ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2020
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution.
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- Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Quorum-quenching enzymes as next-generation antibiofilm therapeutics: mechanisms, applications, and future perspectives.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
- Competing Inter-Domain Quorum-Sensing Systems Control Prophage Lysis-Lysogeny Decisions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Quorum Sensing-Controlled Competence Regulon Drives HACS infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Chitinivorax: The New Kid on the Block of Bacterial 2-Alkyl-4(1ACS chemical biology · 2025Article
- The sensor histidine kinase PhcS participates in the regulation of quorum sensing-dependent virulence genes inMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Role of the LuxR solo, SdiA, in eavesdropping on foreign bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Extracellular proteolysis of tandemly duplicated pheromone propeptides affords additional complexity to bacterial quorum sensing.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Arbitrium communication controls phage lysogeny through non-lethal modulation of a host toxin-antitoxin defence system.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- A balancing act: investigations on the impact of altered signal sensitivity in bacterial quorum sensing.Journal of bacteriology · 2023Article
- Crosstalk enables mutual activation of coupled quorum sensing pathways through "jump-start" and "push-start" mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evolution of lasR mutants in polymorphic Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations facilitates chronic infection of the lung.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Major distinctions between the two oligopeptide permease systems ofMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
- Bacterial biofilms as an essential component of rhizosphere plant-microbe interactions.Methods in microbiology · 2023Article
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- Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis Revealing the Improved ε-Poly-l-Lysine Production Induced by a Microbial Call from Botrytis cinerea.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Complex extracellular biology drives surface competition during colony expansion in Bacillus subtilis.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Modulating streptococcal phenotypes using signal peptide analogues.Open biology · 2022Review
- The Preyssler-Type Polyoxotungstate Exhibits Anti-Quorum Sensing, Antibiofilm, and Antiviral Activities.Biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Quorum sensing is a process in which bacteria secrete and sense a diffusible molecule, thereby enabling bacterial groups to coordinate their behavior in a density-dependent manner. Quorum sensing has evolved multiple times independently, utilizing different molecular pathways and signaling molecules. A common theme among many quorum-sensing families is their wide range of signaling diversity-different variants within a family code for different signal molecules with a cognate receptor specific to each variant. This pattern of vast allelic polymorphism raises several questions-How do different signaling variants interact with one another? How is this diversity maintained? And how did it come to exist in the first place? Here we argue that social interactions between signaling variants can explain the emergence and persistence of signaling diversity throughout evolution. Finally, we extend the discussion to include cases where multiple diverse systems work in concert in a single bacterium.
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