Volume 29, No 2, Feb 2019

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 29 Issue 2, February 2019: 93-94

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Probiotic fengycins dis(Agr)ee with Staphylococcus aureus colonization

Lawton K. Chung ¹ and Manuela Raffatellu ^1,2,3

¹ Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; ² Chiba University-UC San Diego Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy, and Vaccines (CU-UCSD cMAV), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA and ³ Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
92093, USA
Correspondence: Correspondence: Manuela Raffatellu (manuelar@ucsd.edu)

Competition between bacterial species can mediate protection against infection, albeit by mechanisms that are largely unknown. A recent study in Nature by Piewngam et al. demonstrates that a Bacillus lipopeptide, fengycin, restricts intestinal Staphylococcus aureus colonization by inhibiting quorum sensing.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-018-0126-3

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