Insights into flagellar function and mechanism from the squid-vibrio symbiosis.
- Aschtgen MS 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
- Brennan CA 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
- Nikolakakis K 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
- Cohen S Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Center for Advanced Surface Analysis, Institute of Earth Sciences, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
- McFall-Ngai M 3Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813 USA.
- Ruby EG 3Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813 USA.
- 2019-11-01
Published in:
- NPJ biofilms and microbiomes. - 2019
Cellular microbiology
Symbiosis
Aliivibrio fischeri
Animals
Biofilms
Decapodiformes
Flagella
Host Microbial Interactions
Symbiosis
English
Flagella are essential and multifunctional nanomachines that not only move symbionts towards their tissue colonization site, but also play multiple roles in communicating with the host. Thus, untangling the activities of flagella in reaching, interacting, and signaling the host, as well as in biofilm formation and the establishment of a persistent colonization, is a complex problem. The squid-vibrio system offers a unique model to study the many ways that bacterial flagella can influence a beneficial association and, generally, other bacteria-host interactions. Vibrio fischeri is a bioluminescent bacterium that colonizes the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes. Over the last 15 years, the structure, assembly, and functions of V. fischeri flagella, including not only motility and chemotaxis, but also biofilm formation and symbiotic signaling, have been revealed. Here we discuss these discoveries in the perspective of other host-bacteria interactions.
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- DOI 10.1038/s41522-019-0106-5
- PMID 31666982
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