Widespread B-vitamin auxotrophy in marine particle-associated bacteria
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)
摘要
Microbial community assembly is governed by complex interaction networks based on the secretion and exchange of metabolites. While the importance of trophic interactions (e.g. cross-feeding of metabolic byproducts) in structuring microbial communities is well-established, the roles of myriad natural products such as vitamins, siderophores, and antibiotics remain unclear. Here, we focus on the role of B vitamins in coastal marine bacterial communities that degrade particulate organic matter. We find that natural seawater particle-associated communities are vitamin limited and almost a third of bacterial isolates from these communities are B vitamin auxotrophs. Auxotroph growth rates are limited under even maximal environmental vitamin concentrations, indicating that auxotrophs likely survive through cross-feeding with community members. We find that polysaccharide-degrading bacteria tend to be vitamin prototrophs, suggesting that the initial arrival of degraders to a particle may promote a succession to auxotrophic taxa partially through vitamin cross-feeding. However, auxotrophs with complementary vitamin requirements were generally not able to grow in co-culture, and auxotroph growth was only partially rescued by prototrophs. We conclude that while vitamin auxotrophies are important metabolic dependencies shaping community structure, vitamin cross-feeding may primarily take place through cell lysis.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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bacteria,b-vitamin,particle-associated
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