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SUBMITTER: Bareia T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5739288 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bareia Tasneem T Pollak Shaul S Eldar Avigdor A
Nature microbiology 20171016 1
Bacterial cell-cell signalling, or quorum sensing, is characterized by the secretion and groupwide detection of small diffusible signal molecules called autoinducers. This mechanism allows cells to coordinate their behaviour in a density-dependent manner. A quorum-sensing cell may directly respond to the autoinducers it produces in a cell-autonomous and quorum-independent manner, but the strength of this self-sensing effect and its impact on bacterial physiology are unclear. Here, we explore the ...[more]