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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2024

Carbon starvation raises capacities in bacterial antibiotic resistance and viral auxiliary carbon metabolism in soils

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Organic carbon availability in soil is crucial for shaping microbial communities, yet, uncertainties persist concerning microbial adaptations to carbon levels and the ensuing ecological and evolutionary consequences. We investigated organic carbon metabolism, antibiotic resistance, and virus–host interactions in soils subjected to 40 y of chemical and organic fertilization that led to contrasting carbon availability: carbon-poor and carbon-rich soils, respectively. Carbon-poor soils drove the enrichment of putative genes involved in organic matter decomposition and exhibited specialization in utilizing complex organic compounds, reflecting scramble competition. This specialization confers a competitive advantage of microbial communities in carbon-poor soils but reduces their buffering capacity in terms of organic carbon metabolisms, making them more vulnerable to environmental fluctuations. Additionally, in carbon-poor soils, viral auxiliary metabolic genes linked to organic carbon metabolism increased host competitiveness and environmental adaptability through a strategy akin to “piggyback the winner.” Furthermore, putative antibiotic resistance genes, particularly in low-abundance drug categories, were enriched in carbon-poor soils as an evolutionary consequence of chemical warfare (i.e., interference competition). This raises concerns about the potential dissemination of antibiotic resistance from conventional agriculture that relies on chemical-only fertilization. Consequently, carbon starvation resulting from long-term chemical-only fertilization increases microbial adaptations to competition, underscoring the importance of implementing sustainable agricultural practices to mitigate the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance and to increase soil carbon storage.
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Qicheng Xu, He Zhang, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Shiwei Guo, Yakov Kuzyakov, et al.. Carbon starvation raises capacities in bacterial antibiotic resistance and viral auxiliary carbon metabolism in soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024, 121 (16), ⟨10.1073/pnas.2318160121⟩. ⟨hal-04564144⟩
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