Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight - Kalia, Vipin Chandra; SpringerLink (Online service) (New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
1. Microbes: The Most Friendly beings? -- 2. Evolution of MDRs -- Quorum sensing mediated processes -- 3. Biofilms: Maintenance, Development and Disassembly of Bacterial Communities are determined by QS cascades -- 4. Quorum sensing in pathogenesis and virulence -- 5. Quorum sensing in Nitrogen fixation -- 6. Quorum sensing in competence and sporulation -- 7. How important is the absolute configuration to bacteria quorum sensing and quorum quenching -- Quorum sensing systems in microbes -- 8. Quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas -- 9. Quorum sensing systems in Escherichia coli: Interkingdom, inter and intra species dialogues, and a suicide inducing peptide -- 10. Quorum sensing systems in Acinetobacter baumannii -- 11. Quorum sensing systems in Aeromonas spp -- 12. Rhizobial extracellular signaling molecules and their functions in symbiotic interactions with legumes -- 13. Quorum sensing systems in Clostridia -- 14. Quorum sensing systems in Enterococcus -- 15. Quorum sensing systems in Bacillus -- Detectors for Quorum sensing signals -- 16. Quorum sensing biosensors -- 17. Caenorhabditis elegans as an in vivo non-mammalian model system to study quorum sensing in pathogens -- 18. Strategies for silencing bacterial communication -- Natural quorum sensing inhibitors -- 19. Silencing bacterial communication through enzymatic quorum sensing inhibitors -- 20. Fungal quorum sensing inhibitors -- 21. Marine organisms as source of quorum sensing inhibitors -- 22. Plant quorum sensing inhibitors: Food, medicinal plants, others -- Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors -- 23. Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors: Signal analogues -- 24. Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors blocking receptor signalling or signal molecule biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa -- 25. Development of quorum sensing inhibitors targeting the fsr system of Enterococcus faecalis -- Alternative strategies as quorum sensing inhibitors -- 26. An alternative strategy as quorum sensing inhibitor: Pheromone-guided antimicrobial peptide -- 27. Alternative strategies to target quorum sensing (QS): Combination of QS inhibitors with antibiotics and nano technological approaches -- 28. Heterologous expression of quorum sensing inhibitory genes in diverse organisms -- Biotechnological applications of quorum sensing inhibitors -- 29. Potential applications of quorum sensing inhibitors in diverse fields -- 30. Biotechnological applications of quorum sensing inhibitors in aquacultures -- 31. The Battle: Quorum sensing inhibitors vs evolution of bacterial resistance.
Keywords: Life sciences; Bacteriology; Gene expression; Medical genetics; Plant genetics; Life Sciences, general; Bacteriology; Gene Expression; Gene Function; Plant Genetics and Genomics