Summary of Experimental Results
In this chapter, we are accumulating significant experimental results of the quorum sensing mechanism over the last few decades. We summarize important experimental observations of several talking bacteria such as Vibrio fischeri, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,
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Microbial Communication Mathematical Modeling, Synthetic Biology and the Role of Noise
Microbial Communication
Sarangam Majumdar • Sisir Roy
Microbial Communication Mathematical Modeling, Synthetic Biology and the Role of Noise
Sarangam Majumdar Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell’Informazione e Matematica Universit`a degli Studi dell’Aquila L’Aquila, Italy
Sisir Roy IISC Campus National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Preface
Bacteria are microorganisms, which communicate with each other using three different mechanisms. Historically, the chemical signalling mechanism was first discovered and extensively discussed by scientists. Chemical molecules have been identified for this mechanism and they are technically known as autoinducers. Communication through sound is discussed by the end of last century but not so well mentioned in the literature. The most recent mechanism was discovered a couple of years before by the researchers from the USA and the European Union known as communication through electrical signalling. These three types of communication are used by the bacteria to make their own survival master plan in a complex environmental condition. The chemical signalling mediated communication process depends on the number density of the bacterial cell. This dependence of number density is commonly known as a quorum sensing mechanism. The study of the mechanisms for communication among the bacteria needs
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