, Montañez R, Duran-Nebreda S, Solé R. Spatial dynamics of synthetic microbial mutualists and their parasites. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005689. [PMID: 28827802 PMCID: PMC5584972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A major force contributing to the emergence of novelty in nature is the presence of cooperative interactions, where two or more components of a system act in synergy, sometimes leading to higher-order, emergent phenomena. Within molecular evolution, the so called hypercycle defines the simplest model of an autocatalytic cycle, providing major theoretical insights on the evolution of cooperation in the early biosphere. These closed cooperative loops have also inspired our understanding of how catalytic loops appear in ecological systems. In both cases, hypercycle and ecological cooperative loops, the role played by space seems to be crucial for their stability and resilience against parasites. However, it is difficult to test these ideas in natural ecosystems, where time and spatial scales introduce considerable limitations. Here, we use engineered bacteria as a model system to a variety of environmental scenarios identifying trends that transcend the specific model system, such an enhanced genetic diversity in environments requiring mutualistic interactions. Interestingly, we show that improved environments can slow down mutualistic range expansions as a result of genetic drift effects preceding local resource depletion. Moreover, we show that a parasitic strain is excluded from the population during range expansions (which acknowledges a classical prediction). Nevertheless, environmental deterioration can reshape population interactions, this same strain becoming part of a three-species mutualistic web in scenarios in which the two-strain mutualism becomes non functional. The evolutionary and ecological implications for the design of synthetic ecosystems are outlined.
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- Daniel R. Amor
- Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (ISCIII), Málaga, Spain
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- ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
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Purswani J, Romero-Zaliz RC, Martín-Platero AM, Guisado IM, González-López J, Pozo C. BSocial: Deciphering Social Behaviors within Mixed Microbial Populations. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:919. [PMID: 28596759 PMCID: PMC5442188 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Ecosystem functionality depends on interactions among populations, of the same or different taxa, and these are not just the sum of pairwise interactions. Thus, know-how of the social interactions occurring in mixed-populations are of high interest, however they are commonly unknown due to the limitations posed in tagging each population. The limitations include costs/time in tediously fluorescent tagging, and the number of different fluorescent tags. Tag-free strategies exist, such as high-throughput sequencing, but ultimately both strategies require the use of expensive machinery. Our work appoints social behaviors on individual strains in mixed-populations, offering a web-tool (BSocialhttp://m4m.ugr.es/BSocial.html) for analyzing the community framework. Our quick and cheap approach includes the periodic monitoring of optical density (OD) from a full combinatorial testing of individual strains, where number of generations and growth rate are determined. The BSocial analyses then enable us to determine how the addition/absence of a particular species affects the net productivity of a microbial community and use this to select productive combinations, i.e., designate their social effect on a general community. Positive, neutral, or negative assignations are applied to describe the social behavior within the community by comparing fitness effects of the community against the individual strain. The usefulness of this tool for selection of optimal inoculum in biofilm-based methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) bioremediation was demonstrated. The studied model uses seven bacterial strains with diverse MTBE degradation/growth capacities. Full combinatorial testing of seven individual strains (triplicate tests of 127 combinations) were implemented, along with MTBE degradation as the desired function. Sole observation of highest species fitness did not render the best functional outcome, and only when strains with positive and neutral social assignations were mixed (Rhodococcus ruber EE6, Agrobacterium sp. MS2 and Paenibacillus etheri SH7), was this obtained. Furthermore, the use of positive and neutral strains in all its combinations had a significant higher degradation mean (x1.75) than exclusive negative strain combinations. Thus, social microbial processes benefit bioremediation more than negative social microbial combinations. The BSocial webtool is a great contributor to the study of social interactions in bioremediation processes, and may be used in other natural or synthetic habitat studies.
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- Jessica Purswani
- Environmental Microbiology Group, Institute of Water Research, University of GranadaGranada, Spain.,Department of Microbiology, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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- M4Mlab, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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- Environmental Microbiology Group, Institute of Water Research, University of GranadaGranada, Spain.,Department of Microbiology, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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- Environmental Microbiology Group, Institute of Water Research, University of GranadaGranada, Spain.,Department of Microbiology, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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- Environmental Microbiology Group, Institute of Water Research, University of GranadaGranada, Spain.,Department of Microbiology, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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López-García P, Eme L, Moreira D. Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution. J Theor Biol 2017; 434:20-33. [PMID: 28254477 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Revised: 02/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Fifty years ago, Lynn Margulis, inspiring in early twentieth-century ideas that put forward a symbiotic origin for some eukaryotic organelles, proposed a unified theory for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on symbiosis as evolutionary mechanism. Margulis was profoundly aware of the importance of symbiosis in the natural microbial world and anticipated the evolutionary significance that integrated cooperative interactions might have as mechanism to increase cellular complexity. Today, we have started fully appreciating the vast extent of microbial diversity and the importance of syntrophic metabolic cooperation in natural ecosystems, especially in sediments and microbial mats. Also, not only the symbiogenetic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts has been clearly demonstrated, but improvement in phylogenomic methods combined with recent discoveries of archaeal lineages more closely related to eukaryotes further support the symbiogenetic origin of the eukaryotic cell. Margulis left us in legacy the idea of 'eukaryogenesis by symbiogenesis'. Although this has been largely verified, when, where, and specifically how eukaryotic cells evolved are yet unclear. Here, we shortly review current knowledge about symbiotic interactions in the microbial world and their evolutionary impact, the status of eukaryogenetic models and the current challenges and perspectives ahead to reconstruct the evolutionary path to eukaryotes.
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- Purificación López-García
- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, 91400 Orsay, France.
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- Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada NS B3H 4R2
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, 91400 Orsay, France
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McNally L, Bernardy E, Thomas J, Kalziqi A, Pentz J, Brown SP, Hammer BK, Yunker PJ, Ratcliff WC. Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14371. [PMID: 28165005 PMCID: PMC5303878 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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By nature of their small size, dense growth and frequent need for extracellular metabolism, microbes face persistent public goods dilemmas. Genetic assortment is the only general solution stabilizing cooperation, but all known mechanisms structuring microbial populations depend on the availability of free space, an often unrealistic constraint. Here we describe a class of self-organization that operates within densely packed bacterial populations. Through mathematical modelling and experiments with Vibrio cholerae, we show how killing adjacent competitors via the Type VI secretion system (T6SS) precipitates phase separation via the 'Model A' universality class of order-disorder transition mediated by killing. We mathematically demonstrate that T6SS-mediated killing should favour the evolution of public goods cooperation, and empirically support this prediction using a phylogenetic comparative analysis. This work illustrates the twin role played by the T6SS, dealing death to local competitors while simultaneously creating conditions potentially favouring the evolution of cooperation with kin.
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- Luke McNally
- Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Friedman J, Gore J. Ecological systems biology: The dynamics of interacting populations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coisb.2016.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Antibiotic stress selects against cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:546-551. [PMID: 28049833 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612522114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cheats are a pervasive threat to public goods production in natural and human communities, as they benefit from the commons without contributing to it. Although ecological antagonisms such as predation, parasitism, competition, and abiotic environmental stress play key roles in shaping population biology, it is unknown how such stresses generally affect the ability of cheats to undermine cooperation. We used theory and experiments to address this question in the pathogenic bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Although public goods producers were selected against in all populations, our competition experiments showed that antibiotics significantly increased the advantage of nonproducers. Moreover, the dominance of nonproducers in mixed cultures was associated with higher resistance to antibiotics than in either monoculture. Mathematical modeling indicates that accentuated costs to producer phenotypes underlie the observed patterns. Mathematical analysis further shows how these patterns should generalize to other taxa with public goods behaviors. Our findings suggest that explaining the maintenance of cooperative public goods behaviors in certain natural systems will be more challenging than previously thought. Our results also have specific implications for the control of pathogenic bacteria using antibiotics and for understanding natural bacterial ecosystems, where subinhibitory concentrations of antimicrobials frequently occur.
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Li YH, Huang X, Tian XL. Recent advances in dental biofilm: impacts of microbial interactions
on the biofilm ecology and pathogenesis. AIMS BIOENGINEERING 2017. [DOI: 10.3934/bioeng.2017.3.335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Aydogmus O, Zhou W, Kang Y. On the preservation of cooperation in two-strategy games with nonlocal interactions. Math Biosci 2016; 285:25-42. [PMID: 27986509 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2016.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/10/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Nonlocal interactions such as spatial interaction are ubiquitous in nature and may alter the equilibrium in evolutionary dynamics. Models including nonlocal spatial interactions can provide a further understanding on the preservation and emergence of cooperation in evolutionary dynamics. In this paper, we consider a variety of two-strategy evolutionary spatial games with nonlocal interactions based on an integro-differential replicator equation. By defining the invasion speed and minimal traveling wave speed for the derived model, we study the effects of the payoffs, the selection pressure and the spatial parameter on the preservation of cooperation. One of our most interesting findings is that, for the Prisoners Dilemma games in which the defection is the only evolutionary stable strategy for unstructured populations, analyses on its asymptotic speed of propagation suggest that, in contrast with spatially homogeneous games, the cooperators can invade the habitat under proper conditions. Other two-strategy evolutionary spatial games are also explored. Both our theoretical and numerical studies show that the nonlocal spatial interaction favors diversity in strategies in a population and is able to preserve cooperation in a competing environment. A real data application in a virus mutation study echoes our theoretical observations. In addition, we compare the results of our model to the partial differential equation approach to demonstrate the importance of including non-local interaction component in evolutionary game models.
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- Ozgur Aydogmus
- Department of Economics, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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- Sciences and Mathematics Faculty, College of Letters and Sciences, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ 85212, USA.
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Solé R. Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2016; 371:20150438. [PMID: 27431516 PMCID: PMC4958932 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The evolution of life in our biosphere has been marked by several major innovations. Such major complexity shifts include the origin of cells, genetic codes or multicellularity to the emergence of non-genetic information, language or even consciousness. Understanding the nature and conditions for their rise and success is a major challenge for evolutionary biology. Along with data analysis, phylogenetic studies and dedicated experimental work, theoretical and computational studies are an essential part of this exploration. With the rise of synthetic biology, evolutionary robotics, artificial life and advanced simulations, novel perspectives to these problems have led to a rather interesting scenario, where not only the major transitions can be studied or even reproduced, but even new ones might be potentially identified. In both cases, transitions can be understood in terms of phase transitions, as defined in physics. Such mapping (if correct) would help in defining a general framework to establish a theory of major transitions, both natural and artificial. Here, we review some advances made at the crossroads between statistical physics, artificial life, synthetic biology and evolutionary robotics.This article is part of the themed issue 'The major synthetic evolutionary transitions'.
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- Ricard Solé
- ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Pg Maritim de la Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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Paz-Y-Miño-C G, Espinosa A. Kin Discrimination in Protists: From Many Cells to Single Cells and Backwards. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2016; 63:367-77. [PMID: 26873616 PMCID: PMC4856593 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2015] [Revised: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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During four decades (1960-1990s), the conceptualization and experimental design of studies in kin recognition relied on work with multicellular eukaryotes, particularly Unikonta (including invertebrates and vertebrates) and some Bikonta (including plants). This pioneering research had an animal behavior approach. During the 2000s, work on taxa-, clone- and kin-discrimination and recognition in protists produced genetic and molecular evidence that unicellular organisms (e.g. Saccharomyces, Dictyostelium, Polysphondylium, Tetrahymena, Entamoeba and Plasmodium) could distinguish between same (self or clone) and different (diverse clones), as well as among conspecifics of close or distant genetic relatedness. Here, we discuss some of the research on the genetics of kin discrimination/recognition and highlight the scientific progress made by switching emphasis from investigating multicellular to unicellular systems (and backwards). We document how studies with protists are helping us to understand the microscopic, cellular origins and evolution of the mechanisms of kin discrimination/recognition and their significance for the advent of multicellularity. We emphasize that because protists are among the most ancient organisms on Earth, belong to multiple taxonomic groups and occupy all environments, they can be central to reexamining traditional hypotheses in the field of kin recognition, reformulating concepts, and generating new knowledge.
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- Guillermo Paz-Y-Miño-C
- New England Center for the Public Understanding of Science, Roger Williams University, One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, 02809
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- New England Center for the Public Understanding of Science, Roger Williams University, One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, 02809
- Department of Biology, Roger Williams University, One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, 02809
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Even-Tov E, Omer Bendori S, Valastyan J, Ke X, Pollak S, Bareia T, Ben-Zion I, Bassler BL, Eldar A. Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing. PLoS Biol 2016; 14:e1002386. [PMID: 26927849 PMCID: PMC4771773 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperative behaviors. Quorum sensing relies on extracellular signal molecules and cognate receptor pairs. While a single quorum-sensing system is sufficient to probe cell density, bacteria frequently use multiple quorum-sensing systems to regulate the same cooperative behaviors. The potential benefits of these redundant network structures are not clear. Here, we combine modeling and experimental analyses of the Bacillus subtilis and Vibrio harveyi quorum-sensing networks to show that accumulation of multiple quorum-sensing systems may be driven by a facultative cheating mechanism. We demonstrate that a strain that has acquired an additional quorum-sensing system can exploit its ancestor that possesses one fewer system, but nonetheless, resume full cooperation with its kin when it is fixed in the population. We identify the molecular network design criteria required for this advantage. Our results suggest that increased complexity in bacterial social signaling circuits can evolve without providing an adaptive advantage in a clonal population. The accumulation of multiple, seemingly redundant, bacterial quorum-sensing systems is promoted by facultative cheating behavior; the strain with multiple systems cheats its single quorum-sensing system ancestor as a minority but returns to cooperation when in the majority. Quorum sensing is a mechanism through which bacteria communicate by producing, releasing, and detecting signal molecules encoding information about cell population density. Quorum sensing allows bacteria to synchronize their behaviors and act as collectives. Often, quorum sensing controls cooperative behaviors that benefit the entire community, such as the production and secretion of costly metabolites. Some bacteria release multiple signal molecules which, once detected, funnel information into the same cellular response. Thus, the benefit of using multiple rather than a single signal is mysterious since the signals seem redundant. Here, we combine modeling and experiments to show that the evolutionary accumulation of multiple quorum-sensing systems can be attributed to social exploitation and kin recognition. When in low abundance, a strain that has acquired an additional quorum-sensing system can avoid cooperating and can exploit its ancestor strain, which contains one less quorum-sensing system. The cheater containing the additional system returns to a cooperative behavior when it is abundant. We also identify the molecular mechanisms necessary for the acquisition of an additional signaling system. Our work demonstrates that increased complexity in bacterial social signaling circuits can evolve without providing an adaptive advantage in a clonal population.
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- Eran Even-Tov
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Garcia T, Doulcier G, De Monte S. The evolution of adhesiveness as a social adaptation. eLife 2015; 4:e08595. [PMID: 26613415 PMCID: PMC4775229 DOI: 10.7554/elife.08595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Cellular adhesion is a key ingredient to sustain collective functions of microbial aggregates. Here, we investigate the evolutionary origins of adhesion and the emergence of groups of genealogically unrelated cells with a game-theoretical model. The considered adhesiveness trait is costly, continuous and affects both group formation and group-derived benefits. The formalism of adaptive dynamics reveals two evolutionary stable strategies, at each extreme on the axis of adhesiveness. We show that cohesive groups can evolve by small mutational steps, provided the population is already endowed with a minimum adhesiveness level. Assortment between more adhesive types, and in particular differential propensities to leave a fraction of individuals ungrouped at the end of the aggregation process, can compensate for the cost of increased adhesiveness. We also discuss the change in the social nature of more adhesive mutations along evolutionary trajectories, and find that altruism arises before directly beneficial behavior, despite being the most challenging form of cooperation.
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- Thomas Garcia
- Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Goo E, An JH, Kang Y, Hwang I. Control of bacterial metabolism by quorum sensing. Trends Microbiol 2015; 23:567-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Revised: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A model of extracellular enzymes in free-living microbes: which strategy pays off? Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:7385-93. [PMID: 26253668 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02070-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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An initial modeling approach was applied to analyze how a single, nonmotile, free-living, heterotrophic bacterial cell may optimize the deployment of its extracellular enzymes. Free-living cells live in a dilute and complex substrate field, and to gain enough substrate, their extracellular enzymes must be utilized efficiently. The model revealed that surface-attached and free enzymes generate unique enzyme and substrate fields, and each deployment strategy has distinctive advantages. For a solitary cell, surface-attached enzymes are suggested to be the most cost-efficient strategy. This strategy entails potential substrates being reduced to very low concentrations. Free enzymes, on the other hand, generate a radically different substrate field, which suggests significant benefits for the strategy if free cells engage in social foraging or experience high substrate concentrations. Swimming has a slight positive effect for the attached-enzyme strategy, while the effect is negative for the free-enzyme strategy. The results of this study suggest that specific dissolved organic compounds in the ocean likely persist below a threshold concentration impervious to biological utilization. This could help explain the persistence and apparent refractory state of oceanic dissolved organic matter (DOM). Microbial extracellular enzyme strategies, therefore, have important implications for larger-scale processes, such as shaping the role of DOM in ocean carbon sequestration.
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Populations of isogenic embryonic stem cells or clonal bacteria often exhibit extensive phenotypic heterogeneity that arises from intrinsic stochastic dynamics of cells. The phenotypic state of a cell can be transmitted epigenetically in cell division, leading to correlations in the states of cells related by descent. The extent of these correlations is determined by the rates of transitions between the phenotypic states. Therefore, a snapshot of the phenotypes of a collection of cells with known genealogical structure contains information on phenotypic dynamics. Here, we use a model of phenotypic dynamics on a genealogical tree to define an inference method that allows extraction of an approximate probabilistic description of the dynamics from observed phenotype correlations as a function of the degree of kinship. The approach is tested and validated on the example of Pyoverdine dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonies. Interestingly, we find that correlations among pairs and triples of distant relatives have a simple but nontrivial structure indicating that observed phenotypic dynamics on the genealogical tree is approximately conformal--a symmetry characteristic of critical behavior in physical systems. The proposed inference method is sufficiently general to be applied in any system where lineage information is available.
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Ray S, Dasgupta AK. Probiotics as cheater cells: parameter space clustering for individualized prescription. J Theor Biol 2014; 361:165-74. [PMID: 25066785 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2014] [Revised: 07/15/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Clinicians often perform infection management administering probiotics along with antibiotics. Such probiotics added to an infecting population showing antibiotic resistance can be compared to a dynamical system composed of cheaters and workers. The presence of cheater strains is known to modulate the fitness of the infecting population. We propose a model where probiotics as cheater strain re-establishes the susceptibility of a resistant population towards an antibiotic. Control parameters must assume optimal values in order to attain minimum worker number within a finite time-scale feasible in a clinical set-up. The problem is made non-trivial by the complicated interplay between parameters. The model is an extension of a logistic framework, where a pay-off function has been included to account for the effect of instantaneous worker number on death rates of each species. The outcomes for a randomized set of parameter values and initial conditions are utilized in partitioning the set and desired clusters were identified. For a test case, one can take random combinations of controllable parameters and combine them with fixed parameters and find out the closeness of the points to the desired cluster centroids. This process leads to the identification of optimum antibiotic versus probiotic dosage range leading to elimination or limited existence of the genetically resistant population.
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- Sanhita Ray
- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Excellence in Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Excellence in Systems Biology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
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Dettmann A, Heilig Y, Valerius O, Ludwig S, Seiler S. Fungal communication requires the MAK-2 pathway elements STE-20 and RAS-2, the NRC-1 adapter STE-50 and the MAP kinase scaffold HAM-5. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004762. [PMID: 25411845 PMCID: PMC4239118 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Intercellular communication is critical for the survival of unicellular organisms as well as for the development and function of multicellular tissues. Cell-to-cell signaling is also required to develop the interconnected mycelial network characteristic of filamentous fungi and is a prerequisite for symbiotic and pathogenic host colonization achieved by molds. Somatic cell–cell communication and subsequent cell fusion is governed by the MAK-2 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade in the filamentous ascomycete model Neurospora crassa, yet the composition and mode of regulation of the MAK-2 pathway are currently unclear. In order to identify additional components involved in MAK-2 signaling we performed affinity purification experiments coupled to mass spectrometry with strains expressing functional GFP-fusion proteins of the MAPK cascade. This approach identified STE-50 as a regulatory subunit of the Ste11p homolog NRC-1 and HAM-5 as cell-communication-specific scaffold protein of the MAPK cascade. Moreover, we defined a network of proteins consisting of two Ste20-related kinases, the small GTPase RAS-2 and the adenylate cyclase capping protein CAP-1 that function upstream of the MAK-2 pathway and whose signals converge on the NRC-1/STE-50 MAP3K complex and the HAM-5 scaffold. Finally, our data suggest an involvement of the striatin interacting phosphatase and kinase (STRIPAK) complex, the casein kinase 2 heterodimer, the phospholipid flippase modulators YPK-1 and NRC-2 and motor protein-dependent vesicle trafficking in the regulation of MAK-2 pathway activity and function. Taken together, these data will have significant implications for our mechanistic understanding of MAPK signaling and for homotypic cell–cell communication in fungi and higher eukaryotes. Appropriate cellular responses to external stimuli depend on the highly orchestrated activity of interconnected signaling cascades. One crucial level of control arises from the formation of discrete complexes through scaffold proteins that bind multiple components of a given pathway. Central for our understanding of these signaling platforms is the archetypical MAP kinase scaffold Ste5p, a protein that is restricted to budding yeast and close relatives. We identified HAM-5, a protein highly conserved in filamentous ascomycete fungi, as cell–cell communication-specific scaffold protein of the Neurospora crassa MAK-2 cascade (homologous to the budding yeast pheromone pathway). We also describe a network of upstream acting proteins, consisting of two Ste20-related kinases, the small G-protein RAS-2 and the adenylate cyclase capping protein CAP-1, whose signals converge on HAM-5. Our work has implications for the mechanistic understanding of MAP kinase scaffold proteins and their function during intercellular communication in eukaryotic microbes as well as higher eukaryotes.
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- Anne Dettmann
- Institute for Biology II – Molecular Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biology II – Molecular Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Institute for Biology II – Molecular Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biology II – Molecular Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Enyeart PJ, Simpson ZB, Ellington AD. A microbial model of economic trading and comparative advantage. J Theor Biol 2014; 364:326-43. [PMID: 25265557 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2013] [Revised: 08/28/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The economic theory of comparative advantage postulates that beneficial trading relationships can be arrived at by two self-interested entities producing the same goods as long as they have opposing relative efficiencies in producing those goods. The theory predicts that upon entering trade, in order to maximize consumption both entities will specialize in producing the good they can produce at higher efficiency, that the weaker entity will specialize more completely than the stronger entity, and that both will be able to consume more goods as a result of trade than either would be able to alone. We extend this theory to the realm of unicellular organisms by developing mathematical models of genetic circuits that allow trading of a common good (specifically, signaling molecules) required for growth in bacteria in order to demonstrate comparative advantage interactions. In Conception 1, the experimenter controls production rates via exogenous inducers, allowing exploration of the parameter space of specialization. In Conception 2, the circuits self-regulate via feedback mechanisms. Our models indicate that these genetic circuits can demonstrate comparative advantage, and that cooperation in such a manner is particularly favored under stringent external conditions and when the cost of production is not overly high. Further work could involve implementing the models in living bacteria and searching for naturally occurring cooperative relationships between bacteria that conform to the principles of comparative advantage.
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- Peter J Enyeart
- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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