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Social cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Oct 2007
Sandoz Kelsi M, Mitzimberg Shelby M, Schuster Martin
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In a process termed quorum sensing, bacteria use diffusible chemical signals to coordinate cell density-dependent gene expression. In the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, quorum sensing controls hundreds of genes, many of which encode extracellular virulence factors. Quorum sensing is requi...
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