He said he and Bassler have been the two people who have really pushed the importance of quorum sensing in medicine and in general. Bassler came to his lab in the late 1990s to do some experiments ...

The first, allostery, operates on the “lock-and-key” principle: a molecule attaches ... using a method called quorum sensing. When bacterial cells reach a certain concentration, they produce and ...

The article from UK's Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center, Markey Cancer Center, and the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences suggests a vital role for the signaling molecule ...

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There are parallels to be drawn between that research and this new study from scientists at China's Sun Yat-Sen University, whose work focuses on cytokines, which are immune system signaling ...

Autocrine or paracrine type I IFN signaling are believed to regulate ... cells that secrete and respond to the same molecule can achieve different modes of communication (autocrine, paracrine, or ...

Quorum sensing (QS) is a bacterial cell-to-cell communication ... These agents inhibit the QS system by inactivation of signaling molecule synthases, neutralization of AIPs with antibodies, ...

College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China The wild-type and mutant strains were cultured on LB agar plates and then the morphology of colonies was observed ...

The majority of these systems rely on the internal resources of each cell for the production of the signaling molecule. One of the challenges of quorum sensing systems is that they are hard to ...