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SUBMITTER: Woznica A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5599222 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Woznica Arielle A Gerdt Joseph P JP Hulett Ryan E RE Clardy Jon J King Nicole N
Cell 20170831 6
We serendipitously discovered that the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri induces sexual reproduction in one of the closest living relatives of animals, the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. Although bacteria influence everything from nutrition and metabolism to cell biology and development in eukaryotes, bacterial regulation of eukaryotic mating was unexpected. Here, we show that a single V. fischeri protein, the previously uncharacterized EroS, fully recapitulates the aphrodisiac-like activi ...[more]