Biomolecular structure at solid–liquid interfaces as revealed by nonlinear optical spectroscopy

S Roy, PA Covert, WR FitzGerald, DK Hore - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION The attachment of biomolecules onto solid surfaces is fundamental to a
wide range of scientific, engineering, and industrial pursuits. 1, 2 For example, the …

Bacterial communication through membrane vesicles

M Toyofuku - Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria can communicate through diffusible signaling molecules that are perceived by
cognate receptors. It is now well established that bacterial communication regulates …

Membrane vesicle-mediated bacterial communication

M Toyofuku, K Morinaga, Y Hashimoto, J Uhl… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The classical quorum-sensing (QS) model is based on the assumption that diffusible
signaling molecules accumulate in the culture medium until they reach a critical …

Tasting Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms: human neutrophils express the bitter receptor T2R38 as sensor for the quorum sensing molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-l …

S Maurer, GH Wabnitz, NA Kahle, S Stegmaier… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria communicate with one another via specialized signaling molecules, known as
quorum sensing molecules or autoinducers. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa-derived quorum …

Determining in situ protein conformation and orientation from the amide-I sum-frequency generation spectrum: theory and experiment

SJ Roeters, CN Van Dijk, A Torres-Knoop… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) spectra of the amide-I band of proteins can
give detailed insight into biomolecular processes near membranes. However, interpreting …

Sensing developing biofilms: the bitter receptor T2R38 on myeloid cells

MM Gaida, U Dapunt, GM Hänsch - FEMS Pathogens and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum-sensing molecules, also known as autoinducer, are essential for bacterial biofilm
formation. Our focus is on N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (AHL-12), because it …

AHL-priming for enhanced resistance as a tool in sustainable agriculture

A Shrestha, A Schikora - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria communicate with each other through quorum sensing (QS) molecules. N-acyl
homoserine lactones (AHL) are one of the most extensively studied groups of QS molecules …

Liquid crystal emulsions that intercept and report on bacterial quorum sensing

BJ Ortiz, ME Boursier, KL Barrett… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report aqueous emulsions of thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs) that can intercept and
report on the presence of N-acyl-l-homoserine lactones (AHLs), a class of amphiphiles used …

Microbial homoserine lactones (AHLs) are effectors of root morphological changes in barley

S Rankl, B Gunsé, T Sieper, C Schmid… - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
While colonizing the rhizosphere, bacterial intra-and inter-specific communication is
accomplished by N-Acyl-homoserine-lactones (AHLs) in a density-dependent manner …

Interkingdom signaling in plant-microbe interactions

J Kan, R Fang, Y Jia - Science China Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The widespread communications between prokaryotes and eukaryotes via signaling
molecules are believed to affect gene expression in both partners. During the …