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. 2022 Jun 10;10(6):1192.
doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10061192.

Research Progress and Hopeful Strategies of Application of Quorum Sensing in Food, Agriculture and Nanomedicine

Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi  1 , Giuseppina Tommonaro  1
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Research Progress and Hopeful Strategies of Application of Quorum Sensing in Food, Agriculture and Nanomedicine

Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi et al. Microorganisms. .

Abstract

Quorum sensing (QS) regulates the expression of several genes including motility, biofilm development, virulence expression, population density detection and plasmid conjugation. It is based on "autoinducers", small molecules that microorganisms produce and release in the extracellular milieu. The biochemistry of quorum sensing is widely discussed and numerous papers are available to scientists. The main purpose of this research is to understand how knowledge about this mechanism can be exploited for the benefit of humans and the environment. Here, we report the most promising studies on QS and their resulting applications in different fields of global interest: food, agriculture and nanomedicine.

Keywords: QS inhibition (QSI); agriculture; application of QS; food; medicine; nanotechnology; quorum quenching (QQ); quorum sensing (QS).

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Simplified QS circuit diagrams of (a) AI-1, (b) AI-2 and (c) AIP (“Self-Signaling” and “Two Component” pathways) mechanisms.
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