Quorum sensing: an under-explored phenomenon in the phylum Actinobacteria

Quorum sensing is known to play a major role in the regulation of secondary metabolite production, especially antibiotics, and morphogenesis in the phylum Actinobacteria. Although it is one of the largest bacterial phylum, only 25 of the 342 genera have been reported to use quorum sensing. Of these,...

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Main Authors: Ashish Vasant Polkade, Shailesh Sharad Mantri, Umera Jamallloddin Patwekar, Kamlesh eJangid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00131/full