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Nature Chemical Biology 1, 321 - 322 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nchembio1105-321

Interrupters on the bacterial party line

Richard P Novick1

  1. Richard P. Novick is in the Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York 10016 USA. e-mail: novick@saturn.med.nyu.edu

Cross-species quorum sensing in bacteria is mediated by a small molecule autoinducer, AI-2. It has now been demonstrated that AI-2–mediated signaling can be sabotaged by bacteria that degrade AI-2.

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