Sensitivity of the quorum sensing system is achieved by low pass filtering

BioSystems

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-81

  Müller, Johannes ^a   Kuttler, Christina ^b   Hense, Burkhard A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cell communication; Efficiency sensing; Noise reduction; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR;

BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; COMMUNICATION; FILTER; NOISE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MOLECULAR MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 39949083197     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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