Chemical Detection of Microbial Prey by Bacterial Predators

Author:

Chet Ilan1,Fogel Sam1,Mitchell Ralph1

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Abstract

A motile, predacious bacterium which degraded Pythium debaryanum was strongly attracted to substances released into the medium by the fungus. A nonpredacious bacterium was not attracted to these substances. The predator bacterium was specifically attracted to cellulose and its oligomers which are known to be components of the cell wall of Pythium . Ethanol inhibited chemotaxis of the bacterium without affecting either its motility or its ability to degrade cellulose. A second predacious bacterium was isolated for the alga, Skeletonema costatum . The role of chemoreception in the detection of microbial prey by bacterial predators in natural habitats is discussed.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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