A cell-based model for quorum sensing in heterogeneous bacterial colonies.
Although bacteria are unicellular organisms, they have the ability to act in concert by synthesizing and detecting small diffusing autoinducer molecules. The phenomenon, known as quorum sensing, has mainly been proposed to serve as a means for cell-density measurement. Here, we use a cell-based mode...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2887461?pdf=render |