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SUBMITTER: Paczkowski JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5354481 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paczkowski Jon E JE Mukherjee Sampriti S McCready Amelia R AR Cong Jian-Ping JP Aquino Christopher J CJ Kim Hahn H Henke Brad R BR Smith Chari D CD Bassler Bonnie L BL
The Journal of biological chemistry 20170124 10
Quorum sensing is a process of cell-cell communication that bacteria use to regulate collective behaviors. Quorum sensing depends on the production, detection, and group-wide response to extracellular signal molecules called autoinducers. In many bacterial species, quorum sensing controls virulence factor production. Thus, disrupting quorum sensing is considered a promising strategy to combat bacterial pathogenicity. Several members of a family of naturally produced plant metabolites called flav ...[more]