For example, the first reported evidence of quorum sensing was in two marine bacterial species that emit light in response to high cell density, which is responsible for bioluminescence in various ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope ...

Researchers engineered bacteria to produce spectral pigments in response to environmental triggers. Using hyperspectral ...

When a population of bacteria is large enough, individual bacteria can communicate with each other to coordinate attacks on larger species while saving resources within its own population — a process ...

The review provides a comprehensive look at the quorum sensing (QS) systems in Pseudomonas ... that can interfere with these ...

quorum sensing peptides activate a membrane-bound receptor leading to the transcription of group behavior genes. Because many pathogens utilize QS to initiate and synchronize their attack on the host, ...

So far, I have developed and studied models for biofilms, quorum sensing, t6ss killing, and characterizations to determine the success of bacterial genotypes in ecological processes, within-host ...

"By inhibiting quorum sensing, we can effectively reduce the ... QSIs could pave the way for new antimicrobial agents that target bacterial communication rather than killing the bacteria outright ...

Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the role of quorum sensing during plant disease caused by the phytopathogen Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii. 2. Design genome-levels experiments to study the ...

The researchers discovered that in V. parahaemolyticus, four of the nine new defence systems were turned on in response to quorum sensing - which Getz explains is the ability of bacteria to listen to ...