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BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107862
Keywords
Biofilm; Hyper-biofilm; RSCV; C-di-GMP; Exopolysaccharide; Pseudomonas; Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Funding
- National Key R & D Program of China [2019YFA0905500, 2019YFC1804104]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32100018, 21978129, 21908102]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known for its excellent ecological flexibility and can survive in diverse niches. The adaptive mutants RSCVs have been frequently isolated from chronic infections, sparking interest in investigating their formation, persistence, and pathogenesis. RSCVs are believed to play a significant role in biofilm formation and high adaptability.
One of the hallmarks of the environmental bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is its excellent ecological flexibility, which can thrive in diverse ecological niches. In different ecosystems, P. aeruginosa may use different strategies to survive, such as forming biofilms in crude oil environment, converting to mucoid phenotype in the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung, or becoming persisters when treated with antibiotics. Rugose small colony variants (RSCVs) are the adaptive mutants of P. aeruginosa, which can be frequently isolated from chronic infections. During the past years, there has been a renewed interest in using P. aeruginosa as a model organism to investigate the RSCVs formation, persistence and pathogenesis, as RSCVs represent a hyper-biofilm formation, high adaptability, high-tolerance sub-population in biofilms. This review will briefly summarize recent advances regarding the phenotypic, genetic and host interaction associated with RSCVs, with an emphasis on P. aeruginosa. Meanwhile, some non-pathogenic bacteria such as Pseudomonas fluorescence, Pseudomonas putida and Bacillus subtilis will be also included. Remarkable emphasis is given on intrinsic functions of such hyper-biofilm formation characteristic as well as its potential applications in several biocatalytic transformations including wastewater treatment, microbial fermentation, and plastic degradation. Hopefully, this review will attract the interest of researchers in various fields and shape future research focused not only on evolutionary biology but also on biotechnological applications related to RSCVs.
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