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Microbiology (Reading). 2017 Dec;163(12):1778-1790. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000567.

Chemotaxis to self-generated AI-2 promotes biofilm formation in .

Microbiology (Reading, England)

Sneha Jani, Andrew L Seely, George L Peabody V, Arul Jayaraman, Michael D Manson

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, 3258 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3258, USA.
  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, 3122 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3122, USA.

PMID: 29125461 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000567

Abstract

Responses to the interspecies quorum-sensing signal autoinducer-2 (AI-2) regulate the patterns of gene expression that promote biofilm development.

Keywords: AI-2 chemotaxis; biofilm; lsr operon; self-aggregation

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