Quorum Sensing: Complexity in the bacterial world

Abstract

We discuss the mechanisms of bacterial Quorum Sensing, the biophysical phenomenon point- ing out a social behavior in bacteria, highlighting thus the very complex structure of these sys- tems. Actually, bacterial bioluminescence is an example of a quorum sensing mediated prop- erty. We show that the distribution of the activation times of the bioluminescent emission follows the universal behavior described by the Gumbel distribution of extreme value statis- tics. We provide further evidence on the system size scaling of bioluminescence, showing that the relation between cell density and total number of photons radiated by bacteria is highly non-linear.


Tutti gli autori

  • Delle Side, D. , Giuffreda, E. , Tredici, S.M. , Talà, A. , Pennetta, C. , Alifano, P.

Titolo volume/Rivista

CHAOS, SOLITONS AND FRACTALS


Anno di pubblicazione

2015

ISSN

0960-0779

ISBN

Non Disponibile


Numero di citazioni Wos

2

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018


Numero di citazioni Scopus

4

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018


Settori ERC

Non Disponibile

Codici ASJC

Non Disponibile