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Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating.
The ISME journal - 1 Jan 2015
García-Contreras Rodolfo, Nuñez-López Leslie, Jasso-Chávez Ricardo, Kwan Brian W, Belmont Javier A, Rangel-Vega Adrián, Maeda Toshinari, Wood Thomas K
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Quorum sensing (QS) coordinates the expression of virulence factors and allows bacteria to counteract the immune response, partly by increasing their tolerance to the oxidative stress generated by immune cells. Despite the recognized role of QS in enhancing the oxidative stress response, the consequences of this relationship for the bacterial ecology remain unexplored. Here we demonstrate that QS increases...
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