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SUBMITTER: Mehta P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795473 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mehta Pankaj P Goyal Sidhartha S Long Tao T Bassler Bonnie L BL Wingreen Ned S NS
Molecular systems biology 20091117
Bacteria communicate using secreted chemical signaling molecules called autoinducers in a process known as quorum sensing. The quorum-sensing network of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi uses three autoinducers, each known to encode distinct ecological information. Yet how cells integrate and interpret the information contained within these three autoinducer signals remains a mystery. Here, we develop a new framework for analyzing signal integration on the basis of information theory and use i ...[more]