自诱导物
群体感应
生物
生物膜
集体行为
遗传异质性
细菌
表型
进化生物学
遗传学
基因
人类学
社会学
作者
Bianca Striednig,Hubert Hilbi
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.tim.2021.09.001
摘要
Bacteria communicate with each other through a plethora of small, diffusible organic molecules called autoinducers. This cell-density-dependent regulatory principle is termed quorum sensing, and in many cases the process indeed coordinates group behavior of bacterial populations. Yet, even clonal bacterial populations are not uniform entities; rather, they adopt phenotypic heterogeneity to cope with consecutive, rapid, and frequent environmental fluctuations (bet-hedging) or to concurrently interact with each other by exerting different, often complementary, functions (division of labor). Quorum sensing is mainly regarded as a coordinator of bacterial collective behavior. However, it can also be a driver or a target of individual phenotypic heterogeneity. Hence, quorum sensing increases the overall fitness of a bacterial community by orchestrating group behavior as well as individual traits.
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