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SCIENCE
卷 371, 期 6533, 页码 1033-+出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd1515
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- ARO [W911NF-17-1-0024]
- NIH [1R01AI127850-01A1]
- Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech
- Simons Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology
This study explores the phenomenon of microbes increasing the production of redox-active antibiotics under phosphorus limitation, showing that these antibiotics solubilize phosphorus through reductive dissolution of iron oxides and enhance microbial growth under phosphorus-limited conditions. The research highlights the important role of antibiotics in phosphorus acquisition and cycling.
Microbial production of antibiotics is common, but our understanding of their roles in the environment is limited. In this study, we explore long-standing observations that microbes increase the production of redox-active antibiotics under phosphorus limitation. The availability of phosphorus, a nutrient required by all life on Earth and essential for agriculture, can be controlled by adsorption to and release from iron minerals by means of redox cycling. Using phenazine antibiotic production by pseudomonads as a case study, we show that phenazines are regulated by phosphorus, solubilize phosphorus through reductive dissolution of iron oxides in the lab and field, and increase phosphorus-limited microbial growth. Phenazines are just one of many examples of phosphorus-regulated antibiotics. Our work suggests a widespread but previously unappreciated role for redox-active antibiotics in phosphorus acquisition and cycling.
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