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- noun Plural form of
autoinducer .
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These autoinducers coordinate bacterial gene expression and regulate processes - including virulence - that benefit the microbial community.
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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.
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Their target: A bacterial enzyme, MTAN, that is directly involved in synthesizing the autoinducers crucial to quorum sensing.
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These autoinducers coordinate bacterial gene expression and regulate processes - including virulence - that benefit the microbial community.
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Their target: A bacterial enzyme, MTAN, that is directly involved in synthesizing the autoinducers crucial to quorum sensing.
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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.
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