Quorum‐sensing autoinducer molecules produced by members of a multispecies biofilm promote horizontal gene transfer to Vibrio cholerae
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...cholerae in multispecies biofilms (558)....
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...Many additional drivers (e.g., chemical and environmental) of HGT have been identified (Hastings et al., 2004; Antonova and Hammer, 2011), including abiotic sources (Warnes et al., 2012; Kotnik, 2013)....
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...We reasoned that a mixed-species consortium may more closely reflect conditions in environmental biofilms that are unlikely to be mono-species in composition (Hall-Stoodley et al., 2004; Wintermute & Silver, 2010)....
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...…molecules has been studied in many laboratory systems that relied exclusively on cell-free culture fluids or monocultures (Bassler et al., 1997; Miller & Bassler, 2001; Henke & Bassler, 2004a), single-species co-cultures (Hammer & Bassler, 2007), or cocultures of Vibrios with other bacteria…...
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...…bacterium and the causative agent of the disease cholera, produces and then responds to extracellular small molecules called autoinducers (AIs) to collectively control gene expression and coordinate group behaviors, a process called quorum sensing (QS) (Fuqua et al., 1994; Ng & Bassler, 2009)....
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...Transduction of the cholera toxin genes encoded within a filamentous phage (CTXF) permits exchange of virulence factors among V. cholerae (Waldor & Mekalanos, 1996)....
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