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Article Dans Une Revue The International Society of Microbiologial Ecology Journal Année : 2020

Beyond arbitrium: identification of a second communication system in Bacillus phage phi3T that may regulate host defense mechanisms

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The evolutionary stability of temperate bacteriophages at low abundance of susceptible bacterial hosts lies in the trade-off between the maximization of phage replication, performed by the host-destructive lytic cycle, and the protection of the phage-host collective, enacted by lysogeny. Upon Bacillus infection, Bacillus phages phi3T rely on the "arbitrium" quorum sensing (QS) system to communicate on their population density in order to orchestrate the lysis-to-lysogeny transition. At high phage densities, where there may be limited host cells to infect, lysogeny is induced to preserve chances of phage survival. Here, we report the presence of an additional, host-derived QS system in the phi3T genome, making it the first known virus with two communication systems. Specifically, this additional system, coined "Rapφ-Phrφ", is predicted to downregulate host defense mechanisms during the viral infection, but only upon stress or high abundance of Bacillus cells and at low density of population of the phi3T phages. Post-lysogenization, Rapφ-Phrφ is also predicted to provide the lysogenized bacteria with an immediate fitness advantage: delaying the costly production of public goods while nonetheless benefiting from the public goods produced by other non-lysogenized Bacillus bacteria. The discovered "Rapφ-Phrφ" QS system hence provides novel mechanistic insights into how phage communication systems could contribute to the phage-host evolutionary stability.
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hal-02967396 , version 1 (14-10-2020)

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Charles Bernard, Yanyan Li, Philippe Lopez, Eric Bapteste. Beyond arbitrium: identification of a second communication system in Bacillus phage phi3T that may regulate host defense mechanisms. The International Society of Microbiologial Ecology Journal, 2020, ⟨10.1038/s41396-020-00795-9⟩. ⟨hal-02967396⟩
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