Combinatorial quorum sensing allows bacteria to resolve their social and physical environment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4280-4284

  Cornforth, Daniel M ^a   Popat, Roman ^a   McNally, Luke ^a   Gurney, James ^b   Scott Phillips, Thomas C ^c   Ivens, Alasdair ^a   Diggle, Stephen P ^b   Brown, Sam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial cooperation; Bacterial signaling; Collective behavior; Diffusion sensing; Efficiency sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIMULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BACTERIAL COOPERATION; BACTERIAL SIGNALING; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION SENSING; EFFICIENCY SENSING;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84896496605     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319175111     Document Type: Article

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