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Mahmoud Yousef^1,2,3,4, Kiseok Keith Lee^2,3,4, Jonathan Tang³

¹Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

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Scientists designed microbial consortia to degrade bisphenol-A (BPA), a toxic contaminant. They used community-function landscapes to predict and achieve effective BPA bioremediation in soil, demonstrating toxicity drives microbial interactions.

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Area of Science:

Microbiology
Environmental Science
Synthetic Biology

Background:

Microbial communities are vital for environmental health and bioremediation.
Designing microbial consortia with specific functions is complex due to interactions and environmental factors.
Community-function landscapes statistically model species' impact on function, considering additive effects and epistasis.

Purpose of the Study:

To apply the community-function landscape approach for designing synthetic microbial consortia.
To target the degradation of the toxic environmental contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA).
To investigate the role of toxicity and epistasis in microbial community function.

Main Methods:

Mapping community-function landscapes using synthetic communities of BPA-degrading microbes.
Analyzing community function across varying BPA concentrations to assess toxicity and epistasis.
Leveraging landscape data to rationally design microbial consortia for BPA degradation.

Main Results:

Epistatic interactions increased with BPA toxicity, highlighting the importance of collective species effects.
Designed consortia demonstrated predictable BPA degradation dynamics in vitro.
Synthetic microbial consortia successfully remediated BPA in contaminated soils.

Conclusions:

Toxicity can drive epistatic interactions within microbial communities.
Community-function landscapes are effective tools for designing microbial consortia for bioremediation.
This approach enables the development of targeted microbial solutions for environmental contaminants like BPA.