Progress in and promise of bacterial quorum sensing research

M Whiteley, SP Diggle, EP Greenberg - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
This Review highlights how we can build upon the relatively new and rapidly developing
field of research into bacterial quorum sensing (QS). We now have a depth of knowledge …

Roles of quorum sensing in biological wastewater treatment: A critical review

NR Maddela, B Sheng, S Yuan, Z Zhou… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) and quorum quenching (QQ) are increasingly reported in biological
wastewater treatment processes because of their inherent roles in biofilm development …

The Pel and Psl polysaccharides provide Pseudomonas aeruginosa structural redundancy within the biofilm matrix

KM Colvin, Y Irie, CS Tart, R Urbano… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular polysaccharides comprise a major component of the biofilm matrix. Many
species that are adept at biofilm formation have the capacity to produce multiple types of …

Diverse type VI secretion phospholipases are functionally plastic antibacterial effectors

AB Russell, M LeRoux, K Hathazi, DM Agnello… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Membranes allow the compartmentalization of biochemical processes and are therefore
fundamental to life. The conservation of the cellular membrane, combined with its …

Burkholderia type VI secretion systems have distinct roles in eukaryotic and bacterial cell interactions

S Schwarz, TE West, F Boyer, WC Chiang… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Bacteria that live in the environment have evolved pathways specialized to defend against
eukaryotic organisms or other bacteria. In this manuscript, we systematically examined the …

An update on the sociomicrobiology of quorum sensing in gram-negative biofilm development

D Passos da Silva, MC Schofield, MR Parsek… - Pathogens, 2017 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are social creatures that are able to interact and coordinate behaviors with each
other in a multitude of ways. The study of such group behaviors in microbes was coined …

Control of bacterial metabolism by quorum sensing

E Goo, JH An, Y Kang, I Hwang - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Bacterial quorum sensing (QS)-dependent gene expression is a dynamic response to cell
density. Bacteria produce costly public goods for the benefit of the population as a whole. As …

Kin cell lysis is a danger signal that activates antibacterial pathways of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

M LeRoux, RL Kirkpatrick, EI Montauti, BQ Tran… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The perception and response to cellular death is an important aspect of multicellular
eukaryotic life. For example, damage-associated molecular patterns activate an …

VgrG-5 is a Burkholderia type VI secretion system-exported protein required for multinucleated giant cell formation and virulence

S Schwarz, P Singh, JD Robertson… - Infection and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) has emerged as a critical virulence factor for the group
of closely related Burkholderia spp. that includes Burkholderia pseudomallei, B. mallei, and …

Bacterial quorum sensing and metabolic slowing in a cooperative population

JH An, E Goo, H Kim, YS Seo… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL)-mediated quorum sensing (QS) controls the production of
numerous intra-and extracellular products across many species of Proteobacteria. Although …