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Bacteria Also Vote

Dale Kaiser [email protected]
Science • 14 Jun 1996 • Vol 272, Issue 5268 • pp. 1598-1599 • DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5268.1598
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Abstract

A report by Moré et al. (p. 1655) describes the biosynthesis of an autoinducer from Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a molecule that signals bacterial density of a culture (a quorum sensor). The Perspective by Kaiser reviews what is known about autoinducers from a number of microorganisms and speculates about their identity as predecessors of hormone-hormone receptor systems of eukaryotes.

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Dale Kaiser [email protected]
The author is in the Departments of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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