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Different outer membrane c-type cytochromes are involved in direct interspecies electron transfer to Geobacter or Methanosarcina species. 不同的外膜 c 型细胞色素参与了与 Geobacter 或 Methanosarcina 物种之间的直接种间电子传递。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-09-23 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12037
Dawn E Holmes, Jinjie Zhou, Jessica A Smith, Caiqin Wang, Xinying Liu, Derek R Lovley
{"title":"Different outer membrane <i>c</i>-type cytochromes are involved in direct interspecies electron transfer to <i>Geobacter</i> or <i>Methanosarcina</i> species.","authors":"Dawn E Holmes, Jinjie Zhou, Jessica A Smith, Caiqin Wang, Xinying Liu, Derek R Lovley","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12037","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) may be most important in methanogenic environments, but mechanistic studies of DIET to date have primarily focused on cocultures in which fumarate was the terminal electron acceptor. To better understand DIET with methanogens, the transcriptome of <i>Geobacter metallireducens</i> during DIET-based growth with <i>G. sulfurreducens</i> reducing fumarate was compared with <i>G. metallireducens</i> grown in coculture with diverse <i>Methanosarcina</i>. The transcriptome of <i>G. metallireducens</i> cocultured with <i>G. sulfurreducens</i> was significantly different from those with <i>Methanosarcina</i>. Furthermore, the transcriptome of <i>G. metallireducens</i> grown with <i>Methanosarcina barkeri</i>, which lacks outer-surface <i>c</i>-type cytochromes, differed from those of <i>G. metallireducens</i> cocultured with <i>M. acetivorans</i> or <i>M. subterranea</i>, which have an outer-surface <i>c</i>-type cytochrome that serves as an electrical connect for DIET. Differences in <i>G. metallireducens</i> expression patterns for genes involved in extracellular electron transfer were particularly notable. Cocultures with <i>c</i>-type cytochrome deletion mutant strains, ∆Gmet_0930, ∆Gmet_0557 and ∆Gmet_2896, never became established with <i>G. sulfurreducens</i> but adapted to grow with all three <i>Methanosarcina</i>. Two porin-cytochrome complexes, PccF and PccG, were important for DIET; however, PccG was more important for growth with <i>Methanosarcina</i>. Unlike cocultures with <i>G. sulfurreducens</i> and <i>M. acetivorans</i>, electrically conductive pili were not needed for growth with <i>M. barkeri</i>. <i>Shewanella oneidensis</i>, another electroactive microbe with abundant outer-surface <i>c</i>-type cytochromes, did not grow via DIET. The results demonstrate that the presence of outer-surface <i>c</i>-type cytochromes does not necessarily confer the capacity for DIET and emphasize the impact of the electron-accepting partner on the physiology of the electron-donating DIET partner.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989804/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73532306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A deep-sea sulfate-reducing bacterium generates zero-valent sulfur via metabolizing thiosulfate. 一种深海硫酸盐还原菌通过代谢硫代硫酸盐产生零价硫。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-09-23 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12038
Rui Liu, Yeqi Shan, Shichuan Xi, Xin Zhang, Chaomin Sun
{"title":"A deep-sea sulfate-reducing bacterium generates zero-valent sulfur via metabolizing thiosulfate.","authors":"Rui Liu, Yeqi Shan, Shichuan Xi, Xin Zhang, Chaomin Sun","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12038","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zero-valent sulfur (ZVS) is a crucial intermediate in the sulfur geobiochemical circulation and is widespread in deep-sea cold seeps. Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are thought to be the major contributors to the formation of ZVS. However, ZVS production mediated by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) has rarely been reported. In this study, we isolated and cultured a typical SRB designated <i>Oceanidesulfovibrio marinus</i> CS1 from deep-sea cold seep sediment in the South China Sea. We show that <i>O. marinus</i> CS1 forms ZVS in the medium supplemented with thiosulfate. Proteomic and protein activity assays revealed that thiosulfate reductase (PhsA) and the sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase (SQR) played key roles in driving ZVS formation in <i>O. marinus</i> CS1. During this process, thiosulfate firstly was reduced by PhsA to form sulfide, then sulfide was oxidized by SQR to produce ZVS. The expressions of PhsA and SQR were significantly upregulated when <i>O. marinus</i> CS1 was cultured in a deep-sea cold seep, strongly indicating that strain CS1 might form ZVS in the deep-sea environment. Notably, homologs of <i>phsA</i> and <i>sqr</i> were widely identified from microbes living in sediments of deep-sea cold seep in the South China Sea by the metagenomic analysis. We thus propose that SRB containing <i>phsA</i> and <i>sqr</i> genes potentially contribute to the formation of ZVS in deep-sea cold seep environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989961/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87127748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing global fungal threats to humans. 评估全球真菌对人类的威胁。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-09-22 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12036
Jianping Xu
{"title":"Assessing global fungal threats to humans.","authors":"Jianping Xu","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fungi are an integral part of the earth's biosphere. They are broadly distributed in all continents and ecosystems and play a diversity of roles. Here, I review our current understanding of fungal threats to humans and describe the major factors that contribute to various threats. Among the 140,000 or so known species out of the estimated six million fungal species on Earth, about 10% directly or indirectly threaten human health and welfare. Major threats include mushroom poisoning, fungal allergies, infections of crop plants, food contamination by mycotoxins, and mycoses in humans. A growing number of factors have been identified to impact various fungal threats, including human demographics, crop distributions, anthropogenic activities, pathogen dispersals, global climate change, and/or the applications of antifungal drugs and agricultural fungicides. However, while models have been developed for analyzing various processes of individual threats and threat managements, current data are primarily descriptive and incomplete, and there are significant obstacles to integration of the diverse factors into accurate quantitative assessments of fungal threats. With increasing technological advances and concerted efforts to track the spatial and temporal data on climate and environmental variables; mycotoxins in the feed and food supply chains; fungal population dynamics in crop fields, human and animal populations, and the environment; human population demographics; and the prevalence and severities of fungal allergies and diseases, our ability to accurately assess fungal threats will improve. Such improvements should help us develop holistic strategies to manage fungal threats in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76603851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Climate warming restructures seasonal dynamics of grassland soil microbial communities. 气候变暖重构草地土壤微生物群落的季节动态。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-09-15 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12035
Xue Guo, Mengting Yuan, Jiesi Lei, Zhou Shi, Xishu Zhou, Jiabao Li, Ye Deng, Yunfeng Yang, Liyou Wu, Yiqi Luo, James M Tiedje, Jizhong Zhou
{"title":"Climate warming restructures seasonal dynamics of grassland soil microbial communities.","authors":"Xue Guo, Mengting Yuan, Jiesi Lei, Zhou Shi, Xishu Zhou, Jiabao Li, Ye Deng, Yunfeng Yang, Liyou Wu, Yiqi Luo, James M Tiedje, Jizhong Zhou","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil microbial community's responses to climate warming alter the global carbon cycle. In temperate ecosystems, soil microbial communities function along seasonal cycles. However, little is known about how the responses of soil microbial communities to warming vary when the season changes. In this study, we investigated the seasonal dynamics of soil bacterial community under experimental warming in a temperate tall-grass prairie ecosystem. Our results showed that warming significantly (<i>p</i> = 0.001) shifted community structure, such that the differences of microbial communities between warming and control plots increased nonlinearly (<i>R</i> <sup>2</sup> = 0.578, <i>p</i> = 0.021) from spring to winter. Also, warming significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.050) increased microbial network complexity and robustness, especially during the colder seasons, despite large variations in network size and complexity in different seasons. In addition, the relative importance of stochastic processes in shaping the microbial community decreased by warming in fall and winter but not in spring and summer. Our study indicates that climate warming restructures the seasonal dynamics of soil microbial community in a temperate ecosystem. Such seasonality of microbial responses to warming may enlarge over time and could have significant impacts on the terrestrial carbon cycle.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85014176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Massive-scale genomic analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 mutation characteristics and evolutionary trends. 大规模基因组分析揭示了严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒2型的突变特征和进化趋势。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Epub Date: 2022-09-26 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12040
Yamin Sun, Min Wang, Wenchao Lin, Wei Dong, Jianguo Xu
{"title":"Massive-scale genomic analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 mutation characteristics and evolutionary trends.","authors":"Yamin Sun, Min Wang, Wenchao Lin, Wei Dong, Jianguo Xu","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12040","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic resulted in significant societal costs. Hence, an in-depth understanding of SARS-CoV-2 virus mutation and its evolution will help determine the direction of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we identified 296,728 de novo mutations in more than 2,800,000 high-quality SARS-CoV-2 genomes. All possible factors affecting the mutation frequency of SARS-CoV-2 in human hosts were analyzed, including zinc finger antiviral proteins, sequence context, amino acid change, and translation efficiency. As a result, we proposed that when adenine (A) and tyrosine (T) bases are in the context of AM (M stands for adenine or cytosine) or TA motif, A or T base has lower mutation frequency. Furthermore, we hypothesized that translation efficiency can affect the mutation frequency of the third position of the codon by the selection, which explains why SARS-CoV-2 prefers AT3 codons usage. In addition, we found a host-specific asymmetric dinucleotide mutation frequency in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, which provides a new basis for determining the origin of the SARS-CoV-2. Finally, we summarize all possible factors affecting mutation frequency and provide insights into the mutation characteristics and evolutionary trends of SARS-CoV-2.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9538474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41176069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Maternal and neonatal viromes indicate the risk of offspring's gastrointestinal tract exposure to pathogenic viruses of vaginal origin during delivery. 母体和新生儿病毒群表明,在分娩过程中,后代的胃肠道有可能接触到来自阴道的致病病毒。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-08-25 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12034
Jinfeng Wang, Liwen Xiao, Baichuan Xiao, Bing Zhang, Zhenqiang Zuo, Peifeng Ji, Jiayong Zheng, Xiaoqing Li, Fangqing Zhao
{"title":"Maternal and neonatal viromes indicate the risk of offspring's gastrointestinal tract exposure to pathogenic viruses of vaginal origin during delivery.","authors":"Jinfeng Wang, Liwen Xiao, Baichuan Xiao, Bing Zhang, Zhenqiang Zuo, Peifeng Ji, Jiayong Zheng, Xiaoqing Li, Fangqing Zhao","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12034","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A cumulative effect of enterovirus and gluten intake on the risk of celiac disease autoimmunity in infants highlights the significance of viral exposure in early life on the health of children. However, pathogenic viruses may be transmitted to the offspring in an earlier period, raising the possibility that women whose vaginas are inhabited by such viruses may have had their babies infected as early as the time of delivery. A high-resolution intergenerational virome atlas was obtained by metagenomic sequencing and virome analysis on 486 samples from six body sites of 99 mother-neonate pairs. We found that neonates had less diverse oral and enteric viruses than mothers. Vaginally delivered newborns seconds after birth had a more similar oral virome and more viruses of vaginal origin than cesarean-section (C-section) newborns (56.9% vs. 5.8%). Such viruses include both <i>Lactobacillus</i> phage and potentially pathogenic viruses, such as herpesvirus, vaccinia virus, and hepacivirus, illustrating a relatively high variety of the pioneer viral taxa at the time of delivery and a delivery-dependent mother-to-neonate transmission along the vaginal-oral-intestinal route. Neonates are exposed to vaginal viruses as they pass through the reproductive tract, and viruses of vaginal origin may threaten their health. These findings challenge the conventional notion that vaginal delivery is definitely better than cesarean delivery from the perspective of microbial transmission. Screening for vaginal virome before delivery is a worthwhile step to advocate in normal labor to eliminate the risk of intergenerational transmission of pathogenic viruses to offspring.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82675881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A novel Methylomirabilota methanotroph potentially couples methane oxidation to iodate reduction. 一种新型甲烷养甲虫有可能将甲烷氧化与碘酸盐还原结合起来。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-08-09 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12033
Baoli Zhu, Clemens Karwautz, Stefan Andrei, Andreas Klingl, Jakob Pernthaler, Tillmann Lueders
{"title":"A novel <i>Methylomirabilota</i> methanotroph potentially couples methane oxidation to iodate reduction.","authors":"Baoli Zhu, Clemens Karwautz, Stefan Andrei, Andreas Klingl, Jakob Pernthaler, Tillmann Lueders","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Methane oxidizing microbes play a key role in reducing the emission of this potent greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. The known versatility of the recently discovered anaerobic <i>Methylomirabilota</i> methanotrophs is limited. Here, we report a novel uncultured <i>Methylomirabilis</i> species, <i>Candidatus Methylomirabilis iodofontis</i>, with the genetic potential of iodate respiration from biofilm in iodine-rich cavern spring water. Star-like cells resembling <i>Methylomirabilis oxyfera</i> were directly observed from the biofilm and a high-quality metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) of <i>Ca</i>. <i>M. iodofontis</i> was assembled. In addition to oxygenic denitrification and aerobic methane oxidation pathways, the <i>M. iodofontis</i> MAG also indicated its iodate-reducing potential, a capability that would enable the bacterium to use iodate other than nitrite as an electron acceptor, a hitherto unrecognized metabolic potential of <i>Methylomirabilota</i> methanotrophs. The results advance the current understanding of the ecophysiology of anaerobic <i>Methylomirabilota</i> methanotrophs and may suggest an additional methane sink, especially in iodate-rich ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989891/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72718598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unveiling degradation mechanism of PAHs by a Sphingobium strain from a microbial consortium. 揭示微生物联合体中一株鞘氨醇菌株降解多环芳烃的机制。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-07-25 eCollection Date: 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12032
Lige Zhang, Huan Liu, Junbiao Dai, Ping Xu, Hongzhi Tang
{"title":"Unveiling degradation mechanism of PAHs by a <i>Sphingobium</i> strain from a microbial consortium.","authors":"Lige Zhang, Huan Liu, Junbiao Dai, Ping Xu, Hongzhi Tang","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of persistent pollutants with adverse biological effects and pose a serious threat to ecological environments and human health. The previously isolated phenanthrene-degrading bacterial consortium (PDMC) consists of the genera <i>Sphingobium</i> and <i>Pseudomonas</i> and can degrade a wide range of PAHs. To identify the degradation mechanism of PAHs in the consortium PDMC, metagenomic binning was conducted and a <i>Sphingomonadales</i> assembly genome with 100% completeness was obtained. Additionally, <i>Sphingobium</i> sp. SHPJ-2, an efficient degrader of PAHs, was successfully isolated from the consortium PDMC. Strain SHPJ-2 has powerful degrading abilities and various degradation pathways of high-molecular-weight PAHs, including fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo[a]anthracene, and chrysene. Two ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases, five cytochrome P450s, and a pair of electron transfer chains associated with PAH degradation in strain SHPJ-2, which share 83.0%-99.0% similarity with their corresponding homologous proteins, were identified by a combination of <i>Sphingomonadales</i> assembly genome annotation, reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction and heterologous expression. Furthermore, when coexpressed in <i>Escherichia coli</i> BL21(DE3) with the appropriate electron transfer chain, PhnA1B1 could effectively degrade chrysene and benzo[a]anthracene, while PhnA2B2 degrade fluoranthene. Altogether, these results provide a comprehensive assessment of strain SHPJ-2 and contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanism responsible for the PAH degradation.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989954/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88337701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bacillus subtilis produces (p)ppGpp in response to the bacteriostatic antibiotic chloramphenicol to prevent its potential bactericidal effect. 枯草芽孢杆菌对抑菌抗生素氯霉素产生 (p)ppGpp 反应,以防止其潜在的杀菌作用。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-06-30 eCollection Date: 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12031
Jin Yang, Jessica T Barra, Danny K Fung, Jue D Wang
{"title":"<i>Bacillus subtilis</i> produces (p)ppGpp in response to the bacteriostatic antibiotic chloramphenicol to prevent its potential bactericidal effect.","authors":"Jin Yang, Jessica T Barra, Danny K Fung, Jue D Wang","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12031","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibiotics combat bacteria through their bacteriostatic (by growth inhibition) or bactericidal (by killing bacteria) action. Mechanistically, it has been proposed that bactericidal antibiotics trigger cellular damage, while bacteriostatic antibiotics suppress cellular metabolism. Here, we demonstrate how the difference between bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of the antibiotic chloramphenicol can be attributed to an antibiotic-induced bacterial protective response: the stringent response. Chloramphenicol targets the ribosome to inhibit the growth of the Gram-positive bacterium <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>. Intriguingly, we found that chloramphenicol becomes bactericidal in <i>B. subtilis</i> mutants unable to produce (p)ppGpp. We observed a similar (p)ppGpp-dependent bactericidal effect of chloramphenicol in the Gram-positive pathogen <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>. In <i>B. subtilis</i>, chloramphenicol treatment induces (p)ppGpp accumulation through the action of the (p)ppGpp synthetase RelA. (p)ppGpp subsequently depletes the intracellular concentration of GTP and antagonizes GTP action. This GTP regulation is critical for preventing chloramphenicol from killing <i>B. subtilis</i>, as bypassing (p)ppGpp-dependent GTP regulation potentiates chloramphenicol killing, while reducing GTP synthesis increases survival. Finally, chloramphenicol treatment protects cells from the classical bactericidal antibiotic vancomycin, reminiscent of the clinical phenomenon of antibiotic antagonism. Taken together, our findings suggest a role of (p)ppGpp in the control of the bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity of antibiotics in Gram-positive bacteria, which can be exploited to potentiate the efficacy of existing antibiotics.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989873/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75806256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Substrate availability and toxicity shape the structure of microbial communities engaged in metabolic division of labor. 底物的可用性和毒性决定了参与代谢分工的微生物群落的结构。
mLife Pub Date : 2022-06-30 eCollection Date: 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1002/mlf2.12025
Miaoxiao Wang, Xiaoli Chen, Yue-Qin Tang, Yong Nie, Xiao-Lei Wu
{"title":"Substrate availability and toxicity shape the structure of microbial communities engaged in metabolic division of labor.","authors":"Miaoxiao Wang, Xiaoli Chen, Yue-Qin Tang, Yong Nie, Xiao-Lei Wu","doi":"10.1002/mlf2.12025","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mlf2.12025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metabolic division of labor (MDOL) represents a widespread natural phenomenon, whereby a complex metabolic pathway is shared between different strains within a community in a mutually beneficial manner. However, little is known about how the composition of such a microbial community is regulated. We hypothesized that when degradation of an organic compound is carried out via MDOL, the concentration and toxicity of the substrate modulate the benefit allocation between the two microbial populations, thus affecting the structure of this community. We tested this hypothesis by combining modeling with experiments using a synthetic consortium. Our modeling analysis suggests that the proportion of the population executing the first metabolic step can be simply estimated by Monod-like formulas governed by substrate concentration and toxicity. Our model and the proposed formula were able to quantitatively predict the structure of our synthetic consortium. Further analysis demonstrates that our rule is also applicable in estimating community structures in spatially structured environments. Together, our work clearly demonstrates that the structure of MDOL communities can be quantitatively predicted using available information on environmental factors, thus providing novel insights into how to manage artificial microbial systems for the wide application of the bioindustry.</p>","PeriodicalId":94145,"journal":{"name":"mLife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10989799/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78235472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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