Iron is a critical yet limited nutrient for microbial growth.To scavenge iron,most microbes produce siderophores—diverse small molecules with high iron affinities.Different siderophores are specifically recognized an...Iron is a critical yet limited nutrient for microbial growth.To scavenge iron,most microbes produce siderophores—diverse small molecules with high iron affinities.Different siderophores are specifically recognized and uptaken by corresponding recognizers,enabling targeted interventions and intriguing cheater-producer dynamics.We propose constructing a comprehensive iron interaction network,or“iron-net”,across the microbial world.Such a network offers the potential for precise manipulation of the microbiota,with conceivable applications in medicine,agriculture,and industry as well as advancing microbial ecologyandevolution theories.Previously,our successful construction of an iron-net in the Pseudomonas genus demonstrated the feasibility of coevolution-inspired digital siderophore-typing.Enhanced by machine learning techniques and expanding sequencing data,forging such an iron-net calls for multidisciplinary collaborations and holds significant promise in addressing critical challenges in microbial communities.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:32071255,T2321001the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences。
文摘Iron is a critical yet limited nutrient for microbial growth.To scavenge iron,most microbes produce siderophores—diverse small molecules with high iron affinities.Different siderophores are specifically recognized and uptaken by corresponding recognizers,enabling targeted interventions and intriguing cheater-producer dynamics.We propose constructing a comprehensive iron interaction network,or“iron-net”,across the microbial world.Such a network offers the potential for precise manipulation of the microbiota,with conceivable applications in medicine,agriculture,and industry as well as advancing microbial ecologyandevolution theories.Previously,our successful construction of an iron-net in the Pseudomonas genus demonstrated the feasibility of coevolution-inspired digital siderophore-typing.Enhanced by machine learning techniques and expanding sequencing data,forging such an iron-net calls for multidisciplinary collaborations and holds significant promise in addressing critical challenges in microbial communities.
