At a Supra-Physiological Concentration, Human Sexual Hormones Act as Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors

Amélie Beury-Cirou; Mélanie Tannières; Corinne Minard; Laurent Soulère; Tsiry Rasamiravaka; Robert H. Dodd; Yves Queneau; Yves Dessaux; Catherine Guillou; Olivier M. Vandeputte; Denis Faure

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083564

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At a Supra-Physiological Concentration, Human Sexual Hormones Act as Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors

Amélie Beury-Cirou,

Affiliations Institut des Sciences du Végétal (ISV) UPR 2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment (SIPRE), Comité Nord Plants de Pommes de Terre (CNPPT), Achicourt, France
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Mélanie Tannières,

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal (ISV) UPR 2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Corinne Minard,

Affiliation Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) UPR2301, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Laurent Soulère,

Affiliation Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires (ICBMS) UMR 5246, INSA Lyon-Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Tsiry Rasamiravaka,

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biotechnologie Végétale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Robert H. Dodd,

Affiliation Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) UPR2301, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Yves Queneau,

Affiliation Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires (ICBMS) UMR 5246, INSA Lyon-Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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Yves Dessaux,

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal (ISV) UPR 2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Catherine Guillou,

Affiliation Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) UPR2301, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Olivier M. Vandeputte ,

* E-mail: ovdeputt@ulb.ac.be (OV); faure@isv.cnrs-gif.fr (DF)

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biotechnologie Végétale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Denis Faure

* E-mail: ovdeputt@ulb.ac.be (OV); faure@isv.cnrs-gif.fr (DF)

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal (ISV) UPR 2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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At a Supra-Physiological Concentration, Human Sexual Hormones Act as Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors

Amélie Beury-Cirou,
Mélanie Tannières,
Corinne Minard,
Laurent Soulère,
Tsiry Rasamiravaka,
Robert H. Dodd,
Yves Queneau,
Yves Dessaux,
Catherine Guillou,
Olivier M. Vandeputte

Published: December 23, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083564

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