群体感应
生物膜
废水
细菌
生化工程
功能(生物学)
污水处理
人口
生物
微生物学
环境科学
环境工程
工程类
细胞生物学
遗传学
医学
环境卫生
作者
Joshua D. Shrout,Robert Nerenberg
摘要
Bacteria have their own form of "twitter" communication, described as quorum sensing (QS), where bacteria emit and sense chemical signal molecules as a means to gauge population density and control gene expression. Many QS-controlled genes relate to biofilm formation and function and may be important for some water and wastewater treatment biofilms. There is a need to better understand bacterial QS, the bacteria biofilm aspects influenced by QS in engineered reactors, and to assess how designs and operations might be improved by taking this signaling into account. This paper provides a critical review of QS and how it relates to biofilms in engineered water and wastewater treatment systems and identifies needs for future research.
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