Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility.
cell motility
chemotaxis
microbial hitchhiking
microbial pathogens
Journal
Trends in microbiology
ISSN: 1878-4380
Titre abrégé: Trends Microbiol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9310916
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2021
06 2021
Historique:
received:
03
09
2020
revised:
12
10
2020
accepted:
13
10
2020
pubmed:
9
11
2020
medline:
19
11
2021
entrez:
8
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Motility allows many microbes to traverse their environment to find nutrient sources or escape unfavorable environments. However, some microbes are nonmotile and are restricted to their immediate conditions. Intriguingly, sporadic reports have demonstrated that many nonmotile microbes can utilize the motility machinery of other microbes in their vicinity. This form of transportation, called hitchhiking, has been observed with both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. Importantly, many hitchhiking microbes are pathogenic to humans or plants. Here, we discuss reports of intermicrobial hitchhiking to generate a comprehensive view of hitchhiking mechanisms and how such interactions may influence human and plant health. We hypothesize that microbial hitchhiking is ubiquitous in nature and may become the subject of an independent subfield of research in microbiology.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33160853
pii: S0966-842X(20)30267-5
doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.10.005
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
542-550Informations de copyright
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