Dear Editor, Bacteria are able to communicate with each other through small, diffusible molecules. In some species, this type of communication has been linked to virulence. Therefore, bacterial cell-cell communicatio...
We thank our colleagues J Zang and X Liu for their technical assistance in protein purification. This work was supported by the One Hundred Talent Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50738006).
In quorum sensing (QS) process, bacteria regulate gene expression by utilizing small signaling molecules called autoinducers in response to a variety of environmental cues. Autoinducer 2 (AI-2), a QS signaling mol...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to emerge at alarming rates and all aspects of the infection process are being re-examined so that new procedures for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of bacterial infections...