autoinducer

Examples of autoinducer in the following topics:

• Signaling in Bacteria

  • Quorum sensing uses autoinducers as signaling molecules.
  • The peptide autoinducers stimulate more complicated signaling pathways that include bacterial kinases.
  • The changes in bacteria following exposure to autoinducers can be quite extensive.
  • The pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa has 616 different genes that respond to autoinducers.
  • Autoinducers are small molecules or proteins produced by bacteria that regulate gene expression.

• Elemental Boron

  • A known example of a boron-containing quorum sensing signaling molecule is Autoinducer-2 (AI-2).
  • Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) is one of the few known biomolecules containing the element Boron.

• Quorum Sensing

  • Common classes of signaling molecules are oligopeptides in Gram-positive bacteria, N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones (AHL) in Gram-negative bacteria, and a family of autoinducers known as autoinducer-2 (AI-2) in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.
  • Bacteria that use quorum sensing constitutively produce and secrete certain signaling molecules (called autoinducers or pheromones).