Progress in and promise of bacterial quorum sensing research

Marvin Whiteley, Stephen P. Diggle and E. Peter Greenberg ()
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Marvin Whiteley: School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen P. Diggle: School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
E. Peter Greenberg: University of Washington School of Medicine

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7680, 313-320

Abstract: Abstract This Review highlights how we can build upon the relatively new and rapidly developing field of research into bacterial quorum sensing (QS). We now have a depth of knowledge about how bacteria use QS signals to communicate with each other and to coordinate their activities. In recent years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the genetics, genomics, biochemistry, and signal diversity of QS. We are beginning to understand the connections between QS and bacterial sociality. This foundation places us at the beginning of a new era in which researchers will be able to work towards new medicines to treat devastating infectious diseases, and use bacteria to understand the biology of sociality.

Date: 2017
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