Genetic regulation of inter- and intra-species microbial community formation

种间和种内微生物群落形成的遗传调控

基本信息

批准号：
9981826
负责人：
Clarissa Jane Nobile
金额：
$ 38.14万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-15 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Studies of microorganisms have largely been carried out in free-floating (planktonic) cultures; however, the environmental and medical impacts of most microorganisms depend on their abilities to form resilient surface- associated microbial communities called biofilms. Biofilms are the predominant growth state of most microorganisms on biotic and abiotic surfaces. The overarching goal of my lab’s research program is to understand the molecular and mechanistic bases of microbial communities. We are interested in investigating how transcriptional networks underlie the regulation of gene expression during the development of microbial communities. Our overarching goals are to understand how these communities are regulated, how they are built, how their specialized properties are elaborated and maintained, and how these types of behaviors have evolved. We take systems biology approaches to address these biological questions and explore microbial communities at both the single-species as well as multi- species levels. The types of microorganisms we study include fungi, bacteria, and archaea, and vary from those that are found in the environment to commensals and opportunistic pathogens existing in the microbiota of mammalian hosts. Our central hypothesis is that there should be overlap in the molecular mechanisms used by microorganisms (even across kingdoms) to form microbial communities. This information will provide new insights into ways of treating biofilms in industrial and medical settings and, perhaps most importantly, in preventing them from forming in the first place. More broadly, this work may also shed light on the evolution of multicellularity in more recently evolved organisms.

项目概要/摘要微生物的研究主要是在自由漂浮（浮游）培养物中进行的。大多数微生物对环境和医学的影响取决于它们形成弹性表面的能力- 称为生物膜的相关微生物群落是大多数的主要生长状态。生物和非生物表面上的微生物。我实验室研究计划的总体目标是了解分子和机制基础我们有兴趣研究转录网络如何成为调控的基础。我们的首要目标是了解微生物群落发育过程中基因表达的变化。这些社区是如何监管的，它们是如何建立的，它们的特殊属性是如何阐述的，以及以及这些类型的行为是如何演变的，我们采用系统生物学方法来解决。这些生物学问题并探索单物种和多物种的微生物群落我们研究的微生物类型包括真菌、细菌和古细菌，并且各不相同。在环境中发现的微生物群中存在的共生菌和机会病原体我们的中心假设是所使用的分子机制应该有重叠。由微生物（甚至跨界）形成微生物群落的信息将提供新的信息。对工业和医疗环境中生物膜处理方法的见解，也许最重要的是，更广泛地说，这项工作也可能揭示了它们的演变。最近进化的生物体中的多细胞性。