Interkingdom Responses to Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signals Regulate Frequency and Rate of Nodulation in Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis

ChemBioChem ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 2199-2205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Palmer ◽  
Arijit Mukherjee ◽  
Danielle M. Stacy ◽  
Stephen Lazar ◽  
Jean-Michel Ané ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (40) ◽  
pp. E8488-E8497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleo Pietschke ◽  
Christian Treitz ◽  
Sylvain Forêt ◽  
Annika Schultze ◽  
Sven Künzel ◽  
...  

Bacterial communities colonize epithelial surfaces of most animals. Several factors, including the innate immune system, mucus composition, and diet, have been identified as determinants of host-associated bacterial communities. Here we show that the early branching metazoan Hydra is able to modify bacterial quorum-sensing signals. We identified a eukaryotic mechanism that enables Hydra to specifically modify long-chain 3-oxo-homoserine lactones into their 3-hydroxy-HSL counterparts. Expression data revealed that Hydra’s main bacterial colonizer, Curvibacter sp., responds differentially to N-(3-hydroxydodecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (3OHC12-HSL) and N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (3OC12-HSL). Investigating the impacts of the different N-acyl-HSLs on host colonization elucidated that 3OHC12-HSL allows and 3OC12-HSL represses host colonization of Curvibacter sp. These results show that an animal manipulates bacterial quorum-sensing signals and that this modification leads to a phenotypic switch in the bacterial colonizers. This mechanism may enable the host to manipulate the gene expression and thereby the behavior of its bacterial colonizers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (18) ◽  
pp. 3616-3628
Author(s):  
Curran G. Gahan ◽  
Samarthaben J. Patel ◽  
Michelle E. Boursier ◽  
Kayleigh E. Nyffeler ◽  
James Jennings ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina del V. Leguina ◽  
Carolina Nieto ◽  
Hipólito F. Pajot ◽  
Elisa V. Bertini ◽  
Walter Mac Cormack ◽  
...  

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