Determination of Whether Quorum Quenching is a Common Activity in Marine Bacteria by Analysis of Cultivable Bacteria and Metagenomic Sequences

Overview

Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2012 Jun 19

PMID 22706060

Citations 24

Authors

Manuel Romero

Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado

Ana Otero

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Abstract

The abundance of quorum quenching (QQ) activity was evaluated in cultivable bacteria obtained from oceanic and estuarine seawater and compared with the frequency of QQ enzyme sequences in the available marine metagenomic collections. The possible role of the high QQ activity found among marine bacteria is discussed.

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