N-Acyl-Homoserine Lactones (AHLs) are Quorum Sensing molecules involved in bacterial network communication and are also able to have effects on eukaryotic cells as part of the inter-kingdom signalling. Our team identified AHLs in the gut ecosystem, and among them one that had never been described, 3-oxo-C12:2-HSL. The molecule was decreased in the gut ecosystem of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients. The aim of my PhD was to study the effects of the natural molecule 3-oxo-C12:2-HSL and ACP, a synthetic analogue, on intestinal inflammation as well as involved mechanisms and prospective eukaryotic receptors. We demonstrated that those AHLs exert anti-inflammatory effects on immune cells. By transcriptomic analysis, we identified the inv...