Altruistic feeding and cell-cell signaling during bacterial differentiation actively enhance phenotypic heterogeneity
T. B. Updegrove, T. Delerue, V. Anantharaman, H. Cho, C. Chan, T. Nipper, H. Choo-Wosoba, L. Jenkins, L. Zhang, Y. Su, H. Shroff, J. Chen, C. Bewley, L. Aravind, K. S. Ramamurthi
This study shows that bacterial differentiation through altruistic feeding and cell-cell signaling increases phenotypic heterogeneity, enhancing population resilience to environmental changes.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2024Microbiology