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SUBMITTER: Quecan BXV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6492534 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in microbiology 20190424
Quorum sensing (QS) regulates bacterial gene expression and studies suggest quercetin, a flavonol found in onion, as a QS inhibitor. There are no studies showing the anti-QS activity of plants containing quercetin in its native glycosylated forms. This study aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial and anti-QS potential of organic extracts of onion varieties and its representative phenolic compounds quercetin aglycone and quercetin 3-β-D-glucoside in the QS model bacteria <i>Chromobacterium violaceum ...[more]