David Carrasco Flores, Vivien Hotter, Trang Vuong, Yu Hou, Yuko Bando, Kirstin Scherlach, Bertille Burgunter-Delamare, Ron Hermenau, Anna J Komor, Prasad Aiyar, Magdalena Rose, Severin Sasso, Hans-Dieter Arndt, Christian Hertweck, Maria Mittag
Photosynthetic protists, known as microalgae, are key contributors to primary production on Earth. Since early in evolution, they coexist with bacteria in nature, and their mode of interaction shapes ecosystems. We have recently shown that the bacterium Pseudomonas protegens acts algicidal on the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. It secretes a cyclic lipopeptide and a polyyne that deflagellate, blind, and lyse the algae [P. Aiyar et al. , Nat. Commun. 8 , 1756 (2017) and V. Hotter et al. , Proc. Natl. Acad...
April 9, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America