Inter-kingdom signaling: chemical language between bacteria and host

• Published in: Current opinion in microbiology Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 192 - 198
• Main Authors: Pacheco, Alline R, Sperandio, Vanessa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Animals; Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; Bacterial Proteins; Bacteriology; Biological and medical sciences; Chemical communication; Drosophila Proteins; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hormones; Host-Pathogen Interactions - physiology; Humans; Mammals - physiology; Membrane Proteins; Microbiology; Miscellaneous; Pathology; Plant Physiological Phenomena; Quorum Sensing - physiology; Symbiosis - physiology; Trans-Activators; Bacteria; Review

Chemical communication between cells ensures coordination of behavior. In prokaryotes, this chemical communication is usually referred to as quorum sensing, while eukaryotic cells signal through hormones. In the past years, a growing number of reports have shown that bacterial quorum sensing signals...