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Dissecting cell heterogeneities in bacterial biofilms and their implications for antibiotic tolerance
Current Opinion in Microbiology ( IF 5.4 ) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 , DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2024.102450 Mayra C Obando , Diego O Serra
Current Opinion in Microbiology ( IF 5.4 ) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 , DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2024.102450 Mayra C Obando , Diego O Serra
Bacterial biofilms consist of large, self-formed aggregates where resident bacteria can exhibit very different physiological states and phenotypes. This heterogeneity of cell types is crucial for many structural and functional emergent properties of biofilms. Consequently, it becomes essential to understand what drives cells to differentiate and how they achieve it within the three-dimensional landscape of the biofilms. Here, we discuss recent advances in comprehending two forms of cell heterogeneity that, while recognized to coexist within biofilms, have proven challenging to distinguish. These two forms include cell heterogeneity arising as a consequence of bacteria physiologically responding to resource gradients formed across the biofilms and cell-to-cell phenotypic heterogeneity, which emerges locally within biofilm subzones among neighboring bacteria due to stochastic variations in gene expression. We describe the defining features and concepts related to both forms of cell heterogeneity and discuss their implications, with a particular focus on antibiotic tolerance.
更新日期：2024-02-28
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