Bacterial mobbing behavior: coordinated communal attack of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on a protozoan predator
Shteindel, N.; Gerchman, Y.
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Mobbing, a group attack of prey on predator, is a strategy enacted by many animal species. Here we report bacterial mobbing carried out by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards Acanthamoeba castellanii, a common bacterivore. This behavior consists of bacterial taxis towards the amoebae, adhesion en masse to amoebae cells, and eventual killing of the amoebae. Mobbing behavior transpires in seconds timescale and responds to predator population density. A mutant defective in the production of a specific quorum sensing signal displays reduced adhesion to amoeba cells. This deficiency ameliorated by external addition of the missing signal molecule. The same quorum sensing mutant also expresses long term deficiency in its ability to cause amoeba death and shows higher susceptibility to predation, highlighting the importance of group coordination to mobbing and predation avoidance. These findings portray bacterial mobbing as a regulated and dynamic group behavior.
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