Syntrophy mechanism, microbial population, and process optimization for volatile fatty acids metabolism in anaerobic digestion

Y Zhang, C Li, Z Yuan, R Wang, I Angelidaki… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The low efficiency and stability of anaerobic digestion (AD) has always hindered its wide
application. The accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) cause acidification and inhibition …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria: small-molecule modulation of AHL and AI-2 quorum sensing pathways

WRJD Galloway, JT Hodgkinson, SD Bowden… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Numerous species of bacteria employ a mechanism of intercellular communication known
as quorum sensing. This signaling process allows the cells comprising a bacterial colony to …

Quorum quenching enzymes and their effects on virulence, biofilm, and microbiomes: a review of recent advances

R Sikdar, M Elias - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Numerous bacterial behaviors are regulated by a cell-density dependent
mechanism known as Quorum Sensing (QS). QS relies on communication between bacterial …

Acyl-homoserine lactone-based quorum sensing and quorum quenching hold promise to determine the performance of biological wastewater treatments: an overview

J Huang, Y Shi, G Zeng, Y Gu, G Chen, L Shi, Y Hu… - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication process between cells, in which bacteria secrete
and sense the specific chemicals, and regulate gene expression in response to population …

Listening in on bacteria: acyl-homoserine lactone signalling

C Fuqua, EP Greenberg - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2002 - nature.com
Bacterial cell-to-cell signalling has emerged as a new area in microbiology. Individual
bacterial cells communicate with each other and co-ordinate group activities. Although a lot …

[HTML][HTML] Small talk: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

BL Bassler - Cell, 2002 - cell.com
In a process called quorum sensing, groups of bacteria communicate with one another to
coordinate their behavior and function like a multicellular organism. A diverse array of …

Look who's talking: communication and quorum sensing in the bacterial world

P Williams, K Winzer, WC Chan… - … Transactions of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For many years bacteria were considered primarily as autonomous unicellular organisms
with little capacity for collective behaviour. However, we now appreciate that bacterial cells …