Acyl-homoserine lactone-based quorum sensing and quorum quenching hold promise to determine the performance of biological wastewater treatments: an overview

J Huang, Y Shi, G Zeng, Y Gu, G Chen, L Shi, Y Hu… - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication process between cells, in which bacteria secrete
and sense the specific chemicals, and regulate gene expression in response to population …

Intracellular and extracellular PGPR: commonalities and distinctions in the plant–bacterium signaling processes

EJ Gray, DL Smith - Soil biology and biochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
Plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPR) associations range in degree of bacterial proximity
to the root and intimacy of association. In general, these can be separated into extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudomonas putida mediates bacterial killing, biofilm invasion and biocontrol with a type IVB secretion system

G Purtschert-Montenegro, G Cárcamo-Oyarce… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many bacteria utilize contact-dependent killing machineries to eliminate rivals in their
environmental niches. Here we show that the plant root colonizer Pseudomonas putida …

[HTML][HTML] Biosurfactants: potential agents for controlling cellular communication, motility, and antagonism

J Sharma, D Sundar, P Srivastava - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biosurfactants are surface-active molecules produced by microorganisms, either on the cell
surface or secreted extracellularly. They form a thin film on the surface of microorganisms …

Regulation of antibiotic production in root-colonizing Pseudomonas spp. and relevance for biological control of plant disease

D Haas, C Keel - Annual review of phytopathology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Certain strains of fluorescent pseudomonads are important biological components
of agricultural soils that are suppressive to diseases caused by pathogenic fungi on crop …

Regulation of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas and Burkholderia species

M Fazli, H Almblad, ML Rybtke… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In the present review, we describe and compare the molecular mechanisms that are
involved in the regulation of biofilm formation by P seudomonas putida, P seudomonas …

Quorum Sensing in Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms

JM Yarwood, DJ Bartels, EM Volper… - Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Several serious diseases are caused by biofilm-associated Staphylococcus aureus,
infections in which the accessory gene regulator (agr) quorum-sensing system is thought to …

The rhizosphere as a reservoir for opportunistic human pathogenic bacteria

G Berg, L Eberl, A Hartmann - Environmental microbiology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
During the last years, the number of human infections caused by opportunistic pathogens
has increased dramatically. One natural reservoir of opportunistic pathogens is the …

Quorum sensing and swarming migration in bacteria

R Daniels, J Vanderleyden… - FEMS microbiology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial cells can produce and sense signal molecules, allowing the whole population to
initiate a concerted action once a critical concentration (corresponding to a particular …

Regulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas

V Venturi - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria use small signal molecules in order to monitor their population density and
coordinate gene regulation in a process called quorum sensing. In Gram-negative bacteria …