Listening in on bacteria: Acyl-homoserine lactone signalling

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作者
Fuqua, C
Greenberg, EP [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Iowa, Dept Microbiol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[2] Indiana Univ, Dept Biol, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1038/nrm907
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Bacterial cell-to-cell signalling has emerged as a new area in microbiology. Individual bacterial cells communicate with each other and co-ordinate group activities. Although a lot of detail is known about the mechanisms of a few well-characterized bacterial communication systems, other systems have been discovered only recently. Bacterial intercellular communication has become a target for the development of new anti-virulence drugs.
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