Diatom modulation of select bacteria through use of two unique secondary metabolites.

Autor: Shibl AA; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Isaac A; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates.; International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen, Bremen 28334, Germany., Ochsenkühn MA; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Cárdenas A; Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78467, Germany.; Red Sea Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia., Fei C; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Behringer G; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Arnoux M; Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Drou N; Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Santos MP; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates., Gunsalus KC; Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates.; Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003., Voolstra CR; Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78467, Germany.; Red Sea Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia., Amin SA; Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates; samin@nyu.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2020 Nov 03; Vol. 117 (44), pp. 27445-27455. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 16.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2012088117
Abstrakt: Unicellular eukaryotic phytoplankton, such as diatoms, rely on microbial communities for survival despite lacking specialized compartments to house microbiomes (e.g., animal gut). Microbial communities have been widely shown to benefit from diatom excretions that accumulate within the microenvironment surrounding phytoplankton cells, known as the phycosphere. However, mechanisms that enable diatoms and other unicellular eukaryotes to nurture specific microbiomes by fostering beneficial bacteria and repelling harmful ones are mostly unknown. We hypothesized that diatom exudates may tune microbial communities and employed an integrated multiomics approach using the ubiquitous diatom Asterionellopsis glacialis to reveal how it modulates its naturally associated bacteria. We show that A. glacialis reprograms its transcriptional and metabolic profiles in response to bacteria to secrete a suite of central metabolites and two unusual secondary metabolites, rosmarinic acid and azelaic acid. While central metabolites are utilized by potential bacterial symbionts and opportunists alike, rosmarinic acid promotes attachment of beneficial bacteria to the diatom and simultaneously suppresses the attachment of opportunists. Similarly, azelaic acid enhances growth of beneficial bacteria while simultaneously inhibiting growth of opportunistic ones. We further show that the bacterial response to azelaic acid is numerically rare but globally distributed in the world's oceans and taxonomically restricted to a handful of bacterial genera. Our results demonstrate the innate ability of an important unicellular eukaryotic group to modulate select bacteria in their microbial consortia, similar to higher eukaryotes, using unique secondary metabolites that regulate bacterial growth and behavior inversely across different bacterial populations.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE