title: [Quorum sensing in bacteria and yeast].
abstract: Bacterial sets are complex dynamic systems, which interact with each other and through the interaction, bacteria coexist, collaborate, compete and share information in a coordinated manner. A way of bacterial communication is quorum sensing. Through this mechanism the bacteria can recognize its concentration in a given environment and they can decide the time at which the expression of a particular set of genes should be started for developing a specific and simultaneous response. The result of these interconnections raises properties that cannot be explained from a single isolated bacterial cell.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Microbiología y Parasitología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Valladolid, España. Electronic address: gmr810@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Gabriel Alberto
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: March Rosselló
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Eiros Bouza
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D018441:Biofilms; D053038:Quorum Sensing / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D015003:Yeasts / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: Comunicación microbiana; Microbial communication; Quorum quenching; Quorum sensing