Bacterial Call to Arms for Warfare at the Infection Site

Vitor Cabral; Karina B Xavier

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2018.02.009

Bacterial Call to Arms for Warfare at the Infection Site

Cell Host Microbe. 2018 Mar 14;23(3):285-287. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.02.009.

Authors

Vitor Cabral¹, Karina B Xavier²

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal.
² Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal. Electronic address: kxavier@igc.gulbenkian.pt.

PMID: 29544091
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.02.009

Abstract

Bacterial sensing is important for perceiving environmental cues and activating responses. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Hertzog et al. (2018) show that group A Streptococcus can couple the ability to respond to host cues with autoinduction of a quorum sensing system, leading to killing of bacterial competitors.

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MeSH terms

Quorum Sensing*
Streptococcus pyogenes*