A toxin-mediated policing system in Bacillus optimizes division of labor via penalizing cheater-like nonproducers

• Published in: eLife Vol. 12
• Main Authors: Huang, Rong, Shao, Jiahui, Xu, Zhihui, Chen, Yuqi, Liu, Yunpeng, Wang, Dandan, Feng, Haichao, Xun, Weibing, Shen, Qirong, Zhang, Nan, Zhang, Ruifu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 25.04.2023; eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
• Subjects: Acetyl-CoA carboxylase; Altruism; Antibiotics; Bacillus - metabolism; Bacillus - physiology; Bacillus velezensis; Biofilms; Biosynthesis; Cannibalism; Cell differentiation; cheater-like nonproducers; Cheating; Cooperation; Division of labor; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Extracellular matrix; Flow cytometry; Genomic islands; Immunity; Molecular modelling; policing system; population fitness; Population stability; Privatization; public goods; Rhizosphere; ecology; evolutionary biology; policing system; public goods; cheater-like nonproducers; population fitness; Bacillus velezensis

Division of labor, where subpopulations perform complementary tasks simultaneously within an assembly, characterizes major evolutionary transitions of cooperation in certain cases. Currently, the mechanism and significance of mediating the interaction between different cell types during the division...