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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Importantly, bacteria possess quorum sensing (QS) signals systems for both intra and interspecies communication. Accordingly, there are species-specific and interspecies QS signals
Bassler & Miller 2013 In: Rosenberg E et al (eds) The prokaryotes – prokaryotic communities and ecophysiology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg, pp 495–509

The human sex hormones estriol and estradiol decrease bacterial virulence by inhibiting Bacterial Sensing / Quorum Sensing (QS) system
Beury-Cirou et al. 2013 PloS One 8:e83564

Some autoinducer molecules (AI) communicate with host hormones to activate signaling pathways
Karavolos et al. 2013 Mol Microbiol 87: 455-65

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References (Sources)

Bacteria-host communication: the language of hormones.
Sperandio et al. 2003 P Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 8951-6
Census and consensus in bacterial ecosystems: the LuxR-LuxI family of quorum-sensing transcriptional regulators
Fuqua et al. 1996 Annu Rev Microbiol 50: 727-51
Host monitoring of quorum sensing during Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
Moura-Alves et al. 2019 Science 366: eaaw1629
Manipulation of the quorum sensing signal AI-2 affects the antibiotic-treated gut microbiota
Thompson et al. 2015
Pathogen espionage: multiple bacterial adrenergic sensors eavesdrop on host communication systems
Karavolos et al. 2013 Mol Microbiol 87: 455-65
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Quorum sensing
Bassler & Miller 2013 In: Rosenberg E et al (eds) The prokaryotes – prokaryotic communities and ecophysiology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg, pp 495–509
Targeting the holy triangle of quorum sensing, bioﬁlm formation, and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria
Sionov & Steinberg 2022 Microorganisms 10: 1239
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