Cooperation, quorum sensing, and evolution of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.

Abstract:

:The virulence and fitness in vivo of the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus are associated with a cell-to-cell signaling mechanism known as quorum sensing (QS). QS coordinates the production of virulence factors via the production and sensing of autoinducing peptide (AIP) signal molecules by the agr locus. Here we show, in a wax moth larva virulence model, that (i) QS in S. aureus is a cooperative social trait that provides a benefit to the local population of cells, (ii) agr mutants, which do not produce or respond to QS signal, are able to exploit the benefits provided by the QS of others ("cheat"), allowing them to increase in frequency when in mixed populations with cooperators, (iii) these social interactions between cells determine virulence, with the host mortality rate being negatively correlated to the percentage of agr mutants ("cheats") in a population, and (iv) a higher within-host relatedness (lower strain diversity) selects for QS and hence higher virulence. Our results provide an explanation for why agr mutants show reduced virulence in animal models but can be isolated from infections of humans. More generally, by providing the first evidence that QS is a cooperative social behavior in a Gram-positive bacterium, our results suggest convergent, and potentially widespread, evolution for signaling to coordinate cooperation in bacteria.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Pollitt EJ,West SA,Crusz SA,Burton-Chellew MN,Diggle SP

doi

10.1128/IAI.01216-13

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-03-01 00:00:00

pages

1045-51

issue

3

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

pii

IAI.01216-13

journal_volume

82

pub_type

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