Quorum Sensing Methods and Protocols
Since its early days in the 1990s, the Quorum Sensing (QS) field has grown from a few dozen laboratories, investigating the pathways, proteins, and chemicals that facilitate signaling in bacteria, to hundreds of groups that have integrated evolutionary bi
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Quorum Sensing Methods and Protocols
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Kendra P. Rumbaugh Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centre, Lubbock, TX, USA
Editor Kendra P. Rumbaugh Department of Surgery Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock, TX USA [email protected]
ISSN 1064-3745 e-ISSN 1940-6029 ISBN 978-1-60761-970-3 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-971-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-971-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938787 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword I Great! Wow, a whole book on methods for the studying of quorum sensing. I have witnessed the birth of this field and the explosion of research in the area. I believe we are just touching the surface in terms of learning about quorum sensing as it pertains to behaviors fundamental to biology, learning about microbial strategies for successful competition, and harnessing our new knowledge to somehow advance the human condition. Books like this will help the field continue to grow. I first learned about cell density-dependent expression of luminescence in Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio fischeri during the summer of 1973 at an MBL summer course in Woods Hole. Ken Nealson and Anatol Eberhard were instructors in that course, and they, together with Woody Hastings, had uncovered the interesting phenomenon of cell density-dependent expression of luminescence. I believed that this represented a social activity in bacteria and decided that this was what I would focus on as a postdoc. When I finished my PhD in 1977, I moved to Hastings’ laboratory. By then Nealson had established his o
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