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    Dynamics of cheater invasion in a cooperating population of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing (QS) regulates expression of dozens of genes in a cell density-dependent manner. Many QS-regulated genes code for production of extracellular factors, “public goods” that can...

    **aoyin Feng, Maxim Kostylev, Ajai A. Dandekar, E. Peter Greenberg in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Correction: Corrigendum: Progress in and promise of bacterial quorum sensing research

    Nature 551, 313–320 (2017); doi:10.1038/nature24624 In this Review, there is an error in Fig. 1b, in which the carboxyl group of diffusible signalling factor methyl dodecenoic acid (compound number 6) was inad...

    Marvin Whiteley, Stephen P. Diggle, E. Peter Greenberg in Nature (2018)

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    Progress in and promise of bacterial quorum sensing research

    This Review highlights how we can build upon the relatively new and rapidly develo** field of research into bacterial quorum sensing (QS). We now have a depth of knowledge about how bacteria use QS signals t...

    Marvin Whiteley, Stephen P. Diggle, E. Peter Greenberg in Nature (2017)

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    The superficial life of microbes

    The social activities and organization of bacteria are crucial to their ecological success. But it is only in recent years that we have begun to study these secret societies.

    Roberto Kolter, E. Peter Greenberg in Nature (2006)

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    Bacterial communication: Tiny teamwork

    Recognition that bacterial cells can communicate and organize into groups has led to new ways of thinking about chronic infections.

    E. Peter Greenberg in Nature (2003)

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    A component of innate immunity prevents bacterial biofilm development

    Antimicrobial factors form one arm of the innate immune system, which protects mucosal surfaces from bacterial infection1,2,3. These factors can rapidly kill bacteria deposited on mucosal surfaces and prevent acu...

    Pradeep K. Singh, Matthew R. Parsek, E. Peter Greenberg, Michael J. Welsh in Nature (2002)

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    Pump up the versatility

    Pseudomonas aeruginosais a versatile bacterium that colonizes the lungs of most people with cystic fibrosis. Its genome sequence provides clues to the origins of its versatility and its resistance to antibiotics.

    E. Peter Greenberg in Nature (2000)