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is a facultative intracellular bacterium, which upon inhalation can cause a potentially fatal pneumonia termed Legionnaires’ disease. The opportunistic pathogen grows in environmental amoebae and mammalian macrophages within a unique membrane-bound compartment, the ‘-containing vacuole’. Bacteria are exposed to many environmental cues including small signalling molecules from eukaryotic cells. A number of pathogenic bacteria sense and respond to catecholamine hormones, such as adrenalin and noradrenalin, a process mediated via the QseBC two-component system in some bacteria. In this study, we examined the effect of adrenergic compounds on , and discovered that the adrenergic receptor antagonists benoxathian, naftopidil, propranolol and labetalol, as well as the QseC sensor kinase inhibitor LED209, reduced the growth of in broth or amoebae, while replication in macrophages was enhanced. Growth restriction was common to members of the genus and , and was observed for in the replicative but not stationary phase of the biphasic life cycle. Deletion of the genes indicated that growth inhibition by adrenergics or LED209 is mediated only to a minor extent by this two-component system, implying the presence of other adrenergic sensing systems. This study identifies adrenergic molecules as novel inhibitors of extra- and intracellular growth of and reveals LED209 as a potential lead compound to combat infections with or spp.

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