Open AccessConversation game: talking bacteria
Author(s) -
Majumdar Sarangam,
Mondal Subhoshmita
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cell communication and signaling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.329
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1873-961X
pISSN - 1873-9601
DOI - 10.1007/s12079-016-0333-y
Subject(s) - autoinducer , quorum sensing , conversation , bacteria , population , biological system , signal (programming language) , molecular communication , diffusion , cell signaling , computer science , biology , physics , communication , microbiology and biotechnology , telecommunications , genetics , signal transduction , biofilm , medicine , psychology , transmitter , environmental health , programming language , thermodynamics , channel (broadcasting)
The story of autonomous unicellular organisms, bacteria with unimaginable computational and evolutionary capabilities along with collective behavior has been running since the first six decades of the twentieth Century. However, do not consider them to be small and simple, because they possess the generic term quorum sensing adopted to describe the cell communication process which co‐ordinate gene expression, when the population has reached a high cell density. Bacteria release diffusible signal molecules known as autoinducers or quorum sensing molecules. In recent research, the direction for activating or deactivating nature of a wave of gene expression is predicted experimentally which control bacterial populations subject to a diffusing autoinducer signal. On the other hand, it has been observed that the accumulation of the quorum sensing molecules leads to a negative diffusion coefficient in the solution of governing differential equation.