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Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes
Predatory outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) secreted by myxobacteria fuse readily with the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria, introducing toxic cargo into their prey. Here we used a strain of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus that produces fluorescent OMVs to assay the uptake of OMVs by a pa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37110297 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040874 |
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author | Zwarycz, Allison S. Page, Thomas Nikolova, Gabriela Radford, Emily J. Whitworth, David E. |
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description | Predatory outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) secreted by myxobacteria fuse readily with the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria, introducing toxic cargo into their prey. Here we used a strain of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus that produces fluorescent OMVs to assay the uptake of OMVs by a panel of Gram-negative bacteria. M. xanthus strains took up significantly less OMV material than the tested prey strains, suggesting that re-fusion of OMVs with producing organisms is somehow inhibited. The OMV killing activity against different prey correlated strongly with the predatory activity of myxobacterial cells, however, there was no correlation between OMV killing activity and their propensity to fuse with different prey. It has previously been proposed that M. xanthus GAPDH stimulates the predatory activity of OMVs by enhancing OMV fusion with prey cells. Therefore, we expressed and purified active fusion proteins of M. xanthus glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphoglycerate kinase (GAPDH and PGK; moonlighting enzymes with additional activities beyond their roles in glycolysis/gluconeogenesis) to investigate any involvement in OMV-mediated predation. Neither GAPDH nor PGK caused lysis of prey cells or enhanced OMV-mediated lysis of prey cells. However, both enzymes were found to inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli, even in the absence of OMVs. Our results suggest that fusion efficiency is not a determinant of prey killing, but instead resistance to the cargo of OMVs and co-secreted enzymes dictates whether organisms can be preyed upon by myxobacteria. |
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spelling | pubmed-101418892023-04-29 Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes Zwarycz, Allison S. Page, Thomas Nikolova, Gabriela Radford, Emily J. Whitworth, David E. Microorganisms Article Predatory outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) secreted by myxobacteria fuse readily with the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria, introducing toxic cargo into their prey. Here we used a strain of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus that produces fluorescent OMVs to assay the uptake of OMVs by a panel of Gram-negative bacteria. M. xanthus strains took up significantly less OMV material than the tested prey strains, suggesting that re-fusion of OMVs with producing organisms is somehow inhibited. The OMV killing activity against different prey correlated strongly with the predatory activity of myxobacterial cells, however, there was no correlation between OMV killing activity and their propensity to fuse with different prey. It has previously been proposed that M. xanthus GAPDH stimulates the predatory activity of OMVs by enhancing OMV fusion with prey cells. Therefore, we expressed and purified active fusion proteins of M. xanthus glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and phosphoglycerate kinase (GAPDH and PGK; moonlighting enzymes with additional activities beyond their roles in glycolysis/gluconeogenesis) to investigate any involvement in OMV-mediated predation. Neither GAPDH nor PGK caused lysis of prey cells or enhanced OMV-mediated lysis of prey cells. However, both enzymes were found to inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli, even in the absence of OMVs. Our results suggest that fusion efficiency is not a determinant of prey killing, but instead resistance to the cargo of OMVs and co-secreted enzymes dictates whether organisms can be preyed upon by myxobacteria. MDPI 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10141889/ /pubmed/37110297 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040874 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zwarycz, Allison S. Page, Thomas Nikolova, Gabriela Radford, Emily J. Whitworth, David E. Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title | Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title_full | Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title_fullStr | Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title_full_unstemmed | Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title_short | Predatory Strategies of Myxococcus xanthus: Prey Susceptibility to OMVs and Moonlighting Enzymes |
title_sort | predatory strategies of myxococcus xanthus: prey susceptibility to omvs and moonlighting enzymes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37110297 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040874 |
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