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Chemical Talking with Living Systems: Molecular Switches Steer Quorum Sensing in Bacteria
Author(s) -
Schweighauser Luca,
Wegner Hermann A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.201500276
Subject(s) - quorum sensing , pyocyanin , autoinducer , bacteria , azobenzene , chemistry , living systems , phenotype , nanotechnology , gene , biology , biochemistry , biofilm , materials science , genetics , molecule , organic chemistry , ecology
New avenues in bacterial engineering: An azobenzene molecular switch has been incorporated into an autoinducer for quorum sensing (QS) in bacteria. The authors demonstrated that irradiation with different wavelengths of light influences the QS system thereby controlling gene expression as well as the phenotype, as exemplified by pyocyanin production.