Dept of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Microbiology (Reading). 2021 Apr;167(4). doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001043.
is an environmentally-ubiquitous bacterium that uses unique adaptations to kill other bacteria. The best-characterized strain, HD100, has a multistage lifestyle, with both a free-living attack phase and an intraperiplasmic growth and division phase inside the prey cell. Advances in understanding the basic biology and regulation of predation processes are paving the way for future potential therapeutic and bioremediation applications of this unusual bacterium.
是一种广泛存在于环境中的细菌,它利用独特的适应性来杀死其他细菌。最具代表性的菌株 HD100 具有多阶段的生活方式,既有自由生活的攻击阶段,也有在猎物细胞内的周质内生长和分裂阶段。对捕食过程的基础生物学和调控的理解的进展,为未来利用这种不寻常的细菌进行潜在的治疗和生物修复应用铺平了道路。