Dynamic social interactions and keystone species shape the diversity and stability of mixed-species biofilms – an example from dairy isolates

Sadiq, Faizan Ahmed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1596-4155, De Reu, Koen, Steenackers, Hans, Van de Walle, Ann, Burmølle, Mette and Heyndrickx, Marc 2023. Dynamic social interactions and keystone species shape the diversity and stability of mixed-species biofilms – an example from dairy isolates. ISME Communications 3 (1) , 118. 10.1038/s43705-023-00328-3

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Abstract

Identifying interspecies interactions in mixed-species biofilms is a key challenge in microbial ecology and is of paramount importance given that interactions govern community functionality and stability. We previously reported a bacterial four-species biofilm model comprising Stenotrophomonas rhizophila, Bacillus licheniformis, Microbacterium lacticum, and Calidifontibacter indicus that were isolated from the surface of a dairy pasteuriser after cleaning and disinfection. These bacteria produced 3.13-fold more biofilm mass compared to the sum of biofilm masses in monoculture. The present study confirms that the observed community synergy results from dynamic social interactions, encompassing commensalism, exploitation, and amensalism. M. lacticum appears to be the keystone species as it increased the growth of all other species that led to the synergy in biofilm mass. Interactions among the other three species (in the absence of M. lacticum) also contributed towards the synergy in biofilm mass. Biofilm inducing effects of bacterial cell-free-supernatants were observed for some combinations, revealing the nature of the observed synergy, and addition of additional species to dual-species combinations confirmed the presence of higher-order interactions within the biofilm community. Our findings provide understanding of bacterial interactions in biofilms which can be used as an interaction–mediated approach for cultivating, engineering, and designing synthetic bacterial communities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	2730-6151
Last Modified:	07 May 2024 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168615

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