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Rhizosphere Communication: Quorum Sensing by the Rhizobia  

He, Xuesong (Department of Biology, Indiana University)
Fuqua, Clay (Department of Oral Biology, University of California Los Angeles)
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology / v.16, no.11, 2006 , pp. 1661-1677 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rhizobium and related genera are soil bacteria with great metabolic plasticity. These microorganisms survive in many different environments and are capable of eliciting the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules on legumes. The successful establishment of symbiosis is precisely regulated and requires a series of signal exchanges between the two partners. Quorum sensing (QS) is a prevalent form of population density-dependent gene regulation. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that rhizobial quorum sensing provides a pervasive regulatory network, which plays a more generalized role in the physiological activity of free-living rhizobia, as well as during symbiosis. Several rhizobia utilize multiple, overlapping quorum sensing systems to regulate diverse properties, including conjugal transfer and copy number control of plasmids, exopolysaccharide biosynthesis, rhizosphere-related functions, and cell growth. Genomic and proteomic analyses have begun to reveal the wide range of functions under quorum-sensing control.
Keywords
Quorum sensing; signaling; acylated homoserine lactones; rhizobia; symbiosis; plasmids; regulatory networks;
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