Bacterial cooperation at the individual cell level

Project Information

BactInd

Grant agreement ID: 681295

DOI 10.3030/681295

Project closed

EC signature date 23 August 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 August 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 994 981,00

EU contribution € 1 994 981,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions

Author(s): Jos Kramer, Özhan Özkaya, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Nature Reviews Microbiology, Issue 18/3, 2020, Page(s) 152-163, ISSN 1740-1526
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41579-019-0284-4

Harnessing bacterial interactions to manage infections: a review on the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a case example

Author(s): Chiara Rezzoagli, Elisa T. Granato, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Journal of Medical Microbiology, Issue 69/2, 2020, Page(s) 147-161, ISSN 0022-2615
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001134

Antagonistic interactions subdue inter‐species green‐beard cooperation in bacteria

Author(s): Santosh Sathe, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 33/9, 2020, Page(s) 1245-1255, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13666

Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities

Author(s): Elena Butaitė, Jos Kramer, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 34/8, 2021, Page(s) 1266-1278, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13883

Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Author(s): Alexandre R. T. Figueiredo, Andreas Wagner, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 30, 2021, Page(s) 5214–5228, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16119

Loss of a pyoverdine secondary receptor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa results in a fitter strain suitable for population invasion

Author(s): Jaime González, Manuel Salvador, Özhan Özkaya, Matt Spick, Kate Reid, Catia Costa, Melanie J. Bailey, Claudio Avignone Rossa, Rolf Kümmerli, José I. Jiménez
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 15/5, 2021, Page(s) 1330-1343, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00853-2

Pervasive positive linkage between bacterial social traits suggests the predominance of competitive interactions in natural Pseudomonas communities

Author(s): Jos Kramer; Rolf Kümmerli; Miguel Ángel López Carrasco; Miguel Ángel López Carrasco
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Issue 96 (1), 2020, Page(s) fiz185, ISSN 0168-6496
Publisher: Blackwell
DOI: 10.1101/477471

Single-Cell Imaging Reveals That Staphylococcus aureus Is Highly Competitive Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa on Surfaces

Author(s): Selina Niggli, Tobias Wechsler, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 733991, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.733991

Strain Background, Species Frequency, and Environmental Conditions Are Important in Determining Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Population Dynamics and Species Coexistence

Author(s): Selina Niggli, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Issue 86/18, 2020, Page(s) e00962-20, ISSN 0099-2240
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00962-20

The physical boundaries of public goods cooperation between surface-attached bacterial cells

Author(s): Michael Weigert, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 284/1858, 2017, Page(s) 20170631, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0631

Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Author(s): Elisa Granato, Christoph Ziegenhain, Rasmus L Marvig, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 12, 2018, Page(s) 2907–2918, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0231-9

Individual- versus group-optimality in the production of secreted bacterial compounds

Author(s): Konstanze Schiessl, Adin Ross-Gillespie, Dan Cornforth, Michael Weigert, Sam Brown, Martin Ackermann, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Evolution, Issue 73/4, 2019, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13701

The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa senses and gradually responds to interspecific competition for iron

Author(s): Anne Leinweber, Michael Weigert, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Evolution, Issue 72/7, 2018, Page(s) 1515-1528, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13491

Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria

Author(s): Tobias Wechsler, Rolf Kümmerli, Akos Dobay
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 32/5, 2019, Page(s) 412-424, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13423

Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production

Author(s): Anna Dragoš, Heiko Kiesewalter, Marivic Martin, Chih-Yu Hsu, Raimo Hartmann, Tobias Wechsler, Carsten Eriksen, Susanne Brix, Knut Drescher, Nicola Stanley-Wall, Rolf Kümmerli, Ákos T. Kovács
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 28/12, 2018, Page(s) 1903-1913.e5, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.046

In-vivo microscopy reveals the impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa social interactions on host colonization

Author(s): Chiara Rezzoagli, Elisa T. Granato, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 13/10, 2019, Page(s) 2403-2414, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0442-8

Genetic architecture constrains exploitation of siderophore cooperation in the bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia

Author(s): Santosh Sathe, Anugraha Mathew, Kirsty Agnoli, Leo Eberl, Rolf Kümmerli
Published in: Evolution Letters, Issue 3, 2019, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.144

Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

Author(s): Siobhán O'Brien, Rolf Kümmerli, Steve Paterson, Craig Winstanley, Michael A. Brockhurst
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 286/1912, 2019, Page(s) 20191794, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1794

Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes

Author(s): Shaohua Gu, Zhong Wei, Zhengying Shao, Ville-Petri Friman, Kehao Cao, Tianjie Yang, Jos Kramer, Xiaofang Wang, Mei Li, Xinlan Mei, Yangchun Xu, Qirong Shen, Rolf Kümmerli, Alexandre Jousset
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 5/8, 2020, Page(s) 1002-1010, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0719-8

Combining antibiotics with antivirulence compounds can have synergistic effects and reverse selection for antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Author(s): Martina Archetti; Michael Baumgartner; Rolf Kuemmerli; Chiara Rezzoagli; Ingrid Mignot
Published in: PLoS Biology, Issue 18 (8), 2020, Page(s) e3000805, ISSN 1544-9173
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-194235