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Main Authors: Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo, Arani, Akash, Krupovic, Mart, Weitz, Joshua S, Santos, Fernando, Antón, Josefa
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: The ISME journal 2025
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Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40214158/
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author Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo
Arani, Akash
Krupovic, Mart
Weitz, Joshua S
Santos, Fernando
Antón, Josefa
author_facet Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo
Arani, Akash
Krupovic, Mart
Weitz, Joshua S
Santos, Fernando
Antón, Josefa
Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo
Arani, Akash
Krupovic, Mart
Weitz, Joshua S
Santos, Fernando
Antón, Josefa
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus-bacterial coexistence. Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo Arani, Akash Krupovic, Mart Weitz, Joshua S Santos, Fernando Antón, Josefa Plasmids Bacteriophages Bacteroidetes Viruses are ubiquitous in aquatic environments with total densities of virus-like particles often exceeding 107/ml in surface marine oligotrophic waters. Hypersaline environments harbor elevated prokaryotic population densities of 108/ml that coexist with viruses at even higher densities, approaching 1010/ml. The presence of high densities of microbial populations and viruses challenge traditional explanations of top-down control exerted by viruses. At close to saturation salinities, prokaryotic populations are dominated by Archaea and the bacterial genus Salinibacter. In this work we examine the episomal maintenance of a virus within a Salinibacter ruber host. We found that infected cultures of Sal. ruber M1 developed a population-level resistance and underwent systematic and reproducible recovery post infection that was counter-intuitively dependent on the multiplicity of infection, where higher viral pressures led to better host outcomes. Furthermore, we developed a nonlinear population dynamics model that successfully reproduced the qualitative features of the recovery. Together, experiments and models suggest that episomal virus maintenance and lysis inhibition enable host-virus co-existence at high viral densities. Our results emphasize the ecological importance of exploring a spectrum of viral infection strategies beyond the conventional binary of lysis or lysogeny.
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spellingShingle Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus-bacterial coexistence.
Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo
Arani, Akash
Krupovic, Mart
Weitz, Joshua S
Santos, Fernando
Antón, Josefa
Plasmids
Bacteriophages
Bacteroidetes
Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus-bacterial coexistence. Sanchez-Martinez, Rodrigo Arani, Akash Krupovic, Mart Weitz, Joshua S Santos, Fernando Antón, Josefa Plasmids Bacteriophages Bacteroidetes Viruses are ubiquitous in aquatic environments with total densities of virus-like particles often exceeding 107/ml in surface marine oligotrophic waters. Hypersaline environments harbor elevated prokaryotic population densities of 108/ml that coexist with viruses at even higher densities, approaching 1010/ml. The presence of high densities of microbial populations and viruses challenge traditional explanations of top-down control exerted by viruses. At close to saturation salinities, prokaryotic populations are dominated by Archaea and the bacterial genus Salinibacter. In this work we examine the episomal maintenance of a virus within a Salinibacter ruber host. We found that infected cultures of Sal. ruber M1 developed a population-level resistance and underwent systematic and reproducible recovery post infection that was counter-intuitively dependent on the multiplicity of infection, where higher viral pressures led to better host outcomes. Furthermore, we developed a nonlinear population dynamics model that successfully reproduced the qualitative features of the recovery. Together, experiments and models suggest that episomal virus maintenance and lysis inhibition enable host-virus co-existence at high viral densities. Our results emphasize the ecological importance of exploring a spectrum of viral infection strategies beyond the conventional binary of lysis or lysogeny.
title Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus-bacterial coexistence.
topic Plasmids
Bacteriophages
Bacteroidetes
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40214158/