Article
Intestinal inflammation allows Salmonella to use ethanolamine to compete with the microbiota.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Oct 2011
Thiennimitr Parameth, Winter Sebastian E, Winter Maria G, Xavier Mariana N, Tolstikov Vladimir, Huseby Douglas L, Sterzenbach Torsten, Tsolis Renée M, Roth John R, Bäumler Andreas J
Abstract excerpt
Conventional wisdom holds that microbes support their growth in vertebrate hosts by exploiting a large variety of nutrients. We show here that use of a specific nutrient (ethanolamine) confers a marked growth advantage on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in the lumen of the inflamed intestine. In the anaerobic environment of the gut, ethanolamine supports little or no growth by...
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