Diauxie and co-utilization are not exclusive during growth in nutritionally complex environments
Perrin, E.; Giovannini, M.; Di Patti, F.; Cardazzo, B.; Carraro, L.; Fagorzi, C.; Ghini, V.; Turano, P.; Fani, R.; Fondi, M.
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The classic view of microbial growth strategy when multiple carbon sources are available states that they either metabolize them sequentially (diauxic growth) or simultaneously (co-utilization). This perspective is biased by the fact that this process has been mainly analysed in over-simplified laboratory settings, i.e. using a few model microorganisms and growth media containing only two alternative compounds. Models concerning the mechanisms and the dynamics regulating nutrients assimilation strategies in conditions that are closer to the ones found in natural settings (i.e. with many alternative carbon/energy sources) are missing. Here, we show that bacterial co-utilization and sequential uptake of multiple substrates can coexist when multiple possible nutrients are provided in the same growth experiment, leading to an efficient exploitation of nutritionally complex settings. The order of nutrient uptake is determined by the actual biomass yield (and growth rate) that can be achieved when the same compounds are provided as single carbon sources. Finally, using two alternative theoretical models we show that this complex metabolic phenotype can be explained by a tight regulation process that allows microbes to actively modulate the different assimilatory pathways involved.
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