Bacterial vitamin sharing emerges from a balance between release and uptake
Bunbury, F.; Janas, T.; Mullen, P.; Scorza, K.; Ghosh, S.; Zhang, J.; Mani, M.; Pfister, C. A.; Donnat, C.; Kuehn, S.
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Vitamin availability often shapes microbial communities, as many microbes use vitamins they cannot synthesize. Yet how vitamins become available to users remains poorly understood. To explore this process, we quantified vitamin B12 synthesis, uptake, and extracellular accumulation across hundreds of diverse soil, freshwater, and marine bacterial isolates. These measurements revealed distinct source-sink phenotypes and showed that producers vary substantially in the amount of B12 they provide extracellularly. B12 synthesis was predictable across divergent bacterial lineages from genome content, whereas uptake and extracellular accumulation were not. Controlled cell-death experiments and independently parameterized models showed that extracellular B12 could be quantitatively predicted from release by dead cells and reuptake by surviving cells. Thus, extracellular B12 availability is governed not by synthesis alone, but by the balance between release and uptake, with producer reuptake acting as a previously overlooked sink.
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