T6SS-mediated competitive exclusion amongPantoea agglomeransassociated with plants
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)
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AbstractEstablishment of symbiotic interactions with a host habitat depends on colonization success of the microbiome members. One route to success is increasing competitiveness against genotypes having similar adaptations. Many bacteria deploy the type VI secretion system (T6SS) to deliver toxic effector proteins into the cytoplasm of competing cells, whereas the attacking cells are protected from self-intoxication by immunity proteins. While the evolution of antagonistic interactions between species competing for similar niches is expected, the interactions between closely related strains having a similar core genetic makeup, remains understudied. Here we show that the strength of T6SS-mediated competition between closely relatedP. agglomeransstrains is not associated with phylogenetic relatedness and rather depends on their effector and immunity genes repertoire. Annotating the T6SS components in elevenP. agglomeransisolates from wheat seeds, we observed a heterogeneous composition of effector and immunity determinants. Competition experiments further showed profound differences in the strain survival following reciprocal T6SS-mediated interactions. Reconstructing the evolution of T6SS loci across plant-associatedP. agglomeransisolates indicates intra-chromosomal recombination as the main driver of effector and immunity gene diversification. Our results provide empirical data on intraspecific interactions during microbiota assembly likely to be at play during colonization of germinating plant seeds.
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among<i>pantoea agglomerans</i>associated,competitive exclusion,plants,ss-mediated
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