ArticleGenomics2022
Transcriptional effects of melatonin on the gut commensal bacterium Klebsiella aerogenes.
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- Gut microbiota circadian rhythms: a key regulator of immunometabolic homeostasis.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2026Review
- The melatonin-microbiome axis: a new frontier in gut health for the immunomodulatory, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.Inflammopharmacology · 2026Review
- Understanding the interaction between melatonin and bifidobacteria.Microbiome research reports · 2025Article
- Microbial melatonin metabolism in the human intestine as a therapeutic target for dysbiosis and rhythm disorders.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2024Review
- Intestinal microbiota protects against methylmercury-induced neurotoxicity.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2024Review
- Studying the Human Microbiota: Advances in Understanding the Fundamentals, Origin, and Evolution of Biological Timekeeping.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Neuromodulators as Interdomain Signaling Molecules Capable of Occupying Effector Binding Sites in Bacterial Transcription Factors.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Microbial-Derived Tryptophan Metabolites and Their Role in Neurological Disease: Anthranilic Acid and Anthranilic Acid Derivatives.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- The fecal microbiota from children with autism impact gut metabolism and learning and memory abilities of honeybees.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Not simply a matter of parents-Infants' sleep-wake patterns are associated with their regularity of eating.PloS one · 2023Article
- Circadian regulation of metabolic, cell division, and cation transport promoters in the gastrointestinal bacteriumFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Klebsiella (nee Enterobacter) aerogenes is the first human gut commensal bacterium with a documented sensitivity to the pineal/gastrointestinal hormone melatonin. Exogenous melatonin specifically increases the size of macrocolonies on semisolid agar and synchronizes the circadian clock of K. aerogenes in a concentration dependent manner. However, the mechanisms driving these phenomena are unknown. In this study, we applied RNA sequencing to identify melatonin sensitive transcripts during culture maturation. This work demonstrates that the majority of melatonin sensitive genes are growth stage specific. Melatonin exposure induced differential gene expression of 81 transcripts during exponential growth and 30 during early stationary phase. This indole molecule affects genes related to biofilm formation, fimbria biogenesis, transcriptional regulators, carbohydrate transport and metabolism, phosphotransferase systems (PTS), stress response, metal ion binding and transport. Differential expression of biofilm and fimbria-related genes may be responsible for the observed differences in macrocolony area. These data suggest that melatonin enhances Klebsiella aerogenes host colonization.
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