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Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications

Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms. Biotechnological applications are poised to capitalize on these unique interactions. However, current artificial co‐cu...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Shu, Merino, Nancy, Okamoto, Akihiro, Gedalanga, Phillip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30014573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13300
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Merino, Nancy
Okamoto, Akihiro
Gedalanga, Phillip
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description Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms. Biotechnological applications are poised to capitalize on these unique interactions. However, current artificial co‐cultures constructed for societal benefits, including biosynthesis, agriculture and bioremediation, face many challenges to perform as well as natural consortia. Interkingdom microbial consortia tend to be more robust and have higher productivity compared with monocultures and intrakingdom consortia, but the control and design of these diverse artificial consortia have received limited attention. Further, feasible research techniques and instrumentation for comprehensive mechanistic insights have only recently been established for interkingdom microbial communities. Here, we review these recent advances in technology and our current understanding of microbial interaction mechanisms involved in sustaining or developing interkingdom consortia for biotechnological applications. Some of the interactions among members from different kingdoms follow similar mechanisms observed for intrakingdom microbial consortia. However, unique interactions in interkingdom consortia, including endosymbiosis or interkingdom‐specific cell–cell interactions, provide improved mitigation to external stresses and inhibitory compounds. Furthermore, antagonistic interactions among interkingdom species can promote fitness, diversification and adaptation, along with the production of beneficial metabolites and enzymes for society. Lastly, we shed light on future research directions to develop study methods at the level of metabolites, genes and meta‐omics. These potential research methods could lead to the control and utilization of highly diverse microbial communities.
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spelling pubmed-61167522018-09-05 Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications Zhang, Shu Merino, Nancy Okamoto, Akihiro Gedalanga, Phillip Microb Biotechnol Minireviews Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms. Biotechnological applications are poised to capitalize on these unique interactions. However, current artificial co‐cultures constructed for societal benefits, including biosynthesis, agriculture and bioremediation, face many challenges to perform as well as natural consortia. Interkingdom microbial consortia tend to be more robust and have higher productivity compared with monocultures and intrakingdom consortia, but the control and design of these diverse artificial consortia have received limited attention. Further, feasible research techniques and instrumentation for comprehensive mechanistic insights have only recently been established for interkingdom microbial communities. Here, we review these recent advances in technology and our current understanding of microbial interaction mechanisms involved in sustaining or developing interkingdom consortia for biotechnological applications. Some of the interactions among members from different kingdoms follow similar mechanisms observed for intrakingdom microbial consortia. However, unique interactions in interkingdom consortia, including endosymbiosis or interkingdom‐specific cell–cell interactions, provide improved mitigation to external stresses and inhibitory compounds. Furthermore, antagonistic interactions among interkingdom species can promote fitness, diversification and adaptation, along with the production of beneficial metabolites and enzymes for society. Lastly, we shed light on future research directions to develop study methods at the level of metabolites, genes and meta‐omics. These potential research methods could lead to the control and utilization of highly diverse microbial communities. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6116752/ /pubmed/30014573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13300 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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