Ecological feedback in quorum-sensing microbial populations can induce heterogeneous production of autoinducers

Ecological feedback in quorum-sensing microbial populations can induce heterogeneous production of autoinducers

Autoinducers are small signaling molecules that mediate intercellular communication in microbial populations and trigger coordinated gene expression via ‘quorum sensing’. Elucidating the mechanisms that control autoinducer production is, thus, pertinent to understanding collective microbial behavior...

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Main Authors: Matthias Bauer, Johannes Knebel, Matthias Lechner, Peter Pickl, Erwin Frey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-07-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
quorum sensing
autoinducer
phenotypic heterogeneity
non-equilibrium statistical physics
nonlinear dynamics
quasi-stationary distributions
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/25773

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