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Cooperation among Microorganisms 英文参考文献
Essay
Cooperation among Microorganisms
Ned S. Wingreen, Simon A. Levin
*
O
ne of the organizing principles
of life on Earth is that cells
cooperate. This is evident in
the case of multicellular organisms,
from nematodes to humans, but it
also appears to apply widely among
single-celled organisms such as
bacteria, fungi, and amoeba. In many
cases, the label “single-celled” applies
to only part of the life cycle of these
organisms. For example, the model
amoeba Dictyostelium discodium is single-
celled under conditions of nutritional
abundance, but upon starvation, it
communicates to form aggregates that
subsequently pass through multicellular
stages of slug and fruiting body.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040299.g001
Indeed, in light of recent discoveries
of communication among bacteria
and the importance and prevalence
of bacterial bio?lms, “single-celled”
may turn out to be a misnomer
even for these organisms. Here we
highlight some of the better-studied
examples of cooperation among
microorganisms and attempt to identify
some of the important questions in
this emerging ?eld. Understanding
cooperation among microorganisms
presents conceptual and mathematical
challenges at the interface of
evolutionary biology and the theory of
emergent properties of independent
agents, two of the most exciting areas
in modern mathematical biology.
Most of the best-studied cases of
cooperation among microorganisms
concern intraspecies cooperation. An
example of this is quorum sensing
among bacteria, in which cells produce,
secrete, and detect small molecules,
called autoinducers. At high enough
autoinducer concentrations (high
cell densities), the bacteria enter a
new mode of existence characterized
Figure 1. Quorum-Sensing Circuit of the Bacterial Pathogen Vibrio cholerae
Red arrows indicate phosphoryl-group transfer [1].
(Figure: Matthew B. Neiditch, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
by expression of genes associated
Cooperation between different
microorga
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