Research into alternative renewable energy generation is a priority, due to the ever-
increasing concern of climate change. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are one potential avenue …

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 (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Acute infections caused by pathogenic bacteria have been studied extensively for well over
100 years. These infections killed millions of people in previous centuries, but they have …

Highlights•Biofilm development and quorum sensing are social bacterial
behaviours.•Quorum sensing regulates genes involved in biofilm development.•Quorum …

The Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS) has been studied primarily in the context of its
role as a quorum-sensing signaling molecule. Recent data suggest, however, that this …

Cell-to-cell communication is a major process that allows bacteria to sense and coordinately
react to the fluctuating conditions of the surrounding environment. In several pathogens, this …

The growth of bacteria as structured aggregates termed biofilms leads to their protection
from harsh environmental conditions such as physical and chemical stresses, shearing …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses a hierarchical quorum sensing (QS) network consisting of
las, pqs and rhl regulatory elements to coordinate the expression of bacterial virulence …

Bacteria use cell-to-cell communication systems based on chemical signal molecules to
coordinate their behavior within the population. These quorum sensing systems are …