Use of alternative gelling agents reveals the role of rhamnolipids in pseudomonas aeruginosa surface motility

Morin, Charles D et Déziel, Éric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4609-0115 (2021). Use of alternative gelling agents reveals the role of rhamnolipids in pseudomonas aeruginosa surface motility Biomolecules , vol. 11 , nº 10. pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.3390/biom11101468.

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Résumé

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a motile bacterium able to exhibit a social surface behaviour known as swarming motility. Swarming requires the polar flagellum of P. aeruginosa as well as the secretion of wetting agents to ease the spread across the surface. However, our knowledge on swarming is limited to observed phenotypes on agar-solidified media. To study the surface behaviour and the impact of wetting agents of P. aeruginosa on other surfaces, we assessed surface motility capabilities of the prototypical strain PA14 on semi-solid media solidified with alternative gelling agents, gellan gum and carrageenan. We found that, on these alternative surfaces, the characteristic dendritic spreading pattern of P. aeruginosa is drastically altered. One striking feature is the loss of dependence on rhamnolipids to spread effectively on plates solidified with these alternative gelling agents. Indeed, a rhlA-null mutant unable to produce its wetting agents still spreads effectively, albeit in a circular shape on both the gellan gum-and carrageenan-based media. Our data indicate that rhamnolipids do not have such a crucial role in achieving surface colonization of non-agar plates, suggesting a strong dependence on the physical properties of the tested surface. The use of alternative gelling agent provides new means to reveal unknown features of bacterial surface behaviour. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Type de document:	Article
Informations complémentaires:	Export Date: 16 October 2021
Mots-clés libres:	Bacterial Behaviour; Carrageenan; Gellan Gum; Swarming Motility; Eetting Agents
Centre:	Centre INRS-Institut Armand Frappier
Date de dépôt:	23 juin 2022 02:39
Dernière modification:	23 juin 2022 02:39
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/12396

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