Pyocyanin Restricts Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Pyocyanin Restricts Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Quorum sensing (QS) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa coordinates the expression of virulence factors, such as exoproteases and siderophores, that are public goods utilized by the whole population of bacteria, regardless of whether they invested or not in their production. These public goods can be used by...

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Main Authors: Paulina Castañeda-Tamez, Jimena Ramírez-Peris, Judith Pérez-Velázquez, Christina Kuttler, Ammar Jalalimanesh, Miguel Á. Saucedo-Mora, J. Guillermo Jiménez-Cortés, Toshinari Maeda, Yael González, María Tomás, Thomas K. Wood, Rodolfo García-Contreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
public goods
pyocyanin
social cheating
quorum sensing (QS)
oxidative stress
policing
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01348/full

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