Quorum Sensing: Complexity in the bacterial world

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 551-555

  Delle Side, D ^a,b   Giuffreda, E ^a,b   Tredici, S M ^a   Tala A ^a   Pennetta, C ^a,c   Alifano, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

ACTIVATION TIME; CELL DENSITY; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; QUORUM-SENSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSAL BEHAVIORS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84948472150     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Sumpter D. The principles of collective animal behaviour Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361 1465 2006 5 22 10.1098/rstb.2005.1733
2. Parrish J.K., and Edelstein-Keshet L. Complexity, pattern, and evolutionary trade-offs in animal aggregation Science 284 5411 1999 99 101 10.1126/science.284.5411.99
3. Kwapień J., and Drozdz S. Physical approach to complex systems Phys Rep 515 34 2012 115 226 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.01.007
4. Ben-Jacob E. Social behavior of bacteria: from physics to complex organization Eur Phys J B 65 3 2008 315 322 10.1140/epjb/e2008-00222-x
5. Miller M.B., and Bassler B.L. Quorum sensing in bacteria Annu Rev Microbiol 55 1 2001 165 199 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.165
6. Waters C.M., and Bassler B.L. Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 21 2005 319 346 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.131001
7. Ng W.-L., and Bassler B.L. Bacterial quorum-sensing network architectures Annu Rev Genet 43 1 2009 197 222 10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134304
8. Redfield R.J. Is quorum sensing a side effect of diffusion sensing? Trends Microbiol 10 8 2002 365 370 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02400-9
9. Hense B.A., Kuttler C., Müller J., Rothballer M., Hartmann A., and Kreft J.-U. Does efficiency sensing unify diffusion and quorum sensing? Nat Rev Microbiol 5 3 2007 230 239 10.1038/nrmicro1600
10. Platt T.G., and Fuqua C. What's in a name? The semantics of quorum sensing Trends Microbiol 18 9 2010 383 387 10.1016/j.tim.2010.05.003
11. West S.A., Winzer K., Gardner A., and Diggle S.P. Quorum sensing and the confusion about diffusion Trends Microbiol 20 12 2012 586 594 10.1016/j.tim.2012.09.004
12. Alberghini S., Polone E., Corich V., Carlot M., Seno F., Trovato A., and et al. Consequences of relative cellular positioning on quorum sensing and bacterial cell-to-cell communication FEMS Microbiol Lett 292 2 2009 149 161 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01478.x
13. Defoirdt T., and Sorgeloos P. Monitoring of Vibrio harveyi quorum sensing activity in real time during infection of brine shrimp larvae ISME J 6 12 2012 2314 2319 10.1038/ismej.2012.58
14. Talà A., Side D. Delle, Buccolieri G., Tredici S.M., Velardi L., Paladini F., and et al. Exposure to static magnetic field stimulates quorum sensing circuit in luminescent vibrio strains of the harveyi clade PLoS ONE 9 6 2014 e100825 10.1371/journal.pone.0100825
15. Wilson T., and Hastings J.W. Bioluminescence Annu Rev Cell Biol 14 1 1998 197 230 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.14.1.197
16. Meighen E.A. Molecular biology of bacterial bioluminescence Microbiol Rev 55 1 1991 123 142 URL http://mmbr.asm.org/content/55/1/123.abstract
17. Austin B., and Zhang X.-H. Vibrio harveyi: a significant pathogen of marine vertebrates and invertebrates Lett Appl Microbiol 43 2 2006 119 124 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.01989.x
18. Henke J.M., and Bassler B.L. Three parallel quorum-sensing systems regulate gene expression in Vibrio harveyi J Bacteriol 186 20 2004 6902 6914 10.1128/JB.186.20.6902-6914.2004
19. Ross-Gillespie A., and Kümmerli R. Collective decision-making in microbes Front Microbiol 5 54 2014 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00054
20. Pascual M., and Guichard F. Criticality and disturbance in spatial ecological systems Trends Ecol Evol 20 2 2005 88 95 10.1016/j.tree.2004.11.012
21. Side D. Delle, Velardi L., Nassisi V., Pennetta C., Alifano P., Talà A., and et al. Bacterial bioluminescence and Gumbel statistics: from quorum sensing to correlation Appl Phys Lett 103 2013 253702 10.1063/1.4850530
22. Bertin E., and Clusel M. Generalized extreme value statistics and sum of correlated variables J Physics A: Math Gen 39 24 2006 7607 10.1088/0305-4470/39/24/001
23. Pennetta C., Alfinito E., Reggiani L., and Ruffo S. Non-Gaussianity of resistance fluctuations near electrical breakdown Semicond Sci Technol 19 4 2004 S164 10.1088/0268-1242/19/4/057
24. Bramwell S.T. The distribution of spatially averaged critical properties Nat Phys 5 2009 443 10.1038/nphys1268
25. Stabili L., Gravili C., Tredici S.M., Piraino S., Talà A., Boero F., and et al. Epibiotic vibrio luminous bacteria isolated from some hydrozoa and bryozoa species Microb Ecol 56 4 2008 625 636 10.1007/s00248-008-9382-y
26. AA. VV. Photomultiplier tubes: basics and applications 3rd ed. 2007 Hamamatsu Photonics K. K. URL http://www.hamamatsu.com/resources/pdf/etd/PMT-handbook-v3aE.pdf
27. Zwietering M.H., Jongenburger I., Rombouts F.M., and van't Riet K. Modeling of the bacterial growth curve Appl Environ Microbiol 56 6 1990 1875 1881 URL http://aem.asm.org/content/56/6/1875.abstract
28. Anetzberger C., Reiger M., Fekete A., Schell U., Stambrau N., Plener L., and et al. Autoinducers act as biological timers in Vibrio harveyi PLoS ONE 7 10 2012 e48310 10.1371/journal.pone.0048310
29. Antal T., Droz M., Györgyi G., and Rácz Z. 1/f noise and extreme value statistics Phys Rev Lett 87 2001 240601 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.240601
30. Suga H., and Smith K.M. Molecular mechanisms of bacterial quorum sensing as a new drug target Curr Opin Chem Biol 7 5 2003 586 591