
Quorum Sensing
Molecular Mechanism and Biotechnological Application
Description
Key Features
- Describes Quorum Sensing (QS) mechanisms from their molecular basis, to their clinical applications
- Spans several fields in relation to QS, including microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry and ecology
- Considers QS as an approach to the discovery of new antibiotics
- Looks at QS as a means to understand the microbial world and towards use of bacteria and their products in biotechnological applications
- Summarizes key results on QS mechanisms’ molecular basis and fields of application
Readership
Researchers in microbiology, chemistry, ecology, biochemistry including drug delivery, and food including food packaging; Suitable to researchers working in public research bodies within academia or national research councils, and private industry, including in food and pharmaceuticals
Table of Contents
1. GENERAL: CHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY
1. The Chemical Language Of Gram-Negative Bacteria
2. Analytical approaches for the identification of quorum-sensing molecules
3. Quorum sensing in marine biofilms and environments
4. Quorum sensing in extremophiles2. INTER-KINGDOM COMMUNICATION
5. Quorum Sensing in Phytopathogenesis
6. Quorum sensing and gut microbiome3. QUORUM SENSING INHIBITION
7. Enzymatic Quorum Quenching in Biofilms
8. Effect of Polyphenols on Microbial Cell-Cell Communications4. APPLICATIONS
9. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Inhibition10. Cyclic Peptides in Neurological Disorders: The Case of Cyclo(His-Pro)
Product details
- No. of pages: 309
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: April 6, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128149058
- eBook ISBN: 9780128149065