To invade or not to invade: Two approaches to a prokaryotic predatory life cycle

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 273-279

  Chanyi, Ryan M ^a   Ward, Caitlin ^a   Pechey, Andrea ^a   Koval, Susan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus; Bdellovibrio exovorus; Predatory prokaryotes; Prokaryotic developmental life cycles

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; EPIBIOSIS; LIFE CYCLE; NEW SPECIES; PREDATOR; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER JOHNSONII; ACINETOBACTER JUNII; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO EXOVORUS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CYTOPLASM; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; GENE SEQUENCE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

BDELLOVIBRIO; CAULOBACTER; CULTURE MEDIA; FOOD CHAIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER JOHNSONII; ACINETOBACTER JUNII; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84876259504     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2013-0041     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Afinogenova, A.V., Romai Penabad, S., Konovalova, S.M., Churkina, L.G., and Lambina, V.A. 1981. Comparative characteristics of the Bdellovibrio strains isolated from river water and sewage. Mikrobiologia, 50(2): 378-385.PMID: 7242394.
2. Bouvet, P.J.M., and Grimont, P.A.D. 1986. Taxonomy of the genus Acinetobacter with the recognition of Acinetobacter baumannii sp. nov., Acinetobacter haemolyticus sp. nov., Acinetobacter johnsonii sp. nov., and Acinetobacter junii sp. nov. and emended descriptions of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and Acinetobacter lwoffii. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 36(2): 228-240. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-2-228.
3. Cao, H., He, S., Wang, H., Hou, S., Lu, L., and Yang, X. 2012. Bdellovibrios, potential biocontrol bacteria against pathogenic Aeromonas hydrophila. Vet. Microbiol. 154(3-4): 413-418. doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2011.07.032. PMID:21864996.
4. Chen, H., Athar, R., Zheng, G., and Williams, H.N. 2011. Prey bacteria shape the community structure of their predators. ISME J. 5(8): 1314-1322. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.4. PMID:21326335.
5. Chu, W.H., and Zhu, W. 2010. Isolation of Bdellovibrio as biological agents used for the treatment of Aeromonas hydrophila infection in fish. Zoonoses Public Health, 57(4): 258-264. doi:10.1111/j.1863-2378.2008.01224.x. PMID:19486499.
6. Cotter, T.W., and Thomashow, M.F. 1992. A conjugation procedure for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and its use to identify DNA sequences that enhance the plaqueforming ability of a spontaneous host-independent mutant. J. Bacteriol. 174(19): 6011-6017.PMID:1400153.
7. Dashiff, A., Junka, R.A., Libera, M., and Kadouri, D.E. 2011. Predation of human pathogens by the predatory bacteria Micavibrio aeruginosavorus and Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. J. Appl. Microbiol. 110(2): 431-444. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04900.x. PMID:21114596.
8. Davidov, Y., Friedjung, A., and Jurkevitch, E. 2006. Structure analysis of a soil community of predatory bacteria using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods reveals a hitherto undetected diversity of Bdellovibrio-and-like-organisms. Environ. Microbiol. 8(9): 1667-1673. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01052.x. PMID:16913926.
9. Edwards, U., Rogall, T., Blöcker, H., Emde, M., and Böttger, E.C. 1989. Isolation and direct complete nucleotide determination of entire genes. Characterization of a gene coding for 16S ribosomal RNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 17(19): 7843-7853. doi:10.1093/nar/17.19.7843. PMID:2798131.
10. Engelhardt, H., Gerbl-Rieger, S., Krezmar, D., Schneider-Voss, S., Engel, A., and Baumeister, W. 1990. Structural properties of the outer membrane and the regular surface protein of Comamonas acidovorans. Mol. Microbiol. 5(7): 1695-1702. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb01917.x. PMID:1719335.
11. Esteve, C., Alcaide, E., Canals, R., Merino, S., Blasco, D., Figueras, M.J., and Tomás, J.M. 2004. Pathogenic Aeromonas hydrophila serogroup O:14 and O:81 strains with an S-layer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 5898-5904. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.10.5898-5904.2004. PMID:15466530.
12. Flannagan, R.S., Valvano, M.A., and Koval, S.F. 2004. Downregulation of the motA gene delays the escape of the obligate predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J from bdelloplasts of bacterial prey cells. Microbiology, 150(3): 649-656. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.26761-0. PMID:14993314.
13. Fry, J.C., and Staples, D.G. 1976. Distribution of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in sewage works, river water, and sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 31(4): 469-474.PMID:1267445.
14. Hylemon, P.B., Wells, J.S., Bowdre, J.H., and Macadoo, T.O. 1973. Designation of Spirillum volutans Ehrenberg 1832 as type species of the genus Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 and designation of the neotype strain of S. volutans. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 23(1): 20-27. doi:10.1099/00207713-23-1-20.
15. Johnson, R.C., and Ely, B. 1977. Isolation of spontaneously derives mutants of Caulobacter crescentus. Genetics, 86(1): 25-32.PMID:407126.
16. Jurkevitch, E. 2006. The genus Bdellovibrio. In The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. 3rd ed. Vol. 7. Edited by M. Dworkin, S. Falkow, E. Rosenberg, K.-H. Schliefer, and E. Stackebrandt. Springer, New York, USA. pp. 12-30.
17. Jurkevitch, E., Minz, D., Ramati, B., and Barel, G. 2000. Prey range characterization, ribotyping, and diversity of soil and rhizosphere Bdellovibrio spp. isolated on phytopathogenic bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66(6): 2365-2371. doi:10.1128/AEM.66.6.2365-2371.2000. PMID:10831412.
18. Koval, S.F. 2006. The search for hunters: culture-dependent and-independent methods for analysis of Bdellovibrio and like organisms. In Predatory prokaryotes - biology, ecology and evolution. Edited by E. Jurkevitch. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. pp. 191-211.
19. Koval, S.F., and Hynes, S.H. 1991. Effect of paracrystalline protein surface layers on predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. J. Bacteriol. 173(7): 2244-2249.PMID:2007549.
20. Koval, S.F., Hynes, S.H., Flannagan, R.S., Pasternak, Z., Davidov, Y., and Jurkevitch, E. 2013. Bdellovibrio exovorus sp. nov., a novel predator of Caulobacter crescentus. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 63(1): 146-151. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.039701-0. PMID:22368169.
21. Lemke, M.J., and Leff, L.G. 1999. Bacterial populations in an anthropogenically disturbed stream: comparison of different seasons. Microb. Ecol. 38: 234-243. doi:10.1007/s002489900173. PMID:10541785.
22. MacRae, J.D., and Smit, J. 1991. Characterization of caulobacters isolated from wastewater treatment systems. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57(3): 751-758.PMID:1674851.
23. Markelova, N., Khorn, D.E., Levin, M.A., and Shahamat, M. 2000. Evaluation of the effect of ecologically hazardous pollutants on the bacteriolytic activity of the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio. Mikrobiologia, 69(5): 717-721. doi:10.1007/BF02756816. PMID:11315677.
24. Murray, R.G.E., Dooley, J.S.G., Whippey P.W., and Trust, T.J. 1988. Structure of an S-layer on a pathogenic strain of Aeromonas hydrophila. J. Bacteriol. 170: 2625-2630.PMID:3372478.
25. Piñeiro, S.A., Sahaniuk, G.E., Romberg, E., and Williams, H.N. 2004. Predation pattern and phylogenetic analysis on Bdellovibrionaceae from the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Curr. Microbiol. 48(2): 113-117. doi:10.1007/s00284-003-4136-z.PMID:15057478.
26. Rogosky, A.M., Moak, P.L., and Emmert, E.A. 2006. Differential predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J. Curr. Microbiol. 52(2): 81-85. doi:10.1007/s00284-005-0038-6. PMID:16450066.
27. Ruby, E.G. 1992. The genus Bdellovibrio. In The prokaryotes. Edited by M.P. Starr, H. Stolp, H.G. Trüper, A. Balows, and H.G. Schlegel. Springer, Berlin, Germany. pp. 3401-3412.
28. Sanchez-Amat, A., and Torella, F. 1990. Formation of stable bdelloplasts as a starvation-survival strategy of marin bdellovibrios. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56(9): 2717-2725.PMID:16348280.
29. Shannon, K.E., Lee, D.Y., Trevors, J.T., and Beaudette, L.A. 2007. Application of real-time quantitative PCR for the detection of selected bacterial pathogens during municipal wastewater treatment. Sci. Total Environ. 382: 121-129.doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.039. PMID:17462712.
30. Shemesh, Y., Davidov, Y., Koval, S.F., and Jurkevitch, E. 2003. Small eats big: ecology and diversity of Bdellovibrio and like organisms, and their dynamics in predator-prey interactions. Agronomie, 23: 1-7. doi:10.1051/agro:2003026.
31. Shilo, M. 1969. Morphological and physical aspects of the interaction of Bdellovibrio with host bacteria. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 50: 174-204. PMID:4907693.
32. Shilo, M., and Bruff, B. 1965. Lysis of Gram-negative bacteria by hostindependent ectoparasitic Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. J. Gen. Microbiol. 40(3): 317-328. doi:10.1099/00221287-40-3-317. PMID:5325037.
33. Sockett, R.E. 2009. Predatory lifestyle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 63: 523-539. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073346. PMID: 19575566.
34. Stolp, H., and Starr, M.P. 1963. Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Gen. et sp.n., a predatory, ectoparasitic, and bacteriolytic microorganism. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 29: 217-248. doi:10.1007/BF02046064. PMID:14068454.
35. Towner, K. 2006. The genus Acinetobacter. In The prokaryotes. 3rd ed. Edited by M. Dworkin, S. Falkow, E. Rosenberg, K.H. Schleifer, and E. Stackebrandt. Springer-Verlag, New York, U.S.A. pp. 746-758.