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Serotonin Activates Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Enhances the Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Host.
EBioMedicine - 1 Jul 2016
Knecht Leslie D, O'Connor Gregory, Mittal Rahul, Liu Xue Z, Daftarian Pirouz, Deo Sapna K, Daunert Sylvia
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Bacteria in humans play an important role in health and disease. Considerable emphasis has been placed in understanding the role of bacteria in host-microbiome interkingdom communication. Here we show that serotonin, responsible for mood in the brain and motility in the gut, can also act as a bacterial signaling molecule for pathogenic bacteria. Specifically, we found that serotonin acts as an interkingdom...
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