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  • noun Plural form of autoinducer.

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Examples

  • These autoinducers coordinate bacterial gene expression and regulate processes - including virulence - that benefit the microbial community.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • Dr. Schramm's collaborators at Industrial Research Ltd. earlier reported transition state analogues of an enzyme that interferes with "quorum sensing" - the process by which bacteria communicate with each other by producing and detecting signaling molecules known as autoinducers.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • Their target: A bacterial enzyme, MTAN, that is directly involved in synthesizing the autoinducers crucial to quorum sensing.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • These autoinducers coordinate bacterial gene expression and regulate processes - including virulence - that benefit the microbial community.

    Infection Control Today Articles 2009

  • Their target: A bacterial enzyme, MTAN, that is directly involved in synthesizing the autoinducers crucial to quorum sensing.

    Infection Control Today Articles 2009

  • Schramm's collaborators at Industrial Research Ltd. earlier reported transition state analogues of an enzyme that interferes with "quorum sensing" - the process by which bacteria communicate with each other by producing and detecting signaling molecules known as autoinducers.

    Infection Control Today Articles 2009

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