▪ Abstract Quorum sensing is an example of community behavior prevalent among diverse
bacterial species. The term “quorum sensing” describes the ability of a microorganism to …

Cell‐to‐cell signalling in prokaryotes that leads to co‐ordinated behaviour has been termed
quorum sensing. This type of signalling can have profound impacts on microbial community …

In gram-negative bacteria, many important changes in gene expression and behavior are
regulated in a popula tion density-dependent fashion by N-acyl homoserine lac tone (AHL) …

Proteins of the LuxR family detect the presence of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) and
regulate transcription accordingly. When AHLs are synthesized by the same species that …

The global regulator CsrA (carbon storage regulator) is an RNA binding protein that
coordinates central carbon metabolism, activates flagellum biosynthesis and motility, and …

The discovery that bacterial cells can communicate with each other has led to the realization
that bacteria are capable of exhibiting much more complex patterns of co-operative …

ABSTRACT The Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasR protein functions in concert with N-3-oxo-
dodecanoyl-l-homoserine lactone (3O-C12-HSL) to coordinate the expression of target …

One crucial feature of almost all bacterial infections is the need for the invading pathogen to
reach a critical cell population density sufficient to overcome host defences and establish the …

An ultrasensitive bioassay system for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs)
was constructed in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by using the T7 expression system to …

Quorum sensing is a widespread form of bacterial communication in which individual cells
produce and respond to specific N-acyl homoserine lactone signal metabolites. The different …