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Bacterial predation under changing viscosities

Author(s)
Sathyamoorthy, RajeshMaoz, AnatPasternak, ZoharIm, HansolHuppert, AmitKadouri, DanielJurkevitch, Edouard
Issued Date
2019-08
DOI
10.1111/1462-2920.14696
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/27490
Fulltext
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1462-2920.14696
Citation
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, v.21, no.8, pp.2997 - 3010
Abstract
Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) are largely distributed in soils and in water bodies obligate predators of gram-negative bacteria that can affect bacterial communities. Potential applications of BALOs include biomass reduction, their use against pathogenic bacteria in agriculture, and in medicine as an alternative against antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Such different environments and uses mean that BALOs should be active under a range of viscosities. In this study, the predatory behaviour of two strains of the periplasmic predator B. bacteriovorus and of the epibiotic predator Micavibrio aeruginosavorus was examined in viscous polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) solutions at 28 and at 37 degrees C, using fluorescent markers and plate counts to track predator growth and prey decay. We found that at high viscosities, although swimming speed was largely decreased, the three predators reduced prey to levels similar to those of non-viscous suspensions, albeit with short delays. Prey motility and clumping did not affect the outcome. Strikingly, under low initial predator concentrations, predation dynamics were faster with increasing viscosity, an effect that dissipated with increasing predator concentrations. Changes in swimming patterns and in futile predator-predator encounters with viscosity, as revealed by path analysis under changing viscosities, along with possible PVP-mediated crowding effects, may explain the observed phenomena.
Publisher
WILEY
ISSN
1462-2912
Keyword
PLATFORMBIOFILMREVEALSBDELLOVIBRIO-BACTERIOVORUSFLAGELLAR FILAMENTPREYPOLYVINYLPYRROLIDONEPATHOGENSMOTILITY

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