Nature Cell Biology
7, 933 - 934 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb1005-933
Thieves, assassins and spies of the microbial worldHera C. Vlamakis
& Roberto Kolter
Hera C. Vlamakis and Roberto Kolter are in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. rkolter@hms.harvard.edu
Extracellular signalling regulates a plethora of multicellular processes. For microbes, maintaining a specific cell−cell signal in an extracellular environment crowded by other species can be extremely challenging. Two recent papers demonstrate how different bacteria have adapted to avoid, or exploit, species cross-signalling.
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