Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kalia, Vipin Chandra. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.