A touch of sleep: biophysical model of contact-mediated dormancy of archaea by viruses.
The canonical view of the interactions between viruses and their microbial hosts presumes that changes in host and virus fate requires the initiation of infection of a host by a virus. Infection may lead to the death of the host cell and release of viruses, to the elimination of the viral genome through cellular defence mechanisms or the integration of the viral genome with the host as a chromosomal or extrachromosomal element. Here, we revisit this canonical view, inspired by recent experimental findings in which the majority of target host cells can be induced into a dormant state when exposed to either active or deactivated viruses, even when viruses are present at low relative titre. We propose that both the qualitative phenomena and the quantitative timescales of dormancy induction are consistent with the hypothesis that cellular physiology can be altered by contact on the surface of host cells rather than strictly by infection In order to test this hypothesis, we develop and study a biophysical model of contact-mediated dynamics involving virus particles and target cells. We show how virus particles can catalyse cellular transformations among many cells, even if they ultimately infect only one (or none). We also find that population-scale dormancy is robust to variation in the representation of model dynamics, including cell growth, death and recovery.
School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Hayriye
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0936-1497
H
Gulbudak
School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA jsweitz@gatech.edu.
Joshua S
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3433-8312
JS
Weitz
dormancy; microbes; nonlinear dynamics; viruses
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