ArticleSoft matter2014
Hyperswarming adaptations in a bacterium improve collective motility without enhancing single cell motility.
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- Collective Dynamics of Model Pili-Based Twitcher-Mode Bacilliforms.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Reentrant Efficiency of Phototaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells.Biophysical journal · 2019Article
- The Ultimate Guide to Bacterial Swarming: An Experimental Model to Study the Evolution of Cooperative Behavior.Annual review of microbiology · 2019Review
- Evolution at the Edge of Expanding Populations.The American naturalist · 2019Article
- Connecting single-cell properties to collective behavior in multiple wild isolates of the Enterobacter cloacae complex.PloS one · 2019Article
- Metabolism and the Evolution of Social Behavior.Molecular biology and evolution · 2017Article
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- Inhibition ofChemical science · 2016Article
- Swimming performance of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens is an emergent property of its two flagellar systems.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Bacterial flagellar motility on hydrated rough surfaces controlled by aqueous film thickness and connectedness.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Integration of Metabolic and Quorum Sensing Signals Governing the Decision to Cooperate in a Bacterial Social Trait.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Type IV pili interactions promote intercellular association and moderate swarming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
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Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a monoflagellated bacterium that can use its single polar flagellum to swim through liquids and move collectively over semisolid surfaces, a behavior called swarming. Previous studies have shown that experimental evolution in swarming colonies leads to the selection of hyperswarming bacteria with multiple flagella. Here we show that the advantage of such hyperswarmer mutants cannot be explained simply by an increase in the raw swimming speed of individual bacteria in liquids. Cell tracking of time-lapse microscopy to quantify single-cell swimming patterns reveals that both wild-type and hyperswarmers alternate between forward and backward runs, rather than doing the run-and-tumble characteristic of enteric bacteria such as E. coli. High-throughput measurement of swimming speeds reveals that hyperswarmers do not swim faster than wild-type in liquid. Wild-type reverses swimming direction in sharp turns without a significant impact on its speed, whereas multiflagellated hyperswarmers tend to alternate fast and slow runs and have wider turning angles. Nonetheless, macroscopic measurement of swimming and swarming speed in colonies shows that hyperswarmers expand faster than wild-type on surfaces and through soft agar matrices. A mathematical model explains how wider turning angles lead to faster spreading when swimming through agar. Our study describes for the first time the swimming patterns in multiflagellated P. aeruginosa mutants and reveals that collective and individual motility in bacteria are not necessarily correlated. Understanding bacterial adaptations to surface motility, such as hyperswarming, requires a collective behavior approach.
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