Cyclic-di-GMP transduces extracellular stimuli into intracellular responses to modulate important biological processes. Here, the authors show that AI-2 and bile salts induce cyclic-di-GMP synthesis via YeaJ and YedQ, respectively, to repress the T3SS via a cyclic-di-GMP-responsive T3SS chaperone.
- Shuyu Li
- Hengxi Sun
- Lei Zhang