Quorum sensing vs quorum quenching : a battle with no end in sight /: a battle with no end in sight. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vipin Chandra Kalia, editor.
• Editors: Kalia, Vipin Chandra
• Contents: 1. Microbes: The Most Friendly beings? -- 2. Evolution of MDRs -- Quorum sensing mediated processes -- 3. Biofilms: Maintenance, Development and Disassembly of Bacterial Communities are determined by QS cascades -- 4. Quorum sensing in pathogenesis and virulence -- 5. Quorum sensing in Nitrogen fixation -- 6. Quorum sensing in competence and sporulation -- 7. How important is the absolute configuration to bacteria quorum sensing and quorum quenching -- Quorum sensing systems in microbes -- 8. Quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas -- 9. Quorum sensing systems in Escherichia coli: Interkingdom, inter and intra species dialogues, and a suicide inducing peptide -- 10. Quorum sensing systems in Acinetobacter baumannii -- 11. Quorum sensing systems in Aeromonas spp -- 12. Rhizobial extracellular signaling molecules and their functions in symbiotic interactions with legumes -- 13. Quorum sensing systems in Clostridia -- 14. Quorum sensing systems in Enterococcus -- 15. Quorum sensing systems in Bacillus -- Detectors for Quorum sensing signals -- 16. Quorum sensing biosensors -- 17. Caenorhabditis elegans as an in vivo non-mammalian model system to study quorum sensing in pathogens -- 18. Strategies for silencing bacterial communication -- Natural quorum sensing inhibitors -- 19. Silencing bacterial communication through enzymatic quorum sensing inhibitors -- 20. Fungal quorum sensing inhibitors -- 21. Marine organisms as source of quorum sensing inhibitors -- 22. Plant quorum sensing inhibitors: Food, medicinal plants, others -- Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors -- 23. Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors: Signal analogues -- 24. Synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors blocking receptor signalling or signal molecule biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa -- 25. Development of quorum sensing inhibitors targeting the fsr system of Enterococcus faecalis -- Alternative strategies as quorum sensing inhibitors -- 26. An alternative strategy as quorum sensing inhibitor: Pheromone-guided antimicrobial peptide -- 27. Alternative strategies to target quorum sensing (QS): Combination of QS inhibitors with antibiotics and nano technological approaches -- 28. Heterologous expression of quorum sensing inhibitory genes in diverse organisms -- Biotechnological applications of quorum sensing inhibitors -- 29. Potential applications of quorum sensing inhibitors in diverse fields -- 30. Biotechnological applications of quorum sensing inhibitors in aquacultures -- 31. The Battle: Quorum sensing inhibitors vs evolution of bacterial resistance.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 391 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.9/041; Quorum sensing (Microbiology); HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Quorum sensing (Microbiology); Life Sciences; Life Sciences, general; Bacteriology; Gene Expression; Gene Function; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Quorum Sensing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9788132219828; 8132219821; 8132219813; 9788132219811
• Related ISBNs: 9788132219811
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2014).
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