ReviewmBio2018
Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Microbial Community Interactions.
Review in mBio, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 320 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
320 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bibliometric analysis and visualization of quorum sensing research over the last two decade.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Pooled it
- Biofilm Dynamics and Antimicrobial Resistance in Rabbit Odontogenic Infections: A One Health Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Quorum sensing rewires membrane vesicle protein cargo to promote antibiotic persistence inJournal of bacteriology · 2026Article
- Characterization of a Novel Quorum QuencherPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Salmonella infection in chickens: pathogen, pathogenesis, and dietary non-drug feed additives as alternatives to antibiotics - a comprehensive review.Folia microbiologica · 2026Review
- Prevention and Treatment ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Heavy Metal-Driven Oral Dysbiosis: Salivary Toxicometallomics at the Host-Microbiome Interface Across Pathologies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching in Periodontal Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Inactivation of MexT inJournal of bacteriology · 2026Article
- How Salmonella Works Under Osmotic and Desiccation Stresses.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026Review
- Quorum sensing for carbon-neutral wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, challenges, technological pathways, and future prospects.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2026Review
- Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Therapeutic Potential, Limitations and Clinical Challenges.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Screening of microalgae with the potential as anti quorum sensing and anti-vibrio agent in shrimp culture.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2026Article
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- Analysis and engineering of quorum sensing-based communications between bacteria and fungi.mBio · 2026Review
- Carbapenem-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Single-cell phenotypic heterogeneity shapes quorum signaling dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Transcriptomic response of Xanthomonas campestris during xanthan gum production to glutamate concentration.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Novel insights into how gestational diet affects maternal-infant microbiota: a cross-sectional causal mediation analysis at one month postpartum.European journal of nutrition · 2026Observational
- Ecological and stochastic determinants of the growth and persistence of the oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026Article
260 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Many bacteria use a cell-cell communication system called quorum sensing to coordinate population density-dependent changes in behavior. Quorum sensing involves production of and response to diffusible or secreted signals, which can vary substantially across different types of bacteria. In many species, quorum sensing modulates virulence functions and is important for pathogenesis. Over the past half-century, there has been a significant accumulation of knowledge of the molecular mechanisms, signal structures, gene regulons, and behavioral responses associated with quorum-sensing systems in diverse bacteria. More recent studies have focused on understanding quorum sensing in the context of bacterial sociality. Studies of the role of quorum sensing in cooperative and competitive microbial interactions have revealed how quorum sensing coordinates interactions both within a species and between species. Such studies of quorum sensing as a social behavior have relied on the development of "synthetic ecological" models that use nonclonal bacterial populations. In this review, we discuss some of these models and recent advances in understanding how microbes might interact with one another using quorum sensing. The knowledge gained from these lines of investigation has the potential to guide studies of microbial sociality in natural settings and the design of new medicines and therapies to treat bacterial infections.
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