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Title

Chemical communication among bacteria / edited by Stephen C. Winans and Bonnie L. Bassler.

Publication

Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Winans, Stephen Carlyle.
• Bassler, Bonnie L.
• American Society for Microbiology.

Description

xvii, 483 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subject

• Quorum sensing (Microbiology)
• Cellular signal transduction
• Bacteria > Physiology
• Bacteria > chemistry
• Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
• Cell Communication
• Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Cell-Cell Signaling During Development and DNA Exchange -- 1. Intercompartmental Signal Transduction during Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis -- 2. Extracellular Peptide Signaling and Quorum Responses in Development, Self-Recognition, and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacillus subtilis -- 3. New Insights into Pheromone Control and Response in Enterococcus faecalis pCF10 -- 4. C-Signal Control of Aggregation and Sporulation -- 5. The Dif Chemosensory System Is Required for S Motility, Biofilm Formation, Chemotaxis, and Development in Myxococcus xanthus -- 6. Heterocyst Development and Pattern Formation -- 7. Diverse Cell-Cell Signaling Molecules Control Formation of Aerial Hyphae and Secondary Metabolism in Streptomycetes -- 8. Metabolites as Intercellular Signals for Regulation of Community-Level Traits -- II. Cell-Cell Signaling in Mutualistic And Pathogenic Associations With Humans, Animals, and Plants -- 9. LuxR-Type Proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing: Distinct Mechanisms with Global Implications -- 10. Quorum Sensing in Vibrio cholerae Pathogenesis -- 11. Signal Integration and Virulence Gene Regulation in Staphylococcus aureus -- 12. Quorum Sensing in the Soft-Rot Erwinias -- 13. Role of Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Pathogenesis of Pantoea stewartii subsp stewartii -- 14. Cell-to-Cell Communication in Rhizobia: Quorum Sensing and Plant Signaling -- 15. Quorum Signaling and Symbiosis in the Marine Luminous Bacterium Vibrio fischeri -- 16. Acylated Homoserine Lactone Signaling in Marine Bacterial Systems -- III. Production, Detection, and Quenching of Chemical Signals -- 17. Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Biosynthesis: Structure and Mechanism -- 18. Cell-Cell Signaling within Crown Gall Tumors -- 19. A New Look at Secondary Metabolites -- 20. Signal Integration in the Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio cholerae Quorum-Sensing Circuits -- 21. Signal Trafficking with Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles -- 22. Cooperative Regulation of Competence Development in Streptococcus pneumouiae: Cell-to-Cell Signaling via a Peptide Pheromone and an Alternative Sigma Factor -- 23. The A Factor Regulatory Cascade That Triggers Secondary Metabolism and Morphological Differentiation in Streptomyces -- 24. Quorum Quenching: Impact and Mechanisms -- 25. Quorum-Sensing Inhibition -- IV. Eukaryotic Quorum Sensing and Interactions With Quorum-Sensing Bacteria -- 26. Interdomain Cross Talk -- 27. Intercellular Signaling by Rhomboids in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes -- 28. Quorum Sensing in Fungi -- 29. Quorum Sensing in Rotifers -- 30. "Quorum Sensing" in Honeybees: Pheromone Regulation of Division of Labor.

ISBN

• 9781555814045 (alk. paper)
• 1555814042 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007052056
• 99820916091

OCLC

• ocn185042608
• 185042608
• SCSB-5408893

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries