Quorum sensing in bacteria

MB Miller, BL Bassler - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
Quorum sensing is the regulation of gene expression in response tofluctuations in cell-population
density. Quorum sensing bacteria … -positive and Gram-negative bacteria use quorum

Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

CM Waters, BL Bassler - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
… , termed quorum sensing, allows bacteria to monitor the environment for other bacteria and
to alter … Most quorum-sensing-controlled processes are unproductive when undertaken by an …

Quorum sensing in bacterial virulence

LCM Antunes, RBR Ferreira, MMC Buckner… - …, 2010 - microbiologyresearch.org
… of quorum sensing in bacterial pathogenicity using several model organisms. We discuss
the quorum sensing … strategies to control bacterial virulence using quorum sensing inhibitors. …

Quorum sensing: the many languages of bacteria

NC Reading, V Sperandio - FEMS microbiology letters, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… collectively termed quorum sensing. The functions controlled by quorum sensing are varied
and reflect the needs of a particular species of bacteria to inhabit a given niche. Three major …

Quorum sensing in plant-associated bacteria

J Loh, EA Pierson, LS Pierson III, G Stacey… - Current opinion in plant …, 2002 - Elsevier
… in three representative groups of plant-associated bacteria: symbiotic rhizobia… quorum
sensing, and discuss recent advances in our understanding of gene regulation by quorum sensing

[HTML][HTML] Role of quorum sensing in bacterial infections

I Castillo-Juárez, T Maeda… - World Journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… basics aspects of quorum sensing (QS) and its relationship with human infections, focusing
in two major QS bacterial models, the opportunistic Gram negative bacteria Pseudomonas …

Quorum-sensing in Gram-negative bacteria

NA Whitehead, AML Barnard, H Slater… - FEMS microbiology …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… Therefore, the term ‘quorum-sensing’ has been coined to describe this ability of bacteria to
… state of research concerning acyl HSL-mediated quorum-sensing. We also describe two non-…

Quorum sensing: bacteria talk sense

CD Sifri - Clinical infectious diseases, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that quorum sensing is … In some cases, bacteria
with disabled cell communication … mechanisms of quorum sensing in bacteria and discuss …

Messing with bacterial quorum sensing

JE González, ND Keshavan - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… genetic methods of manipulating bacterial quorum sensing. In addition, we summarize
information about the various components of the bacterial quorum sensing system, which could …

How bacteria talk to each other: regulation of gene expression by quorum sensing

BL Bassler - Current opinion in microbiology, 1999 - Elsevier
… of functions controlled by quorum sensing and the different mechanisms that bacteria use for
… It is now clear that quorum sensing regulates bacterial communication in test tubes and in …