期刊
ISME JOURNAL
卷 15, 期 9, 页码 2614-2626出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00953-7
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- ETH fellowship
- Marie Curie Actions for People COFUND program fellowship [FEL-37-16-1]
- Simons Foundation Collaboration on Principles of Microbial Ecosystems (PriME) [542389, 542395]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_169978, 310030_188642]
- ETH Zurich
- Eawag
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [310030_188642] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Cells can dynamically adjust their growth behaviors in response to fluctuations in nutrient complexity, with collective growth being advantageous on polysaccharides and individual growth potentially reducing intercellular competition when transitioning to simpler nutrients.
Microbial populations often experience fluctuations in nutrient complexity in their natural environment such as between high molecular weight polysaccharides and simple monosaccharides. However, it is unclear if cells can adopt growth behaviors that allow individuals to optimally respond to differences in nutrient complexity. Here, we directly control nutrient complexity and use quantitative single-cell analysis to study the growth dynamics of individuals within populations of the aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. We show that cells form clonal microcolonies when growing on the polysaccharide xylan, which is abundant in nature and degraded using extracellular cell-linked enzymes; and disperse to solitary growth modes when the corresponding monosaccharide xylose becomes available or nutrients are exhausted. We find that the cellular density required to achieve maximal growth rates is four-fold higher on xylan than on xylose, indicating that aggregating is advantageous on polysaccharides. When collectives on xylan are transitioned to xylose, cells start dispersing, indicating that colony formation is no longer beneficial and solitary behaviors might serve to reduce intercellular competition. Our study demonstrates that cells can dynamically tune their behaviors when nutrient complexity fluctuates, elucidates the quantitative advantages of distinct growth behaviors for individual cells and indicates why collective growth modes are prevalent in microbial populations.
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