ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
Collective sensing and collective responses in quorum-sensing bacteria.
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- Frequency modulation of a bacterial quorum sensing response.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Effective connectivity determines the critical dynamics of biochemical networks.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Non-Random Genome Editing and Natural Cellular Engineering in Cognition-Based Evolution.Cells · 2021Review
- Cooperative metabolic resource allocation in spatially-structured systems.Journal of mathematical biology · 2021Article
- A Bacterial Quorum Sensing Molecule Elicits a General Stress Response inFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Quorum sensing via dynamic cytokine signaling comprehensively explains divergent patterns of effector choice among helper T cells.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- In silico bacteria evolve robust cooperaion via complex quorum-sensing strategies.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Decoding collective communications using information theory tools.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bacteria often face fluctuating environments, and in response many species have evolved complex decision-making mechanisms to match their behaviour to the prevailing conditions. Some environmental cues provide direct and reliable information (such as nutrient concentrations) and can be responded to individually. Other environmental parameters are harder to infer and require a collective mechanism of sensing. In addition, some environmental challenges are best faced by a group of cells rather than an individual. In this review, we discuss how bacteria sense and overcome environmental challenges as a group using collective mechanisms of sensing, known as 'quorum sensing' (QS). QS is characterized by the release and detection of small molecules, potentially allowing individuals to infer environmental parameters such as density and mass transfer. While a great deal of the molecular mechanisms of QS have been described, there is still controversy over its functional role. We discuss what QS senses and how, what it controls and why, and how social dilemmas shape its evolution. Finally, there is a growing focus on the use of QS inhibitors as antibacterial chemotherapy. We discuss the claim that such a strategy could overcome the evolution of resistance. By linking existing theoretical approaches to data, we hope this review will spur greater collaboration between experimental and theoretical researchers.
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