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SUBMITTER: Mok KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC145445 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mok Kenny C KC Wingreen Ned S NS Bassler Bonnie L BL
The EMBO journal 20030201 4
In a process called quorum sensing, bacteria communicate with one another by exchanging chemical signals called autoinducers. In the bioluminescent marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi, two different auto inducers (AI-1 and AI-2) regulate light emission. Detection of and response to the V.harveyi autoinducers are accomplished through two two-component sensory relay systems: AI-1 is detected by the sensor LuxN and AI-2 by LuxPQ. Here we further define the V.harveyi quorum-sensing regulon by identifyin ...[more]