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"Secrete-and-sense cells" can communicate by secreting a signaling moleculewhile also producing a receptor that detects the molecule. The cell canpotentially "talk" to itself ("self-communication") or talk to neighboringcells with the same receptor ("neighbor-communication"). The predominant formsof secrete-and-sense cells are self-communicating "autocrine cells" that arelargely found in animals, and neighbor-communicating "quorum sensing cells"that are mostly associated with bacteria. While assumed to function independentof one another, recent studies have discovered quorum sensing organs andautocrine signaling microbes. Moreover, similar types of genetic circuitscontrol many autocrine and quorum sensing cells. We outline these recentfindings and explain how autocrine and quorum sensing are two sides of amany-sided "dice" created by the versatile secrete-and-sense cell.

Autocrine signaling and quorum sensing: Extreme ends of a common spectrum