Autoinducer-2 Quorum Sensing Influences Viability of Escherichia coli O157:H7 under Osmotic and In Vitro Gastrointestinal Stress Conditions

Autoinducer-2 Quorum Sensing Influences Viability of Escherichia coli O157:H7 under Osmotic and In Vitro Gastrointestinal Stress Conditions

Bacteria use autoinducer molecules to communicate both at intra-species and inter-species levels by quorum sensing. One such cell density-dependent signaling system is the luxS-mediated universal quorum sensing using autoinducer-2 (AI-2). Virulence of several pathogens is determined by an AI-2 syste...

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Main Authors: Hyunjoon Park, Kyuyeon Lee, Soyoung Yeo, Heuynkil Shin, Wilhelm H. Holzapfel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
EHEC
quorum sensing
autoinducer-2
gastrointestinal stress
osmotic stress
bacterial survival
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01077/full

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