Bacterial Cell-To-Cell Communication

Donald R. Demuth is Professor in the Department of Periodontics, Endodontics and Dental Hygiene at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Richard Lamont is Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Florida.

Descibes latest developments in bacterial communication and the role of these mechanisms in disease.

Introduction Donald R. Demuth and Richard Lamont; 1. Quorum sensing and regulation of P. aeruginosa infections Victoria E. Wagner and Barbara Iglewski; 2. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal Everett Pesci; 3. Quorum sensing mediated regulation of plant/bacteria interactions and A. tumafaciens virulence Catharine C. White and Stephen C. Winans; 4. Jamming bacterial communications: new strategies to combat bacterial infections and the development of biofilms Michael Givskov and Morton Hentzer; 5. Quorum sensing-mediated regulation of biofilm growth and virulence of Vibrio cholerae Jun Zhu and John. J. Mekalanos; 6. LuxS in cellular metabolism and cell-cell signaling Kangmin Duan and Michael Surette; 7. LuxS dependent regulation of E. coli virulence Marcie B. Clarke and Vanessa Sperandio; 8. Quorum sensing and cell-to-cell communication in the dental biofilm Donald R. Demuth and Richard Lamont; 9. Quorum sensing-dependent regulation of staphylococcal virulence and biofilm development Jeremy Yarwood; 10. Cell density dependent regulation of streptococcal competence M. Dilani Senadheera, Celine Levesque and D. Cvitkovitch; 11. Signaling by a cell surface-associated signal during fruiting body morphogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus Lotte Søgaard-Andersen.