Quorum Sensing

Table 2 Brief classification of some existing mathematical models of QS Year Author Bacteria Method 2000 James et al. Vibrio fis ...

As many of the models described here use the Michaelis- Menten model, which accounts for the kinetic properties of many enzymes, ...

Box 1 Michaelis-Menten Model: Biochemical reactions in living cells are often catalyzed by enzymes. These enzymes are proteins t ...

colleagues [4] who also focused inV. fischeri. In this section, we will present a deeper review of three ODE models of QS which ...

up-regulated (Nu) cells and AIs concentration (A). We describe here how to obtain the first equation (Eq. 2a) which appears in F ...

Menten approach (seeEq. 3c, for s and Box1). The equations for the intracellular and the extracellular C8HSL are formed similar ...

molecule in this case is anN-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL). The work of Fekete and colleagues [6] is mentioned here as it produc ...

Seein Fig.5a the schematic considered, the main variables are in square boxes (AIs, AIS complex, homoserines), hypothetical com- ...

Therefore, a middle ground of abiotic degradation must be present. If we also assume there is AIs degradation through lactonase ...

that one can describe changes in either of the two variables, time or space; depending which of the variables is next to the sig ...

presence of a subdermal plexus in partial thickness burn wounds has a significant effect on the dissemination of AIs in the woun ...

influenced by the actual AHL concentration, especially if exceeding a certain thresholdxthresh,ndenotes the degree of polymeriza ...

attached microcolonies. They focus on the influence of nutrients on an AIs system. This is a PDE model containing an equation fo ...

(seeFig. 12). They found that, depending on colony size, the maximum activation may be at the colony center, somewhere between c ...

QS. From the modeling viewpoint, Fujimoto and Sawai argued that AI circuits typically found in bacteria generally originate from ...

References James S, Nilsson P, James G, Kjelleberg S, Fagerstro ̈m T (2000) Luminescence control in the marine bacteriumVibrio ...

Part III Identification and Characterization of Anti-Quorum Sensing Agents ...

Chapter 21 Qualitative and Quantitative Determination of Quorum Sensing Inhibition In Vitro Tim Holm Jakobsen, Maria Alhede, Lou ...

The first discovery of environmental QSIs came from the Aus- tralian red macro algae,Delisea pulchrawhich was found to pro- duce ...

To measure fluorescence and growth of monitor strains, an automated multi label plate reader is used. Growth is measured at an ...