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Diversity and quorum-sensing signal production of Proteobacteria associated with marine sponges.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Mohamed Naglaa M, Cicirelli Elisha M, Kan Jinjun, Chen Feng, Fuqua Clay, Hill Russell T
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Marine sponges are hosts to diverse and dense bacterial communities and thus provide a potential environment for quorum sensing. Quorum sensing, a key factor in cell-cell communication and bacterial colonization of higher animals, might be involved in the symbiotic interactions between bacteria and their sponge hosts. Given that marine Proteobacteria are known to produce N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) signal...
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