Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Autoinducer-2 and bile salts induce c-di-GMP synthesis to repress the T3SS via a T3SS chaperone

  • Shuyu Li,
  • Hengxi Sun,
  • Jianghan Li,
  • Yujiao Zhao,
  • Ruiying Wang,
  • Lei Xu,
  • Chongyi Duan,
  • Jialin Li,
  • Zhuo Wang,
  • Qinmeng Liu,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Songying Ouyang,
  • Xihui Shen,
  • Lei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34607-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Cyclic-di-GMP transduces extracellular stimuli into intracellular responses to modulate important biological processes. Here, the authors show that AI-2 and bile salts induce cyclic-di-GMP synthesis via YeaJ and YedQ, respectively, to repress the T3SS via a cyclic-di-GMP-responsive T3SS chaperone.