ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2013
Gimme shelter: how Vibrio fischeri successfully navigates an animal's multiple environments.
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- Host-Associated Biofilms:Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Generation and validation of a versatile inducible multiplex CRISPRi system to examine bacterial regulation in the Euprymna-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis.Archives of microbiology · 2025Article
- Draft Genome Sequence of the Marine Bioluminescent Bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri ATCC 7744.Microbiology resource announcements · 2022Article
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- Bioluminescence and Photoreception in Unicellular Organisms: Light-Signalling in a Bio-Communication Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- A lasting symbiosis: how Vibrio fischeri finds a squid partner and persists within its natural host.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
- The Polar Flagellar Transcriptional Regulatory Network inJournal of bacteriology · 2021Article
- Museum Genomics Illuminate the High Specificity of a Bioluminescent Symbiosis for a Genus of Reef Fish.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Diversity and evolution of bacterial bioluminescence genes in the global ocean.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2020Article
- The Redox architecture of physiological function.Current opinion in physiology · 2019Review
- Biofilms 2018: A diversity of microbes and mechanisms.Journal of bacteriology · 2019Review
- Exploring the transcriptome ofPeerJ · 2019Article
- Transcriptional profiling of the mutualistic bacteriumNPJ microgravity · 2018Article
- Feathermoss and epiphytic Nostoc cooperate differently: expanding the spectrum of plant-cyanobacteria symbiosis.The ISME journal · 2017Article
- Control without Controllers: Toward a Distributed Neuroscience of Executive Control.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2017Review
- Transcriptomic changes in an animal-bacterial symbiosis under modeled microgravity conditions.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- An Expanded Transposon Mutant Library Reveals that Vibrio fischeri δ-Aminolevulinate Auxotrophs Can Colonize Euprymna scolopes.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- The periplasmic sensing domain of Vibrio fischeri chemoreceptor protein A (VfcA): cloning, purification and crystallographic analysis.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2016Article
- In vitro evidence that RNA Polymerase acetylation and acetyl phosphate-dependent CpxR phosphorylation affect cpxP transcription regulation.FEMS microbiology letters · 2016Article
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Abstract
Bacteria successfully colonize distinct niches because they can sense and appropriately respond to a variety of environmental signals. Of particular interest is how a bacterium negotiates the multiple, complex environments posed during successful infection of an animal host. One tractable model system to study how a bacterium manages a host's multiple environments is the symbiotic relationship between the marine bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, and its squid host, Euprymna scolopes. V. fischeri encounters many different host surroundings ranging from initial contact with the squid to ultimate colonization of a specialized organ known as the light organ. For example, upon recognition of the squid, V. fischeri forms a biofilm aggregate outside the light organ that is required for efficient colonization. The bacteria then disperse from this biofilm to enter the organ, where they are exposed to nitric oxide, a molecule that can act as both a signal and an antimicrobial. After successfully managing this potentially hostile environment, V. fischeri cells finally establish their niche in the deep crypts of the light organ where the bacteria bioluminesce in a pheromone-dependent fashion, a phenotype that E. scolopes utilizes for anti-predation purposes. The mechanism by which V. fischeri manages these environments to outcompete all other bacterial species for colonization of E. scolopes is an important and intriguing question that will permit valuable insights into how a bacterium successfully associates with a host. This review focuses on specific molecular pathways that allow V. fischeri to establish this exquisite bacteria-host interaction.
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