Tyrosine availability shapes Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and interactions with commensal communities
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Only certain individuals are nasally colonized by Staphylococcus aureus , making them more susceptible to developing endogenous infections. The role of the resident microbiota in modulating S. aureus nasal colonization remains largely unclear. Using a newly assembled nasal strain collection, we demonstrate that nasal commensals can either promote or inhibit S. aureus proliferation through strain- and community-specific effects in vitro and within gnotobiotic animals. We identified nutrient-dependent interactions as a key driver of these dynamics and found that S. aureus strains auxotrophic to tyrosine rely on amino acid-providing nasal communities to thrive in the nutrient-limited environment of the nose. Large-scale screenings revealed tyrosine dependency to affect 8% of nasal S. aureus strains and to impair S. aureus colonization. Our findings uncover a crucial factor in S. aureus physiology and its interactions as a commensal nasal species, paving the way for new decolonization strategies.
