Quorum sensing signal–response systems in Gram-negative bacteria

K Papenfort, BL Bassler - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Bacteria use quorum sensing to orchestrate gene expression programmes that underlie
collective behaviours. Quorum sensing relies on the production, release, detection and …

Bacterial quorum sensing: its role in virulence and possibilities for its control

ST Rutherford, BL Bassler - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Quorum sensing is a process of cell–cell communication that allows bacteria to share
information about cell density and adjust gene expression accordingly. This process …

A quorum-sensing inhibitor blocks Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence and biofilm formation

CT O'Loughlin, LC Miller, A Siryaporn… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Quorum sensing is a chemical communication process that bacteria use to regulate
collective behaviors. Disabling quorum-sensing circuits with small molecules has been …

Exploiting quorum sensing to confuse bacterial pathogens

B LaSarre, MJ Federle - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cell-cell communication, or quorum sensing, is a widespread phenomenon in bacteria that
is used to coordinate gene expression among local populations. Its use by bacterial …

Flavonoids suppress Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence through allosteric inhibition of quorum-sensing receptors

JE Paczkowski, S Mukherjee, AR McCready… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
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 …

Specificity and complexity in bacterial quorum-sensing systems

LA Hawver, SA Jung, WL Ng - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum sensing (QS) is a microbial cell-to-cell communication process that relies on the
production and detection of chemical signals called autoinducers (AIs) to monitor cell …

Bacterial quorum-sensing systems and their role in intestinal bacteria-host crosstalk

L Wu, Y Luo - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Quorum-sensing (QS) system is a rapidly developing field in which we are gradually
expanding our understanding about how bacteria communicate with each other and …

Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

CM Waters, BL Bassler - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. As in higher
organisms, the information supplied by these molecules is critical for synchronizing the …

Bacterial quorum-sensing network architectures

WL Ng, BL Bassler - Annual review of genetics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Quorum sensing is a cell-cell communication process in which bacteria use the production
and detection of extracellular chemicals called autoinducers to monitor cell population …

Regulation of gene expression by cell-to-cell communication: acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing

C Fuqua, MR Parsek, EP Greenberg - Annual review of genetics, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Quorum sensing is an example of community behavior prevalent among diverse
bacterial species. The term “quorum sensing” describes the ability of a microorganism to …