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Optimal Response to Quorum-Sensing Signals Varies in Different Host Environments with Different Pathogen Group Size.
mBio - 2 Jun 2020
Zhou Liqin, Slamti Leyla, Lereclus Didier, Raymond Ben
Abstract excerpt
The persistence of genetic variation in master regulators of gene expression, such as quorum-sensing systems, is hard to explain. Here, we investigated two alternative hypotheses for the prevalence of polymorphic quorum sensing in Gram-positive bacteria, i.e., the use of different signal/receptor pairs ('pherotypes') to regulate the same functions. First, social interactions between pherotypes or 'facultative...
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