Motility Control as a Possible Link Between Quorum Sensing to Surface Attachment in Vibrio Species

Sandra Sanchez; Wai-Leung Ng

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8_4

Motility Control as a Possible Link Between Quorum Sensing to Surface Attachment in Vibrio Species

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023:1404:65-75. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8_4.

Authors

Sandra Sanchez¹, Wai-Leung Ng²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA. Wai-Leung.Ng@tufts.edu.

PMID: 36792871
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8_4

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss motility control as a possible link between quorum sensing (QS) to surface attachment in Vibrio species. QS regulates a variety of behaviors that are important for the life cycle of many bacterial species, including virulence factor production, biofilm formation, or metabolic homeostasis. Therefore, without QS, many species of bacteria cannot survive in their natural environments. Here, we summarize several QS systems in different Vibrio species and discuss some of emerging features that suggest QS is intimately connected to motility control. Finally, we speculate the connection between motility and QS is critical for Vibrio species to detect solid surfaces for surface attachment.

Keywords: Quorum sensing; Vibrio cholerae.

MeSH terms

Bacterial Proteins / genetics
Bacterial Proteins / metabolism
Biofilms
Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
Quorum Sensing* / physiology
Vibrio* / genetics
Vibrio* / metabolism
Virulence Factors

Substances

Virulence Factors
Bacterial Proteins

Grants and funding

R01 AI121337/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States