Serotonin Activates Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Enhances the Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Host

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 bacter...

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Main Authors: Knecht, Leslie D., O'Connor, Gregory, Mittal, Rahul, Liu, Xue Z., Daftarian, Pirouz, Deo, Sapna K., Daunert, Sylvia
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4972532/