Open AccessMicrobial Communication Superhighways
Author(s) -
Jeffrey W. Schertzer,
Marvin Whiteley
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2011.02.001
Subject(s) - scopus , biology , quorum sensing , mechanism (biology) , computational biology , bacteria , genetics , physics , medline , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , biofilm
Exchange of information is critical for bacterial social behaviors. Now Dubey and Ben-Yehuda (2011) provide evidence for bacterial "nanotube" conduits that allow microbes to directly exchange cytoplasmic factors. Protein and DNA transfer between distantly related species raises the prospect of a new, widely distributed mechanism of bacterial communication.
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