Bacterial quorum sensing: the progress and promise of an emerging research area

By M. Whiteley, Steve Diggle, E. P. Greenberg. Nature, 2017

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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 about how bacteria use QS signals to communicate with each other and to coordinate their activities. In recent years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and signal diversity of QS. We are beginning to understand the connections between QS and bacterial sociality. This foundation places us at the beginning of a new era in which researchers will be able to work towards new medicines to treat devastating infectious diseases, and use bacteria to understand the biology of sociality.

Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Periodontics

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• Understanding bacterial biofilms: From definition to treatment strategies (2023, background): “The QS system can help bacteria and microorganisms sense population density and influence biofilm formation and maturation, antibiotic resistance, bacterial communities, and bacterial-host interactions (Whiteley et al., 2017; Paluch et al., 2020).”