--- _id: '423' abstract: - lang: eng text: Herd immunity, a process in which resistant individuals limit the spread of a pathogen among susceptible hosts has been extensively studied in eukaryotes. Even though bacteria have evolved multiple immune systems against their phage pathogens, herd immunity in bacteria remains unexplored. Here we experimentally demonstrate that herd immunity arises during phage epidemics in structured and unstructured Escherichia coli populations consisting of differing frequencies of susceptible and resistant cells harboring CRISPR immunity. In addition, we develop a mathematical model that quantifies how herd immunity is affected by spatial population structure, bacterial growth rate, and phage replication rate. Using our model we infer a general epidemiological rule describing the relative speed of an epidemic in partially resistant spatially structured populations. Our experimental and theoretical findings indicate that herd immunity may be important in bacterial communities, allowing for stable coexistence of bacteria and their phages and the maintenance of polymorphism in bacterial immunity. acknowledgement: "We are grateful to Remy Chait for his help and assistance with establishing our experimental setups and to Tobias Bergmiller for valuable insights into some specific experimental details. We thank Luciano Marraffini for donating us the pCas9 plasmid used in this study. We also want to express our gratitude to Seth Barribeau, Andrea Betancourt, Călin Guet, Mato Lagator, Tiago Paixão and Maroš Pleška for valuable discussions on the manuscript. Finally, we would like to thank the \r\neditors and reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions." article_number: e32035 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pavel full_name: Payne, Pavel id: 35F78294-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Payne orcid: 0000-0002-2711-9453 - first_name: Lukas full_name: Geyrhofer, Lukas last_name: Geyrhofer - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 - first_name: Jonathan P full_name: Bollback, Jonathan P id: 2C6FA9CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bollback orcid: 0000-0002-4624-4612 citation: ama: Payne P, Geyrhofer L, Barton NH, Bollback JP. CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations. eLife. 2018;7. doi:10.7554/eLife.32035 apa: Payne, P., Geyrhofer, L., Barton, N. H., & Bollback, J. P. (2018). CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations. ELife. eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32035 chicago: Payne, Pavel, Lukas Geyrhofer, Nicholas H Barton, and Jonathan P Bollback. “CRISPR-Based Herd Immunity Can Limit Phage Epidemics in Bacterial Populations.” ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32035. ieee: P. Payne, L. Geyrhofer, N. H. Barton, and J. P. Bollback, “CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations,” eLife, vol. 7. eLife Sciences Publications, 2018. ista: Payne P, Geyrhofer L, Barton NH, Bollback JP. 2018. CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations. eLife. 7, e32035. mla: Payne, Pavel, et al. “CRISPR-Based Herd Immunity Can Limit Phage Epidemics in Bacterial Populations.” ELife, vol. 7, e32035, eLife Sciences Publications, 2018, doi:10.7554/eLife.32035. short: P. Payne, L. Geyrhofer, N.H. Barton, J.P. Bollback, ELife 7 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:23Z date_published: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T12:49:17Z day: '09' ddc: - '576' department: - _id: NiBa - _id: JoBo doi: 10.7554/eLife.32035 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000431035800001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 447cf6e680bdc3c01062a8737d876569 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T10:36:07Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:25Z file_id: '5689' file_name: 2018_eLife_Payne.pdf file_size: 3533881 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:25Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 7' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2578D616-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '648440' name: Selective Barriers to Horizontal Gene Transfer publication: eLife publication_status: published publisher: eLife Sciences Publications publist_id: '7400' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9840' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 7 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '9840' abstract: - lang: eng text: Herd immunity, a process in which resistant individuals limit the spread of a pathogen among susceptible hosts has been extensively studied in eukaryotes. Even though bacteria have evolved multiple immune systems against their phage pathogens, herd immunity in bacteria remains unexplored. Here we experimentally demonstrate that herd immunity arises during phage epidemics in structured and unstructured Escherichia coli populations consisting of differing frequencies of susceptible and resistant cells harboring CRISPR immunity. In addition, we develop a mathematical model that quantifies how herd immunity is affected by spatial population structure, bacterial growth rate, and phage replication rate. Using our model we infer a general epidemiological rule describing the relative speed of an epidemic in partially resistant spatially structured populations. Our experimental and theoretical findings indicate that herd immunity may be important in bacterial communities, allowing for stable coexistence of bacteria and their phages and the maintenance of polymorphism in bacterial immunity. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pavel full_name: Payne, Pavel id: 35F78294-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Payne orcid: 0000-0002-2711-9453 - first_name: Lukas full_name: Geyrhofer, Lukas last_name: Geyrhofer - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 - first_name: Jonathan P full_name: Bollback, Jonathan P id: 2C6FA9CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bollback orcid: 0000-0002-4624-4612 citation: ama: 'Payne P, Geyrhofer L, Barton NH, Bollback JP. Data from: CRISPR-based herd immunity limits phage epidemics in bacterial populations. 2018. doi:10.5061/dryad.42n44' apa: 'Payne, P., Geyrhofer, L., Barton, N. H., & Bollback, J. P. (2018). Data from: CRISPR-based herd immunity limits phage epidemics in bacterial populations. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.42n44' chicago: 'Payne, Pavel, Lukas Geyrhofer, Nicholas H Barton, and Jonathan P Bollback. “Data from: CRISPR-Based Herd Immunity Limits Phage Epidemics in Bacterial Populations.” Dryad, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.42n44.' ieee: 'P. Payne, L. Geyrhofer, N. H. Barton, and J. P. Bollback, “Data from: CRISPR-based herd immunity limits phage epidemics in bacterial populations.” Dryad, 2018.' ista: 'Payne P, Geyrhofer L, Barton NH, Bollback JP. 2018. Data from: CRISPR-based herd immunity limits phage epidemics in bacterial populations, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.42n44.' mla: 'Payne, Pavel, et al. Data from: CRISPR-Based Herd Immunity Limits Phage Epidemics in Bacterial Populations. Dryad, 2018, doi:10.5061/dryad.42n44.' short: P. Payne, L. Geyrhofer, N.H. Barton, J.P. Bollback, (2018). date_created: 2021-08-09T13:10:02Z date_published: 2018-03-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T12:49:17Z day: '12' department: - _id: NiBa - _id: JoBo doi: 10.5061/dryad.42n44 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.42n44 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Dryad related_material: record: - id: '423' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: 'Data from: CRISPR-based herd immunity limits phage epidemics in bacterial populations' type: research_data_reference user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf year: '2018' ... --- _id: '6291' abstract: - lang: eng text: Bacteria and their pathogens – phages – are the most abundant living entities on Earth. Throughout their coevolution, bacteria have evolved multiple immune systems to overcome the ubiquitous threat from the phages. Although the molecu- lar details of these immune systems’ functions are relatively well understood, their epidemiological consequences for the phage-bacterial communities have been largely neglected. In this thesis we employed both experimental and theoretical methods to explore whether herd and social immunity may arise in bacterial popu- lations. Using our experimental system consisting of Escherichia coli strains with a CRISPR based immunity to the T7 phage we show that herd immunity arises in phage-bacterial communities and that it is accentuated when the populations are spatially structured. By fitting a mathematical model, we inferred expressions for the herd immunity threshold and the velocity of spread of a phage epidemic in partially resistant bacterial populations, which both depend on the bacterial growth rate, phage burst size and phage latent period. We also investigated the poten- tial for social immunity in Streptococcus thermophilus and its phage 2972 using a bioinformatic analysis of potentially coding short open reading frames with a signalling signature, encoded within the CRISPR associated genes. Subsequently, we tested one identified potentially signalling peptide and found that its addition to a phage-challenged culture increases probability of survival of bacteria two fold, although the results were only marginally significant. Together, these results demonstrate that the ubiquitous arms races between bacteria and phages have further consequences at the level of the population. alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pavel full_name: Payne, Pavel id: 35F78294-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Payne orcid: 0000-0002-2711-9453 citation: ama: Payne P. Bacterial herd and social immunity to phages. 2017. apa: Payne, P. (2017). Bacterial herd and social immunity to phages. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. chicago: Payne, Pavel. “Bacterial Herd and Social Immunity to Phages.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. ieee: P. Payne, “Bacterial herd and social immunity to phages,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. ista: Payne P. 2017. Bacterial herd and social immunity to phages. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Payne, Pavel. Bacterial Herd and Social Immunity to Phages. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. short: P. Payne, Bacterial Herd and Social Immunity to Phages, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2017. date_created: 2019-04-09T15:16:45Z date_published: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T12:00:00Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: NiBa - _id: JoBo file: - access_level: closed checksum: a0fc5c26a89c0ea759947ffba87d0d8f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-09T15:15:32Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:27Z file_id: '6292' file_name: thesis_pavel_payne_final_w_signature_page.pdf file_size: 3025175 relation: main_file - access_level: open_access checksum: af531e921a7f64a9e0af4cd8783b2226 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2021-02-22T13:45:59Z date_updated: 2021-02-22T13:45:59Z file_id: '9187' file_name: 2017_Payne_Thesis.pdf file_size: 3111536 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-02-22T13:45:59Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '83' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria status: public supervisor: - first_name: Jonathan P full_name: Bollback, Jonathan P id: 2C6FA9CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bollback orcid: 0000-0002-4624-4612 - first_name: Nicholas H full_name: Barton, Nicholas H id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barton orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240 title: Bacterial herd and social immunity to phages type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2017' ...