Collaboration between a temperate phage and Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing constrains social cheats

Quorum sensing (QS) enables bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa to coordinate cooperative activities. How bacteria in cooperating groups can resist infiltration by non-cooperating variants is an emerging area of interest in sociobiology and molecular biology. There have been several recent repor...

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Published in:mBio Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0236025
Main Authors: Chen, Ruiyi, Traxler, Beth, Kropinski, Andrew M., Greenberg, E. Peter
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 12.11.2025
Subjects:
Bacterial communication
Bacteriology
Bacteriophages
Bacteriophages - genetics
Bacteriophages - physiology
cell-cell signaling
Cyanides
Genes
Genome, Viral
Genomes
LasR
Lysates
Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Microbial Interactions
Microbial Physiology and Genetics
Mitomycin C
Mutants
Mutation
Pathogenesis
Phages
Population Dynamics
Prophages - genetics
Prophages - physiology
Proteases
Proteins
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - genetics
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - physiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - virology
Pseudomonas Phages - genetics
Pseudomonas Phages - physiology
Quorum Sensing
Quorum Sensing and Communication
Quorum Sensing and Regulation
Quorum Sensing and Social Behavior
Quorum Sensing and Virulence
Quorum Sensing in Gram-Negative Bacteria
Quorum Sensing Mechanisms
Quorum Sensing Networks
Quorum Sensing Regulatory Networks
Regulatory Networks
Research Article
sociomicrobiology
Superinfection
LasR
Bacterial communication
cell-cell signaling
sociomicrobiology
ISSN:2150-7511, 2161-2129, 2150-7511
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Summary:Quorum sensing (QS) enables bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa to coordinate cooperative activities. How bacteria in cooperating groups can resist infiltration by non-cooperating variants is an emerging area of interest in sociobiology and molecular biology. There have been several recent reports on how QS and certain bacteriophage interact. In some strains of P. aeruginosa , QS can activate phage defense systems. At least one bacteriophage can repress P. aeruginosa QS. Here, we show that a previously undescribed bacteriophage can help cooperating groups of P. aeruginosa resist infiltration by non-cooperating QS mutants. This represents a mutualism in which both the bacteriophage and the P. aeruginosa host benefit at least under certain conditions.
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ISSN:2150-7511
2161-2129
2150-7511
DOI:10.1128/mbio.02360-25