Cannibalism by Sporulating Bacteria

By J. González-Pastor, Errett C. Hobbs, R. Losick. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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In Ecology

1. T. Stein
2. Stuart E. Jones
3. Kim Lewis
4. J. Lennon
5. Adam P. Arkin
6. Vijay V. Vazirani
7. Denise M. Wolf
8. R. Losick

In Genetics

1. Kim Lewis
2. J. Lennon
3. Stuart E. Jones
4. T. Stein
5. R. Losick
6. J. Errington
7. Claude Desplan
8. Adam P. Arkin

In Molecular Biology

1. Kim Lewis
2. J. Lennon
3. Stuart E. Jones
4. T. Stein
5. Søren Brunak
6. Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen
7. J. Errington
8. R. Losick

Citations in the corpus

• Bistability in bacteria (2006, background): “subtilis cells are observed to exhibit a behaviour referred to as cannibalism in which the Spo0A-ON cells in the population trigger the lysis of non-sporulating siblings (Spo0A-OFF cells) via the elaboration of a killing factor and a toxin (Gonzalez-Pastor et al., 2003).”
• Stochasticity and Cell Fate (2008, background): “sporulation is governed by the regulatory protein Spo0A, whose activation is governed by a bistable switch [ 37-39 ].”
• Regulation of endospore formation in Bacillus subtilis (2003, background): “Recently, two new systems have been described that highlight the importance of population dynamics in the control of sporulation initiatio”
• Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy (2011, background): “Dormant microorganisms can meet survival and maintenance energy demands through cannibalis”
• Multidrug tolerance of biofilms and persister cells. (2008, positive): “subtilis (Gonzalez-Pastor et al. 2003).”
• Diversity in times of adversity: probabilistic strategies in microbial survival games. (2005, positive): “subtilis (Msadek, 1999), or the partitioning of stressed bacterial populations into lysing ‘donor’ and DNA or nutrient uptake ‘recipient’ subpopulations (Steinmoen et al., 2002; Gonzalez-Pastor et al., 2003; Webb et al., 2003).”
• Bacillus subtilis antibiotics: structures, syntheses and specific functions (2005, background): “Early sporulating B. subtilis cells (Spo0A-active) produce and export the antibiotic-like killing factor Skf, to which they are immune, and that causes lysis of non-sporulating (Spo0A-inactive) sister cells – a mechanism designated as ‘cannibalism of siblings’ (Gonzalez-Pastor et al., 2003).”
• Non-classical protein secretion in bacteria (2005, background): “subtilis is capable of causing lysis to surrounding cells in order to postpone sporulation [50].”