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Table S1. Examples of signals and receptors used in bacteria to animal communication
Bacterial signal
Animal receptor/enzyme
AI-3 (quorum signal) (1)
Epidermal growth-factor receptor (EGFr)
Homoserine lactone(quorum signal) (2
4)
?
Acetate(5)
?
Butyrate (6, 7)
G protein
coupled receptors (GPR41 and GPR43)
Bile-acid derivatives (8)
G protein
coupled bile acid receptor 1 (Gpbar1)
Polysaccharide A (PSA) (9)
?
Trimethylamine (TMA) (10)
Macrophage scavenger receptor
?
GABA
A
and GABA
B
(11)
Tripeptides (12)
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)
Invasion (13)
Integrin
Peptidoglycan (PGN) (14
16)
NOD1
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (17)
Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)
Indole (18)
Toll-like receptor 3/9 (TLR3/9)
N
-formyl peptides (19)
Formyl peptide receptors
Several other ligands (20)
Other TLRs, NLRs, RLRs, lectins, etc.
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N
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
quorum-sensing molecule
N
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in
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Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
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Table S2. Examples of signals and receptors used in animal to
bacteria communication
Animal signal
Bacterial receptor/enzyme
Epinephrine/norepinephrine (1, 2)
QseC
Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) (3)
?
Furanones (4)
LuxR homologs
Dynorphin (5)
?
Nitric oxide (NO) (6)
HnoX
SIgA (7)
?
E-cadherin (8)
Internalin
1. Sperandio V, Torres AG, Jarvis B, Nataro JP, Kaper JB (2003) Bacteria-host communication: The language of hormones.
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100(15):8951
8956.
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103(27):10420
10425.
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4. Hentzer M, et al. (2003) Attenuation of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
virulence by quorum sensing inhibitors.
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22(15):3803
3815.
5. Zaborina O, et al. (2007) Dynorphin activates quorum sensing quinolone signaling in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
.
PLoS Pathog
3(3):e35.
6. Wang Y, et al. (2010) H-NOX-mediated nitric oxide sensing modulates symbiotic colonization by
Vibrio
fi
scheri
.
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8380.
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1665.
8. Bonazzi M, Lecuit M, Cossart P (2009)
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internalin and E-cadherin: From bench to bedside.
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