Quorum sensing in bacteria

MB Miller, BL Bassler - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Quorum sensing is the regulation of gene expression in response to fluctuations
in cell-population density. Quorum sensing bacteria produce and release chemical signal …

Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

CM Waters, BL Bassler - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
… peptides functioning in a network arrangement that allows B. subtilis to commit to one of two
… We are grateful to the members of the Bassler lab for insightful discussions. We thank Dr. D. …

Bacterial quorum sensing: its role in virulence and possibilities for its control

ST Rutherford, BL Bassler - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
… We thank members of the Bassler Laboratory for insightful discussion and especially Dr.
Wai… fellowship F32AI085922 and work in the Bassler Laboratory is supported by the Howard …

Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron

…, N Potier, A Van Dorsselaer, I Pelczer, BL Bassler… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
… Silhavy, and members of the Hughson and Bassler laboratories for discussions. This
research was supported by a Deutsche Academischer Austaschdienst (DAAD) fellowship (SS), …

Bacterial quorum-sensing network architectures

WL Ng, BL Bassler - Annual review of genetics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
… We thank members of the Bassler laboratory for insightful discussions and Mr. Carey Nadell
for his input on evolution of group behaviors in bacteria. This work was supported by NRSA …

Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Vibrio harveyi: A new family of genes responsible for autoinducer production

…, MB Miller, BL Bassler - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
In bacteria, the regulation of gene expression in response to changes in cell density is called
quorum sensing. Quorum-sensing bacteria produce, release, and respond to hormone-like …

Quorum sensing signal–response systems in Gram-negative bacteria

K Papenfort, BL Bassler - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Bacteria use quorum sensing to orchestrate gene expression programmes that underlie
collective behaviours. Quorum sensing relies on the production, release, detection and group-…

How bacteria talk to each other: regulation of gene expression by quorum sensing

BL Bassler - Current opinion in microbiology, 1999 - Elsevier
… This study presents both in vivo and in vitro evidence that accumulation of the B. subtilis
competence regulator ComK is controlled by MecA/ClpP driven proteolysis. The experiments …

The LuxS family of bacterial autoinducers: biosynthesis of a novel quorum‐sensing signal molecule

…, K Shokat, MG Surette, BL Bassler - Molecular …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… LuxO (Freeman and Bassler, 1999a). LuxO indirectly represses the luxCDABEGH operon at
low cell density (… harveyi to possess autoinducer-specific outputs (BL Bassler, unpublished). …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterially speaking

BL Bassler, R Losick - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Bacteria use a variety of means to communicate with one another and with their eukaryotic
hosts. In some cases, social interactions allow bacteria to synchronize the behavior of all of …