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The fitness of pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing signal cheats is influenced by the diffusivity of the environment

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Mund, Anne , Diggle, Stephen P., Harrison, Freya and Greenberg, E. Peter (2017) The fitness of pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing signal cheats is influenced by the diffusivity of the environment. mBio, 8 (3). e00353-17. doi:10.1128/mBio.00353-17

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Abstract

Experiments examining the social dynamics of bacterial quorum sensing (QS) have focused on mutants which do not respond to signals and the role of QS-regulated exoproducts as public goods. The potential for QS signal molecules to themselves be social public goods has received much less attention. Here, we analyze how signal-deficient (lasI) mutants of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa interact with wild-type cells in an environment where QS is required for growth. We show that when growth requires a “private” intracellular metabolic mechanism activated by the presence of QS signal, lasI mutants act as social cheats and outcompete signal-producing wild-type bacteria in mixed cultures, because they can exploit the signals produced by wild-type cells. However, reducing the ability of signal molecules to diffuse through the growth medium results in signal molecules becoming less accessible to mutants, leading to reduced cheating. Our results indicate that QS signal molecules can be considered social public goods in a way that has been previously described for other exoproducts but that spatial structuring of populations reduces exploitation by noncooperative signal cheats.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Journal or Publication Title: mBio
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
ISSN: 2150-7511
Official Date: 2 May 2017
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DateEvent
2 May 2017Published
23 May 2017Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 8 May 2017
Volume: 8
Number: 3
Page Range: e00353-17
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00353-17
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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