Re: Quorum Sensing Literature

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> Hi Knotweed,

> I'd be interested in literature about quorum sensing. Thanks!

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a good starter is this lecture from Bonny Bassler about quorum sensing (check

URL, it gets abbreviated on the forum ...):

http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

some recent articles about QS and what it could offer from PubMed:

Cell-cell communication in bacteria: united we stand. PMID: 18456806

(check the full version after the link!)

Messing with bacterial quorum sensing. PMID: 17158701

Future research trends in the major chemical language of bacteria. PMID:

19794815

Quorum-sensing blockade as a strategy for enhancing host defences against

bacterial pathogens. PMID: 17360273

QS and probiotics:

Do you have a probiotic in your future? PMID: 18762263

The intestinal environment in health and disease - recent insights on the

potential of intestinal bacteria to

influence human health. PMID: 19519443

and some about QS + Borrelia:

Adaptation factors of Borrelia for host and vector. PMID: 19572471

LuxS-mediated quorum sensing in Borrelia burgdorferi, the lyme disease

spirochete. PMID: 12117917

Quorum sensing by the Lyme disease spirochete. PMID: 12941391