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Paracoccus denitrificans can utilize various long-chain N-acyl homoserine lactones and sequester them in membrane vesicles.
Environmental microbiology reports - 1 Dec 2018
Morinaga Kana, Yamamoto Tatsuya, Nomura Nobuhiko, Toyofuku Masanori
Abstract excerpt
Many gram-negative bacteria utilize N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) signals to communicate with each other. Once they have been released, these signals are assumed to be shared among the population in the local environment. In contrast to this canonical quorum-sensing (QS) model, recent study in Paracoccus denitrificans showed that they can traffic their signals to each other via membrane vesicles (MVs). Here, we...
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