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Nature Cell Biology 7, 933 - 934 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb1005-933
Thieves, assassins and spies of the microbial world
Hera C. Vlamakis1 & Roberto Kolter1
- Hera C. Vlamakis and Roberto Kolter are in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. e-mail: rkolter@hms.harvard.edu
Abstract
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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