Custom-Made Quorum Sensing for a Eukaryote

Dev Cell. 2016 Jun 6;37(5):391-2. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.05.014.

Abstract

Quorum-sensing systems, common in prokaryotes, enable bacteria to coordinately regulate behavior with population density. Reporting recently in Cell Host & Microbe, Homer et al. (2016) characterize an elegant eukaryotic quorum-sensing pathway in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Eukaryota / metabolism*
  • Fungal Proteins / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Quorum Sensing*

Substances

  • Fungal Proteins