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Veličković M, Wu R, Gao Y, Thairu MW, Veličković D, Munoz N, Clendinen CS, Bilbao A, Chu RK, Lalli PM, Zemaitis K, Nicora CD, Kyle JE, Orton D, Williams S, Zhu Y, Zhao R, Monroe ME, Moore RJ, Webb-Robertson BJM, Bramer LM, Currie CR, Piehowski PD, Burnum-Johnson KE. Mapping microhabitats of lignocellulose decomposition by a microbial consortium. Nat Chem Biol 2024; 20:1033-1043. [PMID: 38302607 PMCID: PMC11288888 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01536-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
Abstract
The leaf-cutter ant fungal garden ecosystem is a naturally evolved model system for efficient plant biomass degradation. Degradation processes mediated by the symbiotic fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus are difficult to characterize due to dynamic metabolisms and spatial complexity of the system. Herein, we performed microscale imaging across 12-µm-thick adjacent sections of Atta cephalotes fungal gardens and applied a metabolome-informed proteome imaging approach to map lignin degradation. This approach combines two spatial multiomics mass spectrometry modalities that enabled us to visualize colocalized metabolites and proteins across and through the fungal garden. Spatially profiled metabolites revealed an accumulation of lignin-related products, outlining morphologically unique lignin microhabitats. Metaproteomic analyses of these microhabitats revealed carbohydrate-degrading enzymes, indicating a prominent fungal role in lignocellulose decomposition. Integration of metabolome-informed proteome imaging data provides a comprehensive view of underlying biological pathways to inform our understanding of metabolic fungal pathways in plant matter degradation within the micrometer-scale environment.
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- Marija Veličković
- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Department of Microchemistry, Proteomics, Lipidomics, and Next Generation Sequencing, Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
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McCaughey C, Trebino M, Yildiz FH, Sanchez LM. Utilizing imaging mass spectrometry to analyze microbial biofilm chemical responses to exogenous compounds. Methods Enzymol 2022; 665:281-304. [PMID: 35379438 PMCID: PMC9022628 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2021.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS) is an appealing label-free method for imaging biological samples which focuses on the spatial distribution of chemical signals. This approach has been used to study the chemical ecology of microbes and can be applied to study the chemical responses of microbes to treatment with exogenous compounds. Specific conjugated cholic acids such as taurocholic acid (TCA), have been shown to inhibit biofilm formation in the enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae and MALDI-IMS can be used to directly observe the chemical responses of V. cholerae biofilm colonies to treatment with TCA. A major challenge of MALDI-IMS is optimizing the sample preparation and drying for a particular growth condition and microbial strain. Here we demonstrate how V. cholerae is cultured and prepared for MALDI-IMS analysis and highlight critical steps to ensure proper sample adherence to a MALDI target plate and maintain spatial distributions when applying this technique to any microbial strain. We additionally show how to use both manual interrogation and statistical analyses of MALDI-IMS data to establish the adequacy of the sample preparation protocol. This protocol can serve as a guideline for the development of sample preparation techniques and the acquisition of high quality MALDI-IMS data.
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- Catherine McCaughey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064,Corresponding author, , phone: 831-459-4676
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Condren AR, Kahl LJ, Boelter G, Kritikos G, Banzhaf M, Dietrich LEP, Sanchez LM. Biofilm Inhibitor Taurolithocholic Acid Alters Colony Morphology, Specialized Metabolism, and Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. ACS Infect Dis 2020; 6:603-612. [PMID: 31851822 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Biofilm inhibition by exogenous molecules has been an attractive strategy for the development of novel therapeutics. We investigated the biofilm inhibitor taurolithocholic acid (TLCA) and its effects on the specialized metabolism, virulence, and biofilm formation of the clinically relevant bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14. Our study shows that TLCA alters the specialized metabolism, thereby affecting P. aeruginosa colony biofilm physiology. We observed an upregulation of metabolites correlated to virulence such as the siderophore pyochelin. A wax moth virulence assay confirmed that treatment with TLCA increases the virulence of P. aeruginosa. On the basis of our results, we believe that future endeavors to identify biofilm inhibitors must consider how a putative lead alters the specialized metabolism of a bacterial community to prevent pathogens from entering a highly virulent state.
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- Alanna R. Condren
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 617 Fairchild Center, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Institute of Microbiology & Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K
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- Institute of Microbiology & Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K
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- Institute of Microbiology & Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 617 Fairchild Center, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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Zink KE, Tarnowski DA, Mandel MJ, Sanchez LM. Optimization of a minimal sample preparation protocol for imaging mass spectrometry of unsectioned juvenile invertebrates. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2020; 55:e4458. [PMID: 31693273 PMCID: PMC7145758 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Tissue sections have long been the subject matter for the application of imaging mass spectrometry, but recently the technique has been adapted for many other purposes including bacterial colonies and 3D cell culture. Here, we present a simple preparation method for unsectioned invertebrate tissue without the need for fixing, embedding, or slicing. The protocol was used to successfully prepare a Hawaiian bobtail squid hatchling for analysis, and the resulting data detected ions that correspond to compounds present in the host only during its symbiotic colonization by Vibrio fischeri.
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- Katherine E Zink
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60612
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- Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1550 Linden Dr, Madison, WI 53706
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 320 E Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1550 Linden Dr, Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60612
- Corresponding author: Phone: 312-996-0842
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Coproporphyrin III Produced by the Bacterium Glutamicibacter arilaitensis Binds Zinc and Is Upregulated by Fungi in Cheese Rinds. mSystems 2018; 3:mSystems00036-18. [PMID: 30175236 PMCID: PMC6104308 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00036-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Bacterium-fungus interactions play key roles in the assembly of cheese rind microbial communities, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions are poorly characterized. Moreover, millions of people around the world enjoy eating cheeses and cheese rinds, but our understanding of the diversity of microbial metabolites ingested during cheese consumption is limited. The discovery of zinc coproporphyrin III as the cause of pink pigment production by Glutamicibacter arilaitensis suggests that secretion of this molecule is important for microbial acquisition of trace metals. Microbial communities of fermented food microbiomes typically exhibit predictable patterns of microbial succession. However, the biochemical mechanisms that control the diversity and dynamics of these communities are not well described. Interactions between bacteria and fungi may be one mechanism controlling the development of cheese rind microbiomes. This study characterizes a specific bacterium-fungus interaction previously discovered on cheese rinds between the bacterium Glutamicibacter arilaitensis (formerly Arthrobacter arilaitensis) and fungi of the genus Penicillium and identifies the specialized metabolites produced during cocultures. G. arilaitensis was previously shown to produce an unknown pink pigment in response to the presence of Penicillium. Using a combination of mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq), we determined that this pigment production is associated with production of coproporphyrin III. The discovery that coproporphyrin III preferentially bound zinc over other trace metals found in cheese curds highlights the value of using analytical chemistry to confirm identity of predicted chemical species. IMPORTANCE Bacterium-fungus interactions play key roles in the assembly of cheese rind microbial communities, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions are poorly characterized. Moreover, millions of people around the world enjoy eating cheeses and cheese rinds, but our understanding of the diversity of microbial metabolites ingested during cheese consumption is limited. The discovery of zinc coproporphyrin III as the cause of pink pigment production by Glutamicibacter arilaitensis suggests that secretion of this molecule is important for microbial acquisition of trace metals. Author Video: An author video summary of this article is available.
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