ArticleCommunications biology2024
Bacterial envelope polysaccharide cues settlement and metamorphosis in the biofouling tubeworm Hydroides elegans.
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Abstract
Metamorphosis for many marine invertebrates is triggered by external cues, commonly produced by bacteria. For larvae of Hydroides elegans, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the biofilm-dwelling bacterium Cellulophaga lytica induces metamorphosis. To determine whether bacterial LPS is a common metamorphosis-inducing factor for this species, we compare larval responses to LPS from 3 additional inductive Gram-negative marine biofilm bacteria with commercially available LPS from 3 bacteria not known to induce metamorphosis. LPS from all the inductive bacteria trigger metamorphosis, while LPS from non-inductive isolated marine bacteria do not. We then ask, which part of the LPS is the inductive element, the lipid (Lipid-A) or the polysaccharide (O-antigen), and find it is the latter for all four inductive bacteria. Finally, we examine the LPS subunits from two strains of the same bacterial species, one inductive and the other not, and find the LPS and O-antigen to be inductive from only the inductive bacterial strain.
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