Got Lactobacillus? Commensals Power Growth

Do-Young Park; Won Jun Lee; In-Hwan Jang; Won-Jae Lee

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.012

Got Lactobacillus? Commensals Power Growth

Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Oct 14;18(4):388-90. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.012.

Authors

Do-Young Park¹, Won Jun Lee², In-Hwan Jang¹, Won-Jae Lee³

Affiliations

¹ National Creative Research Initiative Center for Hologenomics, and School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea.
² College of Health Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, South Korea.
³ National Creative Research Initiative Center for Hologenomics, and School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea. Electronic address: lwj@snu.ac.kr.

PMID: 26468740
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.012

Abstract

Although Lactobacilli are generally considered probiotic agents in metazoans, the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Erkosar et al. (2015) reveal that a Drosophila gut commensal, Lactobacillus plantarum(WJL), promotes animal growth by enhancing the host's capacity for protein degradation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Antibiosis*
Drosophila / growth & development*
Drosophila / microbiology*
Lactobacillus plantarum / enzymology*
Lactobacillus plantarum / physiology*
Peptide Hydrolases / metabolism*
Symbiosis*

Substances

Peptide Hydrolases