Toroidal displacement of <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> by <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> is a unique mechanism to avoid competition for iron
Competition is common among organisms in nature. Bacteria have been known to deal with their neighbors using toxins and enzymes that kill or disable the latter. Here, we describe a simple, detergent-mediated mechanism that a common bacterium employs against its neighbor to push them away. This only happens in a time of scarcity of iron, an element essential for life, big and small.
Authors
- Dambar K Pradhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3774-6733)
- Gad M. Frankel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-1363)
- Ajay Tanwar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6777-0358)
- Joshua L. C. Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8437-6731)
- Srividhya Parthasarathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4724-2977)
- Varsha Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9391-5901)
Institutions
- University of Dundee (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- mBio
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01149-25
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.81
Funders
- Ministry of Education, India
- Science and Engineering Research Board