The hierarchy quorum sensing network in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

J Lee, L Zhang - Protein & cell, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes severe and persistent infections in immune compromised
individuals and cystic fibrosis sufferers. The infection is hard to eradicate as P. aeruginosa …

Quorum sensing inhibitors as antipathogens: biotechnological applications

VC Kalia, SKS Patel, YC Kang, JK Lee - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanisms through which microbes communicate using signal molecules has inspired
a great deal of research. Microbes use this exchange of information, known as quorum …

Quorum quenching: role in nature and applied developments

C Grandclément, M Tannières, S Moréra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum sensing (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Exploiting quorum sensing to confuse bacterial pathogens

B LaSarre, MJ Federle - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cell-cell communication, or quorum sensing, is a widespread phenomenon in bacteria that
is used to coordinate gene expression among local populations. Its use by bacterial …

Quorum quenching enzymes

S Fetzner - Journal of biotechnology, 2015 - Elsevier
Bacteria use cell-to-cell communication systems based on chemical signal molecules to
coordinate their behavior within the population. These quorum sensing systems are …

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 …

Quorum sensing and environmental adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a tale of regulatory networks and multifunctional signal molecules

P Williams, M Cámara - Current opinion in microbiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Bacteria employ sophisticated cell-to-cell communication or 'quorum sensing'(QS) systems
for promoting collective behaviours that depend on the actions of one or more chemically …

Quorum quenching enzymes and their application in degrading signal molecules to block quorum sensing-dependent infection

F Chen, Y Gao, X Chen, Z Yu, X Li - International journal of molecular …, 2013 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, the available options for
treating bacterial infections have become very limited, and the search for a novel general …

Roles of quorum sensing in biological wastewater treatment: A critical review

NR Maddela, B Sheng, S Yuan, Z Zhou… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) and quorum quenching (QQ) are increasingly reported in biological
wastewater treatment processes because of their inherent roles in biofilm development …

Quenching the quorum sensing system: potential antibacterial drug targets

VC Kalia, HJ Purohit - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Emergence of antibiotic and multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria has created the need
for new drugs and drug targets. During pathogenesis bacteria release signals which …