Interspecies Chemical Communication in Bacterial Development

被引:136
作者
Straight, Paul D. [1 ]
Kolter, Roberto [2 ]
机构
[1] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Biochem & Biophys, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Mol Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA
关键词
signal; bioactive; community; fruiting body; aerial hyphae; biofilm; PROMOTES SECONDARY METABOLISM; AERIAL HYPHAE FORMATION; PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA; MYXOCOCCUS-XANTHUS; A-FACTOR; STREPTOMYCES-COELICOLOR; BACILLUS-SUBTILIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODULATION; SINORHIZOBIUM-MELILOTI; STREPTOCOCCUS-GORDONII;
D O I
10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073248
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Our view of bacteria, from the earliest observations through the heyday of antibiotic discovery, has shifted dramatically. We recognize communities of bacteria as integral and functionally important components of diverse habitats, ranging from soil collectives to the human microbiome. To function as productive communities, bacteria coordinate metabolic functions, often requiring shifts in growth and development. The hallmark of cellular development, which we characterize as physiological change in response to environmental stimuli, is a defining feature of many bacterial interspecies interactions. Bacterial communities rely on chemical exchanges to provide the cues for developmental change. Traditional methods in microbiology, focus on isolation and characterization of bacteria in monoculture, separating the organisms from the surroundings in which interspecies chemical communication has relevance. Developing multispecies experimental systems that incorporate knowledge of bacterial physiology and metabolism with insights from biodiversity and metagenomics shows great promise for understanding interspecies chemical communication in the microbial world.
引用
收藏
页码:99 / 118
页数:20
相关论文
共 119 条
[1]   Defining the normal bacterial flora of the oral cavity [J].
Aas, JA ;
Paster, BJ ;
Stokes, LN ;
Olsen, I ;
Dewhirst, FE .
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2005, 43 (11) :5721-5732
[2]   Thinking about Bacillus subtilis as a multicellular organism [J].
Aguilar, Claudio ;
Vlamakis, Hera ;
Losick, Richard ;
Kolter, Roberto .
CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2007, 10 (06) :638-643
[3]   Long-term monitoring of bacteria undergoing programmed population control in a microchemostat [J].
Balagaddé, FK ;
You, LC ;
Hansen, CL ;
Arnold, FH ;
Quake, SR .
SCIENCE, 2005, 309 (5731) :137-140
[4]  
Baltz R.H., 2005, SIM News, V55, P186
[5]   INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING IN VIBRIO-HARVEYI - SEQUENCE AND FUNCTION OF GENES REGULATING EXPRESSION OF LUMINESCENCE [J].
BASSLER, BL ;
WRIGHT, M ;
SHOWALTER, RE ;
SILVERMAN, MR .
MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, 1993, 9 (04) :773-786
[6]   Bacterially speaking [J].
Bassler, BL ;
Losick, R .
CELL, 2006, 125 (02) :237-246
[7]   Multicellular development in Myxococcus xanthus is stimulated by predator-prey interactions [J].
Berleman, James E. ;
Kirby, John R. .
JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, 2007, 189 (15) :5675-5682
[8]   DEXTRAN-MEDIATED INTERBACTERIAL AGGREGATION BETWEEN DEXTRAN-SYNTHESIZING STREPTOCOCCI AND ACTINOMYCES-VISCOSUS [J].
BOURGEAU, G ;
MCBRIDE, BC .
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, 1976, 13 (04) :1228-1234
[9]   Fruiting body formation by Bacillus subtilis [J].
Branda, SS ;
González-Pastor, JE ;
Ben-Yehuda, S ;
Losick, R ;
Kolter, R .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2001, 98 (20) :11621-11626
[10]   Census of the bacterial community of the gypsy moth larval midgut by using culturing and culture-independent methods [J].
Broderick, NA ;
Raffa, KF ;
Goodman, RM ;
Handelsman, J .
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2004, 70 (01) :293-300