ArticleNature microbiology2023
Bdellovibrio predation cycle characterized at nanometre-scale resolution with cryo-electron tomography.
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- Quantitative proteome of bacterial periplasmic predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus reveals a prey-lytic protease.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Strategies and mechanisms of contact-dependent predation in bacteria.Current opinion in microbiology · 2025Review
- A diverse Palaeoproterozoic microbial ecosystem implies early eukaryogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- A porin-like protein used by bacterial predators defines a wider lipid-trapping superfamily.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Two-step localization driven by peptidoglycan hydrolase in interbacterial predation.The ISME journal · 2025Article
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- Bdellovibrio's prey-independent lifestyle is fueled by amino acids as a carbon source.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the application potential of Bdellovibrio sp. YBD-1 isolated from Yak faeces.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Controlling the expression of heterologous genes in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus using synthetic biology strategies.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Article
- Lifecycle of a predatory bacterium vampirizing its prey through the cell envelope and S-layer.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Distinct dynamics and proximity networks of hub proteins at the prey-invading cell pole in a predatory bacterium.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Article
- Prey killing without invasion by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus defective for a MIDAS-family adhesin.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a microbial predator that offers promise as a living antibiotic for its ability to kill Gram-negative bacteria, including human pathogens. Even after six decades of study, fundamental details of its predation cycle remain mysterious. Here we used cryo-electron tomography to comprehensively image the lifecycle of B. bacteriovorus at nanometre-scale resolution. With high-resolution images of predation in a native (hydrated, unstained) state, we discover several surprising features of the process, including macromolecular complexes involved in prey attachment/invasion and a flexible portal structure lining a hole in the prey peptidoglycan that tightly seals the prey outer membrane around the predator during entry. Unexpectedly, we find that B. bacteriovorus does not shed its flagellum during invasion, but rather resorbs it into its periplasm for degradation. Finally, following growth and division in the bdelloplast, we observe a transient and extensive ribosomal lattice on the condensed B. bacteriovorus nucleoid.
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