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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2007, p. 8079-8087, Vol. 189, No. 22
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01138-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Nutritional Cues Control Pseudomonas aeruginosa Multicellular Behavior in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Kelli L. Palmer, Lindsay M. Aye, and Marvin Whiteley*

Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Received 18 July 2007/ Accepted 6 September 2007

The sputum (mucus) layer of the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung is a complex substrate that provides Pseudomonas aeruginosa with carbon and energy to support high-density growth during chronic colonization. Unfortunately, the CF lung sputum layer has been difficult to mimic in animal models of CF disease, and mechanistic studies of P. aeruginosa physiology during growth in CF sputum are hampered by its complexity. In this study, we performed chromatographic and enzymatic analyses of CF sputum to develop a defined, synthetic CF sputum medium (SCFM) that mimics the nutritional composition of CF sputum. Importantly, P. aeruginosa displays similar phenotypes during growth in CF sputum and in SCFM, including similar growth rates, gene expression profiles, carbon substrate preferences, and cell-cell signaling profiles. Using SCFM, we provide evidence that aromatic amino acids serve as nutritional cues that influence cell-cell signaling and antimicrobial activity of P. aeruginosa during growth in CF sputum.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, A5000, Austin, TX 78712. Phone: (512) 471-5493. Fax: (512) 471-7088. E-mail: mwhiteley{at}mail.utexas.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 14 September 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 2007, p. 8079-8087, Vol. 189, No. 22
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01138-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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