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