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Effect of concentrating and exposing the bioluminescent bacteria to the non-luminescent allo-bacterial extracellular products on their luminescence

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Title Effect of concentrating and exposing the bioluminescent bacteria to the non-luminescent allo-bacterial extracellular products on their luminescence
 
Creator Ravindran, J.
Priya, G.G.
Kannapiran, E.
 
Subject quorum sensing
Bioluminescence
luminescence
 
Description Bioluminescence is a biochemical process occurring in many organisms. Bacterial bioluminescence has been investigated extensively that lead to many applications of such knowledge. Quorum sensing in the bioluminescent bacteria is a chemical signal process to recognize the strength of its own population to start luminescence in harmony. There is a mechanism in these bacteria to also recognize inter-species strength. When there is a higher number of these bacteria, the possibility and frequency of cell-cell physical contact will be high. In this study, the physical proximity was artificially enhanced between cells and the effect on luminescence in the concentrated cells in the normal culture medium and in the presence of other non-bacterial cell-free supernatants was investigated. The role of such physical contact in the quorum sensing in the bioluminescence is not known. Increase in the luminescence of V. fischeri when concentrated shows that the presence of physical proximity facilitates the quorum sensing for their bioluminescence
 
Date 2011-03-09T10:55:15Z
2011-03-09T10:55:15Z
2011
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Luminescence, vol.26(1); 2011; 23-28
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3805
 
Language en
 
Rights This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article [Luminescence, vol.26(1); 2011; 23-28] which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bio.1181 . Copyright ? 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
 
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell