AUTHOR=Naidoo René K. , Simpson Zoë F. , Oosthuizen Jennifer R. , Bauer Florian F. TITLE=Nutrient Exchange of Carbon and Nitrogen Promotes the Formation of Stable Mutualisms Between Chlorella sorokiniana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Under Engineered Synthetic Growth Conditions JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00609 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2019.00609 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
Microbial biotechnological processes can be based on single species pure cultures or on multi-species assemblages. While these assemblages can be advantageous by offering more functionalities and more resilience to changing environmental conditions, they can be unpredictable and difficult to control under synthetically engineered growth conditions. To overcome the unpredictable nature of these microbial assemblages, the generation of stable mutualistic systems through synthetic ecology approaches may provide novel solutions for understanding microbial interactions in these environments. Here we establish a stable association between two evolutionarily unrelated, but biotechnologically complementary species isolated from winery wastewater; a strain of the yeast