Does efficiency sensing unify diffusion and quorum sensing?
Nat Rev Microbiol. 2007 Mar; 5(3):230-9
Arcady Mushegian
14 Jul 2010
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Interesting Hypothesis, Refutation, Review / Commentary
This article is a major step towards addressing several major problems with the popular concept of bacterial 'quorum sensing'.
As first pointed out by Rosemary Redfield {1}, the traditional formulation of quorum sensing (i.e. 1. the group of bacteria produces an autoinducer, the concentration of which serves as a proxy to the number [or, more accurately, the density] of the same or related bacteria at the vicinity, and 2. when the concentration of the autoinducer exceeds a certain threshold, a group response is activated)...
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