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New Vocabulary for Bacterial Communication
Sophie BrameyerHelge B. BodeNicholas J. TobiasDarko KresovicRalf HeermannJannis Brehmsubject
GenomicsCell CommunicationBacterial genome sizeComputational biologyAcyl-Butyrolactones010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesBiochemistryDNA sequencing570 Life sciencesGram-Negative Bacteriabacterial communicationMolecular BiologyGeneAcyl-Homoserine Lactonesgene sequencingbiology010405 organic chemistryOrganic Chemistryquorum sensingfood and beveragesMinireviewsbiochemical phenomena metabolism and nutritionbiology.organism_classification0104 chemical sciencesQuorum sensingQuorum Quenchingquorum quenchingMolecular MedicineMinireviewbiosynthesisBacteria570 Biowissenschaftendescription
Abstract Quorum sensing (QS) is widely accepted as a procedure that bacteria use to converse. However, prevailing thinking places acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) at the forefront of this communication pathway in Gram‐negative bacteria. With the advent of high‐throughput genomics and the subsequent influx of bacterial genomes, bioinformatics analysis has determined that the genes encoding AHL biosynthesis, originally discovered to be indispensable for QS (LuxI‐like proteins and homologues), are often absent in QS‐capable bacteria. Instead, the sensing protein (LuxR‐like proteins) is present with an apparent inability to produce any outgoing AHL signal. Recently, several signals for these LuxR solos have been identified. Herein, advances in the field of QS are discussed, with a particular focus on recent research in the field of bacterial cell–cell communication.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-17 | ChemBioChem |