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SUBMITTER: Guan Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6117212 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guan Yongguang Y Tsao Chen-Yu CY Quan David N DN Li Ying Y Mei Lei L Song Yingying Y Zhang Boce B Liu Yi Y Payne Gregory F GF Bentley William E WE Wang Qin Q
Environmental microbiology 20180701 7
Quorum sensing (QS) exists widely among bacteria, enabling a transition to multicellular behaviour after bacterial populations reach a particular density. The coordination of multicellularity enables biotechnological application, dissolution of biofilms, coordination of virulence, and so forth. Here, a method to elicit and subsequently disperse multicellular behaviour among QS-negative cells is developed using magnetic nanoparticle assembly. We fabricated magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs, ∼5 nm) tha ...[more]