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Competitive interactions as a mechanism for chemical diversity maintenance in Nodularia spumigena
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Science. University of Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0167-7163
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4192-6956
Number of Authors: 32021 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 11, no 1, article id 8970Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Nodularia spumigena is a bloom-forming diazotrophic cyanobacterium inhabiting brackish waters worldwide. This species produces non-ribosomal peptides (NRPs), including the hepatotoxin nodularin, often referred to as cyanotoxin. Several known classes of NRPs have various biological activities, although their modes of action are poorly understood. In the Baltic N. spumigena, there is a high NRP chemodiversity among strains, allowing their grouping in specific chemotypes and subgroups. Therefore, it is relevant to ask whether the NRP production is affected by intraspecific interactions between the co-existing strains. Using a novel approach that combines culture technique and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the NRP analysis, we examined N. spumigena strains under mono- and co-culture conditions. The test strains were selected to represent N. spumigena belonging to the same or different chemotype subgroups. In this setup, we observed physiological and metabolic responses in the test strains grown without cell contact. The changes in NRP levels to co-culture conditions were conserved within a chemotype subgroup but different between the subgroups. Our results suggest that intraspecific interactions may promote a chemical diversity in N. spumigena population, with higher NRP production compared to a single-strain population. Studying allelochemical signalling in this cyanobacterium is crucial for understanding toxicity mechanisms and plankton community interactions in the Baltic Sea and other aquatic systems experiencing regular blooms.

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2021. Vol. 11, no 1, article id 8970
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195311DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88361-xISI: 000647147700010PubMedID: 33903638OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-195311DiVA, id: diva2:1584784
Available from: 2021-08-13 Created: 2021-08-13 Last updated: 2022-09-15Bibliographically approved

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