Micavibrio aeruginosavorus is an obligate gramnegative predatory bacterial species that feeds on other gramnegative bacteria by attaching to the surface of its prey and feeding on the preys cellular contents. Vulnerability of pathogenic biofilms to micavibrio. Listen to the uva today radio show report on this story by fariss samarrai. Rnaseq analysis shows substantial transcriptome differences between the attack phase, when m. It has been difficult to study in the lab, however, because it. Predatory bacteria bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus were found to be non. Predatory bacteria attenuate klebsiella pneumoniae burden. While the ability of predatory bacteria to control bacterial infections in vitro is well documented, the in vivo effect of predators on a living host has yet to be extensively. Allelic variation in a single genomic region alters the. Bacterial vampires suck life out of other microbes. Serralysin family metalloproteases protects serratia. Ocular infections are a leading cause of vision loss. The micavibrio group was constituted of three subgroups with a maximum of 1.
Bdellovibrio bacterivorous and micavibrio aeruginosavorus by carlos j. It has been previously suggested that predatory prokaryotes might be used as live antibiotics to control infections. Predatory bacteria are nontoxic to the rabbit ocular surface eric g. Associate professor department of oral biology wednesday, july 31st, 2019 10. Examining the safety of respiratory and intravenous inoculation of bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus in a mouse model, kenneth shatzkes, richard. The increase in multidrugresistant gramnegative bacterial infections has forced the reintroduction of antibiotics such as colistin. Multidrugresistant mdr gramnegative bacteria have emerged as a serious threat to human and animal health. Genomic insights into an obligate epibiotic bacterial. The host specificity of the gramnegative exoparasitic predatory bacterium micavibrio aeruginosavorus was examined. In this study, the ability of bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus to prey on mdr gramnegative clinical strains was examined. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus was able to prey and form halos on 48 of the 85 bacteria examined.
We determined the complete genome sequence of micavibrio aeruginosavorus arl, an obligate bacterial predator that feeds by leeching externally to its prey. A new a proteobacterial clade of bdellovibrio like. Microbewiki is a free wiki resource on microbes and microbiology, authored by students at many colleges and universities. Allelic variation in the grc region influences the relative abundance of micavibrio aeruginosavorus and gemmatimonas aurantiaca. All otus with p micavibrio aeruginosavorus are predatory bacteria that naturallyand obligatelyprey on other gramnegative bacteria, and their use has been proposed as a potential new approach to control microbial infection. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus strain arl, showed that micavibrio clustered within the. Bdellovibrio was also found to be active against numerous mdr acinetobacter strains isolated from wounded warriors as well as additional clinically relevant mdr pathogens. Predatory bacteria seek out and kill other bacteria for food.
Common name isynonym iother names i micavibrio aeruginosavorus arl micavibrio aeruginosavorus str. Predator stock lysateswereprepared bycoculturing the. Garcia infection, immunity and inflammation program b. Connell 1,3, 1 department of medicine and the center for emerging pathogens, rutgers, new jersey medical school. Examining the safety of respiratory and intravenous. Original article predation of human pathogens by the predatory bacteria micavibrio aeruginosavorus and bdellovibrio bacteriovorus a.
Major features of the genome are summarized in table 1 and figure 1. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus arl by wu martin, kadouri daniel e and wang zhang no static citation data no static citation data cite. Heath damron and mariette barbier department of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology, university of virginia. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus can kill other bacteria and is being studied as a potential therapy during your turn you may sacrifice this microbe to destroy a microbe in your pathogen zone. October 31, 2011 a vampirelike bacteria that leeches onto specific other bacteria including certain human pathogens has the potential to serve as a living antibiotic. Predatory bacteria are nontoxic to the rabbit ocular surface. Despite being an obligate predator depending on prey for replication, m. Unlike bdellovibrio a genus in the deltaproteobacteria, micavibrio do not invade the periplasmic space of their prey, but feed by attaching themselves to its surface. However, the spread of the plasmidborne mcr1 colistin resistance gene have moved us closer to an era of untreatable gramnegative infections. The ability of predatory bacteria to prey on gramnegative human pathogens in vitro is well documented.
Micavibrio aeruginosavorus was discovered over 30 years ago in wastewater. Publications and research by the faculty and staff at the new york city college of technology of the city university of new york. Student pages authored independently, or for coursework, are not monitored further. Abstract bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus are predatory bacteria that naturallyand obligately prey on other gramnegative bacteria, and their use has been proposed as a potential new approach to control microbial infection. Kadouri1 1 department of oral biology, university of medicine and dentistry of new jersey, newark, nj, usa. Living antibiotics, biocontrol agents, or probiotics. They prey on gramnegative microorganisms known to be pathogenic in humans. Pdf files are available with pagesized chunks of the tree throughout the tree, and are indicated at the beginning of each section, bacteroidetes, et al. Cuny academic works, new york city college of technology.
Micavibrio aeruginosavorus strain arl was shown to prey only on pseudomonas aeruginosa among 55 bacteria of different taxonomic groups that were tested 25. It attaches to the surfaces of prey and feeds by leaching, eventually killing its prey. Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus are gramnegative proteobacteria that are obligate predators of other gramnegative. First isolated in 1983 from wastewater, micavibrio aeruginosavorus is gramnegative, relatively small in size 0. Predation of human pathogens by the predatory bacteria. Original article predation of human pathogens by the. Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and micavibrio aeruginosavorus are able to prey on a wide range of pathogens including bacteria isolated from. All lower taxonomy nodes 2 common name isynonym iother names i micavibrio aeruginosavorus lambina et al. Susceptibility of virulent yersinia pestis bacteria to. Title and subtitle of predatory bacteria as a biocontrol agent against wound. In this study, pseudomonas aeruginosa and serratia marcescens ocular isolates were exposed to the predatory bacteria micavibrio aeruginosavorus and bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Micavibrio, on the other hand, feed by leeching externally to the surface of the prey cell and therefore has an epibiotic lifestyle 69. Genomic insights into an obligate epibiotic bacterial predator. We determined the complete genome sequence of micavibrio aeruginosavorus arl, an obligate.
The three strains were obligate predators that exhibited a biphasic life cycle. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus is a species of epibiotic predatory bacteria. Micavibrio aeruginosavorus strain arl taxonomy navigation micavibrio aeruginosavorus. Escherichia coliwm3064, adiaminopimelicacid dapauxotroph,wasusedas preyand grown overnightin lbmedium supplementedwith 0. At least nine genomic islands encode many genes that are likely important for micavibrio prey interaction such as hemolysinrelated proteins. Three prokaryotic predator strains, bl9t, bl10 and bl28, were isolated with vibrio alginolyticus from coastal seawater of pr china. Help pages, faqs, uniprotkb manual, documents, news archive and biocuration projects. Additional experiments aimed at assessing the optimal predation characteristics of m. Pvalues for the top 29 otus in inbred and outbred experiments wilcoxon ranksum test. Cells of the strains were gramnegative, vibrioidshaped and motile with a single sheathed flagellum 2528 nm wide.
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