Faculty Opinions recommendation of A new class of homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signals.

Author(s):  
Eric V Stabb
2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidetada HIRAKAWA ◽  
Haruyoshi TOMITA

Nature ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 454 (7204) ◽  
pp. 595-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Schaefer ◽  
E. P. Greenberg ◽  
Colin M. Oliver ◽  
Yasuhiro Oda ◽  
Jean J. Huang ◽  
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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.


2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy D'Angelo-Picard ◽  
Denis Faure ◽  
Aurélien Carlier ◽  
Stéphane Uroz ◽  
Aurélie Raffoux ◽  
...  

2003 ◽  
Vol 180 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Teplitski ◽  
Anatol Eberhard ◽  
Matthew R. Gronquist ◽  
Mengsheng Gao ◽  
Jayne B. Robinson ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e1156832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Corral-Lugo ◽  
Abdelali Daddaoua ◽  
Alvaro Ortega ◽  
Manuel Espinosa-Urgel ◽  
Tino Krell

2002 ◽  
Vol 184 (4) ◽  
pp. 1187-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara-Ann Conway ◽  
E. P. Greenberg

ABSTRACT Acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) quorum sensing is common to many Proteobacteria including a clinical isolate of Burkholderia cepacia. The B. cepacia isolate produces low levels of octanoyl-HSL. We have examined an environmental isolate of Burkholderia vietnamiensis. This isolate produced several acyl-HSLs. The most abundant species was decanoyl-HSL. Decanoyl-HSL in B. vietnamiensis cultures reached concentrations in excess of 20 μM. We isolated a B. vietnamiensis DNA fragment containing a gene for the synthesis of decanoyl-HSL (bviI) and an open reading frame that codes for a putative signal receptor (bviR). A B. vietnamiensis bviI mutant did not produce detectable levels of decanoyl-HSL.


2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Mosquito ◽  
Xianfa Meng ◽  
Giulia Devescovi ◽  
Iris Bertani ◽  
Alexander M. Geller ◽  
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ABSTRACT Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plants and are often beneficial for the host. Kosakonia is a novel bacterial genus that includes several species that are diazotrophic and plant associated. This study revealed two quorum sensing-related LuxR solos, designated LoxR and PsrR, in the plant endophyte Kosakonia sp. strain KO348. LoxR modeling and biochemical studies demonstrated that LoxR binds N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) in a promiscuous way. PsrR, on the other hand, belongs to the subfamily of plant-associated-bacterium (PAB) LuxR solos that respond to plant compounds. Target promoter studies as well as modeling and phylogenetic comparisons suggest that PAB LuxR solos are likely to respond to different plant compounds. Finally, LoxR is involved in the regulation of T6SS and PsrR plays a role in root endosphere colonization. IMPORTANCE Cell-cell signaling in bacteria allows a synchronized and coordinated behavior of a microbial community. LuxR solos represent a subfamily of proteins in proteobacteria which most commonly detect and respond to signals produced exogenously by other microbes or eukaryotic hosts. Here, we report that a plant-beneficial bacterial endophyte belonging to the novel genus of Kosakonia possesses two LuxR solos; one is involved in the detection of exogenous N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals and the other in detecting a compound(s) produced by the host plant. These two Kosakonia LuxR solos are therefore most likely involved in interspecies and interkingdom signaling.


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