Published in Trends Microbiol on August 01, 2002
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Messing with bacterial quorum sensing. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2006) 2.31
Interspecies communication in Streptococcus gordonii-Veillonella atypica biofilms: signaling in flow conditions requires juxtaposition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 2.24
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Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors. Science (2014) 1.80
Quorum sensing in nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2003) 1.79
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Quorum sensing and social networking in the microbial world. J R Soc Interface (2009) 1.76
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Spatial localization of bacteria controls coagulation of human blood by 'quorum acting'. Nat Chem Biol (2008) 1.74
Evolutionary theory of bacterial quorum sensing: when is a signal not a signal? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2007) 1.69
Confinement-induced quorum sensing of individual Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Nat Chem Biol (2009) 1.61
Adaptations to submarine hydrothermal environments exemplified by the genome of Nautilia profundicola. PLoS Genet (2009) 1.48
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The hierarchy quorum sensing network in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Protein Cell (2014) 1.32
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Mutational analysis of Burkholderia thailandensis quorum sensing and self-aggregation. J Bacteriol (2009) 1.28
AinS quorum sensing regulates the Vibrio fischeri acetate switch. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.27
Mutations of the quorum sensing-dependent regulator VjbR lead to drastic surface modifications in Brucella melitensis. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.26
Quorum sensing, virulence and secondary metabolite production in plant soft-rotting bacteria. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2007) 1.25
Cell-cell communication in bacteria: united we stand. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.23
Swarming: flexible roaming plans. J Bacteriol (2012) 1.22
Modulation of the ComA-dependent quorum response in Bacillus subtilis by multiple Rap proteins and Phr peptides. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.22
Quorum size of Pseudomonas syringae is small and dictated by water availability on the leaf surface. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.21
Cutting through the complexity of cell collectives. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.20
Combinatorial quorum sensing allows bacteria to resolve their social and physical environment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.20
Moving calls: a vocal mechanism underlying quorum decisions in cohesive groups. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.19
Quorum-sensing regulation of adhesion in Serratia marcescens MG1 is surface dependent. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.18
Engineering approaches for the detection and control of orthopaedic biofilm infections. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2005) 1.15
E. coli K-12 and EHEC genes regulated by SdiA. PLoS One (2010) 1.15
Plant-derived natural products as sources of anti-quorum sensing compounds. Sensors (Basel) (2013) 1.13
Decoding microbial chatter: cell-cell communication in bacteria. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.13
Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life. Nat Rev Microbiol (2016) 1.13
Optimal tuning of bacterial sensing potential. Mol Syst Biol (2009) 1.12
Social conflict drives the evolutionary divergence of quorum sensing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.11
Microfluidic stochastic confinement enhances analysis of rare cells by isolating cells and creating high density environments for control of diffusible signals. Chem Soc Rev (2010) 1.10
What's in a name? The semantics of quorum sensing. Trends Microbiol (2010) 1.08
Transition to quorum sensing in an Agrobacterium population: A stochastic model. PLoS Comput Biol (2005) 1.07
A unique regulator controls the activation threshold of quorum-regulated genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.07
Synergy and group size in microbial cooperation. Am Nat (2012) 1.06
The cognitive cell: bacterial behavior reconsidered. Front Microbiol (2015) 1.05
The amino acid valine is secreted in continuous-flow bacterial biofilms. J Bacteriol (2007) 1.03
Biofilms and Inflammation in Chronic Wounds. Adv Wound Care (New Rochelle) (2013) 1.03
Global analysis of quorum sensing targets in the intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis 16 M. J Proteome Res (2010) 1.02
Quorum sensing between Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms accelerates cell growth. J Am Chem Soc (2011) 1.01
The origins of cooperative bacterial communities. MBio (2012) 1.01
Quorum quenching agents: resources for antivirulence therapy. Mar Drugs (2014) 1.01
Periodicity of cell attachment patterns during Escherichia coli biofilm development. J Bacteriol (2003) 1.01
Working together for the common good: cell-cell communication in bacteria. J Bacteriol (2012) 0.98
Quorum sensing in the context of food microbiology. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.97
Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes: review of microfluidic methods. Lab Chip (2015) 0.96
Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms. Nat Rev Microbiol (2016) 0.96
Natural competence and the evolution of DNA uptake specificity. J Bacteriol (2014) 0.95
4-Quinolones: smart phones of the microbial world. Chem Rev (2010) 0.94
Kin selection, quorum sensing and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.94
Core principles of bacterial autoinducer systems. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2015) 0.94
Quorum sensing and expression of virulence in pectobacteria. Sensors (Basel) (2012) 0.93
Therapeutic frontiers: preventing and treating infectious diseases by inhibiting bacterial quorum sensing. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2008) 0.92
Cell-cell communication by quorum sensing and dimension-reduction. J Math Biol (2006) 0.92
A cell-based model for quorum sensing in heterogeneous bacterial colonies. PLoS Comput Biol (2010) 0.92
Quorum sensing: fact, fiction, and everything in between. Adv Appl Microbiol (2007) 0.92
Bacteria clustering by polymers induces the expression of quorum-sensing-controlled phenotypes. Nat Chem (2013) 0.91
Heterogeneous response to a quorum-sensing signal in the luminescence of individual Vibrio fischeri. PLoS One (2010) 0.91
Synthesis of autoinducer 2 by the lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. J Bacteriol (2005) 0.90
Spontaneous Gac mutants of Pseudomonas biological control strains: cheaters or mutualists? Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.90
The Evolution of Quorum Sensing as a Mechanism to Infer Kinship. PLoS Comput Biol (2016) 0.90
Signal diffusion and the mitigation of social exploitation in pneumococcal competence signalling. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 0.89
Collective sensing and collective responses in quorum-sensing bacteria. J R Soc Interface (2015) 0.89
Coordinated regulation of two independent cell-cell signaling systems and swarmer differentiation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J Bacteriol (2006) 0.88
Noise and crosstalk in two quorum-sensing inputs of Vibrio fischeri. BMC Syst Biol (2011) 0.88
Bistability versus bimodal distributions in gene regulatory processes from population balance. PLoS Comput Biol (2011) 0.88
CMEIAS-aided microscopy of the spatial ecology of individual bacterial interactions involving cell-to-cell communication within biofilms. Sensors (Basel) (2012) 0.87
Future research trends in the major chemical language of bacteria. HFSP J (2009) 0.87
A degenerate tripartite DNA-binding site required for activation of ComA-dependent quorum response gene expression in Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Biol (2008) 0.87
Detecting the molecular signature of social conflict: theory and a test with bacterial quorum sensing genes. Am Nat (2012) 0.87
Listeria monocytogenes differential transcriptome analysis reveals temperature-dependent Agr regulation and suggests overlaps with other regulons. PLoS One (2012) 0.87
Autoinducer-2 influences interactions amongst pioneer colonizing streptococci in oral biofilms. Microbiology (2012) 0.86
Role of Phenol-Soluble Modulins in Formation of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms in Synovial Fluid. Infect Immun (2015) 0.86
Disruption of bacterial cell-to-cell communication by marine organisms and its relevance to aquaculture. Mar Biotechnol (NY) (2011) 0.85
Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila. BMC Evol Biol (2014) 0.85
Quorum sensing influences Vibrio harveyi growth rates in a manner not fully accounted for by the marker effect of bioluminescence. PLoS One (2008) 0.85
The role of quorum sensing signalling in EPS production and the assembly of a sludge community into aerobic granules. ISME J (2014) 0.84
Communication and autoinduction in the species Listeria monocytogenes: A central role for the agr system. Commun Integr Biol (2009) 0.84
Identification, activity and disulfide connectivity of C-di-GMP regulating proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One (2010) 0.83
Sensitive whole-cell biosensor suitable for detecting a variety of N-acyl homoserine lactones in intact rhizosphere microbial communities. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 0.83
Bacterium in a box: sensing of quorum and environment by the LuxI/LuxR gene regulatory circuit. J Biol Phys (2010) 0.82
An electrostatic interaction between BlpC and BlpH dictates pheromone specificity in the control of bacteriocin production and immunity in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Bacteriol (2015) 0.82
Confinement regulates complex biochemical networks: initiation of blood clotting by "diffusion acting". Biophys J (2009) 0.81
Novel mechanisms of controlling the activities of the transcription factors Spo0A and ComA by the plasmid-encoded quorum sensing regulators Rap60-Phr60 in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol (2015) 0.81
The acyl homoserine lactone receptor, SdiA, of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium does not respond to indole. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.81